and hip-hop, hip-hop and pop? Genre was once a practical tool for organizing record shops and programming radio stations, but it seems unlikely to remain one in an era in which all music feels like a hybrid, and listeners are no longer encouraged (or incentivized) to choose a single area of interest. Is it even possible, in 2021, to locate, let alone enforce, an impermeable membrane between R. Few contemporary stars pride themselves on a pure or traditional approach to form, and most pull purposefully from assorted histories and practices. It’s difficult to imagine a Grammy ceremony that doesn’t rely on genre as its organizing principle-I suppose that would entail the bestowing of just one award, Best Music-yet genre feels increasingly irrelevant to the way we think about, create, and consume art. Album, and, in a stab at transparency, made its rules and qualifications available publicly for the first time.) Why can’t we just be in pop?” (Though “urban” is not included in the guidelines for the Best Rap Album category, the Grammys have nonetheless struggled with the term, which some once considered to be an acceptable euphemism for nonwhite this year, the Academy changed the category of Best Urban Contemporary Album to Best Progressive R. To me, it’s just a politically correct way to say the N-word. “But, also, it sucks that whenever we, and I mean guys that look like me, do anything that’s genre-bending, they always put it in a rap or urban category.” He continued, “I don’t like that ‘urban’ word. “I’m very grateful that what I made could just be acknowledged in a world like this,” he said backstage. Last year, Tyler, the Creator won Best Rap Album for “ IGOR,” a complex, often radical concept record about a devastating love triangle. This isn’t the first time an artist has bucked against the specifics of a nomination. Those determinations are confidential and, of course, fallible. Whether an album belongs in one category or another (Rock or Alternative? Folk or Americana or American Roots?) is debated, often hotly, by nomination committees assembled by the Academy. Although some awards-Comedy Album, Spoken Word Album, Liner Notes-feel relatively unambiguous, most are inherently vague. It is not being acknowledged as an R&B album, which is very strange to me.” There are eighty-three categories at this year’s Grammy ceremony.
“With that being said, I set out to make an R&B album. “I am very meticulous and intentional about my music,” Bieber wrote on Instagram. His fifth studio album, “Changes,” was up for Best Pop Vocal Album, a major category.
When the newest batch of Grammy nominations were announced, in late November, Justin Bieber expressed displeasure with the way his music had been identified by the Recording Academy.
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