So important:
'In an industry run mainly by rich, white men, Beyoncé breaks all the rules........... A
nd this is why she scares the Grammy’s. And that is exactly why they did not award her Album of the Year at this year’s Grammy’s. It was one of the biggest snubs of all time, but it also comes off as the Grammy Awards
punishing Beyoncé for breaking all those tried-and-true rules of white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy. All this exposition is to say, in the clearest way possible: Beyoncé’s snub for Album of the Year this year for BEYONCÉ is some serious racist and sexist ********.
'...............That alone is enough reason to award BEYONCÉ Album of the Year. Further, the album is sonically, lyrically, visually, and politically daring. Aside from 2 (possibly 3) more traditionally commercial songs, the album consisted of sounds and vocals we have never heard from Beyoncé — or anyone else for that matter — before. It drew on music and themes of the past and pushed them to places we didn’t know they could go. That’s what great art does. '
'I’m reaching too far or making something out of nothing - they insist Beyoncé isn’t political.
On the other hand, the Grammy’s find her album too political to award. Interesting dichotomy, but one that most black women in the U.S. are all too familiar with.'
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Beck released a perfectly fine album. But at the end of the day, that is all Morning Phase was. Fine. And Beck is a white man, so that means his perfectly fine music gets elevated to savior status. That’s not to say Beck hasn’t released great music in the past - he has.'
In the history of the Grammy awards only 3 black women have been awarded Album of the Year (Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston, and Lauryn Hill), and that number should have jumped to 4 this year. But it didn’t - because the Grammy’s
pretend to honor diversity but refuse to value black women’s art and lives in the most meaningful ways. Beyoncé didn’t need the Album of the Year Grammy; but she deserved it for releasing brave political music/videos that could not have come from any other artist.
The fact that she doesn’t have it, despite having 20 other Grammy’s, tells us more about America than we would perhaps like to know: racism and sexism haven’t gone anywhere. They just work differently. They also still work the same.
http://kevinallred.tumblr.com/post/1...rammys-beyonce
