The Grammy Awards Show Is Dying. Here’s Why

[PeteS in CA]

The Grammy Awards Show Is Dying. Here’s Why

https://amgreatness.com/2021/03/17/the-grammy-awards-show-is-dying-heres-why/

Early indications are in: The recent Grammy Awards ceremony was a ratings disaster.

I know—finally, some good news, right?

Don’t get me wrong. I love music. I’ve earned my living in the music biz my whole adult life, as has my dad, my uncle, and many of my friends. Everyone in my world genuinely loves music.

But what no one in my world loves is any of the garbage now being featured at the Grammys. The hard truth is, the Grammys no longer matters much to me or anyone I know. And if the ratings are any guide, your world is a lot like my world. Almost no one cares anymore.
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But overall, for decades, the Grammy Awards served as an important cultural institution. It helped connect people—artist, audience, and industry—with each other through music. Kenny Rogers was right when he said, in 1982, that “the Grammy is finally established in the minds of everyone as the most meaningful and highly desired award.”

But just as a rising tide lifts all boats, a sinking tide lowers them, and the Grammy Awards has become just another degenerating institution within our larger degenerating civilization. It now amounts to an orgy of laughably misguided self-congratulation; cliché-ridden social justice pontifications from multimillionaires living in Beverly Hills mansions; packaged rage; racist guilt-tripping; and pathological female autodegradation.

The most recent example of that last thing, of course, was the pornographic exhibitionism of Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion. That so many of our cultural overlords have applauded it, and similar Grammy performances over the years, as an expression of “female empowerment,” only shows how perniciously insane our culture has become. I await any intelligible explanation of how women publicly depicting themselves as nothing more than wank fodder “empowers all women, everywhere.” By this dysfunctional standard, Larry Flynt’s Hustler magazine was the best friend your precious daughter ever had.

Of course, this wasn’t the only off-putting thing about the Grammys. The geniuses running it decided to tacitly endorse America-hating, Israel-hating, and Jew-hating by inviting Hate Queen Tamika Mallory to do her standard “Angry Shouting” routine during an anti-cop number (for more on Mallory’s career in hate, see here, here, and here). As if that isn’t nauseating enough, the same geniuses also broadcast—in the same show—a statement condemning hate and anti-Semitism. Nothing like your plate of hate slopped over with an extra helping of hypocrisy.

I have to admit checking W'pedia to find out who Tal Bachman is. His father's work - Randy Bachman - in the Guess Who and BTO are more familiar to me.

It's been decades since I've watched part of a Grammys show. The popular music industry's slide from serving up sludge to celebrating sluts has been, IMO, going on that long.

[skeeter]

I check myself from time to time because I remember as a teenager how I felt about my parents' taste in music.

But I simply cannot STAND the processed bland paste called music being cranked out today. Every female sounds exactly the same and the males, if they aren't droning on unintelligibly in what is presumably a string of rhymes, sound as though they with their music haven't two nanograms of testosterone to share between them.

As far as the accompanying pornographic displays I gotta congratulate the Grammies for doing what I would've never thought possible - rendering nearly naked, gyrating, sweating females utterly and completely uninteresting.

[mountaineer]

I check myself from time to time because I remember as a teenager how I felt about my parents' taste in music.

But I simply cannot STAND the processed bland paste called music being cranked out today. Every female sounds exactly the same and the males, if they aren't droning on unintelligibly in what is presumably a string of rhymes, sound as though they with their music haven't two nanograms of testosterone to share between them.

As far as the accompanying pornographic displays I gotta congratulate the Grammies for doing what I would've never thought possible - rendering nearly naked, gyrating, sweating females utterly and completely uninteresting.

I quite agree. It's been a long time since anything remotely "musical" - let alone interesting - came from present-day pop performers.

[Wingnut]

If not for the Grammys this year 1 would have never know or  learned what a Cardi B was or what WAP stood for.  Upon seeing the spectacle unfold at the Grammys I think the term is not WAP but SAP.  Skank Ass Pu$$y. 

[Fishrrman]

The grammys -- and virtually all pop-commerical music -- no interest here.

Bluegrass, celtic, some [non political] folk, and classical ... are about the only kinds of music that... make sense to me.

And (with a very few narrow exceptions) those genres don't win grammys...

[goatprairie]

My general rules as regards music is that if the music is not at least thirty years old, I probably don't want to hear it.

[catfish1957]

Music in general is dying.  It's all garbage.   Pudits can argue the Grammy chicken and egg shit all they want.

I mean contrast  the fecal state of the industry now versus a magical point in time in 1971 when these two albums were released 85 days apart.

[goatprairie]

Music in general is dying.  It's all garbage.   Pudits can argue the Grammy chicken and egg shit all they want.

I mean contrast  the fecal state of the industry now versus a magical point in time in 1971 when these two albums were released 85 days apart.

well, give us a clue. Who is it? 

[Night Hides Not]

well, give us a clue. Who is it? 

Led Zeppelin IV, the album that has Stairway to Heaven and Misty Mountain Hop.

When I was a teen, from 1964-1968 the Beatles were releasing a new album every six months, nearly each one with a different sound than the previous one. IIRC, Sergeant Pepper was released in the summer of 1967.

[dfwgator]

Led Zeppelin IV, the album that has Stairway to Heaven and Misty Mountain Hop.

When I was a teen, from 1964-1968 the Beatles were releasing a new album every six months, nearly each one with a different sound than the previous one. IIRC, Sergeant Pepper was released in the summer of 1967.

And remember, in between the Beatles released singles, which weren't included on the albums.

[dfwgator]

Music in general is dying.  It's all garbage.   Pudits can argue the Grammy chicken and egg shit all they want.

I mean contrast  the fecal state of the industry now versus a magical point in time in 1971 when these two albums were released 85 days apart.

A few others from that year:

[Wingnut]

A few others from that year:

Funny I remember slightly different cover art for that record.   Or am I thinking of another RS album?   I get bidenlike sometimes these days.