In February, not long after the 2018 Grammys, the Recording Academy announced it would launch a task force to increase diversity in its antiquated institution. The means to which they would accomplish this necessary and long overdue goal were unclear—we now know it required the hiring of Tina Tchen (previously Chief…
Remember Neil Portnow?
It’s been a particularly tumultuous past few months for the Recording Academy, after its president Neil Portnow made a fool of himself by suggesting women weren’t winning Grammys because they needed to “step up.”
SZA recently spoke to GQ about her controversial Grammy loss and in between explaining that she was “mad as hell” about it and moving forward, she drops this one interesting quote about her “inklings.”
Neil Portnow, retire bitch!
When Recording Academy President Neil Portnow said that women needed to “step up” if they wanted to win Grammys after a particularly dismal ceremony, a comment he later backtracked, many women artists were pissed at him. But nobody seems more hellbent on getting Portnow to step down than Vanessa Carlton.
On Monday Neil Portnow, Recording Academy president and CEO, told press that women artists who wanted to be engineers, producers, musicians, needed to “step up” because they’d be more than welcome. He said this after a particularly dismal Grammy awards in which only one woman, Alessia Cara, took home an award for her…
If Getty Images is to be believed, this year’s Grammys afterparties had all the pizzazz of a slowly deflating balloon, with low-ish turnout and a level of glamour appropriate to parties co-hosted by, for example, American Airlines. That being said, you know, some people came out and looked good and we might as well do…
It may have been a surprisingly great group of nominees this year at the Grammys, but was it ultimately a great group of winners?
When it came to addressing the #MeToo movement at the 2018 Grammys, all eyes were on Kesha. The singer-songwriter took the stage during the ceremony to perform her nominated song “Praying,” a moving, frank portrayal of being a victim of abuse, strongly alluding to her years-long legal fight with her producer Dr. Luke,…
Don’t be alarmed, but for about three minutes tonight, the Grammys were actually joyous, thanks to Bruno Mars and Cardi B.
Here we are, on what some call “music’s biggest night,” settling in and ready to watch host James Corden sing a bunch of songs while other, arguably better singers get awards and also sing songs and dance and stuff. It’s the 60th Grammy Awards! Cardi B. lost to Kendrick Lamar already, but that’s fine! How many times…
The spotlight on the #MeToo movement looks like it will be quite dim at the upcoming Grammys, where just a few musicians have pledged to support Time’s Up by wearing white roses on Sunday. But one highlight of the ceremony will no doubt be Kesha’s performance of her song “Praying.”
While Hollywood has seen a wave of high-profile firings regarding sexual assault, an initiative which has trickled down to other non-celebrity filled industries through the efforts of Time’s Up, the same hasn’t happened for the music industry.
The Grammys, the best awards show because it is made up almost entirely of musical performances, keeps rolling out their performers list for January 28.
Julia Michaels specializes in a certain kind of pop music therapy. As a songwriter, she sits down with singers like Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and Gwen Stefani; talks to them about what the hell is going on in their lives; and then scales that down into a perfect song: “Sorry,” “Hands to Myself,” “Used to Love You.”…
You might remember last year when Adele, crying and cradling her Grammy for Album of the Year at the end of the night, tearfully told audiences that Beyoncé actually deserved the award.
Every year without fail, the Recording Academy gets called out for being out of touch and ignoring the most relevant artists. This fall, the Grammy board wants to try something new with online voting.
Beyoncé is no longer doing Coachella this summer, pushing back her performance dates to 2018, on account of the fact that she is freaking pregnant with twins. She announced her postponement via a statement to the Associated Press, pinpointing the schedule change on “doctor’s orders.” By the time Coachella rolls around…
The day after the Grammys, while people who cared about the ceremony were debating the racial implications of the Academy shutting out Beyoncé from the major categories while awarding the decidedly more milquetoast Adele, Drake was having his own conversation about the Grammys’ race problem as it applied to him. And…
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