HIAM is not dubstep.
A dubstep breakdown doesn't make the song 100% dubstep.
If anything it's a pop song with industrial & dubstep influences.
SIWAK is an example of a some-what pop-step song.
I never said that it was.
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Originally posted by Duca
It mixes rave chords, dubstep (a new sound she introduced to the mainstream audience,) industrial beats, and trance synths. It sounds like nothing out right now and is far from the norm in terms of the typical dance-pop production. The only problem with “Hold It Against Me” was that it wasn’t catchy (like “Womanizer,” for example,) which probably caused it to fall out of favor once the hype settled.
I don't like this new rule
Best dance recording is a very strong field of Rihanna. She always has one of the biggest dance songs of each years ( Don't Stop the Music, Disturbia, Only Girl ( in the world), S&M, We found Love, Where you have been, Ponde replay, SOS) . She constantly get nomination for this field.
It's so ridiculous that We Found Love/Where have you been didn't/won/t get any Dance nominees.
The only her strong field remained is Rap/Sung Collaboration.
I don't like this new rule
Best dance recording is a very strong field of Rihanna. She always has one of the biggest dance songs of each years ( Don't Stop the Music, Disturbia, Only Girl ( in the world), S&M, We found Love, Where you have been, Ponde replay, SOS) . She constantly get nomination for this field.
It's so ridiculous that We Found Love/Where have you been didn't/won/t get any Dance nominees. The only her strong field remained is Rap/Sung Collaboration.
No, she has Record of the year and Song of the year too.
The term is too loose and inconsistent. Reserve dance for Skillrex, Benni, and Afrojack then I'll get it. But adding LMFAO....you might as well add BEPs. Then you might as well add Kesha. Well, you get the idea.
I like what they are getting at, but this will not executed properly
So then what happens if they make a full dance song that one of the biggest and most successful of the year? Why can't they win BEST DANCE RECORDING? I need a valid reason, not "you're too successful" because they then have to define success, something that will be hard to do
If they're big and successful, than they're pop. Get it?
So it seems that the new Grammy rule is that dance-pop artists are no longer eligible for the Dance categories, unless they have terrible record sales, in which case they are welcomed with open arms.
I think it would make more since to add Best Dance artist as a category sp that only artist who make dance music are qualified. That way, any artist can submit to best dance recording rather then having a messes situation where you have to exclude certain pop artist and not others. Songs like WFL, HIAM and Judas ARE dance and deserve to be considered for nominations. I don't like this idea of trying to confine artist to certain categories based on their primary genre of music. Rihanna and Beyonce are allowed to submit to Pop and R&B categories despite the fact that one is primarily a pop artist and the other is rooted in the R&B.
No one even knows who Dev is. They may hear In the Dark on the radio but she hasn't made a name for herself yet. People probably think it's Ke$ha singing. That's why Keri flops, all my friends thought Pretty Girl Rock was a Beyonce song.