re: Musical taste is dead

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Whatever credibility the Grammy's had went out the window in 1989

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I had a chance to speak to The Recording Academy's Senior Vice President, Awards, Bill Freimuth on Tuesday, shortly after the nominations were announced. The first thing I spoke about with Freimuth was the "Best Rock Performance" category and we asked him how Beyonce and Disturbed ended up in the same category.

"When you exclude metal, the rock category is one of our biggest umbrellas." Freimuth notes. "Not quite as broad as pop, but maybe the next up in terms of what constitutes rock – it can be blues rock, folk rock, ballads. All of that. I think what we found this year is that so many artists that were in rock or adjacent to rock were really taking more sonic risks this year than ever before, and it made for a really exciting dynamic landscape in that field."

He went on to defend the Beyonce performance as a rock performance: "That [Beyonce] recording has Jack White in it and it has Led Zeppelin samples in it and I think it's Beyonce really stretching. It's an artist at the height of her musical powers, really reaching in many different directions and we are all the better for it."

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