In recent news the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences have announced that they will be eliminating and cutting out more than 30 categories from the Annual Grammy Awards Ceremony. Although there have been small changes made over the years, many music executives, producers as well as artists are quite uneasy by this change, which will go in effective in next years 54th Annual Awards.
Reducing from 109 categories to only 78 categories and the voting and nomination procedures shifting, competition is about to heat up, feelings are about to be more prevalent and the media is going love every bit of it.
Unfortunately the change will heavily impact the genres of Hip Hop, R&B and Pop. For example artist will no longer be separated into male and female categories but they will each go head to head competing to take home the “golden shiny gramophone”.
For example artist like Fantasia, Maxwell, Adele, Usher and Beyonce (if nominated) will all square off for the Best R&B Solo Performance.
This change does force artists to be more creative and innovative in their approach musically because the 2012 Grammy stakes are high. I also understand the politics behind it, but it unfortunately hurts those artists whose categories have been removed. But it may unfortunately continuously highlight the same mainstream artists, which will be redundant.
Or could it be to appease critics who have deemed the Grammys unfair, awkward, and torture to watch? Or maybe the change is due to the controversy between the winning of Esperanza Spalding over Justin Beiber? Either way the change is set in stone and the change is coming whether we folks like it or not.
I just hope these R&B, Rap and Pop hopefuls are not preparing their “I first wanna thank my mama” speeches too soon because the outcome of them taking home the infamous “golden shiny gramophone” is not looking too good right now.
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Sources: Grammy.org New York Times USA Today
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