Do you think Lemonade would have won if Adele didn’t release 25 that year?

[RichardAniston Joined: May 23rd, 2013 Topics: 7 Posts: 209 View Predictions]

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Many people (including Adele herself) thought Beyonce’s Lemonade should have taken the Grammy awards top honor that year. If Adele hadn’t put out an album that year, do you think Beyonce would have won Album of the Year or would they have given it to some other album?

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[Final2 Joined: Apr 4th, 2013 Topics: 4 Posts: 584 View Predictions]

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Yes.

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[PopGuy Joined: Sep 27th, 2011 Topics: 42 Posts: 4647 View Predictions]

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No. Sturgil Simpson was second.

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[borisy Joined: May 29th, 2020 Topics: 3 Posts: 1964 View Predictions]

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No
The album was not the problem

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[Atypical Joined: Dec 1st, 2011 Topics: 95 Posts: 6246 View Predictions]

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YES

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[daniel Joined: Sep 3rd, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 1266 View Predictions]

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absolutely

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[Ziggiy Joined: Nov 25th, 2020 Topics: 0 Posts: 867 View Predictions]

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Beyonce didn’t win because of the color of her skin. Some other non black artist would’ve won that year

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[Deemy Joined: Feb 20th, 2015 Topics: 3 Posts: 2935 View Predictions]

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David Bowie if they didn’t block him. They wanted Adele to win.

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[Gucci Joined: Dec 1st, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 17049 View Predictions]

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Honey, Adele was just being nice since she has a hard-on for Beyoncé.  BARF!

If Adele was NOT nominated, some bland white act would’ve won Album of the Year.  Black artists stay losing due to racism.

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[Monsoon 🌊 Joined: Aug 11th, 2020 Topics: 23 Posts: 2236 View Predictions]

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Yep. Besides Adele & Beyoncé, no one else was competitive for the win. Not even Sturgill Simpson.

Had Adele not released, ANTI would’ve rightfully received an AOTY nod.

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[MarinaBelo2 Joined: Nov 6th, 2017 Topics: 0 Posts: 370 View Predictions]

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No, because they would have nominated David Bowie and he would’ve won.

He wasn’t nominated solely because they wanted to exploit the “Adele versus Beyoncé” narrative, knowing it would make the headlines + Adele would easily win and that’s what they wanted all along. That’s why they nominated Drake and not Radiohead or another white act to steal votes from Adele. Sturgill Simpson was too under the radar to be competitive, he wasn’t huge even in his own field.

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[Michael Myers Joined: Jan 10th, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 284 View Predictions]

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I don’t think so, she went 2/9 that night. David Bowie would have been nominated to replace Adele and won.

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[wilfredpickles Joined: Jul 15th, 2017 Topics: 1 Posts: 432 View Predictions]

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Probably, though I agree it all depends on whether Bowie was then nominated in her place.

Can I just say as well that 25 was another frustrating example of the Grammy eligibility calendar. From 1989-24K Magic we had AOTY winners that were almost 18 months old beating more acclaimed, recent releases, which  was a frustrating consequence of this system.

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