2024 Grammy Awards

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Brandi Carlile is basically everything that is right in this world. She's beautiful, she's talented, and she's a champion for others. Brandy Clark and Allison Russell, two of the Americana winners, are among the many for whom Carlile has created opportunities. So wonderful to see so many of her protégés taking flight.

 

[TigerVols]

Jay Z complaining about Album of the Year? Someone should remind him that Lionel Richie won it over Born in the USA and Purple Rain.

 

[Regan MacNeil]

Geez, I hope it's not that. He is touring and making plans for more touring and doing pressers and what not. He certainly looks his age, but he seems to be OK, all things considered. I think the song was a plaintive acknowledgment he might have had more to give after River of Dreams and maybe he could have done more the last three decades in addition to singing songs that still make people very happy.

He's gonna retire to run an online sports desk.

 

[dixiehack]

Tommy is so damn good. As a kid who grew up very working poor, I pretty much identified with everything he said about poverty. The belief you have then that a better life is out of reach is crushing. Being poor is an indignity and a violence to your soul every waking moment of your life. An embarrassment, a resentment, a life you hate.

Forty five years later, when I think about it, my face gets hot and all the old pain is just under the surface of my skin, a scab to be scratched off so I'll bleed again.

man, this hit home

People who can afford almost anything they want can never understand that sometimes, when you are down and desperate, it can be worth it to have one thing you can cling to. It might be a flat-screen TV or a couch that reclines. Might be a gold tooth or a belt buckle the size of a pancake. Might be just about anything that allows your mind to believe in a better life.

Might be a fast car.

I remember going with my parents to do the weekly shopping at Kroger at midnight so no one they knew would see them paying in food stamps.

 

[sgreenwell]

Jay Z complaining about Album of the Year? Someone should remind him that Lionel Richie won it over Born in the USA and Purple Rain.

Toto has six Grammy awards. I can't remember if it was Tom Breihan at Stereogum or Rob Harvila at the Ringer or someone else, but they pointed out that historically, the Grammy voting block is made up of industry folks. They skew white, "traditional" and "classy." So, you get tons of bands and artists getting recognized years after their creative peaks, and way too much for like jazz albums nobody gives a shirt about.

 

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Toto has six Grammy awards. I can't remember if it was Tom Breihan at Stereogum or Rob Harvila at the Ringer or someone else, but they pointed out that historically, the Grammy voting block is made up of industry folks. They skew white, "traditional" and "classy." So, you get tons of bands and artists getting recognized years after their creative peaks, and way too much for like jazz albums nobody gives a shirt about.

On top of that, there's a lot of industry politics involved, frequently tied to the people connected to the artist.

"Supernatural" by Carlos Santana broke records for Grammys won by a single album. That had relatively little to do with Carlos Santana and everything to do with the fact that Clive Davis signed him and put that record together.

 

[Twirling Time]

man, this hit home



I remember going with my parents to do the weekly shopping at Kroger at midnight so no one they knew would see them paying in food stamps.

Instead of FOOD STAMPS!!! (which the cashier would announce like a lottery ticket was sold), the gubbermint gives you a card now.