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Fan Base: Archived: Taylor Swift (#2)
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US99.5 Chicago has been playing Red every two hours. GoCountry should follow suit tbh.
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Both Katy and Gaga's second POP singles are flopping. I Knew You Were Relevant slowly crept its way up the charts to the number 1 spot this time last year.
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It still amazes me how I Knew You Were #2 couldn't get into Pop Solo. Literally the only thing that you need to get in there is a moderate hit. Kinda embarrasing tbh
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Originally posted by boyswifty
It still amazes me how I Knew You Were #2 couldn't get into Pop Solo. Literally the only thing that you need to get in there is a moderate hit. Kinda embarrasing tbh
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The MM curse.
Lord is about to give Dan Wilson another AOTY Grammy.
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Member Since: 4/10/2012
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Watch Unconditionally peaks lower than BTD in radio 
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Originally posted by Icannot
The MM curse.
Lord is about to give Dan Wilson another AOTY Grammy.
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Lettuce pray that the presence of MM doesn't sabotage ha chances
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Originally posted by castle13
Lettuce pray that the presence of MM doesn't sabotage ha chances
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Has MM won a Grammy for AOTY yet?
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Originally posted by Icannot
Has MM won a Grammy for AOTY yet?
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Hasn't won any grammy at all
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A certain pop star is basically sabotaging herself by not releasing the right single.
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Originally posted by castle13
Hasn't won any grammy at all
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Kinda funny how when Kelly's Breakaway won Pop Album the Academy decided to not give out Grammys to any producer in that category
Tragic
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Originally posted by boyswifty
Kinda funny how when Kelly's Breakaway won Pop Album the Academy decided to not give out Grammys to any producer in that category
Tragic
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Is this an indication that Red will only win Country Album?
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Originally posted by castle13
Is this an indication that Red will only win Country Album?
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Who knows, only one country artist worked with MM before Taylor and we know how that one ended.
Although she did win AOTY at the ACAs,something Taylor will never be able to do
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Originally posted by boyswifty
Who knows, only one country artist worked with MM before Taylor and we know how that one ended.
Although she did win AOTY at the ACAs,something Taylor will never be able to do
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But I heard the ACAs was the most prestigious country awards show?
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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Album of the Year
The nominees: Sara Bareilles’s The Blessed Unrest, Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories, Kendrick Lamar’s Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’s The Heist, and Taylor Swift’s Red
This one seems easy — Swift has been fashioned into something of a Grammy mascot, frequently appearing on the telecast as well as the “nominations night” dog and pony show. Red is one of the best-selling albums of the latest Grammy period, and this is an achievement that the Grammys were invented to reward. Recent Grammy history dictates that centrist hits by young artists (such as Adele’s 21 and Mumford & Sons’ Babel) have the clearest path to victory. And Swift is not facing strong competition — anyone that might have challenged her claim on the Album of the Year trophy has been cleared away.
That’s not a slight to the other nominees. Lamar’s album went platinum, and Daft Punk is close to that benchmark. (This nomination will almost certainly push RAM over the top.) Macklemore is a well-regarded indie success story in a crumbling industry, and Bareilles is the sort of respectable MOR grinder who ends up sticking around for decades. But Swift is clearly in a different superstar weight class. What’s interesting is that there were worthy adversaries who would’ve made this category more exciting had they been nominated. Jay Z led all artists with nine nominations, but he was locked out of the major categories; Magna Carta … Holy Grail is hardly his best work, but it could’ve been an excuse to honor Jay with a garbage-time Scent of a Woman legacy Grammy. More surprising is that Justin Timberlake didn’t get a nod for The 20/20 Experience Vol. 1, the best-selling album of 2013 and a display of serious musicianship and titanium ego that Grammy voters usually go for.
Notable factoid: If Swift wins in this category, she will be the first artist to win multiple Album of the Year awards in the same decade since Stevie Wonder in the ’70s.
