2023 Grammy Predictions

[Anonymous]

Whether you like Bonnie Rait or not, the absolutely cluelessness of this columnist is just amazing. Rait is a 30-time nominee and a 13-time winner. Granted she was an underdog since she is well past her prime, but "an unknown blues singer"?



And this headline:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11717155/So-Bonnie-Raitt-Blues-singer-beats-Beyonce-Adele-Taylor-Swift-Harry-Styles-Grammys.html?fbclid=IwAR3wB-SAXrFU-a6c_wda3HpUgiJ2mDu2ItkJ3qhYKhYt2BcXWppF1MTCf5o

So who is Bonnie Raitt? Shock moment blues singer beats Beyonce, Adele, Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Kendrick Lamar and more to win coveted Song of the Year award at Grammys (and even she can't believe it!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Whether you like Bonnie Rait or not, the absolutely cluelessness of this columnist is just amazing. Rait is a 30-time nominee and a 13-time winner. Granted she was an underdog since she is well past her prime, but "an unknown blues singer"?



And this headline:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11717155/So-Bonnie-Raitt-Blues-singer-beats-Beyonce-Adele-Taylor-Swift-Harry-Styles-Grammys.html?fbclid=IwAR3wB-SAXrFU-a6c_wda3HpUgiJ2mDu2ItkJ3qhYKhYt2BcXWppF1MTCf5o

So who is Bonnie Raitt? Shock moment blues singer beats Beyonce, Adele, Taylor Swift, Harry Styles, Kendrick Lamar and more to win coveted Song of the Year award at Grammys (and even she can't believe it!)

Sounds very similar to this post about Beyoncé…

“Beyonce is 41. She was the "it" singer a generation ago. My kids have no idea who she is, but they know all about Harry Styles, TS, Lizzo, etc. I don't understand all the hubbub about her not winning. Who cares? She has 32 grammys and is one of the richest women not just in entertainment but on the planet. She's not getting any younger and I imagine fewer young people will care about her music in years to come. Relevancy is fleeting and tastes change. It's sort of how life works.“

[Anonymous]

I think the Taylor v Beyoncé people are starting to lose sight of the problem with the Grammys. I like both artists; I don’t really listen to either one. But I can appreciate both of them, and I do listen at least once to many albums. I think we even had a discussion on this board once about “perfect albums.” Not the best, but ones that you cannot imagine improving. To Pimp a Butterfly was mentioned iirc. I went and listened to the whole thing twice. Is it my kind of music? No. But I could see why it was so well-regarded. That’s why Beyoncé should have won AOTY for Lemonade. And I actually think Taylor deserved hers for Folklore.

It’s also why I cannot get too worked up about who deserves to win. All the nominees were deserving in some way. But when the votes consistently reward pop music over other forms, it makes the award more and more meaningless.

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Anonymous wrote:If Beyoncé wants to win AOTY she needs to drop Jay and get her groove back. Her music turned dark since she married him or at least since all his cheating mess and he is bringing her down.

If Beyoncé wants to win AOTY she will have to become white.

Like Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, OutKast, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Bruno Mars, and Jon Batiste?

You really think you did something with that list. We just watched the 64th Grammys. Taylor swift has won 3 times.

What I think is that I shared a list of non-white artists who have won AOTY. Stevie Wonder has also won 3 times.

Again, 64th Grammy. Your list includes 11 black artists.

And no hip hop artists.

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Anonymous wrote:If Beyoncé wants to win AOTY she needs to drop Jay and get her groove back. Her music turned dark since she married him or at least since all his cheating mess and he is bringing her down.

If Beyoncé wants to win AOTY she will have to become white.

Like Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, OutKast, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Bruno Mars, and Jon Batiste?

You really think you did something with that list. We just watched the 64th Grammys. Taylor swift has won 3 times.

What I think is that I shared a list of non-white artists who have won AOTY. Stevie Wonder has also won 3 times.

Again, 64th Grammy. Your list includes 11 black artists.

And no hip hop artists.

