Black Music Sunday A weekly series that emphasizes black music 245 story It covers performers, genres, history, etc., and has its own lively soundtracks. I hope there will be a familiar song and something new.
the Grammy Award Time again for music lovers who want to tune Viewers are no longer before。 We have seen pushbacks for many years from black artists who focus on all major industry awards (see such a movement) #oscarssowhite) And this year’s Grammy Award will surely be different.
Let’s look at black music through the history, controversy, complaints of Grammy, and some of the wonderful music that you have never won.
As The musician’s Hall of Fame says:
The Grammy Award was first held in 1958. At that time, both the Academy Awards and the Emmy Award, also known as Oscar, acknowledged major artists in movies and television, but such music was not equal. Following the Hollywood Walk of Fime Project, which began in the 1950s, new interest in the music and recording industry created a Grammy Award as a way to honor the most talented composers, songwriter and musicians in the music industry.
Writing Farout Magazine, Lauren Hunter I will discuss The first black artist who won the Grammy Award:
Until this day, the main means of musical perception of the highest order is through the Grammy Award, but the award organizations are frequently subject to racial prejudice for nearly 70 years of history. It became so difficult for my house. With the passage of time, receive the same level of praise as the white music counter part. Only 11 black artists won the Album of the Year Awards, which are the most witnessed, and the Grammy Award is to travel in terms of black music scenery and monumental roles. It’s clear that you still have a long way. It is certainly performed throughout the area of ​​modern sounds.
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It was a jazz queen who happened to live in her nickname, the “first laddy” Erafitz Gerald, and became the first black artist who won the Grammy Award. First ceremony in 1959。 She brought back two prizes, “Best vocal performance, women” Ella Fitzgeralard sings the song collection of Irving Berlin And for “best jazz vocal performance, individual” Ella Fitzgeralard sings the song of Duke Ellington。
This is Erafitz Gerald, who sings the album “Let’s face the music and dance”.
Controversy often focuses on “Big for” grammy -type categories. The best new artist. This year’s song; this year’s record. And the album of the year is most blamed.
only 11 black artists I won this year’s album:
1974, 1975, 1977: Stevie Wonder for “InnerVisions” Fulingness’ First Finale “and” Songs in the Key of Life “
1984: Michael Jackson of “thriller”
1985: Lionel Ritchie is “I can’t slow down”
1991: Quincy Jones for “Return to Block”
1992: Natalie Call of “I can’t forget … with love”
1994: Whitney Houston for the “bodyguard” soundtrack
1999: Lauryn Hill of the debut solo album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”
2004: Outkast of “Speakerboxxx/The Love Nower”
2005: Ray Chards won after death at the “Genius Love Company”
2008: “River: Joni Character” Harvy Hancock, Tribute Album
2022: “We are“”
Last year, Mary Claire’s Quinci Legardye I wrote:
The Grammy Award has been facing racism accusations since the first ceremony in 1959, and some Attention Snab and confusion I keep raising my eyebrows in the 21st century. March 2021, A study From the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, it turned out that black performers represent about 38 % of all Billboard Hot 100 artists from 2012 to 2020, but only 26.7 % of the top Grammy Award nominated in the same period. I did not receive it. It was the same year as the week Boycotted the ceremonyAfter receiving a zero noomine for him Outside business hours An album including his hit song “Blinding Lights”. That year, the nomination process of the Grammy Awards, including the use of the Special Committee, was determined by the candidate’s final set. Violent scrutinyFans are wondering if the lack of racial diversity in the recording academy Upper Echelon is the reason for the black album. Change the entire record industry (flat Acquisition of Puritzer) -Still could not enter the “Big 4” category (this year’s record, song of the year, best new artist, album of the year).
2020, Mary Sue Princess Weeks I explored Grammy Award Beyonce album, lemonade snab:
lemonade It was her sixth solo tagio album, and it was the second “visual album” she went after the release of her self -title. Beyonce 2013 album. In this album, Houston’s Chanteus gained the highest critical praise of her career. It was ranked into the number one album in 2016, Rolling stone。 However, when the Grammy Prize came, she lost her record and this year’s song, Adele twenty five。
When Adele gave a speech after acquiring this year’s album, she called Beyoncé’s album “Monumental” especially during the speech, praising Beyonce himself and praising that it is the light of the industry to make albums. did.
