Posted on 06/11/2020 6:31:34 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Grammy Awards are making some major changes for its 2021 ceremony.
In a press release issued Wednesday, the Recording Academy announced it updated both the award categories and the guidelines and rules for the Award-nominating process for the 63rd annual awards show scheduled for next year.
Interim president and CEO of the Recording Academy, Harvey Mason Jr., said in a statement, "I’m excited to announce our latest changes, as we're constantly evaluating our Awards process and evolving it to ensure the GRAMMY Awards are inclusive and reflect the current state of the music industry."
The Grammys announced four awards receiving a revamp.
Best urban contemporary album is now renamed, best progressive R&B album and redefined to provide "a more accurate definition to describe the merit or characteristics of music compositions or performances themselves within the genre of R&B."
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I was urban, when urban wasn’t oool.
How long until Keith Urban has to change his name
Something else to not lose sleep over.
What if I drive a Suburban?
What if I live in the suburbs?
I suppose “Ghetto” is unsuitable, too?
Or “Race Music”.
Like I really care, but I always wondered how “urban” came to be associated with minority concerns. I once heard a high school in NW Indiana referred to as urban, when it is a good distance outside a real urban area and right at where the vast farmlands of Indiana begin. I was informed that urban means “minority majority.” In this case, most students at the school are black.
Damn. I was just getting used to calling the MS13 graffiti in my neighborhood ‘Urban Art’.
“Progressive Cowboy”?? Bud & Sissy aren’t going to like that..
"Ethnic" can't be far behind.
"All references to urban have been eliminated"
and
"Latin pop album has been renamed best Latin pop or urban album"
Huh?
There have been about a dozen songs released in the last 30 years that are worth listening to.So I couldn’t care less if they rename it “God’s Own Music”.
There have been about a dozen songs released in the last 30 years that are worth listening to.So I couldn’t care less if they rename it “God’s Own Music”.
Exactly!
It is all just “kill whitey” anyway.
The only thing to have sunk faster and deeper than TV and movies in the 21st C has been been modern “music.”
BSD
Low population density music matters!
“I’m gonna get me a shotgun and kill all the whities I seeeeeeeee....”
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