Grammys 2014

nominations are here. everyone has questions.

http://www.grammy.com/news/jay-z-tops-56th-grammy-nominations-with-nine

sara bareilles??? did i just completely miss something this year?

I don't know how any of this stuff works (was the nominations concert live? etc.) but I found it kinda awkward and hilarious when T. Swift was like, "thank you for the nominations" before her performance, which, at that point, only one category was announced and she wasn't nominated in that category. Unless she knew she was nominated beforehand. But it was funny to me, the viewer.

you didn't. that album hasn't sold as much as either of her previous ones and the lead single (the one that sounded like Katy Perry's "Roar") is just now starting to pick up some steam on the charts after it was used in an ad. really one of the most random left field AOTY nominations ever. and i say that as someone who likes Bareilles's music ok and have listened to the album. xp

Looks like Tig Notaro will possibly, even probably, get a Grammy. That's cool.

she did the most amazingly funny bit on the Pete Holmes Show the other night

could someone kindly remind me of the difference btwn Song and Record again

Song is awarded to the songwriter(s).

why is james blake nominated for best new artist?

also good for ariel rechtshaid getting a non-classical producer nom

Holy shit at the Timberlake snubbage.

Also Daft Punk vs. Kendrick Lamar in AotY. Good stuff, imo.

it's so strange seeing late-2012 stuff like the roomful of teeth album in the 2014 grammys. what is the cut-off period, in either direction?

i mean it is pretty funny that jt wasn't nominated for aoty but he got 7 other noms (many of which were even less deserved than an aoty nom would have been imo) so it's not like he was completely snubbed or anything

Surprised HAIM didn't get a best new artist gong, and that Janelle Monàe was completely snubbed. Then again, I never have any idea how they come up with the nominations for these.

cutoff period is end of September, so stuff from October 2012 is fair game.

more complete noms list here: http://www.grammy.com/nominees

why is james blake nominated for best new artist?

"For a new artist who releases, during the Eligibility Year, the first recording which establishes the public identity of that artist."

Pretty certain I saw Tamar Braxton on the pre-ballot for this category. She was on an Arista single released in 1990 and released a Hot 100 single well over a decade ago.

james blake's album wasn't that popular here tho? like i didn't even know he had released anything, not that i am looking out for his music or anything. ed sheeran also was nominated for song of the year last year and yet was nominated for new artist this year... i guess his soty-nominated recording didn't establish his public identity???

Tamar didn't just release a single in 2000, she had a whole album on DreamWorks!

the James Blake one is weird because i don't have any sense that his 2013 album reached anybody that his 2011 album didn't reach, at least in America.

Tamar didn't just release a single in 2000, she had a whole album on DreamWorks!

Right, but plenty of major-label albums fail to establish "public identity." Crazy to think that a Hot 100 single doesn't necessarily equate to "public identity."

The Blake album peaked at number 32 on the Billboard 200 and topped Electronic Albums.

(Blake's '11 album did not chart on the 200.)

For me, the most suspicious nomination is Salaam Remi's digital-only album, currently 76,837th on Amazon.

it gets even weirder when you realize that best new artist nominee ed sheeran was up for song of the year last year

biggest snubs imo are paramore, janelle, j cole for rap album (lol @ that jay-z pile of garbage leading the way in nominations), bruno mars for aoty, and all the currently functioning rock bands that lost a nomination to A VERSION OF 'KASHMIR'

dont get the ilm love for paramore at all.

How do Grammy noms work. Do bands need to pay a fee to get nominated or do major labels just nominate the big sellers and/or bright new hopes they hope to sell to the public in each category? I assume not just any band on an independent label can be nominated?

Ciara just posted this to address how "Body Party" wasn't nominated and now I'm confused - how does a sample make a song ineligible? http://instagram.com/p/hoMov1yHuv/

Paramore were never gonna be nominated for anything, that's not a snub

No album of the year nomination for Kanye West

eh i think they could have gotten a pop nomination or two al

which awards is macklemore gonna win

paramore are too pop for rock and too rock for pop

"still into you" deserved a nod tho

How do Grammy noms work. Do bands need to pay a fee to get nominated or do major labels just nominate the big sellers and/or bright new hopes they hope to sell to the public in each category? I assume not just any band on an independent label can be nominated?

― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, December 7, 2013 10:09 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'industry people' aka people who have a certain required # + type of credits on recordings/albums are eligible to be naras members + then noms are made essentially from marketing/PR to those select people

iirc

How do Grammy noms work. Do bands need to pay a fee to get nominated or do major labels just nominate the big sellers and/or bright new hopes they hope to sell to the public in each category? I assume not just any band on an independent label can be nominated?

What are the eligibility requirements?
For the 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards, albums must be released between Oct. 1, 2012 and Sept. 30, 2013. Recordings must be in general distribution in the United States, i.e. sales by label to a branch or recognized independent distributor, via the Internet, or mail order/retail sales for a nationally marketed product.

How are recordings entered?
The Academy accepts entries online from its members and from registered labels. Entrants are provided information on how to submit their recordings electronically for consideration.

(From the Grammy.com FAQ)

At Roadrunner, where I work - two of our bands are nominated for Best Metal Performance this year - the product manager is the one in charge of submitting records for Grammy consideration. (Product manager = the person who is in charge of every aspect of a band's album production cycle; he/she sets up recording sessions, photo and video shoots, determines the marketing budget and how it's spent, proofs the CD booklet, etc., etc.)

I've been imagining Kanye seething about Sara Bareilles all night.

lol me too

Ha

General Field

Record of the year

Get Lucky — Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
Radioactive — Imagine Dragons
Royals — Lorde
Locked Out Of Heaven — Bruno Mars
Blurred Lines — Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell

Album of the Year

The Blessed Unrest — Sara Bareilles
Random Access Memories — Daft Punk
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City — Kendrick Lamar
The Heist — Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Red — Taylor Swift

Song of the Year

Just Give Me A Reason — Jeff Bhasker, Pink & Nate Ruess, songwriters (Pink Featuring Nate Ruess)
Locked Out Of Heaven — Philip Lawrence, Ari Levine & Bruno Mars, songwriters (Bruno Mars)
Roar — Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry Walter, songwriters (Katy Perry)
Royals — Joel Little & Ella Yelich O'Connor, songwriters (Lorde)
Same Love —- Ben Haggerty, Mary Lambert & Ryan Lewis, songwriters (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Mary Lambert)

Best New Artist

James Blake
Kendrick Lamar
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Kacey Musgraves
Ed Sheeran

Pop Field

Best Pop Solo Performance

Brave — Sara Bareilles
Royals — Lorde
When I Was Your Man — Bruno Mars
Roar — Katy Perry
Mirrors — Justin Timberlake

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Get Lucky — Daft Punk & Pharrell Williams
Just Give Me A Reason — Pink Featuring Nate Ruess
Stay — Rihanna Featuring Mikky Ekko
Blurred Lines — Robin Thicke Featuring T.I. & Pharrell
Suit & Tie — Justin Timberlake & Jay Z

Best Pop Instrumental Album

Steppin' Out — Herb Alpert
The Beat —- Boney James
Handpicked — Earl Klugh
Summer Horns — Dave Koz, Gerald Albright, Mindi Abair & Richard Elliot
Hacienda — Jeff Lorber Fusion

Best Pop Vocal Album

Paradise — Lana Del Rey
Pure Heroine — Lorde
Unorthodox Jukebox — Bruno Mars
Blurred Lines — Robin Thicke
The 20/20 Experience — The Complete Experience — Justin Timberlake

Dance/Electronica Field

Best Dance Recording
Need U (100%) — Duke Dumont Featuring A*M*E & MNEK
Sweet Nothing — Calvin Harris Featuring Florence Welch
Atmosphere — Kaskade
This Is What It Feels Like — Armin Van Buuren Featuring Trevor Guthrie
Clarity — Zedd Featuring Foxes

Best Dance/Electronica Album

Random Access Memories — Daft Punk
Settle — Disclosure
18 Months — Calvin Harris
Atmosphere — Kaskade
A Color Map of the Sun — Pretty Lights

Traditional Pop Field

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album

Viva Duets — Tony Bennett & Various Artists
To Be Loved — Michael Bublé
The Standards — Gloria Estefan
Cee Lo's Magic Moment — Cee Lo Green
Now — Dionne Warwick

Rock Field

Best Rock Performance

Always Alright — Alabama Shakes
The Stars (Are Out Tonight) — David Bowie
Radioactive — Imagine Dragons
Kashmir — Led Zeppelin
My God Is the Sun — Queens Of The Stone Age
I'm Shakin' — Jack White

