
A History of Whammies at the Grammys - Into It with Sam Sanders
Switched on Pop
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Grammy Awards - What Was That Dangerous?
I think it says that Grammys will always award the thing that's more milk toast rather than the political sexy dangerous album of it all. Purple Rain and Private Dancer both full of charged sexual energy born in the USA. You go with what's going to work on adult contemporary and play for the next 40 years. I know over Kid A by Radio Head. Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem. Midnight Vultures by Bette. It's my least favorite Grammy award situation of all time. We've got some other big snubs to go through. What's the next one? Yeah a snub that I have been fixating on while researching where the Grammys got it wrong
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