Buffalo Boy's Blog

Yesterday I continued a tradition I am proud of, I didn't watch the Grammy Awards for the probably the 10th consecutve year. They are long, the music sucks and they don't award the best music, they award the music that sells. Its a popularist contest and nothing more.

All due respect to Taylor Swift but he album was not album of the year, there had to have been better music out there somewhere, they picked it because it sold the most, I don't have the numbers in front of me but I will bet everything I have that that is the case.

Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown as Best Rock Album? Come on, I like Green Day, but Im sure there was something better, it sold a lot.

The Grammy Awards have become totally controlled by the cooperate world both music and mass media and they award the music that sells plain simple, no one bothers to dig deep anymore to find the truly quality music out there, we just settle for what coorporately owned, mass media radio stations throw on their high rotation playlists and accept it for what is "good" and "acceptable" to listen to.

So, until the Grammy Awards gets honest with music fans and themselves Im not going to bother tuning in. They should rename it to the Award Show for Top Selling Music and just hand out gold dollar signs to each artist.