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...in other news, the Grammys still suck.

Oh boy! The Grammys! You know what that means?

Beyonce and her boyfriend, Jay-Z, were contenders for record of the year for their summer anthem "Crazy in Love."

Not only that, but Evanescense and Justin Timberlake and 50 Cent all got nominated! Isn't that great?? It's wonderful that such talented artists are getting nods, but what about that song in the McDonalds commercials? I thought for sure that would be up for record of the year.

God, I hate the Grammys. They get worse by the year. My first gripe with the 'awards' was back in high school when I realized that there were awards for best classical album, best modern Christan album, best Caribbean dance album, best Bulgarian goth album, best interplanetary polka album, and best album recorded by a household pet, but there was NO category for electronic or DJ. Sure, there is a 'dance' category, but the nominees are always FM radio hot-mixes of pop songs. I remember when they threw William Orbit in with the 'instrumental pop' category and swept Moby into 'alternative'. The latter category seems to be where they put all the music they didn't see on MTV.
"Have you heard of these guys The Beta Band? I hear their album's good."
"Who? Just put 'em in alternative."

The good news is that Outkast and The White Stripes are nominated for album of the year. The bad news is that so are those people I mentioned earlier. It's a sad world in which Justin Timberlake's "Justified" and The White Stripes' "Elephant" get nominated for the same award. Sadder still is the fact that Justin has a much better chance of winning. I feel like the Grammys should just ignore good albums altogether. Last year they didn't even mention Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and I was okay with that because it's obvious that they specialize in awarding shallow, financially successful pop records. They should just stick to that. They should never consider Radiohead, or Wilco, or The White Stripes, or The Strokes, or The Flaming Lips, or even Beck. They should just continue throwing awards at new R&B "geniuses" and showing nostalgic pity for acts like Steely Dan and Willy Nelson. But I guess then people might notice that the Grammys are the same as the Billboard Music awards and that both are just evil schemes concocted by the big record companies to increase sales (and I think Cobra may be involved, too).

So what do I think was the best music of this past year? Follow this link and click the picture.