Yeah, IIRC they did this with latino artists as well, so they can avoid giving them major awards. Their criteria is bullshit too, something like 99% of lyrics shouldn’t be english. So if an asian artist has a big hit but it’s a song in english, then they aren’t eligible.
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harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 35d
Hopefully other groups will follow their lead. The Grammy Awards have been garbage for a long time but this category really smells of racism.
scytale@piefed.zip · 12 pts · 35d
Yeah, IIRC they did this with latino artists as well, so they can avoid giving them major awards. Their criteria is bullshit too, something like 99% of lyrics shouldn’t be english. So if an asian artist has a big hit but it’s a song in english, then they aren’t eligible.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 35d
An argument could be made for many of their categories - keeping eligibility for the biggest award categories to the industry darlings.