We Need to Talk About The Grammys... (Patreon Preview)
Pop Pantheon
DJ Louie XIV
4.7 • 630 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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In a preview of the new episode of Pop Pantheon: All Access, DJ Louie and Russ break down the 2023 Grammys, from Beyoncé’s infuriating, disheartening and all-too-familiar snubs across the big three categories to Kim Petras and Sam Smith’s big win, the show’s electrifying, decades-spanning tribute to hip hop and its ever-increasing and seemingly inexorable march towards complete irrelevance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all, DJ Louis here, dropping a little preview of our new Patreon episode from our Patreon |
| 0:07.1 | channel, Pop Pantheon All Access. |
| 0:09.0 | Last night was the annual Grammy Awards, a characteristically disappointing and out of touch |
| 0:15.0 | three hour and 45 minute extravaganza that nonetheless provided some winning moments and of course in classic |
| 0:23.8 | Grammy's fashion a number of head-scratchingly disappointing ones. So if you enjoy this little |
| 0:31.6 | preview, you can subscribe at patreon.com slash pop pantheon to listen to the rest of the episode |
| 0:37.0 | or click the show notes and the link |
| 0:40.1 | will be there as well. So here is a little snippet of my conversation with Russ this morning |
| 0:45.3 | unpacking last night's Grammy Award ceremony. I mean, I guess the one good thing you could say |
| 0:51.6 | about it is that they're not rigging these things because I think if they could, they would have given it to her. Absolutely. They would have. So if we're going to say one positive thing, I guess, about this outcome is that they aren't rigging them, you know, but it just speaks to the voting body because I mean, it couldn't be more perfect that it was Harry because the thing is that Harry represents a karaoke version of everything that they care |
| 1:14.1 | about. |
| 1:14.5 | And it's so annoying, especially because it's him. |
| 1:17.6 | Because at least in my personal opinion, he doesn't actually come up with the songs that |
| 1:21.8 | they think that he's coming up with. |
| 1:23.7 | But he gestures at all of the tropes that they love. |
| 1:26.9 | He is nodding exactly at the |
| 1:29.3 | era of music that they feel is valuable. He makes music in the way that they feel is valuable. |
| 1:34.8 | And he presents himself and performs in a way that is legible to them. That like makes sense to |
| 1:39.5 | them as like what they consider to be credible music, which is rock music, which has a singer-songwriter |
| 1:46.4 | vibe to it, and that literally sounds like that era, like the era of peak rock. I mean, |
| 1:52.2 | that is like what Harry Styles more or less gestures at over and over and over again. |
| 1:56.1 | No bother that, like, to me personally, he doesn't make music that's particularly remarkable the album is not |
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