Source: Global Times
The 63rd Grammy Awards held an award ceremony on the 14th, Taylor Swift won the best album of the year, Beyoncé won 4 awards including the best music video of the year, the best rapper, and now she has 28 Grammy trophies. In addition, Lady Gaga and "A Sister" Ariana Grande teamed up to win the Best Pop Duo/Group Performance Award, the post-00s newcomer Billie Elish won the Best Production of the Year Award, and the Song of the Year was spent on H.E.R's (formerly known as Briela Wilson) single "I Can't Breathe".
Beyoncé won a record award
Beyoncé, which already has 28 Grammy Trophies, became the most awarded female singer in the Grammys, setting a record. Prior to that, she was both the most nominated female singer in Grammy history and the first artist to be nominated in the R&B, rock, pop and Rap fields at the same time. Affected by the epidemic, this year's Grammy Awards Ceremony was held in an outdoor venue at the Los Angeles Convention Center, with only winners, guest performers and a small number of media members invited to attend.
For a wide audience, each Grammy can not only see singers participate in the awards ceremony, but also enjoy the stage show of popular singles and singers. This year there were "Ma Dongmei" Megan West Starlian and Cady Starrian, who won the Best Newcomer Award. B chorus "WAP", "Mars Brother" Bruno Mars and Anderson Parker improvised the single "Leave the Door Open", but not all performances are live performances, some of which are recorded in advance and installed during the ceremony.
Wickham: The Grammys have a "corrupt" shady scene
Although the awards ceremony was harmonious, this year's Grammys have suffered a bad experience since the date the nominations were announced. The first is that The Canadian singer and nicknamed "Brother Bonsai", Willken, announced a permanent boycott of the Grammy Awards because of the "zero nominations".
Last year's new album "AfterHours" was quite successful, and the title single "Blinding Lights" was on the "Billboard" charts almost all year round, but it did not get a single Grammy nomination, which made Willken, who had won 3 Grammy Trophies in 2016 and 2018, extremely angry. In interviews with The New York Times and in social media posts, Wicken said that the Grammys have a "corrupt" shady scene, he will permanently boycott the Grammys, and will not let the record company sign up for the Grammys in the future, and speculation has also been speculated that what happened to Wicken may be related to his previous choice to perform in the Super Bowl instead of the Grammys.
In the face of The Wicken boycott, Harvey Mason, CEO of the American Academy of Recording Sciences, the Grammy organizer, responded: "This year's competition has been extremely fierce, Wicken's music is great, and we understand his disappointment that he did not receive the nomination." Congratulations on his performance in the Super Bowl, and the Grammys' nominees were set long before he announced his participation in the Super Bowl. Another popular singer, Justin Bieber, was nominated, but because the award for his album was not satisfactory, he also said that he would ignore this year's Grammys.
"Obviously the Grammys lost BTS!"
Because Wicken is a Canadian citizen and of African descent, Grammy's neglect of him is also suspected of racial discrimination, and the same thing happened this year to two other singers of color who were not nominated, Helch and "Spicy Chicken" Nikki Mina. An angry Mina complained on social networks that the Grammy organizers would rather give the best newcomer award to a white singer than to herself.
A similar situation happened again at this year's Grammy Awards, where the South Korean group Bulletproof Youth League (BTS), although shortlisted for this year's Grammys, lost to two Mainstream European and American pop singers Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande at the "Best Pop Duo/Group Performance Award". According to the ABC, after the awards results were announced, BTS fans poured into social media: "Who said that BTS lost the Grammys, obviously the Grammys lost the BTS!" "The Grammys just want to rely on BTS to improve ratings!" "The judges didn't think about what this meant for BTS at all!" There are also more sensible fans who are optimistic about the Grammy Road of BTS: "Last year as a guest, this year was nominated, next year we will definitely win." 」 BTS also said in an interview that it thanked fans for their support, "Next year we will come up with better music and performances to return."
Major awards in the United States can't get around the "racial barrier"
"The Grammy Awards have changed, women have won the awards, embracing the black movement," South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo said of this year's Grammy Awards. Race and gender have been a topic of conversation at major ceremonies and award/nominating lists in the United States in recent years, and "I Can't Breathe," which won the Grammys for Best Single of the Year this year, was created by singer Briela Wilson specifically for George Floyd, a black man who was crushed to death by police kneeling last year. "I can't breathe" was Freud's last words, and the Grammys named it the best single of the year, but also to show participation and importance to sensitive social topics in the United States.
The "black lives are also lives" storm set off by the Floyd incident swept through the United States in 2020, and the entertainment industry naturally cannot be ignored. At the Golden Globes ceremony at the end of February, 3 of the 6 acting category winners were Of African Descent, "Diva of the Blues", "America v. Billy Halledai", "Judas and the Black Messiah" and the winner of best animated film "Journey of the Mind" were all black subjects, and "Minari", which won the best foreign language film, also focused on the Asian population in the United States. However, the Golden Globes organizer "Hollywood Foreign Journalists Association" due to the lack of African-American judges, after being exposed by the media caused a lot of controversy.
In recent years, in order to get rid of the much-maligned image of the "old white man", another authoritative organization in the industry and the organizer of the Oscar, the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has expanded a large number of ethnic minorities and female members, and some foreign filmmakers have also been invited to become members, bringing more "diversified" atmosphere. Last year' Oscar for Best Picture was awarded to the South Korean film "Parasite," and the MTV Awards for Music also awarded four awards, including Best Pop Music and Best Group, to BTS. Nowadays, blacks win awards at major awards to be somewhat politicized, and the breakthrough of the Korean Wave in the mainstream cultural circle in the United States seems to be more inclined to entertainment itself.