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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2012 17:13:24 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Dec 6, 2012 18:30:23 GMT -5
Unfortunately for Tift, I think Traveling Alone came out after this year's nominating period ended; and it probably came too early in the new nominating period for it to be remembered come this time next year. A real shame, since it continued her tradition for solid songwriting, Americana values, and old school country-rock. I have Traveling Alone pegged as my Album Of The Year winner, regardless of what the awards say.
Regina's album is also a solid piece as Robert has noted, and it should have been considered somewhere. Exactly where that somewhere should have been, I don't know. I think the Grammys have become too compartmentalized since they did away with a number of categories; and unfortunately, this leaves a lot of great women who won't be compartmentalized out in the cold (IMHO).
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 6, 2012 18:31:38 GMT -5
Are both of those women commercial enough for the Grammys? Or well known enough?
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Post by erik on Dec 6, 2012 18:45:45 GMT -5
Tift was nominated in 2004 for Best Country Album for Tambourine, even though there was very little about that album that was "country", or even Americana. Regina, I think, is still relatively new, and also quite eclectic.
Most of the women they do have up for nominations, to be totally honest, don't impress me all that much. I confess, though, that Carly Rae Jepsen (alias "C Rae Jep")'s "Call Me Maybe" is my guilty pleasure track for 2012.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2012 19:29:54 GMT -5
Regina is somewhat a contemporary of Tift, issuing her first (self produced) album a year before Tift. She has became somewhat mainstream placing her last two albums as high as #3 in Billboard and selling out arenas worldwide. She still is more bohemian than mainstream though as evidenced by one of her lyrics 'Someone next door is f***ing to one of my songs.'(Tift will also left fly with some anglo-saxonisms in concert too:)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 7:04:23 GMT -5
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 7, 2012 10:51:09 GMT -5
It may well be that Regina will suffer Linda's fate of the "deciders" not knowing what to do with her or how to categorize her. Kind of like being bi-racial. Never black enough or white enough so where do you go for acceptance? One would think their sheer talent would be enough.
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Post by erik on Dec 7, 2012 10:54:27 GMT -5
Quote by ronstadfanaz: Back in the 70s, yes. But after MTV, Madonna, and American Idol, no.  |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2012 11:03:33 GMT -5
It may well be that Regina will suffer Linda's fate of the "deciders" not knowing what to do with her or how to categorize her. Kind of like being bi-racial. Never black enough or white enough so where do you go for acceptance? One would think their sheer talent would be enough. Luckily, both Linda and Regina have talent enough to overcome critical stupidity (pun there  |
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Post by Dianna on Dec 7, 2012 14:23:00 GMT -5
Sometimes the grammy's do nominate and even award an unknown artist or someone talented deserving who isn't so commercial.. they're weird like that.. maybe not enough brown nosing to the right people..
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Post by erik on Dec 9, 2012 14:00:02 GMT -5
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Like all awards shows, of course, the Grammys are, by and large, a popularity contest; the biggest sellers are usually the front-runners, and the most able (not to mention likely) to brown nose the voters.
I've come to believe that it's not the lack of women that's the only problem, but also the fact that they seem to nominate a lot of the same ones over the last several years, including Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, neither of whom have really interested me in the way a lesser-known but (at least in my humble opinion) equally gifted songstress like Tift Merritt has. And as I also pointed out, when they did away with a lot of what everyone feels are somehow "ancillary" categories and sub-genres, they may have cut out a lot of great and truly unknown artists and cultures that deserve a little bit of exposure, in favor of long, drawn-out production spectacles that quickly become boring.
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