Can the Grammys Be Fixed?
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The New York Times
3.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the New York Times |
| 0:07.7 | podcast, your dip from my live, I don't rate you |
| 0:11.5 | of music, news, and criticism. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm your host, you up when I'm walking with you. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay, so before we really get deep in the Grammys, pop cast, |
| 0:34.4 | I don't want to say I'm team Bruno, |
| 0:36.4 | but I'm not opposed to Bruno Mars. |
| 0:39.0 | It's important to say that right up front. |
| 0:41.7 | Bruno Mars won the three big cross-genre categories. He won last |
| 0:47.0 | night he won album of the year, he won record of the year, and he won song of the year. |
| 0:52.1 | And I think if you are a person who is a mix engineer or perhaps a |
| 0:58.8 | songwriter or someone who grew up with 1990s R&B, that is a completely satisfying outcome |
| 1:04.7 | for the 60th annual Grammy Award. |
| 1:06.6 | Completely satisfying? |
| 1:08.2 | Fairly satisfying. |
| 1:10.0 | One of a, you know, a satisfying option. |
| 1:12.4 | Before we complain, why you introduce us all John I |
| 1:15.0 | Joe just just I'm sorry you said he said completely |
| 1:20.0 | there was a lot of if I'm cavioting. It's caveat AF. Okay. Okay. |
| 1:25.4 | However, as in recent years the the victories in the main Grammy categories |
| 1:30.7 | underscore some significant problems with the |
| 1:33.4 | voting blocks of the Grammys and the Grammys |
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