Outrage over Arcade Fire's Album of the year win

[cali]

http://whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com/

Who The Hell Is Arcade Fire? Grammys Reveal Music Industry To Be Wildly Out Of Touch With Internet Fan Base
http://www.businessinsider.com/grammy-winners-bieber-arcade-fire-spalding-2011-2

Grammy backlash: Esperanza Spalding, Arcade Fire feel the wrath of the Internet

Read more: http://arts.nationalpost.com/2011/02/14/grammy-backlash-esperanza-spalding-arcade-fire-feel-the-wrath-of-the-internet/#ixzz1DxlkLK5m

:rofl:

[abq e streeter]

1. Great, innovative band, IMO ...glad to see em get that recognition

[Arugula Latte]

2. I like Arcade Fire but ... Lady Antebellum ... WTF?!

Corporate country crap. Gag!!

[jobycom]

3. You obviously don't understand

just how bad corporate country crap can get. :rofl:

[cbdo2007]

4. Hey come on....did you see what Lady Atebellum was up against??

The song is decent and was at least written by the band rather than much of the country music out there. But this year was an especially bad year for songs I guess, like that "Fuck You" song? That song is the dumbest piece of shit song I've ever heard. Talk about a gimmick!

ha ha, I'm just glad actual music won, even if some of it is cheesy. I can't stand rap and the pop is even sucking more than usual lately. Lady GaGa's performance and new song last night were terrible. Katy Perry was boring as hell. I'm happy for Lady Antebellum cutting through that other crap and winning some of the big awards.

[dawg]

5. So Arcade Fire is an obscure *hipster* band?

:rofl:

If dawg has heard of them and has some of their music, and they are not an obscure prog band from the 1970's (or an obscure Scandinavian prog band from the 1990's), then they are mainstream.

Therefore:

Arcade Fire is mainstream.

What rock are these people living under?

[IcyPeas]

6. what are the grammys anyway?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award

the grammys are not the popular vote, it's voted on by music industry people who are uninformed:

from the "criticism paragraph of wikipedia:

Because thousands of recordings appear each year and very few voting members have heard more than a relatively small number of them, it is likely that many individual votes will be cast by voters who are unfamiliar with all the recordings nominated in that category. Additionally, because of the small number of votes cast in many of the categories, a lobbying campaign for a particular recording may need only a few dozen votes for success. Large choruses have achieved Grammy awards after persuading many of their members to join NARAS.

Certain musical artists have voiced personal issues with the nature of the Grammys.

When his band Pearl Jam won a Grammy in the category Best Hard Rock Performance in 1996, singer Eddie Vedder commented on stage: "I don't know what this means. I don't think it means anything".

Maynard James Keenan, lead singer of progressive metal band Tool, did not attend the Grammy Awards ceremony to receive one of their awards. He explained his reasons:

“ I think the Grammys are nothing more than some gigantic promotional machine for the music industry. They cater to a low intellect and they feed the masses. They don't honor the arts or the artist for what he created. It's the music business celebrating itself. That's basically what it's all about.<9>