As the Recording Academy prepares to host the 63rd annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, controversy over the legitimacy of the music industry’s biggest awards show continues to escalate.
There has been much criticism in recent years that the Grammy voters are out of touch with the industry they’re supposed to be representing, which came to a head after this year’s nominations when the Weeknd’s Blinding Lights — one of the years’ biggest and most critically acclaimed releases — received not a single nomination in any category, despite the album’s title track spending an entire year in the Billboard top 10.
Rather than stay silent, the Canadian singer took to social media to blast the Recording Academy, calling out the Grammys as “corrupt.” Not
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