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Dominic A
Dominic A
1 year ago

The opinions of some actual musicians:
“”I don’t know what this means. I don’t think it means anything.” Eddie Vedder, on receiving a Grammy
“Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap — like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided”
“I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don’t honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It’s the music business celebrating itself. That’s basically what it’s all about.”
“the Grammys represent something outside of the real world of music “that’s fully industry based”.
“Everyone should go home, this is ridiculous. You should not be doing this. We should not be gathering in a big room and looking at each other and pretending that this is important.”

Elliott Bjorn
Elliott Bjorn
1 year ago
Reply to  Dominic A

the old Dan McLean song

”’Cause fire is the devil’s only friend

Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in Hell
Could break that Satan’s spell

And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
He was singin”’
…………..

Really Satan owns the entertainment Industry – does not even hide anymore, the industry has so become in thrall to evil,,,,,

Linda Hutchinson
Linda Hutchinson
1 year ago
Reply to  Elliott Bjorn

Seriously?

Linda Hutchinson
Linda Hutchinson
1 year ago
Reply to  Elliott Bjorn

Seriously?

Elliott Bjorn
Elliott Bjorn
1 year ago
Reply to  Dominic A

the old Dan McLean song

”’Cause fire is the devil’s only friend

Oh, and as I watched him on the stage
My hands were clenched in fists of rage
No angel born in Hell
Could break that Satan’s spell

And as the flames climbed high into the night
To light the sacrificial rite
I saw Satan laughing with delight
The day the music died
He was singin”’
…………..

Really Satan owns the entertainment Industry – does not even hide anymore, the industry has so become in thrall to evil,,,,,

Dominic A
Dominic A
1 year ago

The opinions of some actual musicians:
“”I don’t know what this means. I don’t think it means anything.” Eddie Vedder, on receiving a Grammy
“Why don’t the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap — like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided”
“I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don’t honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It’s the music business celebrating itself. That’s basically what it’s all about.”
“the Grammys represent something outside of the real world of music “that’s fully industry based”.
“Everyone should go home, this is ridiculous. You should not be doing this. We should not be gathering in a big room and looking at each other and pretending that this is important.”

Frank McCusker
Frank McCusker
1 year ago

Brain-dead rubbish. The Grammys are a reliable indicator of the kind of strutting middle class popsters whose outputs should be avoided at all costs. Popular music now is in a worse state than before punk.

Frank McCusker
Frank McCusker
1 year ago

Brain-dead rubbish. The Grammys are a reliable indicator of the kind of strutting middle class popsters whose outputs should be avoided at all costs. Popular music now is in a worse state than before punk.

Derek Smith
Derek Smith
1 year ago

“Petras remarked after the show that she had intended to shock religious Christians, given that they’re not accepting of her lifestyle, and that mission was clearly accomplished.”

Aww – bless him!

Glyn R
Glyn R
1 year ago
Reply to  Derek Smith

What she should have said was, “I am a coward really but I want to make out that I’m dead edgy and shocking and well, let’s face it no one cares about Christians….I mean, I wouldn’t dare to try and shock anyone from any other religion even if they don’t accept my lifestyle. No way would I offend them because they might come after me and not turn the other cheek.”

Last edited 1 year ago by Glyn R
Warren Trees
Warren Trees
1 year ago
Reply to  Glyn R

Yes, why wouldn’t they attempt to shock a Muslim, who would throw them off a building? How courageous!

Warren Trees
Warren Trees
1 year ago
Reply to  Glyn R

Yes, why wouldn’t they attempt to shock a Muslim, who would throw them off a building? How courageous!

Glyn R
Glyn R
1 year ago
Reply to  Derek Smith

What she should have said was, “I am a coward really but I want to make out that I’m dead edgy and shocking and well, let’s face it no one cares about Christians….I mean, I wouldn’t dare to try and shock anyone from any other religion even if they don’t accept my lifestyle. No way would I offend them because they might come after me and not turn the other cheek.”

