And the Grammy Goes to… Edition Part 2

Hit Parade | Music History and Music Trivia

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Music, Music History, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 26 January 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Do you watch the Grammy Awards every year and groan, or even yell at the screen? Hit Parade host Chris Molanphy sure does. But he has a weird hot take: The Grammys are better off not trying to be cool. They should reward the popular stuff—especially younger people’s music. Where the Recording Academy actually goes wrong is rewarding the old stuff—legendary artists long past their prime, from Frank Sinatra to Eric Clapton, Steely Dan to Beck. The Grammy wins remembered most fondly are artists at the peak of their chart prowess: Carole King. Stevie Wonder. Michael Jackson. George Michael. Lauryn Hill. Adele. Taylor Swift (and more Taylor…and more Taylor…and more…). When did the Grammys get it most right—and wrong? (Was the Toto win really so bad?) And how can they become more relevant? (Hint: much more rap.) Join Chris Molanphy as he offers a chart nerd’s take on the Recording Academy and offers guidelines for good Grammy governance, just before the 2024 awards. It’s an episode right in the Nick of Time. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:41.8	Potential savings will vary. Discounts not available in all states and situations. Welcome back to Hit Parade, a podcast of Pop Chart History from Slate magazine about the hits
1:09.7	from Coast to Coast. I'm Chris Malanfi, Chart Analysts, Pop Critic, and writer of Slates, Why Is This Song Number One series?
1:18.0	On our last episode, we started walking through the history of the Grammy Awards and their relationship to the
1:26.3	Billboard charts.
1:28.0	The Recording Academy was founded in the
1:33.0	1950s
1:32.0	industry figures who hated rock and roll
1:35.0	and spent the Grammy's first decade
1:38.0	avoiding it.
1:39.0	The Academy did eventually begin rewarding
1:42.0	rock, R&B, and other forms of pop, and by the 70s and 80s,
1:48.4	they were aligning with the charts and popular tastes.
1:52.4	But as the 21st century approaches, the center cannot hold.
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