Dance breaks new ground with the Grammys

[Morpheux]

Skrillex scores four Grammy nominations........including best new artist!! First time a dance artist gets this nod.


GRAMMYS DANCE NOMINEES

BEST DANCE RECORDING

Raise Your Weapon – Deadmau5 & Greta Svabo Bech
Barbra Streisand – Duck Sauce
Sunshine – David Guetta & Avicii
Call Your Girlfriend – Robyn
Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites – Skrillex
Save The World – Swedish House Mafia

BEST DANCE / ELECTRONICA ALBUM

Zonoscope – Cut Copy
4×4 = 12 – Deadmau5
Nothing But The Beat – David Guetta
Body Talk Pt. 3 – Robyn
Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites – Skrillex

BEST REMIXED RECORDING

Cinema – Benny Benassi (Skrillex Remix)
Collide – Leona Lewis (Afrojack Remix)
End of Line – Daft Punk (Photek Remix)
Only Girl (In The World) – Rihanna (Rosabel Club Mix)
Rope – Foo Fighters (Deadmau5 Mix)

 

[Dancerev889]

Im a little shocked that Avicii's Le7els was not nominated.

 

[DJ_Perry]

Im a little shocked that Avicii's Le7els was not nominated.

Politics, hence the favortism of Skrillex

 

[Dancerev889]

Skrillex has blown up though. I would have replaced the Guetta Avicii single with levels

 

[DJ_Perry]

He has, but more in an underground way. I wouldn't say his popularity puts him over talent. Calvin Harris blew up this year too, plus, he gets Mainstream radio play....yet nada. There are countless others.

 

[Morpheux]

You got to give credit where credit is due....like we say in Spanish al pan pan y al vino vino.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7gKbDOeoIg&feature=related

 

[Saladressing]

Cool that the dance category doesn't include only pop remixes.

 

[Morpheux]

^ Agreed.

 

[TonySantiago]

The Grammy's have always been about the artistic side to things.

It's the AMA's and the VMA's that's all about popularity and sales, thus that's where you'll see the pop angle and not the artistic value, per se.

 

[DJ_Perry]

The Grammy's have always been about the artistic side to things.

It's the AMA's and the VMA's that's all about popularity and sales, thus that's where you'll see the pop angle and not the artistic value, per se.

this is why none of those awards mean much

http://www.buzzfeed.com/daves4/12-extremely-disappointing-facts-about-popular-mus

 

[anthonydt06]

That article doesn't say much. REM, The Beatles, Bob Marley sold more albums than Louie Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, and Frank Sinatra. Technology has always made it much easier to buy, and consequently sell, music today compared to back in the day; and new music usually outsells old. As a result, lower quality songs of today have a better chance of outperforming better songs of the past in sales.

 

[DJ_Perry]

Granted the article doesn't really use any real Dance examples, I was simply shocked that Legends that are still on the radio today have been beaten in numbers by (soon to be) disposable garbage. That's all those awards focus on....buzzworthy bandwagon appeal. Which explains the questionable nominees.

 

[TonySantiago]

That article doesn't say much. REM, The Beatles, Bob Marley sold more albums than Louie Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, and Frank Sinatra. Technology has always made it much easier to buy, and consequently sell, music today compared to back in the day; and new music usually outsells old. As a result, lower quality songs of today have a better chance of outperforming better songs of the past in sales.

I have to agree with this.

I don't think any of the current artists would have as much sales as they did if it wasn't for the fact that it is now convenient for people to just "log on", go somewhere such as iTunes and purchase/download the music that way, as opposed to having to physically travel to a record store to purchase a '45 or an album.

The Barbra Striesand example? Love her or hate her she has a separate fanbase as those groups mentioned. None of her fanbase are going to buy albums from Pearl Jam, Johnny Cash or Tom Petty, and vice versa.

ROTF at the end with Justin Bieber

 

[Morpheux]

I don't mean to bust any chops but...

If it was A David Guetta type getting a nomination you guys will be HYSTERICAL over it. And then people want to talk about the politics of music lmao.

 

[TonySantiago]

I don't mean to bust any chops but...

If it was A David Guetta type getting a nomination you guys will be HYSTERICAL over it. And then people want to talk about the politics of music lmao.

It's a no win situation with the politics . People are going to criticize for whatever reason, which in a way makes music, in general, that much more fascinating because everyone has differing tastes and in that sense the best we can do is "agree to disagree"

 

[Radio_bored-Op]

Be content that the nominations are "CURRENT"
and is not . . . the mainstream catching up,
ie: "new" artist "wynter gorden" Yolanda-D.Cup (no speak)...or
the "(singer of stereo love)"
the name slips me... they are too popular, but
another example would be "far East movement" (lol)
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wasnt it last year, the MUSE (being "the new artist") of the year,
lol..when they already were well established on cdn.radio
for about 2 years already...