This is so true. I would have been here for Animal Collective winning, but the fact that it wasn't even nominated and BEP was is just

I agree, Speak Now is way better than Fearless in my opinion.

Was it just bad nominations or was music that year really bad? I can't remember.

Fearless - Taylor Swift 46 59.74%

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Wait, the reviews were positive even though Kanye West hadn't gotten up on stage yet? Why did they like it if there was no sympathy factor involved?

All of these were justified but off of personal feelings I think 21 was not AOTY material now off of the nominees it was justified but MBDTF should have won and I don't even like the album but you all saw the critical acclaim for it

Fearless is the most undeserved AOTY of the past 10 years by MILES wider than Bobbi Kristina's gap.

I'm not going to voice my opinions on Fearless. I don't want WPs.

You've heard me talk about why I dislike Swift before.

Most of my contempt comes from Fearless.

I can't believe it lost Country album of the year this year. i guess its because its not too country, but still...

+OutKast

And I bet everybody who voted totally heard all those albums!

Or they heard enough from "Fearless" to know it didn't deserve a win

tied between Fearless and 21 tbqh

Fearless was cute and it was nice that she was nominated at least, but i mean, it's a stretch to say it beats even The Fame (which i dont even think should've been nominated still to this day). compared to Dave Matthews Band and Beyonce's album it shouldn't have gotten the award.

21 was vocally brilliant, but generic in content. there was no diversity or true quality in all of the songs. i would've voted for either Born This Way, Wasting Light or Loud quite frankly. Loud had much more quality in its diversity, better flow and Born This Way had the perfect blend of variety and quality. and Foo Fighters just make good rock songs purely. but Adele makes sappy love drama songs that do get old after a while. it was such a waste of an award, it could've gone to an honest to God good album.

Norah has no votes. As it should be.

The reviews were positive but not Album of the Year positive, come on.

The nomination and subsequent win were fueled by the "Taylor is perfect and doesn't deserve hate" PR train that her publicists put on.

To imply otherwise is just silly, and in the end the only ones who actually believe that Taylor's win was completely unmotivated by the Kanye incident are Taylor stans.

Maybe Taylor won because members of the industry respected that she found success as a Popstar who actually works hard, is a great songwriter who connects with lots of people, and is the driving force behind her own music + her constant professionalism, classiness, and respect?

Nope, she won because of an incident at the ****ing VMAs instead of course.

If someone comes for her ....

Fearless isnt that great, but it was stronger than the other albums nominated.

Clearly Taylor Swift...Why does Arcade Fire have so many votes? They are one of the MOST deserving... I guess it's to be expected on a pop forum though...