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Post by Cyno on Nov 18, 2021 13:12:45 GMT -5
I'm not a country music fan by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm dating someone who is, so on those grounds I've become pretty tapped in to the country music scene over the past few years. And even I was absolutely baffled by the Country Music Association nominating persona non grata Morgan Wallen for Album of the Year at last week's CMA Awards. A little context for those who aren't in the know: Morgan Wallen spent 2019 and 2020 as one of country music's hottest rising stars, and in January 2021, he released a double album titled "Dangerous." It was heralded critically and was a success commercially. But a month later, a video was posted online showing Wallen using the N-word while out in Nashville with his friends. The reaction was swift and immediate. His music was dropped from radio stations and streaming services nationwide. His record label suspended its contract with him. The Academy of Country Music Awards (the Transmorphers to the CMA's Transformers) announced that Wallen would be ineligible for that year's awards show. But a strange thing happened along the way. Wallen's music surged in popularity. Record sales increased 14 percent from the week before the racial slur video became public. The album ultimately spent 10 weeks atop the Billboard charts and became the best-selling album *period* for the first half of the year. Even though numerous country music artists immediately expressed their disgust with Wallen, he was nominated for Album of the Year at last week's CMAs. He didn't win, but his hiatus from the music scene came and went in a matter of months. He's now receiving radio airplay; he's been welcomed on-stage to the adoration of fans as a guest alongside the likes of Luke Bryan, Eric Church, and Jason Aldean (three of the biggest stars in country music today); he's headlining a major music festival in Florida next spring; and he's setting out on a nationwide tour next summer. I think this giant welcoming back party that the collective country music scene is throwing for Morgan Wallen - who, for what it's worth, has done zero atonement for his actions (example: he told Michael Strahan that he was using the N-word "playfully") can almost exclusively be traced back to late this summer when the CMAs announced Wallen as one of the finalists for the Album of the Year. This only reinforces the stereotype of country music and its fans being racist.
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Post by BRV on Nov 18, 2021 14:57:46 GMT -5
This only reinforces the stereotype of country music and its fans being racist. I'll say this much about country music - for the most part, it feels like those in positions of power are really trying to fight back against that stereotype. When I first started dating my significant other, I was dismissive of the genre as music for racists and misogynists, but I'm surprised at how open Nashville has been to accepting Black artists. Names like Darius Rucker, Kane Brown, and Jimmie Allen are among the most popular in the industry, and the CMAs did honor (perhaps long overdue) Charley Pride with its Lifetime Achievement Award before his death last year. But honestly, the people holding country music back the most are its fans. I've already mentioned Morgan Wallen's album sales increasing by 14 percent AFTER people heard him say the N-word, but I saw plenty of examples when I attended a country music festival in New Jersey over the summer. It was akin to attending a rally for a political candidate who shall not be named, with people openly harassing fellow audience members for wearing masks, shouting obscene chants aimed at people of certain political affiliations, criticizing female singers for "talking too much" rather than just standing on stage and entertaining them, and a totally out-of-place moment in which a former Marine led the crowd in prayer, criticized athletes who protested racial injustice, and had the audience sing the National Anthem ... again, this was in the middle of a music festival.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Nov 18, 2021 14:59:59 GMT -5
When the Gooker Nominees are more "I didn't like it when my favorite wrestler was booked that way" rather than "here's some wacky shit that was booked" Yes, they can be the same thing. But not as often as people pretend they are. Brass Rings getting the nod over Bella vs Bella was the big one for me. The Gooker should be harmless fun, not a commentary on the wrestling industry. The dumbest was the year they just put "The Miz" simply because they didn't like him
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Dec 7, 2021 19:54:59 GMT -5
The fact that Tatiana Maslany was only nominated 3 times for her roles on "Orphan Black"...and worst yet, only won once.
F*** OFF, EMMYS!
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Dec 8, 2021 18:36:38 GMT -5
The 78th oscars in 2006 was the last time I gave a shit about them. (Leo winning was nice but..questionable for Revenant). In a year where you have Capote, Good Night and Good Luck, Munich and Brokeback Mountain, you give it to Crash. It wasn't even the interesting film that was named Crash! Granted, making that one best picture would have taken some real balls in 1997. Would never have happened anyways, because for some reason everyone was obsessed with The English Patient that year. For the life of me I don't know why. Fargo and Shine were both right there and fine choices for best picture.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Dec 8, 2021 18:45:46 GMT -5
When the Gooker Nominees are more "I didn't like it when my favorite wrestler was booked that way" rather than "here's some wacky shit that was booked" Yes, they can be the same thing. But not as often as people pretend they are. I mean they nominated the Miz one year when he didn't do anything but have a pretty middling midcard run... like if that was the worst thing in wrestling that year that must have been the best year of wrestling of all god damned time. I'm usually not angered by award nominations most are fully politicized or such a cloistered group of people that like to believe that whatever they are nominating for must fit in X hole, and hell it's not like my enjoyment of something ever went up from saying... oh yeah well this thing won X award. Also yeah... the Razzies has either become or always started by basically punching down at bad movies... it's like everyone that goes off on how Superman 64 is the worst game ever made and then only talks about rings... when that's not the only thing that happens or even the worst thing that happpens in that game.
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Post by cosmo on Dec 8, 2021 19:03:05 GMT -5
To this day, I still haven't figured out how Bruce Springsteen's song from The Wrestler could win Best Original Song at the Golden Globes, but the only nominees for the same category at the Oscars that year were Peter Gabriel's song from Wall-E and two songs from Slumdog Millionaire.
And the Razzies stopped being about bad movies when they nominated pretty much the entire George W. Bush administration for Worst Actor and the like after Fahrenheit 9/11 came out. Not gonna go too far into this one due to the board's rules, but I thought that nominating the focus of a documentary for acting awards was just silly.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 9, 2021 10:55:09 GMT -5
Brass Rings getting the nod over Bella vs Bella was the big one for me. The Gooker should be harmless fun, not a commentary on the wrestling industry. The dumbest was the year they just put "The Miz" simply because they didn't like him Mine was when they nominated CM Punk/Paul Heyman for doing a fake heart attack to mock Lawlers real life one. The justification was that wrestling should have 'moved away' from carny BS but Lawler is a giant carny and it was probably his idea in the first place.
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