What if there were a Critics Choice Awards for music?

[Deemy Joined: Feb 20th, 2015 Topics: 3 Posts: 2927 View Predictions]

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stilloverit wrote:

Obviously it wouldn’t be a replacement but it would be nice to have a precursor for the Grammys, especially when it could boost lesser known works. The Grammys are WAY too mainstream-focused instead of quality-focused, especially when compared to the Oscars and Emmys

It can’t be a “precursor” if it’s not industry voted.

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[King Iantuition Joined: Feb 6th, 2023 Topics: 0 Posts: 53 View Predictions]

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Deemy wrote:

It can’t be a “precursor” if it’s not industry voted.

 

How? The actual Critics Choice Awards are not industry-voted, and neither, for that matter, are the Golden Globes. They are still considered to be precursors to the Academy Awards, which is industry-voted.

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[Goldwing Joined: Dec 9th, 2021 Topics: 2 Posts: 362 View Predictions]

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AuxPlayer wrote:

Best Pop Song (2022) Anti-Hero – Taylor Swift Bad Habit – Steve Lacy Billions – Caroline Polachek Part of the Band – The 1975 Used to Know Me – Charli XCX

Thanks, I was having a hard time thinking of nominations for songs.

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[Goldwing Joined: Dec 9th, 2021 Topics: 2 Posts: 362 View Predictions]

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Okay, so these are some ideas for categories:

 

Main:

Album of the year

Song of the year

Record of the year

Video of the year

Emerging Artist of the Year

Producer of the Year

 

Others:

Best Collaboration

Best duo or group act

Best Music Film

 

Best Pop Song

Best Pop Album

 

Best Rap Song

Best Rap Album

 

Best Rock Song

Best Rock Album

 

Best Alternative Song

Best Alternative Album

 

Best R&B Song

Best R&B Album

 

Best Contemporary Latin/Iberian Album

Best Latin/Iberian Song (Pop or Urban)

 

Best Dance or Electronic Song

Best Remixed Song

Best Dance or Electronic Album

 

Best Country or Folk Song

Best Country or Folk Album

 

Best Song for Audiovisual Media

 

Global:

Best Contemporary African Act

Best Asian Contemporary Act

 

If you want to add or suggest anything you are free to do so, either propose hypothetical nominees or categories.

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[alex.g Joined: Sep 20th, 2017 Topics: 1 Posts: 498 View Predictions]

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Deemy wrote:

People would just buy votes from “critics”. Plus they are not musicians so the show wouldn’t have the same prestige. Just accept the fact that even though the Grammys has it faults, no other voting body matters more than your peers. I wish the AMAs would go back to just industry voters.

Does this vote buying happen in the Critics Choice Movie Awards, or is it more a case of lobbying than vote buying? How would this be different from the lobbying that goes on during Grammy season?

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[JennyLewisFan Joined: Sep 3rd, 2019 Topics: 9 Posts: 1712 View Predictions]

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There seems to be a corruption issue among some critics too though. Like Rolling Stone, for instance, is just a disaster at times from their lists to their reviews and more. Then there are critics that do dumb shit like the one from The Independent giving Donda a flat 0 admittedly (and this is important) because of the controversial featuring acts and not based off the music alone.

 

So, while I’d love to see the likes of Animal Collective, Caroline Polachek, and Kelela hold some form of award for their work someday, I’ll settle for the lists from the critics I’ve grown to have some respect for and, more importantly, my own damn opinion.

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[Bee Joined: Oct 25th, 2016 Topics: 1 Posts: 780 View Predictions]

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You mean if there was a trifecta/regionals for music the way there is for films? I’m guessing

Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Guardian would be the “trifecta” in the sense of being amongst the most prestigious while other publictions like Billboard, NYT, The Skinny would be regionals. People like Beyonce (Lemonade and Renaissance) and Kendrick (TPAB and Damn) would sweep the trifecta more than once as well as storming heavily with regionals. Fiona Apple and Lana could do the sweep their respective years or at least 2/3. Pre 2020s Kanye would probably be like a Paul Thomas Anderson in which almost all of his work gets a citation. Fun to speculate.

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[Goldwing Joined: Dec 9th, 2021 Topics: 2 Posts: 362 View Predictions]

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Bee wrote:

You mean if there was a trifecta/regionals for music the way there is for films? I’m guessing

Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and Guardian would be the “trifecta” in the sense of being amongst the most prestigious while other publictions like Billboard, NYT, The Skinny would be regionals. People like Beyonce (Lemonade and Renaissance) and Kendrick (TPAB and Damn) would sweep the trifecta more than once as well as storming heavily with regionals. Fiona Apple and Lana could do the sweep their respective years or at least 2/3. Pre 2020s Kanye would probably be like a Paul Thomas Anderson in which almost all of his work gets a citation. Fun to speculate.

Oh, sorry I am answering this message really late. I don’t really know how that trifecta thing works. What I had in mind at first was to have representatives from each of those sites (Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The Guardian, Vulture, etc.) do direct voting for nominees and winners. I’m open to learning about other voting methods.

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[Goldwing Joined: Dec 9th, 2021 Topics: 2 Posts: 362 View Predictions]

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Seriously sorry for the delay, I have been redoing and expanding the hypothetical list of nominees and it has been particularly difficult especially with the songs because they do not appear on pages like Metacritic. So to determine I had to go through several Year End lists and find matches or who ranked highest (in some cases choosing personally). I probably snubbed someone but believe me I struggled with this.

