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“The reason Beyoncé continues to lose the major categories” is because she’s a black woman who makes black music — and at this point, probably because she’s the black woman who released “Formation” and performed it at the Super Bowl dressed like a Black Panther.
Even the years Beyoncé tied and set the “most wins in one night by a woman” were because she nearly swept R&B. In 2004 she swept all of her nominations except ROTY LOL. In 2010, she had released her poppiest/whitest album, so she swept R&B and got Pop Vocal and SOTY and that’s how she broke the record. That “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)” is technically an R&B song is an anomaly as is the song’s success in itself – it was supposed to be a throwaway “urban” single.
Immediately following that album, she explicitly made the most R&B-heavy album of her career… and also started managing herself and stopped doing radio deals. That album is her only album to not receive a Grammy nomination. LOL.
She’s never really been a “Grammy darling”. She just has enormous goodwill in black music, and that translates to having enormous pull in R&B and rap categories at the Grammys. And even they were weird towards her when she took control of her career (4 and BEYONCÉ) which smells like sexism.
She probably would’ve won AOTY 2017 if she hadn’t released “Formation”. That song, in all seriousness, turned a lot of old white people against her forever.
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It’s not that the awards are like, SEGREGATED. They’ll award a certain kind of black artist and/or black art in the same way some folks will tell a black person “oh, you’re so articulate“. Bruno Mars, a non-black individual, won AOTY for throwback black music before Beyoncé, and an LL Cool J-type rapper will win AOTY before Kendrick lol.
ReplyCopy URLImmediately following that album, she explicitly made the most R&B-heavy album of her career… and also started managing herself and stopped doing radio deals. That album is her only album to not receive a Grammy nomination. LOL.
And that is a crime btw, specially considering the winner for R&B Album that year was Chris Brown. Justice for 4
ReplyCopy URLIf Beyoncé’s rumored “Country album”, which in reality is just going to be Americana/Blues and not “yet another Joanne”, can’t impress the most snobbish, traditionalist Grammy voters, she’ll never win AOTY.
I really loved “Daddy Lessons”, would be nice to see an entire album blend Country & Southern R&B music. Beyoncé does these kind of things well.
ReplyCopy URLIf Beyoncé’s rumored “Country album”, which in reality is just going to be Americana/Blues and not “yet another Joanne”, can’t impress the most snobbish, traditionalist Grammy voters, she’ll never win AOTY.
Didn’t the country community feel some type of way about her performing at their CMAs? And I distinctly remember them blocking Daddy’s Lesson from a Grammy nomination. These snobs will never like Bey regardless of what she does.
ReplyCopy URLDidn’t the country community feel some type of way about her performing at their CMAs? And I distinctly remember them blocking Daddy’s Lesson from a Grammy nomination. These snobs will never like Bey regardless of what she does.
They just didn’t accept Daddy’s Lessons in country categories because it’s not a traditional country song. She had to send it to American Roots in my opinion.
ReplyCopy URLBeyoncé could win AOTY a year when nobody expect this.
Going forward I think that these publications need to stop setting her up. Even though some them were made after voting closed, voters might’ve felt like the “Give Beyoncé AOTY already” type of articles were like entitlement and it’s easy for them to dodge it when their votes will remain anonymous.
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