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[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago

Hopefully other groups will follow their lead. The Grammy Awards have been garbage for a long time but this category really smells of racism.

[-] scytale@piefed.zip 12 points 1 week ago

Yeah, IIRC they did this with latino artists as well, so they can avoid giving them major awards. Their criteria is bullshit too, something like 99% of lyrics shouldn’t be english. So if an asian artist has a big hit but it’s a song in english, then they aren’t eligible.

[-] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

An argument could be made for many of their categories - keeping eligibility for the biggest award categories to the industry darlings.

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