Why The Grammys Are Bullshit

I've just gotta post about this right now.

Okay, I'm watching the Grammys right now and I'm raging quite hard and I need to write it or I'll go fucking insane.

First of all, I find the idea of criticizing music professionally is stupid as hell. Music is entirely based on taste and opinion. There's no science behind it, it's art. Therefore, the idea of pitting music artists and singles against each other in a contest, to me is absurd. Especially considering that they never tell you what the criteria for the quality of a song is the entire time. Is it popularity? Talent? Innovation and progressiveness? Who the fuck knows?

Besides, the Grammys aren't even really about the music, the talent or even the artists. It's all about the publicity. I just watched a nail polish commercial that somehow had ties to the Grammys.

But all of these complaints pale in comparison to the main reason I have such a disdain for the Grammys. The main thing I hate is the narrow-mindedness with which the awards are awarded. They take, largely, just one genre (pop) and say "fuck you" to everything else. Pop is such a small section of the music industry and is easily the one with the least talent. There is seriously no way to argue that. What are the priorities of pop artists?

1. Money

2. Attractiveness

3. Image

4. Actual fucking talent

There's no way that anyone could believe that the Grammys is based on talent considering Wiz Kalifa, who may be one of the worst popular rap artists of the past decade, just did a song... seriously.

Now, I fancy myself an elitist metal fan, but that doesn't mean that I don't have respect for an artist I think is talented or is doing something new and progressive (provided it's not awful). Now, because of my taste, I'm obviously not very well represented at the awards and by "not well", I mean, not at all. There are entire genres of music that the Grammys just feels it can neglect. That is such a load of shit to me. Why should the same, already insanely popular celebrities be continuously awarded things year after year?  Especially when it's the genre with the least skill! Seriously, it's almost over at the time of this writing and I've seen some artists up here probably four fucking times.

Now, I know I'm beating a dead horse here, but how could I not get pissed off by this? If anything, they should award lesser known groups more. The only movie awards that ignore all but the ridiculously popular are those shitty "you decide!' ones that no one actually takes seriously (the MTV movie awards gave all five Twilight films "Best Picture").

Furthermore, it seems to me that the Grammys has a hardon for singers and pretty much nothing else. You might say, 'There were plenty of groups that had instruments up there!' which is true. But did you see any bands that were completely instrumental? No. You didn't because there were none. If anything, the ones on the instruments should get more recognition than the singers. Most of the people who can sing just happened to win the genetic lottery and were endowed with a majestic voice by pure luck and that was that. But the ones playing the instruments had to spend years and years of their life practicing in order to master it. Why then ignore them? Because anyone can sing along to a song, but most people can't relate to playing an instrument. Y'see, the pop genre is literally programmed to get as many people to like it as possible. It exists for no other purpose than making money. Don't believe me? Well, pop music is actually designed and written in order to stimulate as many pleasure centers in the brain as possible. If you're like me, you're not happy when you're listening to pop, but you're chemically happy regardless. The tunes and lyrics are simple so they'll get stuck in your head and they're always named after the artist so you'll remember the person and not anything else. It's all about the image.

But back to poor representation, it's absurd to think that just because one genre is more mainstream (because popular may not be the right word) than another is no reason to ignore the ability of the artists in that genre. It's not like these genres have small fanbases, I know for a fact that metal has a fucking huge fanbase. So, why then do they feel it's okay to just pretend that it doesn't exist? I don't fucking know.

Of course now that I think about it, if they ever put metal on the Grammys, perhaps to silence the, presently, silent metal fanbase, it'd be shitty teenybopper punk-metal that middle schoolers listen to because they think they're hardcore in which case, it may actually be worse.

I raged. Yes, I mad. Rant fucking over.