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Once again the Academy decided to pretend the three named ingenue didn’t exist in favor of the artist who was more willing to go along with the narrative the record industry wanted.

What that artist doesn’t know is that she is going to be one and done much like the foreign born one named singer that came before her that everyone thought was the second coming at the time a few years ago.

Lana Del Rey

Billie Eilish

Lorde

‘Scammys’ Trends as Ariana Grande and Lana Del Rey Fans React to Grammys Snubs

“Scammys” is trending as Ariana Grande and Lana Del Rey fans take to Twitter to express their anger over their apparent snubs at last night’s Grammy Awards. After both singers lost out on awards including Album of the Year and Song of the Year to Billie Eilish, “#scammys” began trending on Twitter.

Eilish, who won five awards last night and became the first woman ever to win the “Big Four Grammys” in one night and the first person to do so since Christoper Cross did 39 years ago, beat out Grande and Del Rey in a number of categories.

Firstly, the singers hit singles were snubbed, as Grande’s “7 Rings” lost to Eilish’s “Bad Guy” for Record of the Year and Del Rey’s “Norman F***ing Rockwell” lost to “Bad Guy” for Song of the Year.

Their albums missed out on major awards too, as Grande’s Thank U, Next and Del Rey’s Norman F***ing Rockwell! lost to Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (WWAFAWDWG) for Album of the Year, and Grande’s Thank U, Next, lost to Eilish’s album For Best Pop Vocal Album.

Additionally, Jack Antonoff, who produced Norman F***ing Rockwell! was nominated for Producer of the Year, but lost to Finneas O’Connell, Eilish’s brother and producer of her WWAFAWDWG album.

Grande was also nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance for “7 Rings”, which went to Lizzo for “Truth Hurts,” and for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Boyfriend” with Social House, which went to “Old Town Road” by Lil Nas X featuring Billy Ray Cyrus.

Fans quickly expressed their anger and frustration on Twitter, dubbing the awards show the “Scammys.”

Eilish even gave Grande a shout-out in her speech for Album of the Year, when she said: “Can I just say that I think Ariana deserves this, Thank U, Next got me through some s**t, and I think it deserves more than anything in the world, I love you so much.” – Source

Lorde Shades the Grammys in New Tweet

The Grammy Awards were tough on female artists in several ways — there was a small number of female nominees (and consequently winners), and Lorde, the only female artist nominated for Best New Album, was also the only artist in that category who wasn’t offered a solo performance during the show, sources tell Variety.

Making matters worse, immediately after the show, when Grammy chief Neil Portnow was asked by Variety what women artists need to do to push things forward, he said, ““It has to begin with… women who have the creativity in their hearts and souls, who want to be musicians, who want to be engineers, producers, who want to be part of the industry on the executive level… [They need] to step up because I think they would be welcome. I don’t have personal experience of those kinds of brick walls that you face but I think it’s upon us — us as an industry — to make the welcome mat very obvious, creating opportunities for all people who want to be creative and paying it forward and creating that next generation of artists.”

And when asked if it was a mistake to leave Lorde out of the show, executive producer Ken Ehrlich said: “I don’t know if it was a mistake. These shows are a matter of choices. We have a box and it gets full. She had a great album. There’s no way we can really deal with everybody.”

This, despite the fact that the show had a strong #MeToo theme, both overall and via Kesha’s performance of “Praying” and Janelle Monae’s introducing speech.

Lorde apparently had a response on Twitter Monday afternoon, writing in all-caps “IF YOU’RE DEBATING WHETHER OR NOT I CAN MURDER A STAGE… COME SEE IT FOR URSELF.” — and then providing a link to the dates for her forthcoming tour, which begins in Milwaukee on March 1 and wraps June 2 at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona.- Source


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