I also made the somewhat drastic decision to go outside of the Grammy guidelines and move the eligibility date from November 2021 to October 2022 (because honestly the October entries get very old for the next period) so you will see some changes to the list as well as adding the amount of nominees in some genres and in the top categories (AOTY being the only one with 10 spots).

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[Goldwing Joined: Dec 9th, 2021 Topics: 2 Posts: 362 View Predictions]

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Critics Choice Music Awards 2023, the nominees:

Best Pop Álbum:
30 by Adele
Harry’s House by Harry Styles
Caprisongs by FKA twigs
Hold the Girl by Rina Sawayama
Midnights by Taylor Swift
Dawn FM by The Weeknd

Best Rap Álbum:
Aethiopes by Billy Woods
Cheat Codes by Danger Mouse & Black Thought
The Forever Story by J.I.D.
Drill Music in Zion de Lupe Fiasco
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar
It’s Almost Dry by Pusha T

Best Alternative Álbum:
The Car by Arctic Monkeys
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You by Big Thief
Ants From Up There by Black Country, New Road
Preacher’s Daughter by Ethel Cain
Prioritise Pleasure by Self Esteem
Wet Leg by Wet Leg

Best R&B Álbum:
age/sex/location by Ari Lennox
Angels & Queens – Part I by Gabriels
Blue Water Road by Kehlani
Hypnos by Ravyn Lenae
Natural Brown Prom Queen by Sudan Archives
Gemini Rights by Steve Lacy

Best Rock Álbum:
Back From The Dead by Halestorm
Skinty Fia by Fontaines D.C.
Hellfire by Black Midi
PAINLESS by Nilüfer Yanya
Supernova by Nova Twins
The Overload by Yard Act

Best Dance or Electronic Album:
Renaissance by Beyonce
Fragments by Bonobo
Pray For Me I Don’t Fit In by Melt Yourself Down
Miracle in Transit by Naked Flames
Multitude by Stromae

Best Country Album:
American Heartbreak by Zach Bryan
Palomino by Miranda Lambert
Ashley McBryde Presents: Lindeville by Ashley McBryde
Humble Quest by Maren Morris
Raised by Hailey Whitters

Best Americana or Folk Album:
The Sorrow Songs by Angeline Morrison
The New Faith by Jake Blount
Good and Green Again by Jake Xerxes Fussell
Crooked Tree by Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway
Bronco by Orville Peck

Best Album in Spanish:
Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny
Tinta y Tiempo by Jorge Drexler
Marchita by Silvana Estrada
De Todas Las Flores by Natalia Lafourcade
Motomami by Rosalia

Outstanding Group:
Black Country, New Road
Big Thief
Gabriels
Fontaines D.C
Nova Twins
Wet Leg

Outstanding Collaboration:
Ojitos Lindos by Bad Bunny, Bomba Estéreo
Beg for You by Charli XCX, Rina Sawayama
Persuasive (Remix) by Doechii, SZA
Wait for U by Future, Drake & Tems
F.N.F. (Let’s Go) by Hitkidd, GloRilla
Cash In Cash Out by Pharrell Williams, 21 Savage & Tyler, The Creator
Spitting Off the Edge of the World by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Perfume Genius

Producer of the Year:
Jack Antonoff (Midnights)
Kid Harpoon (Harry’s House)
NOVA WAV (Renaissance)
Sounwave (Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers)
Jahaann Sweet (Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers)
Michael Uzowuru (Motomami)

Emerging Artist of the Year:
Ari Lennox
Omar Apollo
Zach Bryan
Ethel Cain
Glorilla
MUNA
Wet Leg

Video of the Year:
D.M.B. by A$AP Rocky
Ancestress by Björk
King by Florence + the Machine
Saoko by Rosalia
All Too Well (10 Minute Version) by Taylor Swift
No One Dies From Love by Tove Lo
Out of Time by The Weeknd

Song of the Year:
American Teenager by Ethel Cain
All Too Well (10 Minute Version) by Taylor Swift
As It Was by Harry Styles
Bad Habit by Steve Lacy
Break My Soul by Beyonce
F.N.F. (Let’s Go) by Hitkidd, GloRilla
Spitting Off the Edge of the World by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Perfume Genius
Tití me preguntó by Bad Bunny

Álbum of the Year:
30 by Adele
Un Verano Sin Ti by Bad Bunny
Renaissance by Beyonce
Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You by Big Thief
Skinty Fia by Fontaines D.C.
Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers by Kendrick Lamar
Motomami by Rosalia
A Light for Attracting Attention by The Smile
Midnights by Taylor Swift
Wet Leg by Wet Leg

That’s all from me for now. I will make a continuation of this thread at the end of the year when the Year End lists appear.

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[AuxPlayer Joined: Sep 19th, 2019 Topics: 1 Posts: 209 View Predictions]

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Goldwing wrote:

Critics Choice Music Awards 2023, the nominees: 

This is surprisingly a very good list! I wish the Grammys would look like this

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[Huerco Joined: Oct 31st, 2020 Topics: 5 Posts: 930 View Predictions]

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Honestly I don’t need any precursor to the Grammys. For me the Grammys night is much more emotional than the Oscars because anything can happen. Same with the nominations day. If there were serious precursor, then winners would be more predictable. VMA, BBMAs and AMAs are spaces to campaign and be considered as relevant in an eligible year. That’s enough.

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[blumen Joined: Mar 13th, 2023 Topics: 0 Posts: 48 View Predictions]

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Lana Del Rey would win everything

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