2015 Grammys thread (held in 2016)

[pvdk]

For now I'm gonna go ahead and lock in D'Angelo, Kendrick and Taylor for AOTY.

After Beck won, and given that the Academy is leaning toward pop (to the point where they changed the order of the awards) I'm questioning whether we will see a Beck/Jack White type nod.

[pvdk]

I think a nod for the 50 Shades soundtrack would be deserved but I don't think a soundtrack is getting in anytime soon.

[misplaced validity]

(03-29-2015 10:45 AM)pvdk Wrote:  For now I'm gonna go ahead and lock in D'Angelo, Kendrick and Taylor for AOTY.

"For now" is good; I think D'Angelo may be forgotten by the time of the actual nominees (or more so, he and Kendrick may be seen as similar and Kendrick will win the slot because of better sales and his "shun" a couple years ago).

Part of that is an assumption some other big albums will come out.

[pvdk]

Didn't realise Alison Krauss was the only non-Brit nominated for ROTY when she won.

[stereoman]

Can't see 'Glory' getting into Record/Song. If 'Let It Go' couldn't, this surely won't.

Is 'Uptown Funk' too derivative to win 'Record of the Year'? There'll probably be more than 11 co-writers getting credit for it by the end of October!

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/music/news/a...CFfs64gj8f

I think I say it year-after-year but the potential General Field nominees seem to get even more wretched. Can't even think who'd get the snob votes right now to play spoiler even with everything skewed towards pop with a bit of rap/rock thrown in. The country music bloc seems to have evaporated in regards the General Field.

[pvdk]

Yeah with them stretching to 6 the year before to get Swift in and then last years real Top 40 shift, it's really where they wanna be.

I think last years nominations announcement was genius.

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(05-02-2015 01:00 PM)stereoman Wrote:  I think I say it year-after-year but the potential General Field nominees seem to get even more wretched. Can't even think who'd get the snob votes right now to play spoiler even with everything skewed towards pop with a bit of rap/rock thrown in. The country music bloc seems to have evaporated in regards the General Field.

The thing is, with the industry in the state it's in now, it should be more wide open than ever for non-mainstream music to get in. But it seems like the opposite has happened. Of course, nothing "indie" has really blown up recently.

I looked through the Album of the Year winners since the addition of genre Album awards, and here is the breakdown of AOTY winners by genre:
Pop - 6 (including Tony Bennett who also won Traditional Pop)
Rock - 5
Country - 3 (including O Brother which won Soundtrack but had individual tracks in Country)
Contemporary Folk/Americana - 3
Dance/Electronica - 1
R&B - 1
Rap - 1
Contemporary Jazz - 1

Two of these - Arcade Fire and Mumford & Songs - lost in their genre.

[mahogany soul]

Miguel's newest is garnering raves. He and D'Angelo will most likely be in contention for the R&B slot for AOTY.

[sms84]

I was curious what people thought about the chances for the following songs/albums/artists...

Madonna, Rebel Heart
- I know certainly far from the biggest hit of her career, seen by many as a downright disappointment, but is there any way for her to sneak into Pop Album, Dance Recording ("Living for Love"), Pop Solo Performance ("Ghosttown"), or Rap/Sung Collaboration ("Bitch I'm Madonna")?

Rachel Platten, "Fight Song"

- I think she's almost guaranteed a slot in Best New Artist, and possibly Record/Song of the Year. I see her filling the Joan Osborne/Paula Cole slot...maybe a slew of nods in big categories, but no wins. That song is pretty ubiquitous right now though.

OMI, "Cheerleader"
- This has got to be a solid ROTY contender, right?

[stereoman]

Madonna? No chance unless NARAS has remembered it's not just about 'under 40s'.
Rachel Platten? I think a more apt comparison would be Vanessa Carlton/Corinne Bailey Rae with potentially just 'RotY'/'SotY' nominations. She likely has nothing else in her repertoire and likely will be a 'one hit wonder'.
OMI? OMG, no. I think even Lunch Money Lewis's 'Bills' has more of a chance than he does.

Some folk are thinking 'Blank Space' will be Taylor Swift's ticket to 'RotY'/SotY' nominations. Um, 'Bad Blood' is still eligible right?

The likely five for 'Record of the Year':

'Uptown Funk' - Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars (your winner & it's not even a contest)
'Bad Blood' - Taylor Swift ft. Kendrick Lamar (feels more obvious catnip to NARAS than 'Blank Space')
'Thinking Out Loud' - Ed Sheeran (they really like him even though he's won ZERO Grammys. British bloc vote? No idea!)
'See You Again' - Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth (it probably will get nominated. They love the sappy stuff)
'Fight Song' - Rachel Platten (if Meghan Trainor can so can she)

Am looking at various forum posts and media articles about Grammy nominees and my opinion from May hasn't shifted much...it will be much worse than last year.

Am I insane to even think that Dr Dre's 'Compton: A Soundtrack' is the actual frontrunner for 'Album of the Year'!?