Best Metal Performance

T.N.T. — Anthrax
God Is Dead? — Black Sabbath
The Enemy Inside — Dream Theater
In Due Time — Killswitch Engage
Room 24 — Volbeat Featuring King Diamond

Best Rock Song

Ain't Messin 'Round — Gary Clark Jr., songwriter (Gary Clark Jr.)
Cut Me Some Slack — Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear, songwriters (Paul McCartney, Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic, Pat Smear)
Doom And Gloom — Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, songwriters (the Rolling Stones)
God Is Dead? — Geezer Butler, Tony Iommi & Ozzy Osbourne, songwriters (Black Sabbath)
Panic Station — Matthew Bellamy, songwriter (Muse)

Best Rock Album

13 — Black Sabbath
The Next Day — David Bowie
Mechanical Bull — Kings Of Leon
Celebration Day — Led Zeppelin
...Like Clockwork — Queens Of The Stone Age
Psychedelic Pill — Neil Young With Crazy Horse

Alternative Field

Best Alternative Music Album

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You — Neko Case
Trouble Will Find Me — The National
Hesitation Marks — Nine Inch Nails
Lonerism — Tame Impala
Modern Vampires Of The City — Vampire Weekend

R&B Field

Best R&B Performance

Love And War — Tamar Braxton
Best Of Me — Anthony Hamilton
Nakamarra — Hiatus Kaiyote Featuring Q-Tip
How Many Drinks? — Miguel Featuring Kendrick Lamar
Something — Snarky Puppy with Lalah Hathaway

Best Traditional R&B Performance

Please Come Home — Gary Clark Jr.
Get It Right — Fantasia
Quiet Fire — Maysa
Hey Laura — Gregory Porter
Yesterday — Ryan Shaw

Best R&B Song

Best Of Me - Anthony Hamilton & Jairus Mozee, songwriters (Anthony Hamilton)
Love And War - Tamar Braxton, Darhyl Camper, Jr., LaShawn Daniels & Makeba Riddick, songwriters (Tamar Braxton)
Only One - PJ Morton, songwriter (PJ Morton Featuring Stevie Wonder)
Pusher Love Girl - James Fauntleroy, Jerome Harmon, Timothy Mosley & Justin Timberlake, songwriters (Justin Timberlake)
Without Me - Fantasia Barrino, Missy Elliott, Al Sherrod Lambert, Harmony Samuels & Kyle Stewart, songwriters (Fantasia Featuring Kelly Rowland & Missy Elliot)

Best Urban Contemporary Album

Love And War - Tamar Braxton
Side Effects Of You - Fantasia
One: In The Chamber - Salaam Remi
Unapologetic - Rihanna
New York: A Love Story - Mack Wilds

Best R&B Album

R&B Divas - Faith Evans
Girl On Fire - Alicia Keys
Love In The Future - John Legend
Better - Chrisette Michele
Three Kings - TGT

Rap Field

Best Rap Performance

Started From The Bottom - Drake
Berzerk - Eminem
Tom Ford - Jay Z
Swimming Pools (Drank) - Kendrick Lamar
Thrift Shop - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration

Power Trip - J. Cole Featuring Miguel
Part II (On The Run) - Jay Z Featuring Beyoncé
Holy Grail - Jay Z Featuring Justin Timberlake
Now Or Never - Kendrick Lamar Featuring Mary J. Blige
Remember You - Wiz Khalifa Featuring The Weeknd

Best Rap Song

...Problems - Tauheed Epps, Aubrey Graham, Kendrick Lamar, Rakim Mayers & Noah Shebib, songwriters (ASAP Rocky Featuring Drake, 2 Chainz & Kendrick Lamar)
Holy Grail - Shawn Carter, Terius Nash, J. Harmon, Timothy Mosley, Justin Timberlake & Ernest Wilson, songwriters (Kurt Cobain, Dave Grohl & Krist Novoselic, songwriters) (Jay Z Featuring Justin Timberlake)
New Slaves - Christopher Breaux, Ben Bronfman, Mike Dean, Louis Johnson, Malik Jones, Elon Rutberg, Sakiya Sandifer, Che Smith, Kanye West & Cydell Young, songwriters (Anna Adamis & Gabor Presser, songwriters) (Kanye West)
Started From The Bottom - W. Coleman, Aubrey Graham & Noah Shebib, songwriters (Bruno Sanfilippo, songwriter) (Drake)
Thrift Shop - Ben Haggerty & Ryan Lewis, songwriters (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Featuring Wanz)