Lauryn Hill and OutKast aren’t hip hop?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the Taylor v Beyoncé people are starting to lose sight of the problem with the Grammys. I like both artists; I don’t really listen to either one. But I can appreciate both of them, and I do listen at least once to many albums. I think we even had a discussion on this board once about “perfect albums.” Not the best, but ones that you cannot imagine improving. To Pimp a Butterfly was mentioned iirc. I went and listened to the whole thing twice. Is it my kind of music? No. But I could see why it was so well-regarded. That’s why Beyoncé should have won AOTY for Lemonade. And I actually think Taylor deserved hers for Folklore.

It’s also why I cannot get too worked up about who deserves to win. All the nominees were deserving in some way. But when the votes consistently reward pop music over other forms, it makes the award more and more meaningless.

IMO, maybe there shouldn't even be general awards that span all genres. It really is a situation of trying to compare apples and oranges. How can you hold up a jazz album, a pop album and a rap album and say which is the best album? They are three entirely different things. Voters just pick based on what type of music they like best, and pop generally wins because that has the biggest voter base.

Of course, they'll never do that artists want general awards and the grammys enjoy the attention paid to those awards.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the Taylor v Beyoncé people are starting to lose sight of the problem with the Grammys. I like both artists; I don’t really listen to either one. But I can appreciate both of them, and I do listen at least once to many albums. I think we even had a discussion on this board once about “perfect albums.” Not the best, but ones that you cannot imagine improving. To Pimp a Butterfly was mentioned iirc. I went and listened to the whole thing twice. Is it my kind of music? No. But I could see why it was so well-regarded. That’s why Beyoncé should have won AOTY for Lemonade. And I actually think Taylor deserved hers for Folklore.

It’s also why I cannot get too worked up about who deserves to win. All the nominees were deserving in some way. But when the votes consistently reward pop music over other forms, it makes the award more and more meaningless.

IMO, maybe there shouldn't even be general awards that span all genres. It really is a situation of trying to compare apples and oranges. How can you hold up a jazz album, a pop album and a rap album and say which is the best album? They are three entirely different things. Voters just pick based on what type of music they like best, and pop generally wins because that has the biggest voter base.

Of course, they'll never do that artists want general awards and the grammys enjoy the attention paid to those awards.

Exactly. Pop is short for popular.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think the Taylor v Beyoncé people are starting to lose sight of the problem with the Grammys. I like both artists; I don’t really listen to either one. But I can appreciate both of them, and I do listen at least once to many albums. I think we even had a discussion on this board once about “perfect albums.” Not the best, but ones that you cannot imagine improving. To Pimp a Butterfly was mentioned iirc. I went and listened to the whole thing twice. Is it my kind of music? No. But I could see why it was so well-regarded. That’s why Beyoncé should have won AOTY for Lemonade. And I actually think Taylor deserved hers for Folklore.

It’s also why I cannot get too worked up about who deserves to win. All the nominees were deserving in some way. But when the votes consistently reward pop music over other forms, it makes the award more and more meaningless.

IMO, maybe there shouldn't even be general awards that span all genres. It really is a situation of trying to compare apples and oranges. How can you hold up a jazz album, a pop album and a rap album and say which is the best album? They are three entirely different things. Voters just pick based on what type of music they like best, and pop generally wins because that has the biggest voter base.

Of course, they'll never do that artists want general awards and the grammys enjoy the attention paid to those awards.

No classical music or opera albums either.

[Anonymous]

I guess we'll never know who got 2nd or 3rd or 4th and so on.

An artist probably doesn't need that great of a percentage to win, just more than the second artist.

With ten nominees, there is a higher likelihood that certain genres are represented by multiple artists, increasing the likelihood of splitting the vote.

The same thing happens with the Oscars' best film category, which in former years only had five nominees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the Taylor v Beyoncé people are starting to lose sight of the problem with the Grammys. I like both artists; I don’t really listen to either one. But I can appreciate both of them, and I do listen at least once to many albums. I think we even had a discussion on this board once about “perfect albums.” Not the best, but ones that you cannot imagine improving. To Pimp a Butterfly was mentioned iirc. I went and listened to the whole thing twice. Is it my kind of music? No. But I could see why it was so well-regarded. That’s why Beyoncé should have won AOTY for Lemonade. And I actually think Taylor deserved hers for Folklore.