Last edited 1 year ago by Glyn R
Derek Smith
Derek Smith
1 year ago

“Petras remarked after the show that she had intended to shock religious Christians, given that they’re not accepting of her lifestyle, and that mission was clearly accomplished.”

Aww – bless him!

Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart
1 year ago

Does anyone reading Unherd care about this?

Mônica
Mônica
1 year ago
Reply to  Ian Stewart

Some of the religious nutters who congregate on the comments section clearly do.

Elliott Bjorn
Elliott Bjorn
1 year ago
Reply to  Ian Stewart

I did not read the article, but I are greatly that society is sick and evil….

Billy Bob
Billy Bob
1 year ago
Reply to  Elliott Bjorn

It’s not sick and evil though is it. Most people are thoroughly decent and just get on with their lives and ignore all this nonsense the same way they have for decades. There’s always been attention seekers and always will be, it’s just now social media coupled with lazy journalism means they get more attention than they deserve

Linda Hutchinson
Linda Hutchinson
1 year ago
Reply to  Elliott Bjorn

but I are greatly that society is sick
What does this even mean?

Heidi Mahon
Heidi Mahon
1 year ago

Think maybe he meant to say *care* greatly that society is sick which is very much the case and and difficult to argue with and yet here you doing so -repeatedly

Heidi Mahon
Heidi Mahon
1 year ago

Think maybe he meant to say *care* greatly that society is sick which is very much the case and and difficult to argue with and yet here you doing so -repeatedly

Billy Bob
Billy Bob
1 year ago
Reply to  Elliott Bjorn

It’s not sick and evil though is it. Most people are thoroughly decent and just get on with their lives and ignore all this nonsense the same way they have for decades. There’s always been attention seekers and always will be, it’s just now social media coupled with lazy journalism means they get more attention than they deserve

Linda Hutchinson
Linda Hutchinson
1 year ago
Reply to  Elliott Bjorn

but I are greatly that society is sick
What does this even mean?

Matt Hindman
Matt Hindman
1 year ago
Reply to  Ian Stewart

If if wasn’t for the controversy, hardly anyone would have known The Grammys happened. Give it a few more years and people will be going, “oh the Oscars happened last week?”

Mônica
Mônica
1 year ago
Reply to  Ian Stewart

Some of the religious nutters who congregate on the comments section clearly do.

Elliott Bjorn
Elliott Bjorn
1 year ago
Reply to  Ian Stewart

I did not read the article, but I are greatly that society is sick and evil….

Matt Hindman
Matt Hindman
1 year ago
Reply to  Ian Stewart

If if wasn’t for the controversy, hardly anyone would have known The Grammys happened. Give it a few more years and people will be going, “oh the Oscars happened last week?”

Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart
1 year ago

Does anyone reading Unherd care about this?

Hugh Bryant
Hugh Bryant
1 year ago

From Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion in three generations. That must be the fastest civilisational decline in history.

Hugh Bryant
Hugh Bryant
1 year ago

From Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion in three generations. That must be the fastest civilisational decline in history.

Julian Farrows
Julian Farrows
1 year ago

I’ve noticed a sea change in the attitudes of celebrities. Where once they used to cavort around their stages sticking it to the establishment, they now have become the very mouthpieces for the establishment.
It’s like listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5zQTmkY7GI
but in drag.

Julian Farrows
Julian Farrows
1 year ago

I’ve noticed a sea change in the attitudes of celebrities. Where once they used to cavort around their stages sticking it to the establishment, they now have become the very mouthpieces for the establishment.
It’s like listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5zQTmkY7GI
but in drag.

Chris Milburn
Chris Milburn
1 year ago

Not a good indication the article will be balanced when the author uses the term “nonbinary” without putting it in quotes.

Chris Milburn
Chris Milburn
1 year ago

Not a good indication the article will be balanced when the author uses the term “nonbinary” without putting it in quotes.

Kat L
Kat L
1 year ago

I didn’t watch it and I’d bet not many others did either. Most of their ‘music’ is tiresome schlock.