Best Rap Album

Nothing Was The Same - Drake
Magna Carta...Holy Grail - Jay Z
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City - Kendrick Lamar
The Heist - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Yeezus - Kanye West

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/music/la-et-ms-grammy-nominations-winners-list,0,27835.story#ixzz2moa6M5SY

biggest snubs imo are paramore, janelle, j cole for rap album (lol @ that jay-z pile of garbage leading the way in nominations), bruno mars for aoty, and all the currently functioning rock bands that lost a nomination to A VERSION OF 'KASHMIR'

if i were a currently functioning rock band, i'd be more upset at losing a nomination to A VERSION OF JACK WHITE.

I hope everyone is excited about these 2 nominations:

Best Rock Performance

Kashmir — Led Zeppelin

Best Rock Song

Doom And Gloom — Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, songwriters (the Rolling Stones)

2014 nominations...wow

haha wait MCAK WILDS NOMINATION

it's interesting how the boomer slant has mostly disappeared from the major categories (Daft Punk are under 40 and pretty hip to be the oldest guys with an AOTY nom) but is still that glaring in some categories. almost as funny as "Kashmir" is that it's up against Jack White's 4th single (which only charted in Canada) from his album that had an AOTY nom last year.

The Grammys are always ridiculous but this was a pleasant surprise:

Need U (100%) — Duke Dumont Featuring A*M*E & MNEK

Just found out today that the insane New York Art Quartet box is up for Best Historical Album. Kind of mindblowing for such a limited (665 copies) released. Also mindblowing because it's the New York Art Quartet.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/94698/the-rb-grammys-and-the-curious-case-of-tamar-and-fantasia

^^

Oh dear god in heaven:

ut the producers behind the program, which is to be broadcast live by CBS at 8 p.m., are hoping that the biggest show-stopper of the night will be a much more solemn event: an on-air wedding of 34 couples — gay, straight, old, young, of many races and many colors. The ceremony will be part of the hip-hop duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis’s performance of their Grammy-nominated song “Same Love,” which became a marriage-equality anthem last year just as that issue was drawing intense national attention.

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FONqP2rnCKo

:\

thanks to this discovery William F. Buckley had a career and mandate

This is where you admit to actually keeping tabs on Macklemore's narrative xp

Well, that narrative is outlined in that song that was performed last night. Doesn't take a large amount of effort or research.

i caught thirty seconds of his rob portman jam in a subway last summer, thought 'o, so this must be macklemore' and 'o, so this must be why whiney loves subway'

i mean i'm not digging thru five years of macklemore tweets for example

^^ next EMP paper proposal

"Digging in the Dirt: Finding the Places Where Macklemore's Tweets Hurt"

this time you've gone too far

the old Macklemore tweets are more hilarious "look at this doofus" than "OMG caught in hypocrisy" tho

yeah its just funny and #petty

haha true

That bit where someone announces "John Legend, um, Lennon".

While Yoko is standing next to her.

did that seriously happen wtf

the writing for that show was so horrible -- well beyond standard award show horribleness -- that any deviation whatsoever from the script, including saying legend instead of lennon, was an automatic improvement.

I don't read Dutch but is this a story yet?

Daft Punk is the big winner of the Grammy Awards. The duo rijfde five prizes. For years hiding Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christ himself behind big shiny helmets.

But could it be that the duo was not on the podium, but just sat in the audience during the Grammy Awards?

Why were these two mysterious men in addition to the masked duo? And why were they explicitly mapped during the ceremony? Admit that there are similarities with a pack below (unfortunately very old) rare photos of Daft Punk without helmets:

that's pure genius if they actually attended the whole show in the audience !

maybe they were grooving with the rest of the crowd during the daft/pharrell/stevie performance...

Re: Macklemore Flip-Flop

Obama used to be against same sex marriage too. It was kind of a big deal when he "evolved" on the subject.

I don't blame people for growing in ways I feel are positive. I am cynical enough to question why in some cases, but not so cynical that I will turn what I think is a positive step for someone into a negative over suspicious motives.

You know that's a very interesting angle on Macklemore that I hadn't even considhttp://i.imgur.com/Mhb7YN9.jpg

That bit where someone announces "John Legend, um, Lennon".

