Grammy rejections cry dirty.
Twitter tantrums were all the rage as top superstars became the record industry’s biggest cry after failing to receive recognition for what is being hyped as “ music’s greatest night. ”
Sure, this isn’t the first time pop stars have raged at the Recording Academy – but Grammy’s 2021 is a tipping point beyond stomach ache over nominations.
Explosive claims that the Grammys are “Corrupt”, sexist and biased for it “The White Man” have ravaged the 63rd annual awards ceremony since the Recording Academy announced this year’s kinks in November.
After a two-month COVID-19 delay, the controversial awards ceremony – hosted by Trevor Noah from “The Daily Show” – finally kicks off on CBS on Sunday, March 14 at 8pm.
Until then, check out a list of celebs on the chart who have cried the blues for being overlooked for the Grammys gold. Are they just bad losers – or are they really up to something?
Zayn Malik
“Fk the Grammys and everyone associated with it,” Malik, 28, cyber-sobbed Tuesday. “Unless you shake hands and send gifts, there are no considerations for nomination. Next year I’ll send you a basket of sweets. “
The One Direction singer crude screams came four months after the Recording Academy released its list of hopefuls 2021.
Malik, who has never been nominated for a Grammy, released his third solo album, “Nobody Is Listening” in January. However, the Recording Academy stated that its 11-track project was ineligible for Grammy’s Shine because it was released after this year’s eligibility period from October 1, 2019 to August 31, 2020.
The weekend
The “Starboy” saw “Blinding Lights” when none of his masterpieces from the album “After Hours” were praised during the announcement of the Recording Academy nominee.
The Grammys remain corrupt. You owe me, my fans and the industry transparency … “The Weeknd, 30, called through his keyboard moments after this year’s noms were unveiled on Nov. 24.
The three-time Grammy winner reiterated his displeasure with the voting committee by comparing the snub to a “sucker punch” and saying “forget award ceremonies,” during an interview with Billboard in January.
However, three days before the Grammys airing in 2021, The Weeknd really went in: “Due to the secret commissions I will no longer allow my label to submit my music to the Grammys,” said the “Save Your Tears” singer in a statement to the New York Times Thursday.
Admission Academy President and Interim President / CEO Harvey Mason Jr. denied those claims, saying in a statement to Rolling Stone: “Unfortunately there are fewer nominations each year than the number of deserving performers … To be clear, voting in all categories ended well before The Weeknd’s appearance in the Super Bowl. was announced, so it couldn’t have affected the nomination process in any way. ”
As for The Weeknd’s decision to boycott the show from now on, “We are all disappointed when someone is angry,” said Mason Jr. in his statement.
Halsey
Halsey, 26, chugged and chugged and blew “bribes” in the shadows of the Recording Academy road in 2019, when her “Manic” masterpiece failed to garner any accolades.
“The Grammys are an elusive process,” the “You Should Be Sad” singer lamented in a lengthy Instagram story.
“It can often be about private appearances behind the scenes, knowing the right people, campaigning through the joke, with the right handshakes and ‘bribes’ that can be just ambiguous enough to be considered ‘non-bribes’.”
Representatives from the Recording Academy did not respond to The Posts’ requests for comment on Halsey’s allegations.
Meanwhile, the “Graveyard” singer continued to eclipse the awards franchise as she picked up her 2019 AMA figurine – and later screamed at the Grammys for excluding her certified platinum ballad “Without Me” from the 2020 list with noms.
Justin Bieber
Bieber couldn’t each when his platinum-selling anthology “Changes” earned a nod for Best Pop Vocal Album instead of Best R&B album.
“Changes was and is an R&B album,” the 27-year-old Canadian singer whined on Instagram after receiving his four nominations for this year’s ceremonies. “It’s not recognized as an R&B album, which is very strange to me.”
Though ‘flattered’ by the Recording Academy recognition, Bieber continued, ‘Not putting this in that category feels weird considering the chords, melodies and vocal style all the way down to the hip hop drums chosen. unmistakably, unmistakably an R&B album! “
The Biebs were apparently so troubled by the misclassification of his album that he eventually chose to boycott the awards ceremony all together.
Nicki Minaj
The ‘Queen’ crooner from Queens called out the Grammys for not vowing for her musical prowess since day 1.
“Never forget that the Grammys didn’t give me my Best New Artist award when I had 7 songs on the billboard at the same time and the first week was bigger than any female rapper in the past decade – was going to inspire a generation. They gave it to white man Bon Iver, ”tweeted Minaj, 38, after the Recording Academy singled out the 2021 roster for praise.
Although the “Tusa” rhyme has been nominated for 10 Grammys since 2011, she has never taken home a small gold-plated gramophone.
Kanye West
How pissed off do you have to be to pee at a Grammy? Apparently quite.
During his 2020 presidential campaign, West, 43, aimed at the Recording Academy in one of his most infamous digital rants. After plunging one of his 21 Grammys into a toilet, the Chicago resident dipped the trophy in puddle and shared a photo of the irreverent act on Twitter in September.
Fellow hip-hop icon and TV star LL Cool J called West out for disrespecting his Grammys, recommending “Piss in a Yeezy” instead.
The now-removed liquid rebuke of the “Stronger” emcee’s prices came amid a mishmash of tweets that bass the music industry for subjecting black performers to unfair treatment.
Representatives from the Recording Academy did not respond to The Posts’ requests for comment on Minaj and West’s claims about racial inequality in the nomination process and the industry as a whole.
The real tearjumper
Despite Twitter attacks from scorned singers, researchers argue that less than 3 percent of all music producers and engineers are women – despite the Recording Academy’s strong commitment to gender equality in the industry.
“Women were 2.6% of the producers of 600 songs in total,” said the authors of a recent study by the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative. Their findings were outlined in tweets published by the initiative’s verified Twitter account Monday.
The Recording Academy launched the Women in the Mix Pledge in 2019 as an effort to welcome more female music masters into the studio. The call to action prompted artists, label drivers and other producers to consider at least two women in the recruiting process to create a song.
However, the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative found that the Academy’s efforts failed to generate a single chart-topping song produced by a woman in 2020.
However, the Recording Academy has began to close the gender gap when it comes to issuing winks at women in the top 5 categories: Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist and Producer of the Year.
But the survey found that of all the nominees nominated for the coveted awards in the past nine years, only 13.4 percent were female.
Some may think that is a shame.