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How is Lorde's only nomination for AOTY? Did they just not know where to categorize it? Because it's a pop album and it's miles above the other nominees there.
Hoping Childish and Kendrick sweep, but Jay-Z probably has the most noms so I'm guessing he'll do pretty well. And people love Bruno.
SZA should win Best New Artist but could easily see it going to Alessia Cara, the latest industry plant.
Sylvan Esso in Dance/Electronic albums is funny
Rock category is back to shit after a kind of alright year last year. QOTSA or TWOD would be nice for best rock album though Chris Cornell will probably win best rock performance because he died and people were sad
Best Alternatve Album is kind of a toss-up, could really see it going to any of those.
Give Chris Stapleton all the country awards, obviously. And Jason Isbell should win everything he's nominated for.
Overall this feels very male-dominated compared to recent years. I guess that's what happens in Taylor Swift/Adele/Beyoncé gap years
Overall this feels very male-dominated compared to recent years. I guess that's what happens in Taylor Swift/Adele/Beyoncé gap years
That was the big thing I noticed, too. Ignoring the relative quality of their work, it's cool that the majority of the artists represented in the main categories are black. But wouldn't it have been cooler if SZA got nominated for AOTY over Bruno Mars?
Jay-Z is going to win the Album Of The Year Grammy for 4:44. We already, on some deep level, know this. That album is pure Grammy-bait. It’s mellow and subtle and reflective, and it does not have one single banger on it. Grammy voters hate bangers. They should give the big award to Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. But they won’t. Too many bangers. Jay is a legend and an elder statesman and an extremely rich guy, and the Grammys love all of those things. So they’ll give the big award to Jay’s big apology to Beyoncé before they give it to any actual Beyoncé albums. We need to accept this and understand it. It’s a given. Put it in the bank. And now let’s start thinking about what should happen after Jay wins.
Here’s what I’m thinking: Kanye stage invasion. It’s been a few years now, and it needs to happen again. It needs to happen out of nowhere. Kanye has no reason to be at next year’s Grammys. He needs to be lurking in the rafters like he was Sting and this was WCW Monday Nitro in 1997. When Jay comes onstage, he needs to suddenly rappel down, or emerge from a hiding place under the Grammy podium, or something. He needs to stop this!
Kanye needs to take Jay’s Grammy. He needs to hand it to Lorde. (I don’t know why, but I’ve got this feeling that Kanye likes Melodrama better than DAMN.) And then he needs to look directly into Jay’s eyes and sing “Supercut” to him, as tenderly as possible. Maybe he’ll have Auto-Tune on his microphone. Maybe they’ll kiss afterward. I don’t know. I’m just spitballing here.
But we need this, Kanye. Come through for us. Please.
Alternately: The world needs to see the “it’s weird and it sucks that I robbed you” text that Jay sends Kendrick. A suggestion from our own Gabriela Tully Claymore: “Your album is good but I am Jay-Z.”
Kendrick is gonna win. They snubbed him last time. And if you're not gonna give it to Lemonade (which was better than 4:44 imo) they won't give it to 4:44.
The Sylvan Esso thing is weird because their first album was way more electronic than this one.
Seems like one of those things where they just wanted to give them a nomination but couldn't fit them into alternative.
The Grammys really just need to stop relegating the indie/alt stuff to one "best album" category. Either bring that stuff into the "rock" umbrella or create categories for Best Alternative Performance/Song/Etc"