While Yoko is standing next to her.

― Mark G, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 2:05 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did that seriously happen wtf

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, January 28, 2014 2:13 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha yes it was Alicia Keys who did that

It's hard to think straight when you've got both feet on the ground, you're burning it down, your head is in the clouds, and you're not backing down.

macklemore is tight w/ pete carroll, his being a truther isn't surprising

on the same note his being a moron doofus isn't surprising either

Just want to drop in and say I've never heard the Thrift Shop song before and i just looked up the lyrics and wow eff the Grammy's forever that is some excrement.

@sheesh - yeah maybe I got the details super-wrong...

Perfect

Twitter Error?

Hm, working for me...

Not me. If you refresh it, maybe not for you anymore and it's just your cache?

https://twitter.com/daCMatic/status/428243414094991360

does this work?

That worked. It was funny, but I labored too much for the laugh. Oh well.

apparently Twitter itself was down for a bit

NAILED IT
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/01/macklemore_grammy_wins_don_t_hate_the_thrift_shop_rapper_because_he_s_white.html#lf_comment=133859063

The Heist is a lavish dumbscape of plodding quarter-note grooves, “Chopsticks”-style piano loops, pointless choirs singing about nothing. Lewis’ beats are kitchen sinks of bad ideas, tin-eared imprecision mistaking itself for eclecticism. His crate-digging seems to start at a Feist song he once heard on an Apple commercial and end at the music JetBlue plays before the TVs turn on. And it’s all a backdrop for Macklemore’s contrived flows and mirror-practiced charisma; even his punny pop-culture references—the last refuge of every eager-beaver dorm room M.C.—are amazingly dull. “Can’t Hold Us” boasts references to Bob Barker, Michael Jackson, Wu-Tang Clan, and Shark Week, touchstones so obvious their sole purpose is to assure the audience that Macklemore has heard of things they’ve heard of, to pat them on the back for knowing what they already know. The album’s opening track, “Ten Thousand Hours,” takes its title from a cliché in a Malcolm Gladwell book. Bro you gotta read it.

ha I've said before that people don't talk enough shit about Ryan Lewis

Until tonight I thought Wanz was named Ryan Lewis

I saw him singing the hook on Thrift Shop on SNL and I thought "well at least Ryan Lewis seems cool."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4luHEVjqKA

Dead

hahaaaaaaaaaaaa

watched that yesterday and laughed uncontrollably for a few minutes.

I know this is less catchy than petulant self-righteousness, but I thought The Heist was a pretty good and musically interesting album. It wasn't my favorite hip-hop album of the year (that was Ka's The Night's Gambit), but I'm no more outraged by its win than any other dopey Grammy verdict. I agree it would have been impressive if Macklemore had just walked over and handed Kendrick the trophy, but it would also have been lame and patronizing.

I agree that posting the text to Kendrick online was kinda dorky, but I hardly see it as the conclusive proof of utter depravity that some seem to see. I've never really understood the level of vitriol directed at the guy though.

NAILED IT
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2014/01/macklemore_grammy_wins_don_t_hate_the_thrift_shop_rapper_because_he_s_white.html#lf_comment=133859063

― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, January 29, 2014 12:25 AM (17 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is funny and good cause it starts out trying to argue that its the music not that whiteness thats horrible but basically concludes that that horrible of the music is inseparable from the horribleness of the whiteness

A memorable performance or a big win at the Grammy Awards can lead to a large sales boost for artists. Early data show that Daft Punk, Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar were among the biggest financial winners from music’s big night.

With awards for Album of the Year for Random Access Memories and Record of the Year for “Get Lucky” (along with a highly praised performance with Stevie Wonder), Daft Punk seems to have gotten the biggest Grammy boost of anyone. Random Access Memories increased its weekly sales by 91 percent for the week ending Jan. 26, the night of the Grammys. “Get Lucky,” meanwhile saw its sales increase 206 percent week-over-week, while its streams on Spotify increased by 205 percent on the Monday after the awards show.

http://business.time.com/2014/01/29/grammys-2014-sales-boost/#ixzz2rwQpSsdE

Kendrick has things to say about Macklemore's text message.

damn, that's ice cold

Fuck ya lifestlyle b.

Best is Pharrell's sullen expression.

thinking abt how he can prevent forest fires