It’s also why I cannot get too worked up about who deserves to win. All the nominees were deserving in some way. But when the votes consistently reward pop music over other forms, it makes the award more and more meaningless.

+1

I like Beyoncé and think Lwmonade should have won. Formation was a great song. This current album of hers is terrible and feels plagiarized.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If Beyoncé wants to win AOTY she needs to drop Jay and get her groove back. Her music turned dark since she married him or at least since all his cheating mess and he is bringing her down.

If Beyoncé wants to win AOTY she will have to become white.

Like Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, Quincy Jones, Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, OutKast, Ray Charles, Herbie Hancock, Bruno Mars, and Jon Batiste?

You really think you did something with that list. We just watched the 64th Grammys. Taylor swift has won 3 times.

What I think is that I shared a list of non-white artists who have won AOTY. Stevie Wonder has also won 3 times.

Again, 64th Grammy. Your list includes 11 black artists.

64th doesn’t mean 11 out of 64 we’re black artist. A few people have won multiple times, including some black artist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM…the only place where Beyoncé isn’t considered popular or catchy. 🙄 Don’t even have to guess why.

I said Swift was more popular. Which is backed up by RIAA numbers. Swift has sold more than Beyonce by far.

Title Highest Award Certification Date Category Format Genre
FEARLESS 10X Multi-Platinum December 11, 2017 SOLO ALBUM COUNTRY
1989 9X Multi-Platinum December 11, 2017 SOLO ALBUM POP
TAYLOR SWIFT 7X Multi-Platinum December 11, 2017 SOLO ALBUM COUNTRY
RED 7X Multi-Platinum July 23, 2018 SOLO ALBUM POP
SPEAK NOW 6X Multi-Platinum December 11, 2017 SOLO ALBUM COUNTRY
REPUTATION 3X Multi-Platinum December 11, 2017 SOLO ALBUM POP
LOVER 3X Multi-Platinum October 19, 2022 SOLO ALBUM POP
MIDNIGHTS 2X Multi-Platinum November 30, 2022 ALBUM POP
FOLKLORE 2X Multi-Platinum October 19, 2022 ALBUM ALTERNATIVE
EVERMORE Platinum October 19, 2022 ALBUM ALTERNATIVE
THE TAYLOR SWIFT HOLIDAY COLLECTION Platinum July 23, 2018 SOLO ALBUM COUNTRY


Title Highest Award Certification Date Category Format Genre
DANGEROUSLY IN LOVE 6X Multi-Platinum August 8, 2022 SOLO ALBUM None
I AM SASHA FIERCE 6X Multi-Platinum August 8, 2022 SOLO ALBUM None
BEYONCE 5X Multi-Platinum August 8, 2022 SOLO ALBUM None
B'DAY 5X Multi-Platinum August 8, 2022 SOLO ALBUM None
4 4X Multi-Platinum August 8, 2022 SOLO ALBUM None
LEMONADE 3X Multi-Platinum June 12, 2019 SOLO ALBUM POP
RENAISSANCE Platinum November 30, 2022 ALBUM DANCE/ELECTRONIC
HOMECOMING: THE LIVE ALBUM Gold August 8, 2022 ALBUM POP

No dog in this fight but I’d argue sales are not a measure of popularity. The single best measure of popularity is by social media. Beyoncé has 50m more IG followers than TS. TS has about 10m TT followers but I’d say IG is the beat measure if popularity as it spans across more generations.

In summary, for popularity, TS pop fans are more likely to also know and follow Beyoncé. The same cannot be said for Beyoncé fans.

I’m not saying who is more talented or deserving, just my take on popularity. Yes, Kim Kardashian is more popular that both 😂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maneskin for best new artist.

+1

So good!

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Anonymous wrote:Who are we kidding. Beyonce will win everything whether she deserves it or not.

Beyoncé needs to retire.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This rudeness by her fans towards other musicians does not reflect well on Beyonce. The entitlement is off-putting.

+1

Not to mention, if we are going to give her credit, we also have to give her Producer and Record Executive husband credit and the entire enormous team that works not only on her music, but her appearance. The electric fan that blows her hair, that alone deserves a GD Grammy.......

People can like who they like. No one has to like Beyonce. And that is just fine.