Grammy Song Of The Year to include samples & interpolations
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Recording Academy To Allow Samples For All Grammy Award Songwriting Categories
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By Colin Stutz, Los Angeles | June 12, 2014 8:00 AM EDT
The announcement comes along with an extensive list of additional alterations made at the Academy’s annual spring trustees meeting.
The Recording Academy has announced a change to its awards criteria that will now permit samples and interpolations of previously written songs to be allowed in all Grammy Award songwriting categories, including song of the year.
The announcement comes along with an extensive list of additional alterations made at the Academy’s annual spring trustees meeting intended to continue the evolution of the Grammy Awards categories and process.
Previously, samples or interpolations were allowed in only the Best Rap Song category. The change comes in recognition of craft of writing rap songs, as it is now common for songs to include a few lines of an old song as a reference point, says a press release announcing the change, “providing creative and interesting compositions that often reach across genre lines.”
Now, for example, songs like Jay Z and Alicia Keys "Empire State of Mind" which won the Grammy for Best Rap song honors in 2011 and features a sample of "Love on a Two-Way Street" written by Sylvia Robinson and Bert Keyes and performed by The Moments, would now also be eligible for a Song of the Year award.
I mean, it's too late now but the timing is pretty ******.
