Battles.

Words.

"...the Grammys’ fatal problem is that the entire enterprise is transparently and unforgivably lazy. In the age of the internet, thousands of songs are released each year and with the advent of technology, it’s incredibly easy to browse a larger selection of material to truly award “outstanding achievement” in the music industry. It’s really not that difficult to take a sampling of obscure but critically acclaimed, independent or underground artists to determine if Lupe Fiasco really did have one of the five best rap songs of 2011. Yet this never seems to happen. This happens in genre after genre and category after category. Does anybody really believe that Jeff Beck’s “Rock And Roll Party Honoring Les Paul” is really one of the finest offerings that rock music has to offer this year. Does Jeff Beck?

“The Show Goes On” is a morbidly awful song, but because it has the right promotional heft behind it, it manages to weasel its way into people believing its one of the five best songs of 2011. For an enterprise that presents itself with the pomp and circumstance to be the Academy Awards of music, it ends up presenting a historical worldview that is at best terminally biased, at worst, patently false. If the Grammys are ever going to matter beyond a smug celebration of the music industry’s gigantic sense of entitlement, its going to have find a way to change. I’m not saying you can do better.

I’m saying you have to do better."

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