Artists who were robbed by Grammy a big time.
The 64th Grammy Awards were scheduled to take place at the end of January, as is customary, but the event was postponed for the second year in a row owing to worries over Covid-19. Unlike this year’s considerably smaller event, which featured both live and pre-recorded performances, the Grammys in 2022 will most likely be a lot more traditional occasion. The Grammys will also be staged in Las Vegas for the first time (although the city has hosted the Latin Grammys six times since 2014).
The Recording Academy revealed five new performers for the 2022 Grammy Awards on Thursday (March 24): Jon Batiste, Foo Fighters, H.E.R., Nas, and Chris Stapleton.
A special In Memoriam portion containing Stephen Sondheim songs performed by Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Ben Platt, and Rachel Zegler will be included in the April 3 ceremony.
Brothers Osborne, BTS, Brandi Carlile, Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow, and Olivia Rodrigo are among the previously confirmed artists.
Since the inaugural annual event in 1959, the Grammy Awards have been fraught with controversy. Sure, the Grammys are a matter of opinion and votes, but it often feels like the board is tone-deaf to the audience’s choice of music. Grammy has snubbed artists who were set to win leaving everyone scratching their heads. We concentrated on the major categories — Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist — because they’re the most entertaining to debate. These categories also reveal the most about where our collective knowledge was at any given year, according to the Grammys. Nonetheless, we’ve compiled a list of the Greatest Grammy Snubs, which have made everyone enraged and led to accusations that the Grammys are rigged.
2001: “Two Against Nature” by Steely Dan beats out Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP”.
It’s the first Grammy season of the millennium! What better way for the Academy to welcome in a new era than to honour a Steely Dan reunion record with Album of the Year? In a year when Radiohead’s Kid A broke new ground digitally and Eminem’s “The Marshall Mathers LP” blew young listeners’ heads with unprecedented levels of savage wit. Grammy Snubbing Marshall Mathers’ huge energy and gigantic sales of 20 million dollars was a strange decision leaving everyone in just derision.
2004: Evanescence won the Grammy for Best New Artist, edging 50 Cent.
Not every hip-hop artist could attain the same level of success as 50 Cent. Many rappers could only dream of achieving the kind of debut momentum that the New York MC achieved. “50 Cent been shot 9 times yet survived,” the streets said in the early 2000s, and he encapsulated the essence of his thoughts and feelings in “Get Rich or Die Tryin.” Although the album opened at number one on the Billboard 200 and sold over 872,000 copies in its first week, it wasn’t enough for him to win the Grammy for Best New Artist.
2005: “Daughters” by John Mayer won against “Jesus Walks” by Kanye West.
Who hasn’t admired John Mayer’s talent? However, it’s not impossible that the typical singer-songwriter has composed a genuinely excellent track. Unfortunately, “Daughters” isn’t one of those great songs. The fact that “Daughters” won Song of the Year over Kanye West’s “Jesus Walks,” a double-platinum smash, says a lot about the Academy’s choices, which I guess doesn’t go the audience.
2008: When Kanye West’s “Graduation” Was Beaten By A Cover Song Tribute Album River: The Joni Letters.
Kanye West is widely considered one of his generation’s most influential hip-hop artists. During the gangsta rap period, West built a name for himself as a prominent artist who refined the use of Auto-Tune technology. Graduation, his third studio album, serves as an example. Sure, it won Best Rap Album, but it’s ludicrous that such a well-crafted record was beaten out for Album of the Year by a tribute album of cover songs (River: The Joni Letters).
2011: “Love the Way You Lie” was nominated for five awards…surprisingly Zero awards.
Eminem & Rihanna’s “The Monster” and “Love the Way You Lie” are two enormous hits. The younger of the two, “The Monster,” received a Grammy for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration in 2015. Despite being a great success with a story that touched millions of people’s hearts, “Love the Way You Lie” did not win a Grammy.
