And, really, don’t they even apply to this board? Some of you were doing Will/Should win about the Grammys when you hadn’t even heard all of the music in those categories. That seems disingenuous.

And yeah, she should have educated herself on the General categories, but the fact that she didn’t is emblematic of a larger problem with Grammy voting in general: a lot of people seem to vote in those General categories having never heard all the music therein, or being stubbornly closed off to a certain genre of music (most egregiously, rap/hip-hop, which has never won Record of the Year). The Grammys need to figure out a way to make it *cool* for industry participants to actually have surveyed the General nominations fairly, the way it’s cool (and in the industry, more expected) to actually have seen all the Best Picture nominations come Oscar time.

by the way, i like that new look of yours – if jamey johnson claims to be somewhere “between jennings and jones”, i’d say you look like being somewhere “between lennon and john (elton)”. scnr.

There’s a reason some in the urban community were offended by her comments, because at the end of the day it was a 30 year old mainstream pop star who’s been in the business for 10 years and says she’s a huge lover of all music admitting to everybody that a huge urban hit that had already touched millions of people didn’t exist to her before that evening. Kelly probably meant it as more of “I’m so clueless” than as a condescending “Wow where did THAT come from?” But because of the relative power dynamic between mainstream pop and urban, it wasn’t going to come off that way to everybody.

Kelly gets away with it because she’s real and unfiltered and nobody expects her to be the brightest bulb. But sometimes thinking before you say certain things is a good thing. Hopefully she & Miguel can sing a duet for real because I bet it’d be great.