I think melodies are like angels from heaven expressing a place for the heart to follow. | | | | | First three black artists to win the Album of the Year Grammy: Stevie, Stevie and Stevie. (Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | | | “I think melodies are like angels from heaven expressing a place for the heart to follow.”
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| | rantnrave:// Last word on the GRAMMYS (for now), in three parts: 1. My friend ADELE asked: What the f*** does [BEYONCÉ] have to do to win Album of the Year? And here's the thing: Beyoncé doesn't have to do anything. She's fine. The better question is: What do the Grammys have to do for Beyoncé to win Album of the Year? And the answer seems rather simple: Change the voters. The results are a reflection of who they are and where they come from... 2. But of course nothing's ever that easy. Under the headline "The Problem With the Grammys Is Not a Problem We Can Fix," NPR MUSIC's ANN POWERS connects a lot of crucial dots while writing about the institutional racism and white privilege that underlies everything that happened Sunday (and many, many Sundays before that) and all discussion thereof. As Powers makes clear, the issues are widespread, deeply ingrained and all but invisible to many of the people who are in a position to try to do something about it, such as... 3. GRAMMY boss NEIL PORTNOW, who tells PITCHFORK, "I don’t think there’s a race problem at all." When interviewer MARC HOGAN gives him a chance to reconsider by pointing out the steps the MOTION PICTURE ACADEMY has taken to increase diversity, Portnow doubles down: "Well, they may have had a problem. We don't have that kind of an issue in that same fashion." An eyebrow-raising interview, worth reading... APPLE's EDDY CUE says yes to short-term exclusives ("the world has always had promotions"), no to long-term ones... SOUNDCLOUD, down two top execs, says it is fundraising but not "begging for money"... SONOS's plans for integrating ALEXA and GOOGLE... How to fight off your SPOTIFY hacker. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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| After Perry’s #wokepop at the Grammys, there’s an argument about how subversive pop can be in 2017. History shows it will take more than hashtags. | | |
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| Adele's attempt to share her album of the year Grammy with Beyoncé on Sunday was a gesture that held within it a history of privilege and power that listeners and institutions alike reckon with. | | |
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| I think a big part of me wanted to “get” Rush because they are constantly marketed as a boys’ band. | | |
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| When nothing else works, just blast Darius Rucker. | | |
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| Movies and music turn out to be no substitute for cupid and dumb luck. | | |
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| How my personal relationship with Christianity made enjoying Chance's big Grammy night a challenge. | | |
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| The Recording Academy President: “No, I don’t think there’s a race problem at all.” | | |
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| While you might think listening to sad music is just depressing, researchers have found that it can have many therapeutic benefits. | | |
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| Do you think you can tell a piece of music composed by artificial intelligence (AI) from one created by a human composer? | | |
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| The Trip crew recently touched down in North America. | | |
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| Today, Franklin's recording of "Respect" is definitive. But when she recorded it on Valentine's Day 1967, it was a radical gender-bending of Otis Redding's original. | | |
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| Once again, the Grammys made it clear that they don't give a s*** about metal--but Lady Gaga should've known better. | | |
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| he secret of good dancing has just been revealed--get this--by science! In a paper published last week in the journal Scientific Reports, a group of researchers in England has determined exactly which moves make a woman most attractive. It’s in the jiggle of her hips, these experts say, and in the asymmetric swinging of her arms and thighs. | | |
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| Charli XCX, Pixie Geldof, Olly from Years & Years plus assorted indie musicians are raising money by performing "Gimme Shelter" at the NME awards on Wednesday (Feb 15). Can they pull it off? | | |
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| While Kate Nash surfaced back in the mid-00s as a rising pop phenom, she's become so much more than that. Candy-coated hits like " Foundations" and "Mouthwash" first put her on the map, it's been her punk-fueled, feminist melodies and activism that have really shaped her career. | | |
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| The problem for contemporary bands (and there are absolutely fantastic bands operating at the moment, don't get me wrong) is that after so many decades of development, genre crossovers, first waves, and second waves, we've come to a period where new metal just sounds like... another type of metal. | | |
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| | | | | | | From "Fulfillingness' First Finale," winner of the 1975 Grammy for Album of the Year. |
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