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I honestly think women, especially black women, are still being punished for a sexy image and sexual music by their antiquated voting body in that regard. 
 

A Lauryn or Tracy type probably has the best chance.

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Become white, I fear

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Beyonce doesn't write her music, so?

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For the current voters -

 

she’d need to cover her entire body head to toe

 

prove she’s related to Jesus 

 

be nominated in a year that not a single white woman is nominated 

 

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I can get over anything but Lemonade snub was the biggest of them all. She served a highly acclaimed concept album with amazing visuals, the sales were there and it definitley is the most significant album of that year and everyone knows this. Even Adele who won AOTY. I hope she never shows up to Grammys again

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4 hours ago, Josh said:

Why do y'all care about the grammy's so much? they don't respect us. 

The million dollar question, i dont understand this incessant need for white approval so bad. Yummy by JB was nominated for a grammy for christ's sake. Its been a joke

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Yall repeating the same stuff Every Year!

You need to start paying the Scammys - DUST.

 

They've been racist and biased for a Very long time.

It's mostly politics there too

 

 

 

 

 

Drake, Eminem, the Weeknd and even Jay-Z dissed them

hopefully these other artists Also realize what is going on and start sabotaging them.

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Be a mediocre yt woman like Taylor 

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66 years and only 3 black women won AOTY it’s racism plan and simple.. and when that Grammy voter said He didn’t vote Beyoncé for AoTY because she wins too much confirmed it… like wtf. but you can award a basic yt woman 4 times? 

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It's ludicrous. I guess the Grammys believes Taylor is more talented than all black female artists combined.

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Self titled & Lemonade

CTRL & SOS

ANTI

 

from mainstream pop girlies alone deserved

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4 hours ago, Phantom said:

Racist ass *****, did you just imply black artists can't write their music??? 

Yes they did. 

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5 hours ago, Kristie Kuwa said:

Wait 15-20 more years until the white execs all die

What If they include Young Trump supporters by then? It's over for everyone then.

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There are no “standards” for an AOTY win, it’s just a bunch of people holding a vote. They clearly underappreciate black female artists, which is a shame, but all it means is a small group of people preferred Midnights to SOS 

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3 minutes ago, airplane said:

 

There are always insane “anonymous ballots” like that… same for the Oscars. The people voting for these things clearly care less than ATRLers :dies:

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Change the voting system. Lbr Tay only won because it’s Tay :skull: it ain’t down to quality, one of the weakest wins ever. 

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Unfortunately, it’s all about the voting body. I feel like POC musicians are more likely to embrace Taylor’s albums than white execs and musicians embrace POC efforts. By no means Taylor is a Grammy darling; most of her recent wins have been in album related categories. However, we’ve had Black Women win the BNA category 3 out of the last 4 years, as well as Record and Song of the Year wins this decade as well. 
 

There is a real bias against certain genres, and it seems voters are comfortable awarding one song or an artist but not their entire body of work. This is why Taylor wins (and she’s my fave btw), on top of her insane success which probably drives executives to vote for her, her music appeals to Pop, Country and Alt voters, and like I said, POC are more willing to vote for her. The Black females in the category often rely on their POC peers and statistically, they are a minority in the Academy.

 

Essentially, a new influx of voters that represent the breadth of the music landscape should be added in order to see different results going forward. There’s nothing SZA could’ve done differently with her album. 

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I love how people discarded the race card when it comes to Beyonce because "she didn't write her own music"

 

But now they can't use the same excuse towards SZA :redface:

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38 minutes ago, Dephira said:

There are always insane “anonymous ballots” like that… same for the Oscars. The people voting for these things clearly care less than ATRLers :dies:

The "anonymous ballots" that they surveyed this year presents the actual winners though.

 

Thst old racist boomer guy said he wouldn't vote for SZA because her song is violent, and he voted for Midnights because it's Taylor Swift :biblio:

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