Lady Antebellum’s “Need You Now” won both of the main categories in which “Love the Way You Lie” was nominated: Record and Song of the Year. Is “Need You Now” deserving of both the Grammy and the Academy Award? Eminem and Rihanna, on the other hand, may have won everyone’s hearts.
2014: Macklemore Tops Kendrick Lamar to the Best New Artist Award.
Macklemore was a great favourite of the Grammy Academy in 2014, sweeping numerous categories and leaving the other rappers in the dust! His album “The Heist” won Best Rap Album, while his single “Thrift Shop” won Best Rap Song. However, some were outraged when the Grammy snubbed Kendrick Lamar.
Kendrick Lamar (Good Kid, M.A.A.D City), Drake (Nothing Was The Same), Jay-Z (Magna Carta Holy Grail), and Kanye West are among the artists included (Yeezus). Among all of these excellent rappers, Macklemore took home the award for Best Rap Album.
The most amusing aspect of Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy rejection is that Macklemore himself emailed Lamar to apologize for his win! “You got robbed; I wanted you to win,” Macklemore wrote as a modest artist. But we think he’s correct because Kendrick went above and above!
2014: Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” overcomes against Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid, M.A.A.D City.”
2014 wasn’t the year for Kendrick Lamar at Grammys. I guess one could argue that Daft Punk’s win for Random Access Memories — an album that sounded like a boat built of drugs and good feelings — was a triumph of pleasure versus Kendrick’s weighty personal thoughts on life, death, and identity. But Good Kid, which featured the immediate classic “Money Trees,” the sorrowful “The Art of Peer Pressure,” and the corny-but-still-effective “Swimming Pools (Drank),” was more than simply a fine collection of songs. It was a Zeitgeist record that would help determine Kendrick’s course in the years ahead.
2016: Taylor Swift’s 1989 prevailed against Kendrick Lamar’s “To Pimp a Butterfly.”
1989 is a fantastic record to listen to! It will be remembered for a long time. Its Album of the Year award would not have been deemed a snub in any year other than 2016. To Pimp a Butterfly, on the other hand, was the year’s best-selling album, and it was more than a good time.
“There’s music made by black people and then there’s black music: songs that hit you in the chest and make their way into your bloodstream, that become part of you,” Kara Brown wrote for Pitchfork. “‘TPAB’ was released in the spring of 2015, three years after Trayvon Martin was gunned down, and over a year after Michael Brown and Eric Garner were murdered; Lamar knew that pain and knew, too, that more was to come.”
Kendrick Lamar’s sophomore album is the type of stuff that both cleanses the soul and raises the heart rate. It’s a classic record, and the fact that it didn’t win Album of the Year is a watershed event in the Recording Academy’s long history of indifference.
2018: Bruno Mars 24K Magic beat Kendrick’s DAMN in the Album and Record of the Year categories.
“24K Magic” was clearly so magical that it cast a spell on the jury and swept the two major categories, as well as a few other minor honours.
Nobody would be upset if Kendrick Lamar’s “Humble.” won Record of the Year. The record was even nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, but the Grammys didn’t believe it was good enough for Album of the Year. This was a Grammy snub on a whole new level.
2021: The Weeknd’s Excellent “After Hours” Album Was Completely Ignored.
It’s reasonable to conclude that The Weeknd dominated the year 2020. Throughout the year, the song “Blinding Lights” from “After Hours” was played on practically every radio station. Despite its commercial and critical success, After Hours received zero Grammy nominations. Not even a winning. Following Kendrick Lamar’s defeat to Macklemore, it was probably the worst Grammy snub in history.
Again, there will always be some who argue that the Grammys never ignore artists and that the winners truly deserved their awards. Nonetheless, we feel the audience was correct in objecting to these choices on our top ten list. It’s not always about personal preference, but rather about quality!
What do you think is the worst Grammy snub we mentioned? Is there any other time in your life when you will always be angry?
