Posted on 02/12/2017 11:06:44 AM PST by drewh
Those who dislike partisan politics at star-studded awards show have been warned in advance of Sunday night’s Grammy Awards, as producer Ken Ehrlich has made it clear that music’s biggest night will encourage politically-active artists to express themselves in any way they choose.
“One of the tenets of our show is artistic freedom, and over the years we’ve shown we do believe in it,” Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich said this weekend in an interview. “How many more times do we need to hear ‘I’d like to thank my publicist, my agent, my wife and kids.’ The great acceptance speeches are ones that have a point of view and are more personal.”
The Grammys have featured plenty of politics in recent years; in 2014, 33 gay and straight couples were married during the ceremony as Macklemore and Ryan Lewis sang their hit LGBT anthem “Same Love,” while 2015 saw President Obama appear in a pre-recorded anti-rape PSA and last year saw rapper Kendrick Lamar delivering a politically-charged rendition of his hit song “The Blacker the Berry” from an elaborate prison set.
“One of the things I’ve learned from working with artists for 40 years is that they are deep-thinking, vital individuals who have interests that cover a broad spectrum of subjects and passions,” Ehrich said. “We should certainly allow for it on the broadcast.”
The Grammys are hardly the only awards show to heavily feature politics; just last month, numerous actors used the podium at the Screen Actors Guild Awards to criticize President Trump’s executive order on immigration. And in the first awards show of the year, Meryl Streep drew thunderous applause for an impassioned anti-Trump speech while accepting a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Globes.
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The biggest joke of all this is calling these people “artists”....LOL
I will not be watching it.
Worst bunch of sore losers in history! It would seem that you can’t be Liberal/Socialist and still be American....Conservatives are Americans.
Every ‘entertainer’ in the US is being encouraged to flack for the Marxist hard left.
Totally not interested in their antics and agenda. The hysterics can be hysterical all they want. I look at them with total disinterest. They are boring, predictable, mind-numbed, brainwashed, ig-mcmuffins.
I say to all of them...
“La la la...I can’t hear you.”
these are public airwaves - not property of CBS. where is equal time?
If i watch it, it will be to see and list the adds that i’ll boycott forever more.
"Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult." --Sir Laurence Olivier
yeppers, the grammys picked a bad night to go up against TWD...
He doesn’t need to encourage them to be perverse. Just Doin’ What Comes Naturlee.
Funny how all these freaks think the government is somehow going to harm all the perverse things they enjoy. Of course, if they embraced the concept of limited government they wouldn’t have many worries.
Would the ultimate act in media courage be for a Country Music nominee to actually support the President of the USA?
It is a sad thing to have to write this.
Might as well pull money out of their pockets and set half of it on fire.
“One of the things I’ve learned from working with artists for 40 years is that they are deep-thinking, vital individuals...”
Deep thinking?....Madonna?.....Does not compute.
That’s exactly what this announcement is all about. I suspect that as they thought about, the reasoning went something like this…”we already know that half of the potential audience won’t turn in because they will figuring it will just be a total Trump hatefest by the far left hollyweird types…. But if we make the announcement that this is what it will be, just maybe some of those ‘will never watch its’ will tune it just to see how bad it will get.”
[Of course, these are musicians. The point remains.]
Interesting reasoning. If they think any publicity is good publicity.......
I never understood how it is, that these Hollywood idiots feel the need to shove their political views down our throats.
I also never understood how it is, that the “default” political position among Hollywood idiots, is leftism.
And I never understand, that these Hollywood idiots are so in love with their own opinions, how it is that they believe that they are smarter than everybody else, so that they feel the need to spout leftist screeds at us????
deep-thinking, vital individuals??
This guy has been smoking crack.
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