After that, Adel followed up this Another statement It reflects a lot of what people are saying. “I thought it was her year,” she said about Beyonce. “what Fuck She have to do it to get this year’s album? “
This is a complete album:
Similarly, Callie Ahlgrim of Business Insider address Another snab toward Beyonce, this time for the 2023 “Renaissance”:
There is no reason for Beyonce’s “Renaissance” to lose his album this year. This has been added to this list for the third time in Beyonce, and every time she can’t get this year’s album, she becomes a little more annoying and annoyed. Her 8th album, THE Queer pop The masterpiece “Renaissance” was so A clear selection of the 2023 album of the Year。
Even worse, the recording academy spent most of the ceremony. The most decorated person in the history of the Grammy Award -I also lightly hit your back to make it happen -only to end the night by giving the top prize to Harry Styles. And to make it clear “Harry’s House” is goodBut it is not “Renaissance”. Not nearby。
One of my biggest personal beef with the Grammy Award is always in Snab in 1985 prince “Purple rain.”
In 1984, music critic and historian Robert Palmer review New York Times album:
For the first time in one of his albums, Prince chose to work with his band, probably to accept the input of music other than himself.
Even in loneliness, even a talented self -made genius with a talented talent must eventually become constricted. In Purple Rain, the band’s contribution makes music more vibrant and more sensual. There is a dazzling musical moment -a synthesizer and guitar that praise and get angry with each other, but are almost terrifyingly controlled by saying “Let’s go crazy”, or Strutting, “The Beautiful One”. “Darling Nikki” features some of the most restrained piano sounds and some shouts that sound leather since Little Richard. Approaching the album, the catharsis “Purple Rain” sets gospel laps and jazz borrowing in a country rock ballad framework decorated with piano alpine like a Nashville -style Floyd Crammer.
For the first time, Prince has stepped out of the image that he built for himself in his previous record, and the result is refreshing. I haven’t seen all of the film critics see all of this, but the album “Purple Rain” is a creative and commercial winner. This listener may lack the sophistication of Jackson’s multi -format and blues Springsteen’s American hope and failure, but this listeners have been forgotten this summer. I suspect that Jackson and Springsteen albums are packed. It is still remembered and played as a permanent rock classic.
This is Prince’s “purple rain”:
this year That’s the candidate for the album of the Year:
Andre 3000- “New Bluesan”
Beyonce- “Cowboyer”
Billy Alish- “Hit me hard and soft”
Chapel Loan- “The Midwest Princess rise and descent”
Charli XCX- “BRAT”
Jacob Coria -“Djesse Vol. 4”
Sabrina Carpenter- “Short N’s Sweet”
Taylor Swift -“Tortured Poem Club”
Considering today’s political situation, I wonder if there is a shot in Beyonce’s “cowboyer”, or maybe the rebound from the Maga world affects the voting.
Pitch fork Julian Escoved Chepard, I wrote a wonderful review Album last April:
if lemonade He told me anything, that means you don’t have a sexual intercourse. Beyonce。 Her 2016 Opus was her tired reaction to being treated unreasonably. image A smiley woman wearing a baseball bat and a permanent yellow dress Spector Becky and her good hair. We already know what will happen when something interferes with her peace. She all correct her mistakes, glitter in her eyes, to reinstate her voice, and to reinstate her ven in her vein with ice. There is an edge, especially when one of the world’s largest music superstars has a chip on her shoulder. This does not happen frequently, but recently Beyonce has acted as a blissful mother in everything, but when it does, look out the boy, Havy, outside.
… It was clear that even the genuine Beyonce Texas would not protect her from many years of racism and gender discrimination. It still existed In the mainstream of the country, black musicians create country music and black American sparks to create the foundation of the country itself. “For that experience,” she wrote: myself. “The country music facility has been homework to Beyonce. The guns are Blazin ‘.
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