Needles & Grooves

Just curious, why is Glass Animals for BNA hilarious? Because they're not new?

Yeah, I like Glass Animals, but do they even fit the criteria to be nominated for Best New Artist?

They do meet the criteria. They basically can't have been entered into the category more than 3 times, and they can't have a Grammy on an album or something like that. It's not really about new artists so much as levels of success

It’s dumb. “New Artist” doesn’t mean new artist but they won’t change the name of the category. Japanese Breakfast is also nominated there and she has three albums. But yeah the new one is successful enough to warrant recognition - which is dumb. It’s like ‘oh now we’ll take you seriously’

@Bennnnn bingo "It’s like ‘oh now we’ll take you seriously’". it's why everyone was saying "who is Bonny Bear?" back in 2012 after Bonny Bear was nominated for the same thing. The ""mainstream"" is only now discovering them.

Basically yeah.. the only had their first notable hit this year.. and the fanbase was already there... Its just a little funny

But not as much as the triple chucks deluxe edition

Yeah, I was listening to Glass Animals like 8 years ago lmao

Not that I ever have any expectations for the Grammys but aoty category is dire.

I dunno I would enjoy Billie or lil Nas X to win

Otherwise it's a meme

Grammys have always been directly related to popular music. It's weird that year in and year out there's the same backlash when someone's favorite indie artist doesn't get nominated. This ain't the Bedroom Laptop Recording Grammys. Perhaps there should be a Sundance equivalent out there for undiscovered/up&coming artists to win awards.

Otherwise it is and will always be a popularity contest.

Also unrelated

But someone on the grammy staff is a HUGE fan of H.E.R

^ I was also thinking this, Idk if I've met a single person who actually listens to H.E.R.

When I saw Justice nominated I thought that meant the artist and I was like...yay but I didn't know they had new stuff. Then I put it together.

Looking at some of these, you know the committee just pulls down a familiar name. "Didn't Drake put out a new album this year? Ah, nice. Let's add that one in."

holy crap FANCY LIKE got nominated for Best Country Song

@waruv Grammy's could put Fancy Like for Best Country song but Kacey album didn't quality as country. Lol.

@waruv be careful, that's @Mather's favorite song