Last year, one of my favorite bands, Arcade Fire, won the self-proclaimed (by the Grammys, not AF) biggest award in music, Album of the Year, for their superb album The Suburbs. After seeing that last year, I suddenly had some hope for the awards. Maybe they'll stop catering to the most popular artists in a futile attempt to try to attract a younger generation to their boring-as-hell award show. Well, after seeing the Grammy nominations this year, it seems like only half of them got the message.
I am a big indie fan, so after AF won last year, I was hoping to see more indie acts in the awards this year. The Grammys came through, albeit only a bit. Radiohead are nominated for five awards for their latest album The King of Limbs, with my personal favorite album of the year, the self-titled second album by indie-folk band Bon Iver, receiving four nods. When I came across this article in Pitchfork, I was obviously expecting them to be nominated for Album of the Year. Instead, it's only record, song, best alternative album, and best new artist. BEST NEW ARTIST. For those of you who don't know (which is probably everyone reading this), Bon Iver released their first album almost three years ago (which was almost as good as their latest). I swear, I try to give the Grammys a fair chance, but when I let my guard down after Arcade Fire, they promptly proceeded to kick me in the nuts while laughing about it while laughing about Lady Gaga, Rihanna, and Katy Perry are better artists than Bon Iver and Radiohead.
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