The Grammy Awards are...problematic. NEWS FLASH. Peer awards for an
intensely conservative, artistically sprawling industry about ten years
behind the times, with baffling voting procedures and no guild or
critics' awards to act as a check and counterpoint? What could go wrong?
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| Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga win Best Traditional Pop Album |
Complaining
about the Grammy Awards is a familiar trope (Why are there so few
awards during the telecast? Hey, that's not a New Artist! What's the
difference between a record and an album? Best Polka Album hahahaha oh
they got rid of that one.), and for those of us who care about good
music, this can be an aggravating event.
But with most of the awards having been presented during the pre-telecast "Premiere Ceremony," it looks like the Recording Academy has made some decent selections within the imperfect framework they've given themselves with variously shambolic nominations.