If there’s any semblance of a dark horse here, it’s Bareilles. I’ll be honest: I had no clue that Sara Bareilles put out a record in 2013 until it was nominated for Album of the Year. Apparently the album (the name of which escapes me, even though I just typed it out a couple of paragraphs back) came out in July and debuted at no. 2 on the Billboard album chart behind Magna Carta … Holy Grail. Before this nomination, it had a fairly unexceptional run — the lead single, “Brave” (also nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance), peaked at no. 26 on the Hot 100 chart, though it did better on adult contemporary stations. The album wasn’t especially loved by critics, either; Rolling Stone called it “too diplomatic” in a mediocre two-and-a-half-star review, which is an odd (though I suppose appropriately bland) criticism.
Looking at it logically, Bareilles’s nomination doesn’t make sense. But after applying Grammy-logic, she looks like a potential Swift usurper. Bareilles was nominated for Song of the Year in 2009 (for “Love Song,” which I know I’ve heard but can’t remember), so while she seems like a journeywoman, this isn’t her first rodeo. She was a judge on NBC’s The Sing-Off (a show whose viewership I suspect derives disproportionately from the Grammy voting pool), so she’s more familiar to these people than Lamar, Macklemore, or those daffy, punky French weirdos. Logic-logic dictates that Bareilles is a non-actor because she’s the only artist here whose nomination isn’t driven by larger cultural forces. Grammy-logic suggests she was picked purely because the people who pick these things genuinely like her. That she was even nominated makes the possibility of an all-time WTF? Grammy moment alarmingly (delightfully?) plausible.
Record of the Year
The nominees: Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky”; Imagine Dragons’ “Radioactive”; Lorde’s “Royals”; Bruno Mars’s “Locked Out of Heaven”; Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”
Look, I know there have already been 142 best-of lists ranking the best songs of 2013, and there will be 419 more before the year ends. And in order to differentiate their list from all the other lists, many of these list-makers will attempt to argue that something not called “Get Lucky” is the best song of the year. While these people should be praised for their “eclectic” and “adventurous” tastes, they are wrong. Stop being contrary to the facts: “Get Lucky” is immortal. Get used to it.
Except Grammy voters. Go on being contrary, you adorable maniacs!
“Get Lucky” is not going to win Record of the Year. “Locked Out of Heaven” is going to win. “Locked Out of Heaven” is also a pretty great song, but more importantly, Mars is an artist (like Swift) who has been primed to win Grammys for the next several years. And he’s overdue for some victories: Since 2011, he’s been nominated 18 times, including three times for Record of the Year, three times for Song of the Year, and once for Album of the Year. So far, he has won only once.
The Grammys are first and foremost a promotional vehicle for (1) the record industry, and (2) the Grammy telecast. Like any TV show, it’s in the Grammys’ best interest to cultivate recurring characters who will keep viewers watching. And Mars is like Swift’s third or fourth featured costar. (Adele also gets her name above the title, and Bono is the “aging leading man who’s still a draw” Tom Selleck figure.) The fact that Mars’s very likable and very popular Unorthodox Jukebox didn’t get pitted against Red in the Album of the Year category (and that Swift wasn’t conversely nominated for Record or Song of the Year) tells me that Mars has been set up to win here.
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http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollyw...rammy-theories
Thoughts? Is Bareilles really Taylor's biggest competition for Album of the Year? While that seems silly on the surface, I think he makes a lot of good points and I could absolutely see the Grammys playing out this way in January.
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Popcrush predicts Red will win AOTY
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Goldderby says She won't win but they also predicted that The 20/06 Experience would win AOTY and that Begin Again would be snubbed so they are irrelevant
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Originally posted by boyswifty
Goldderby says She won't win but they also predicted that The 20/06 Experience would win AOTY and that Begin Again would be snubbed so they are irrelevant
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Didn't they also predict that SN was going to get an AOTY nomination?
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These lyrics describe Taylor perfrectly:
I am so fab, check out
I'm blonde, I'm skinny
I'm rich, and I'm a little bit of a bitch
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Originally posted by boyswifty
Goldderby says She won't win but they also predicted that The 20/06 Experience would win AOTY and that Begin Again would be snubbed so they are irrelevant
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The Lord is laughing at them rn
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Originally posted by Icannot
These lyrics describe Taylor perfrectly:
I am so fab, check out
I'm blonde, I'm skinny
I'm rich, and I'm a little bit of a bitch
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Sounds kinda basic
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