When did the Grammys stop meaning anything?

When they snubbed Mariah in 1996...

When Katy Perry's Teenage Dream was nominated for Album of the Year.

so, so rn

The grammys, like other major award shows are just there for labels to get sales boosts for their artists. That's all it is these days, anyway.

Awards shows are always so subjective. I don't think there's ever been a point where the Grammys suddenly meant less. You could probably look at every year and find nominees that shouldn't be there.

Glee getting nominated is such a joke. I wouldn't say it makes the Grammys a joke as a whole though.

I'm not sure there's any single point where all of a sudden the Grammys completely lost meaning, although Two Against Nature winning Album of the Year probably hastened the effect.

I think it was more of a gradual process as the Pop/Mainstream audiences skewed younger and younger, since most of the younger public couldn't give two s**ts about any kind of critical opinion whatsoever.

The simple fact is, because the mainstream audiences skew to the younger demographics nowadays, you can't make a music award that both has meaning and that people will care about. The Billboard awards at least still have some meaning because they're given out based on objective criteria. Doesn't mean people care about them. Any award that's voted on by the general public is regarded as a joke by pretty much anyone who doesn't vote, and those who do vote really only care if their favorites win or not.

So, I think that people's apathy had just been growing over time, and wins such as Two Against Nature were really when people's individual apathy intersected with people's realization of their fellow public's apathy.

I stopped caring when I watched like 3 years in a row and noone relevant won at all.

It's all subjective when you look at the grand scheme of things. Stans only like the Grammys when their faves are winning or are nominated.

On the flip side, Grammys always mean something regardless of opinions. If a someone thinks a song is "of quality" per se, they'll take the Grammys seriously. But if a song the person doesn't like or thinks is crap gets nominated, then suddenly attitudes shift and Grammys don't mean anything.

As long as the quality is there, the Grammys will always be regarded. It's funny to see people say the Grammys don't mean anything by pointing out wins like Baha Men winning or Britney winning because their material is supposedly crap. But the same argument can be reversed and say great albums like Songs In The Key Of Life and College Dropout and/or Graduation are winning multiple Grammys because they're great albums.

Ultimately it's either the win-win or the lose-lose.

People only get mad when their favorites dont' get nominated because they don't deserve to get nominated.

Grammy's still mean the most out of all the music award shows. Tell Keri Hilson they don't mean anything. Tell Miranada Lambert they don't mean anything(crying after she got nominated). Tell Kelly Clarkson they dont mean anything, when they clearly meant alot to her when she won. Tell Beyonce they dont mean anything. Tell GaGa, Xtina(who could forget her excitment when she won BNA).

95% of Artists care about the Grammys. Pulse and other online message boards are just full of bitching, whining, nobodys. It wouldn't matter who got nominated people would still bitch.

They are far from perfect, and sometimes they go for the familar(although leaving at Alicia & Mary, Carol and James, and Sade was surprising)but in terms of mainstream music award shows tell Greenday, Kanye West, Eminem, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Carrie Underwood or Colbie Calliat they don't mean anything.

When Britney lost Best New Artist to Christina in 2000.