The 58th Annual Grammy Awards will be held at the Staples Center on Monday, February 15, but if you’re anything like us, you won’t be watching. Although the Grammy’s are perhaps the preeminent award in American music and recording arts, throughout their six decades of existence, they have made unquestionably the consistently worst decisions of any major award show. From their very inception, the Grammys felt dated and out of touch, giving awards to Frank Sinatra in favor of the Beatles, who weren’t even recognized as Best “New” Artists until the year they released their sixth album.

Not every Grammy decision has been terrible. Artists still desperately strive for validation within the industry, and millions will watch the ceremony with wishful eyes, hoping the best for their favorite artists. We wouldn’t hold out breath, though, considering the past atrocious decisions made by the Grammys. Regardless of category, genre or era, the Grammys always managed to get obvious musical genius wrong, rewarding complacency over creativity with great consistency. If a young artist out there wins a Grammy on Monday and it just makes all their dreams come true, then we say, “Congrats, Taylor.” But to prevent any artist from having their dream shattered when they lose, check out these examples that prove just how clueless the Grammys have always been.


10. The First Rapper To Win A Grammy Was Will Smith



No one hates on Big Willie Style, but it seems downright inappropriate the first rapper to win a Grammy was The Fresh Prince. It’s not surprising it took the Grammys a few years to recognize rap, first doing so in 1989 with the award for Best Rap Performance. Celebrating a year that featured landmark hip-hop releases by artists such as N.W.A, Public Enemy, Big Daddy Kane, LL Cool J and KRS-One, of the bunch, only future Grammy host LL was even nominated. Unfortunately for Cool James, not even the fire of “Goin’ Back to Cali” could win the Grammys over, as they were distracted listening to the Fresh Prince rap about how “Parents Just Don’t Understand.”

No disrespect to the Prince or his DJ Jazzy Jeff. The song itself is lightweight fun, but to call it the best the rap world had to offer was an insult. When the Grammys would finally add an award for the Best Rap Album of the Year, they would show similar lack of insight into the hip-hop community, awarding Naughty By Nature in favor of 2pac. Frankly, though, not even that is bad as what happened to Best Rap Performance in 1990: “Bust A Move” won, defeating “Fight the Power.”

9. Celine Dion Keeps Falling Into Grammys



Celine Dion sucks and Titanic was a shitty movie. Fine, we get it, the movie was extremely successful, so it won a bunch of Academy Awards. But did it have to ruin the Grammys, too? Riding the waves of the terrible song from the boring movie, “My Heart Will Go On” swept the 1999 Grammys, winning the awards for Record and Song of the Year. Frankly, all of the competition sucked, too, so the Grammys just failed all around that year.

A few years earlier in 1996, Celine released another awful album called Falling Into You. The album was also extremely successful, so we understand why the Grammys had to nominate it, even for Best Album of the Year. However, this album came out the same year as Odelay and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, two crossover alt-rock hits by young artists bursting at the seams with creativity. Celine, on the other hand, was calling herself the greatest singer in the world while turning insincerity into a performance of its own. Why the Grammys would repeatedly reward that is inexplicable to this day.

8. Michael Jackson Loses, But Don’t Worry, Be Happy



The Grammys made an incredible number of horrific choices throughout the 1980s, and they opted to cap off their decade of bad decisions by awarding one of the most annoying songs of all time. Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” was undoubtedly successful, becoming the first a cappella song to reach number one on the Billboard charts, but most listeners would still call it a saccharine denial of reality during the drugged out, politically tumultuous 1980s.

“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” won both Song and Record of the Year in 1989, with at least two songs clearly more deserving facing off against it: “Fast Car” and “Man in the Mirror.” Tracy Chapman’s “Fast Car” was a landmark single for black female singer-songwriters, proving black women were just as adept at folk music as the white men who dominated the genre for decades. “Man on the Mirror” was everything “Don’t Worry” wasn’t, managing a political message acknowledging there were problems in the world in dire need of being fixed, a message presented through an outright gospel explosion by the most famous musician of all time.

That the Grammys would ignore even Michael Jackson, one album removed from rewarding him more than any other performer in history, proves they are downright afraid to reward any musician whose art portrays courage.

MORE:http://www.asapgist.com/the-10-most-idiotic-decisions-the-grammys-ever-made/

“My Heart Will Go On” not worth a grammy? I stopped reading from there.
Celine Dion is a Class on her own. Those born in late 90's won't comprehend

op is talking crap

'my heart will go on' doesn't deserve a Grammy?

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op must be sick in the head,so where were you when Dre won best rap for the song "let me ride" abi u dey sick ni

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