re: Grammy's are ridiculous.....

I didn't watch it, but I can tell you that Stapleton has more talent than 95% of the people in that building.

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Did they outsell Beyonces album?

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So you can just call it whatever category you want? Next year, will she sing the same way and call it Latin Beats?

People that go to Beyoncé concerts are Beyoncé fans. People that buy her music are Beyoncé fans. No fricking person is playing her shite on while drinking beers on the Gulf of America. No country cover bands have any cowboy carter shite in their repertoire.

She didn’t change genres. She didn’t take over country music. She was abjectly rejected by country fans. This is a joke and embarrassment.

Imagine if they had given Michael Jordan a baseball player of the year award.

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OT, on the other hand, typically constantly shite talks celebrities and media, yet seems to be more up to date on the goings on with these people.

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And then there are a chunk of people on the OT like me who've never watched any kind of award show. I can't think of an activity I'd rather not do more. WGAS how some of the industries that I loathe decide to pat themselves on the back.

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Did they outsell Beyonces album?

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Well, she didn't come close to touching Taylor Swift's sales and beat her too, so...........

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starting a Grammys thread takes as much soy as a gender transition.

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I don't know how old you are, but Im of an age when everyone watched the awards shows when I was a kid. This was the era Johnny Carson and 3 channels + PBS , plus demographically we we a more a more similar population with more of a unified culture. So that was a lot of cultural investment in these things because it seemed like the whole country was watching to see if their favorite band or actors would win something. There’s a feeling that this was all hijacked and taken from us, often purely for spite, and that the attitude of the hijacker’s is “piss on you, normal people . What was yours is now ours and were going to wave that in your face”.

So amongst us older ones, yeah, theres a bit of resentment in what has happened. I haven’t watched an awards show in 20+ years, precisely because what used to be common culture is a freak show now. But it didn’t used to be that way.

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I don't know how old you are, but Im of an age when everyone watched the awards shows when I was a kid. This was the era Johnny Carson and 3 channels + PBS , plus demographically we we a more a more similar population with more of a unified culture. So that was a lot of cultural investment in these things because it seemed like the whole country was watching to see if their favorite band or actors would win something. There’s a feeling that this was all hijacked and taken from us, often purely for spite, and that the attitude of the hijacker’s is “piss on you, normal people . What was yours is now ours and were going to wave that in your face”.

So amongst us older ones, yeah, theres a bit of resentment in what has happened. I haven’t watched an awards show in 20+ years, precisely because what used to be common culture is a freak show now. But it didn’t used to be that way.

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That is exactly my experience and perception as well.

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That is exactly my experience and perception as well.

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I don't know how old y'all are, but none of my friends watched award shows in the 70s.

I can’t believe people still watch these liberal arse award shows. They will never get one second of my time

As someone who listens to country music radio stations almost exclusively, I have yet to hear a Beyonce song played, yet here songs appear at the top of country music charts. Hmmm

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I didn't watch it, but I can tell you that Stapleton has more talent than 95% of the people in that building.

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What is funny about Stapleton is that he was a great songwriter before anyone knew his name, but it was a David Allan Coe song set to an old blues/soul arrangement and melody that made him famous.