The 2026 Grammys… Proof Music is Getting Worse

Youtube ^ | 1-4-26 | Rick Beato

[MarlonRando]

n this episode, I compare this year's Grammy nominees for Song of the Year to the 1984 Song of the Year nominees.

[TheConservativeBanker]

I never regret having homeschooled my sons.

[NetAddicted]

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[virgil]

I don't know if it all sounds bad. Some of the music today is definately bad, but anything that is half way listenable all sounds the same. It sounds the same, sometimes with a male voice, sometimes with a female voice, different lyrics that to me lack poetry, but it sounds the same kind of melody. Just blah.

[bankwalker]

maybe they think it will help them get laid ... it’s what the white hos seem to crave ...

[V_TWIN]

White women gravitating to black men is another form of White guilt IMO.

[T.B. Yoits]

...computers were a very futuristic idea in ‘84 for most people, so artists had to actually have talent...

Some artists. Speaking of the Grammys...

[V_TWIN]

If those were 2 White dudes they never woulda won.

[T.B. Yoits]

Why do White kids these days gravitate to the black culture?

It's one culture that doesn't reject them.

Yes, young white men, starting in their own broken home, are rejected by our misandrist matriarchy.

[bankwalker]

it was programmed into them as little girls watching MTV ...

Madonna crawling across the floor to kiss the black jesus' feet after the white men beat him up ...

our govt subsidized it by giving tax breaks to networks for having minority ownership ...

[bankwalker]

you make a valid point ...

[T.B. Yoits]

If those were 2 White dudes they never woulda won.(Milli Vanilli)

Unless they were gay. Then they would have been celebrated.

[Fiji Hill]

For their first-ever Best Song award, the Grammy folks made a good choice with Domenico Modugno's Nel Blu, Dipinto di Blu (into the blue, painted blue). However, they have made some rather curious choices over the years.

• The choice for Best Country-Western song for 1958 was "Tom Dewey" by the Kingston Trio, which topped the pop charts but did not even make the Country-Western charts. My choice would have been Alone with You by Faron Young.

• The Best Song for 1960 was The Theme from Exodus, which is not a song, but an instrumental piece. My choice would have been Nobody Loves Me Like You Do by the Flamingos.

• The winner for Best Rock and Roll Song for 1964 was "Downtown" by Petula Clark, which, with its downtempo bolero beat, is most certainly not a rock and roll song. My choice would have been She's the One by the Chartbusters.

[dfwgator]

Nowadays when I hear the jungle music at a traffic light, half the time it’s a white kid in a pickup truck with his hat on backwards slouched down in the drivers seat.

[WhiteHatBobby0701]

The Grammys will move to ABC next year as they lose the Oscars to Premium Pay.

Pop music is a travesty. Rather watch the Clash at the Madhouse than this joke that day.

For someone who has seen the decline of church music that caused him to be run out of church thanks to another family member, it’s everywhere. Taking voice 24 years ago allowed me to open the door to seeing the difference between Top 40 music in church and sacred standards of 300 years ago. And it’s clear which way I have found myself. I did a meme that FB took down from the 1999 GMA Dove Awards with the photo of Song of the Year being presented, and the presenter “bubble” says “The truth is ‘WAP’ is not in our envelope for Song of the Year.”

Watch a church whose choir sings karaoke hits versus a church that sings sacred church music. One’s as low as you go while the other’s in Yung Money’s line up the cushion. There’s a reason news/talk radio is in my radio and I’d rather attend the local symphony.

[drwoof]

Agreed. And I think a great example of what will in the future pass for ‘entertainment’ is the movie ‘Ass’, featured in the movie Idiocracy. Looking around, though, honestly, it seems we’re already there...

[Mathews]

There are apps out there right now that do this and it’s downright scary. You pick the song, provide the app with some samples of your voice, and before you know it, you are singing that song in perfect pitch. My neighbor is a big fan of Metallica. He picked a song called Master of Puppets, provided some samples of his voice, and boom, he’s the frontman for the biggest metal band in the world. It was his voice, perfectly laid over the song and I tell you this dude couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket if he had to.

[dfwgator]

If you think about it, computers were a very futuristic idea in ‘84 for most people, so artists had to actually have talent.....nowadays, music and voices can be manipulated to the point I could probably sound like Sinatra. 😏

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‘Cause what the world needs now is a new Frank Sinatra
So I can get you in bed
What the world needs now is another folk singer
Like I need a hole in my head

-Cracker (Teen Angst)

[bert]

Rap music is the highest point of the Black American culture

[Fiji Hill]

For someone who has seen the decline of church music...

I am well aware of the decline of church music. Hymn-writing became a lost art by the middle of the last century, and in my opinion, the last great hymn that was ever written was Each Step I Take, from 1953.

And now, the electric guitar has chased choirs and organs out of most churches, and unlistenable "praise" music has replaced the old hymns.

[Fiji Hill]

Rap music is the highest point of the Black American culture

Once upon a time, Black American Culture produced great tunes like The Maple Leaf Rag, Black & Tan Fantasy, After Hours and The Closer You Are.