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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 29, 2014 10:13:19 GMT -5
Single in Aug/Sept, yes. Album out in Nov.
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Post by Caviar on Jan 29, 2014 11:53:07 GMT -5
India.Arie wrote a moving open letter to the Grammys.
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Post by Peaches. [Ch, r. is] on Jan 29, 2014 16:25:31 GMT -5
This years Grammys was a thousand times better then the '13 VMAs. Some of yall are on crack.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 29, 2014 18:21:45 GMT -5
India.Arie wrote a moving open letter to the Grammys. Beyonce wasn't R&B? John Legend wasn't R&B? Get Lucky's performance wasn't R&B? "2014 Grammy’s: An OPEN LETTER from India Arie""@kendricklamar WAS robbed, BUT he was not the only one who was robbed. Personally, I was pleased he was able to perform and they KILLED! IT! One of the FEW moving moments of the night for ME. Though it’s called “Music industries biggest night” the #Grammys are NOT about the music, it’s a popularity contest. The voting process allows people, to vote on name recognition alone - the music industry politics is a whole NUTHER conversation. Too much to go into here. The American Music Awards is a show that awards sales and popularity - the #Grammys are SAID to be about the music. If the hip hop community voted on hip hop - r&b COMMUNITY the same - same for each category - we’d see winners that reflect the MUSIC ITSELF. We all know that’s just not the way it goes. NOW the BIGGER losers, are ALL of black music. Where was the black music community represented in last nights #Grammy show? Performers and Winners (or not) … Where were the black artists? And this isn’t the first time the #Grammy’s has had a show all but excluding young black America and black artists in general, although we set the worlds musical trends. Why NOT televise the lifetime achievement awards of the Isley Brothers? SURELY they deserved to be on televised stage LAST NIGHT! While other artists were on stage TWICE? The truth is in a perfect world diversity would matter, and respect would be rampant, but the TRUTH is, The #Grammys is a television show, and in THAT world ratings reign supreme. So, in general, bigger names take the stage, and sadly the biggest names often times ARE BIGGER drawn along racial lines from the release of an album. i.e. marketing dollars, and just general support. It’s unfortunate. I don’t even get surprised any more, but, it still hits my sense of fairness, because I KNOW many of the artists who are overlooked. I LIVE in that world. We keep showing up and subjecting ourselves to the game, hoping MAYBE we’ll win. I was so HAPPY to see @kendricklamar take that stage - because it is a FORM of winning, at LEAST, he was SEEN. Speaking of diversity, congratulations to my PERSONAL favorite albums of the year - @i_GregoryPorter #LiquidSpirit @realsnarkypuppy and @lalahhathaway on your win and THANK YOU! @pharrell for acting RIGHT in the presence of the greatness that is @nilerodgers and #StevieWonderLove to all #SoulBirdsWorldWide@IndiaArie P.S. No mention of Nelson Mandela at ALL? … and THIS is why we NEED the Image Awards AND the BET awards."
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jan 29, 2014 20:29:23 GMT -5
In a sea of strange and unusual (and, I'm assuming, chemically-inspired) Wavey quotes, these somehow turned out to be the only ones worth commenting on. Go figure: So Teigen shades B.Lines, but she sittin there smiling to this n. Bye No idea what Chrissy said about Blurred Lines, nor do I care, but...you DO realize that she is a) his wife and b) he wrote that song FOR HER, right? ??? I swear to G Daft Punk is so sexy with that mysterious s**t I swear to G (well, I guess props for not taking His name in vain?) that you have some sort of a robot fetish. Are your multiple posts about the sexiness of Daft Punk (this really needs to be some sort of thing, I'm thinking) a cry for help? ??? Hey, there's something for everyone.
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Post by Wavey✨️ on Jan 29, 2014 21:40:59 GMT -5
In a sea of strange and unusual (and, I'm assuming, chemically-inspired) Wavey quotes, these somehow turned out to be the only ones worth commenting on. Go figure: So Teigen shades B.Lines, but she sittin there smiling to this n. Bye No idea what Chrissy said about Blurred Lines, nor do I care, but...you DO realize that she is a) his wife and b) he wrote that song FOR HER, right? ??? I swear to G Daft Punk is so sexy with that mysterious s**t I swear to G (well, I guess props for not taking His name in vain?) that you have some sort of a robot fetish. Are your multiple posts about the sexiness of Daft Punk (this really needs to be some sort of thing, I'm thinking) a cry for help? ??? Hey, there's something for everyone. Love you, Lee. Teigen threw shade at BL, so I shaded John. Its no biggie. I enjoy them both. Yessir, I do not use his name in vain, Jesse knows. Their music is so groovy and sexy, so I assumed they looked good under the masks. Come to find out, only one of em looks good :( :( :(
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Post by newpower on Jan 30, 2014 8:34:21 GMT -5
In the sea of negativity I'm the statue of liberty That's why people love me It's humbling
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Post by applechic on Feb 1, 2014 10:26:31 GMT -5
Wow everyone is very upset about Kendrick Lamar not getting the recognition he deserved...GOOD.
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Post by mluv on Feb 1, 2014 10:55:52 GMT -5
People don't win Grammy's all the time. Seems very overblown. It's like when Kanye got mad at Taylor Swift for winning that video award. It's not like that stopped Beyoncé from having a career. She's fine and Taylor is fine. It's only an award that most people forget about very quickly. The continuous complaining doesn't make me to want to even try an artist's work. Just make good music.
I do get India Arie's point though even though I don't agree that anyone was robbed including Kendric Lamar. He just didn't get as many people voting for him than the other guys. And she must have been asleep when John Legend, Stevie Wonder, Pharrell and others performed. I mean Jay Z and Beyoncé were the star openers so where is this complaint about the lack of color on the show coming from? But these award shows do lack diversity--in what awards are shown live on TV. The Rap categories aren't even shown on TV but neither is rock, country or alternative. At least Kendrick Lamar got to be on the show to perform. And yeah, that's why there's so many different award shows that are genre specific.
On a separate note I watched the live streaming portion of the Grammy's and noticed that Darius Rucker won a country award. Could you imagine what would have happened if country music fans got so up in arms that a black singer 'stole' the grammy from all the white country stars in that category?
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