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Grammy Chief Harvey Mason Jr. on Beyonce’s Big Country Nominations, the Beatles for Record of the Year, and the Problematic Best New Artist Category
Grammy chief Harvey Mason Jr. on Beyonce's country nominations, Andre 3000's flute opus being up for album of the year, best new artist and more.
To me, that really, really adds credibility, because people with expertise in rock or rap or country or folk are voters are [solely] evaluating the music that’s in their category. But you know, and hopefully your readers know at this point know, that is not about popularity, it is not about streams, it’s not about how many likes they get, but it’s about the peers, the professional musicians, people doing the work that we talked about in that letter, doing the listening, doing the evaluating. Do you feel like that is almost a technological award, that they were able to create a new song out of a 45-year-old John Lennon demo, using other elements that had been recorded across the decades, in the ‘60s, ‘70s, ‘90s and last year?
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