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The Grammys Outside The Box
- Thread starter TheBigA
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Only 88 people complained to the FCC on WAP performance by Cardi B & Megan The Stallion. The PTC made a huge stink about it they just like to cherry-pick their phony outrage and upset with CBS I was kinda surprised that 1 Million Moms didn't have a press statement on their website as The PTC did, I call them 10 Moms as they don't have 1 million members.
As if complaining to the FCC would do a bit of good.
Hello, big, strong FCC…please help me. My TV doesn’t have an off button and I’m being forced against my will to watch the dancing. Oh the dancing!
I didn't have to turn off the Grammys. I did other, less toxic things with my time. Cardi B's "WAP" is pop music's equivalent to the January 6th Capitol insurrection.
Here is an interesting commentary on this year's Grammy Awards:
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Don’t Let Your Music Station Die Like The Grammy's - Radio Ink
(By Ken Benson) The 2021 Grammy Awards which aired on March 14th had its lowest ratings ever, down an astonishing 61% over the 2020 telecast with Adults 18-49. Are you surprised?
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True. On a scale of 1 to 10 for caustic societal influences, I'd rate WAP a 6, Jan 6th a 10 plus.
I remember the Golden Globes when there was a writers' strike or something and it was a press conference. There was time for analysis!Here is an interesting commentary on this year's Grammy Awards:
Don’t Let Your Music Station Die Like The Grammy's - Radio Ink
(By Ken Benson) The 2021 Grammy Awards which aired on March 14th had its lowest ratings ever, down an astonishing 61% over the 2020 telecast with Adults 18-49. Are you surprised?
If they'd just give out awards and not have performances it would go faster. True, they can't give out all the awards on the air. Oh, wait ... maybe they can!
I fast-forwarded through it since it's certainly not music I would have liked and I couldn't see what was wrong.
Caustic societal influence? Hyperbole much? It’s not my taste but it’s not about to beget the downfall of a generation nor serve as a harbinger of doom.
Ignorant people around here comparing a musical performance on an awards show (no matter how explicit it may seem to some) to a riot at the home of our federal government that killed five people (and potentially many more, including the former Vice President). About par for the course around here.
I usually don't find myself agreeing with him much, but Grampa Simpson is spot on in his last two statements...the handwringing over the WAP performance is overly-ridiculous.
I usually don't find myself agreeing with him much, but Grampa Simpson is spot on in his last two statements...the handwringing over the WAP performance is overly-ridiculous.
You could have watched it at half speed with the sound muted.
Careful with the personal attacks. Attacking my intelligence isn't accomplishing anything.
You're entitled to your second paragraph as valid criticism. Your first graph is antagonism.
WAP is the king of song that would had cost a lot of FCC fines in 2004 if it was released in a post-Janet Jackson Nipplegate world. remember, in 2004, the FCC cracked down on indecency on the airwaves in the wake of Nipplegate, which was the last straw with years of shock jocks doing things that cost station to get fined, Opie & Anthony and Stern were the worst offenders of a pre-Nipplegate world as they have been fine numerous time, just in 2002, the Sex for Sam scandal was the final straw for O&A cause they sent a couple to St. Patrick's Cathedral a Catholic church) to perform sex acts in said church and CBS Radio fired them cause not only did WNEW got fined, but they got in hot water with the Catholic church or a Catholic Church based organization in the US. and Stern, he got so much fines that after the FCC crackdown began, Stern decided terrestrial radio wasn't worth it anymore and move to Sirius to avoid getting fined by the FCC.
And the FCC was far overstepping back then. But a song in and of itself is not the FCC’s purview in any case.
There have long been songs with what some consider salty language. Some had radio edits when we all knew what was actually being said, but so be it. And people lost their minds over Elvis swiveling his hips. End of decency and such nonsense.
There have long been songs with what some consider salty language. Some had radio edits when we all knew what was actually being said, but so be it. And people lost their minds over Elvis swiveling his hips. End of decency and such nonsense.
Thanks, I think?
Every generation thinks the younger generation is going to hell for the music they listen too.
Yep. The music. The TV. The movies. It’s all awful compared to whatever their “good old days” were.
Rose-colored glasses and revisionist history are time-honored traditions.
Rose-colored glasses and revisionist history are time-honored traditions.
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