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Discussion: Why was Lana Del Rey snubbed at the GRAMMY's?
Member Since: 6/1/2010
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Originally posted by liberalmusiclover
They said that???
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Yes. I won't even pull up the foolishness. International success never mattered to the Grammys, since this is a U.S. based award show, and it's not like Lana's international success is all that anyway.
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Member Since: 12/5/2009
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Originally posted by liberalmusiclover
I said yesterday that she (and Fiona Apple) aren't Grammy worthy
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Fiona got a nom tho, oops.
And back to the topic, Lana wasn't "snubbed!"
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Member Since: 5/10/2011
Posts: 16,465
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Originally posted by Percivalx
How many of those supposed 3 million has she sold in the US, where the Grammys are from?
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I'm not trying to say she's supposed to be nominated for a Grammy because she sold 3 mil WW.
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Member Since: 5/3/2012
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Originally posted by alkralkra
Fiona got a nom tho, oops.
And back to the topic, Lana wasn't "snubbed!"
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Did I say she didn't??? I said she and Lana weren't worthy.
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Member Since: 11/20/2010
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Lana's Stans do we really give a ****
if haters hate and Lana keeps selling millions of albums worldwide?
i don't think so...
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ATRL Contributor
Member Since: 9/14/2010
Posts: 78,921
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Originally posted by Rentboy
why do you Lana fans have to be so pretentious and disengenuous? Funny how you act like you want her to be a marginal artist one minute but as soon as she has some chart or sales success you start jumping up and down hysterically like every other fanbase. Just like I see some of you saying how you love it when she makes a mess of her live performances..because its so endearing, right? But yet, again, you get excited when she nails a performance.
As a fanbase you really are the masters of covering all bases.
And youre not fooling anybody acting like you dont care about her Grammys snub. Im sure many of you saw it has some big breakthrough opportunity. In fact I remember many of you yapping about the Grammys several months back and how she'd clean up. Well, no.
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I said I wouldn't care about her lack of Grammy nominations at the end of today, as in: I will get over it.
I don't care if Lana does or does not receive nominations, awards or great reviews, as long as she keeps releasing music. I am a fan of Lana Del Rey because of her talent/music/lyrics, not because she's a global superstar who "slays your faves". I would congratulate and be proud if an award show gave Lana justified nominations or awards because they genuinely thought she deserved it, not because her album was a chart or radio success, critically acclaimed and sold over 20 million worldwide.
And I've never said her live performances are endearing. Actually the opposite
You simply cannot generalize an entire fanbase upon a select few - that's how racism and homophobia still exists.
The claims that all Lana fans are pretentious and disingenuous is simply one of many incorrect judgements.
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Member Since: 4/29/2012
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People saying she doesn't deserve it when they think their cheap generic lifeless fave deserve them
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Member Since: 2/9/2012
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She doesn't need a piece of scrap metal anyways
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Member Since: 5/3/2012
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Originally posted by Lucas32
People saying she doesn't deserve it when they think their cheapgeneric lifeless fave deserve them
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Are you referring to my fave? She has the actual trophies. That generic, cheap lifelessness went a long way
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Member Since: 4/29/2012
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Originally posted by liberalmusiclover
Are you referring to my fave? She has the actual trophies. That generic, cheap lifelessness went a long way
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Dead @ you thinking about your fave when I am saying "generic cheap and lifeless"
And I'm happy for Rihanna I really like her
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Member Since: 4/28/2012
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She's too good for the Grammies tbh.
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Member Since: 9/7/2010
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1. She wasn't snubbed because she never stood a chance in the first place.
2. U.S. (aside from her hardcore fans) sees her as talentless parody from SNL, whose daddy bought her a record deal.
3. She has no single success, no radio hit.
4. She has no big album success.
5. Critics hate her, no acclaim.
So she's not cool enough, and not successful enough. 2 most important Grammy factors. Get it?
Stop whining and get over it.
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Member Since: 4/28/2012
Posts: 1,659
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Looks like they went for the 'hip' options in the Best New Artist nominees;
Alabama Shakes, fun., Hunter Hayes, the Lumineers and Frank Ocean
Oh well, at least CRJ wasn't nominated...
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Member Since: 8/12/2012
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Originally posted by Cap10Planet
Nobody knows about that Letterman performance, and SNL pulls in way more ratings than Letterman. Lana would have only recovered if she had done a flawless performance on another major show. She hasn't worked on trying to clean up her image in the U.S., and that will hurt her in the long run. 400k is decent sales for a new artist, but a lot of those sales come from people like you see here, and eventually a lot of them will move on.
This was as obvious as the Rihanna/Chris saga. I've said for several months that the Grammys would pay Lana dust, but people here kept saying how she fits the Grammy mold and how her international success would get her a bunch of nominations and wins. Really, she has no hits, little acclaim, little sales, extremely low profile and polarizing style. She never fit the Grammy mold. And dead @ the Lana stans acting so above the Grammys when they were the ones saying that she would slay hard.
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Come on, most of the fans said she has a chance for BNA and Video short form, no more, no less.
The others were exaggerating, ATRL style but not many.
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Member Since: 5/3/2012
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Originally posted by Sammi
1. She wasn't snubbed because she never stood a chance in the first place.
2. U.S. (aside from her hardcore fans) sees her as talentless parody from SNL, whose daddy bought her a record deal.
3. She has no single success, no radio hit.
4. She has no big album success.
5. Critics hate her, no acclaim.
So she's not cool enough, and not successful enough. 2 most important Grammy factors. Get it?
Stop whining and get over it.
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Spill that scalding hot tea!
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Member Since: 8/5/2012
Posts: 1,139
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Originally posted by J a y
I said I wouldn't care about her lack of Grammy nominations at the end of today, as in: I will get over it.
I don't care if Lana does or does not receive nominations, awards or great reviews, as long as she keeps releasing music. I am a fan of Lana Del Rey because of her talent/music/lyrics, not because she's a global superstar who "slays your faves". I would congratulate and be proud if an award show gave Lana justified nominations or awards because they genuinely thought she deserved it, not because her album was a chart or radio success, critically acclaimed and sold over 20 million worldwide.
And I've never said her live performances are endearing. Actually the opposite
You simply cannot generalize an entire fanbase upon a select few - that's how racism and homophobia still exists.
The claims that all Lana fans are pretentious and disingenuous is simply one of many incorrect judgements.
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Not you comparing stan generalization to racism and homophobia.
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Member Since: 4/20/2012
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Cause Born To Die sucks
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Member Since: 3/19/2012
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Originally posted by KK_Lover
Lana's Stans do we really give a ****
if haters hate and Lana keeps selling millions of albums worldwide?
i don't think so...
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Actually yes, i think a lot of Lana stans care about it, this thread alone is the proof of it (calling the Grammys a "flop show" just because she wasn't nominated). And there's several old threads on ATRL where Lana fans were saying how much she would slay the Grammys.
And just because she has ONE album who sold a few millions doesn't mean she'll keep doing it with her next releases
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Member Since: 4/20/2012
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I was jk but serious,
The Grammys nominate by popularity
They judge by quality
So even if she was successful enough for a population, overall people in general just didn't like how her music sounded this year. And many critics gave it negative reviews so obviously would have never won anyway.
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Member Since: 3/16/2012
Posts: 2,683
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When will these misinformed bitches stop calling Lana "tumblr-famous" or saying she has no success. I mean do you even know other countries exist besides the US? She has sold over 3 million albums WW. Get with the f***ing times dumb pressed hoez.
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