Grammy rejects are crying a lot.
Twitter tantrums are on the rise, as the big stars have become the biggest crybaby in the music industry, after being denied recognition of what is heralded as “the biggest night in music”.
Of course, this is not the first time pop stars have raged at the Recording Academy – but the 2021 Grammy is an inflection point beyond stomach ache because of nomination rejections.
Explosive claims that Grammys are “Corrupt,” sexist and biased towards “The white man” have plagued the 63rd annual award since the Recording Academy announced this year’s nominations in November.
After a two-month delay at COVID-19, the controversial award ceremony – hosted by Trevor Noah of “The Daily Show” – finally airs at 8 pm on Sunday, March 14, on CBS.
Until then, take a look at a list of celebrities at the top of the charts who cried even to the blues for being overlooked by Grammy gold. Are they just unfortunate losers – or are they really on the right track?
Zayn Malik
“Fuck the grammys and all the associates,” Malik, 28, sobbed on the Internet on Tuesday. “Unless you shake hands and send gifts, there are no naming considerations. Next year, I will send you a basket of sweets. “
One Direction singer dirty speech came four months after the Recording Academy released its list of 2,021 candidates.
Malik, who was never nominated for a Grammy, released his third solo album, “Nobody Is Listening”, in January. However, the Recording Academy stated that its 11-track project was not considered for the Grammy’s brilliance because it was released after this year’s eligibility period, from October 1, 2019 to August 31, 2020.
The weekend
“Starboy” was seeing “Blinding Lights” when none of his most famous works on the “After Hours” album received acclaim from the Recording Academy during the November announcement of the nomination.
“The Grammy is still corrupt. You owe me, my fans and the transparency of the industry … ”The Weeknd, 30, cried through his keyboard moments after this year’s nominations were revealed on November 24th.
The three-time Grammy winner expressed his discontent with the voting committee, comparing contempt to a “coup de grace” and saying “forget the prize” during an interview with Billboard in January.
However, three days before the Grammys 2021 broadcast, The Weeknd actually came in: “Because of the secret committees, I will no longer allow my record company to send my music to the Grammys,” the “Save Your Tears” singer said in a statement. to the New York Times Thursday.
Recording Academy President and Acting President / CEO Harvey Mason Jr. denied these claims, saying in a statement to Rolling Stone: “Unfortunately, each year, there are fewer nominations than the number of deserving artists … To be clear, voting in all categories ended well before The Weeknd’s Super Bowl performance was announced, so it in no way could have affected the nomination process. “
As for The Weeknd’s decision to boycott the show going forward, “We are all disappointed when someone gets upset,” Mason Jr. said in his statement.
Halsey
Halsey, 26, snorted, snorted and blew “bribes” on the way to the Recording Academy in 2019, when his masterpiece “Manic” failed to receive any honors at an award show.
“Grammy is an elusive process,” lamented the “You Should Be Sad” singer in a long story on Instagram.
“It can often be about private performances behind the scenes, meeting the right people, campaigning for rumors, with the right handshakes and ‘bribes’ that can be ambiguous enough to pass for ‘not bribes’.”
Recording Academy representatives did not respond to requests from The Posts to comment on Halsey’s accusations.
Meanwhile, the “Graveyard” singer went on to shade the award franchise while picking up her AMA 2019 statuette – and later criticized the Grammy for excluding her certified platinum ballad “Without Me” from the list of nominees for 2020.
Justin bieber
Bieber couldn’t belieb that was when his platinum selling anthology “Changes” won a nod to Best Vocal Pop Album instead of Best R&B Album.
“Changes was and is an R&B album,” lamented the 27-year-old Canadian singer on Instagram after receiving his four nominations for this year’s ceremonies. “It is not being recognized as an R&B album, which is very strange for me.”
Although “flattered” by the Recording Academy’s recognition, Bieber continued: “For this not to be placed in this category it seems strange, considering from the chords to the melodies and the vocal style to the hip hop drums that were chosen, it is undeniably, unmistakably R&B album! “
Biebs was apparently so upset by the wrong classification of his album that he decided to boycott the award show all together.
Nicki Minaj
The Queens “Queen” singer summoned the Grammys for not bowing to her musical prowess from day one.
“Never forget that the Grammy didn’t give me my award for best new artist when I had 7 songs simultaneously appearing on the billboard and bigger in the first week than any rapper in the last decade – it has inspired a generation. They gave it to the white man Bon Iver, ”Minaj, 38, tweeted after the Recording Academy selected its 2021 picks for praise.
Although the rhyme “Tusa” has been nominated for 10 Grammys since 2011, she has not yet taken home even a small golden gramophone.
Kanye West
How pissed off does someone have to be to urinate at the Grammys? Apparently, a lot.
In the midst of his 2020 presidential campaign, West, 43, took aim at the Recording Academy in one of his most infamous digital speeches. After throwing one of his 21 Grammys into a bathroom, the Chicago native spilled the trophy in the pee and shared an image of the irreverent act on Twitter in September.
Another hip-hop icon who became a TV star LL Cool J criticized West for disrespecting his Grammy, advising him to “Piss in a Yeezy” instead.
The liquid criticism of the master of ceremonies “Stronger”, since excluded, to the awards came amid a mixture of tweets criticizing the music industry for subjecting black artists to unfair treatment.
Recording Academy representatives did not respond to requests from The Posts to comment on Minaj and West’s allegations of racial inequality in the nomination process and in the industry as a whole.
The real tear-breaker
Despite Twitter having attacks from scorned singers, the researchers say that women represent less than 3% of all music producers and engineers – despite the Recording Academy’s great drive for gender equality in the industry.
“Women were 2.6% of the overall producers of 600 songs,” according to the authors of a recent study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Their discoveries were spelled out in published tweets by the Initiative’s verified Twitter account on Monday.
The Recording Academy launched its Women in the Mix Pledge in 2019 as an effort to welcome more female music masters into the studio. The call made artists, record executives and other producers to consider at least two women in the hiring process to compose any song.
However, the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that the Academy’s efforts failed to generate a single song for a chart produced by a woman in 2020.
However, the Recording Academy has started to close the gender gap when it comes to granting nods to women in the 5 main categories: Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and Producer of the Year.
But the study noted that, of all those nominated for such coveted praise in the past nine years, only 13.4% were women.
Some may consider this a great shame.