Kanye, Winehouse Lead 50th Annual Grammy Award Nominations
There's no getting through to grammy.com, but the music awards that engage your indifference like no other have announced this year's nominations, and with a mix of nostalgia, waning reverence, and morbid curiosity, we're checking in. While we wait on the full platter, here's some quick bites:
- Kanye West's Graduation leads the pack with eight nominations, setting the stage for a pack-leading eight expletive-laced and highly entertaining YouTube tantrums.
- With six nods, Amy Winehouse is second in nominations but first in people that need learn how not to get photographed with coke on the face (Soho, apparently the land of a million photogs and not one mirror).
- Amy and Kanye join Vince Gill, Herbie Hancock, and Foo Fighters in the Album Of The Year running.
- Feist gets a nod for Best New Artist. Which makes sense! Thank you 2007, Apple, and Perez Hilton for introduced us to her. Leslie's also up for Best Vocal Album.
- Those up in the catch-all Alternative Album category: Arcade Fire, the Shins, the White Stripes, Björk, and Lily Allen.
- Other acts you love that received nominations include Wilco, Justice, and Daughtry.
RECORD OF THE YEAR
- "Irreplaceable" - Beyonce
- "The Pretender" - Foo Fighters
- "Umbrella" - Rihanna (Feat. Jay-Z)
- "What Goes Around ... Comes Around" - Justin Timberlake
- "Rehab" - Amy Winehouse
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
- Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace - Foo Fighters
- These Days - Vince Gill
- River: The Joni Letters - Herbie Hancock
- Graduation - Kanye West
- Back To Black - Amy Winehouse
SONG OF THE YEAR
- "Before He Cheats - Josh Kear & Chris Tompkins (Carrie Underwood)
- "Hey There Delilah" - Tom Higgenson (Plain White T's)
- Corinne Bailey Rae (Corinne Baily Rae) - "Like A Star"
- Amy Winehouse (Amy Winehouse) - "Rehab"
- Shawn Carter, Kuk Harrell, Terius "Dream" Nash & Christopher Stewart (Rihanna Feat. Jay-Z) - "Umbrella"
NEW ARTIST
- Feist
- Ledisi
- Paramore
- Taylor Swift
- Amy Winehouse
ALTERNATIVE ALBUM
- Alright, Still - Lily Allen
- Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
- Volta - Björk
- Wincing The Night Away - The Shins
- Icky Thump - The White Stripes
POP VOCAL ALBUM
- Bon Jovi - Lost Highway
- Feist - The Reminder
- Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long
- Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
- Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCALS
- "(You Want To) Make A Memory" - Bon Jovi<
- "Home" - Daughtry
- "Makes Me Wonder" - Maroon 5"
- "Hey There Delilah" - Plain White T's
- "Window In The Skies - U2"
FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE
- "Candyman" - Christina Aguilera
- "1234" - Feist
- "Big Girls Don't Cry" - Fergie
- "Say It Right" - Nelly Furtado
- "Rehab" - Amy Winehouse"
MALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE
- "Everything" - Michael Bublé
- "Belief" - John Mayer
- "Dance Tonight" - Paul McCartney
- "Amazing" - Seal
- "What Goes Around ... Comes Around" - Justin Timberlake
POP COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS
- "Steppin' Out" - Tony Bennett & Christina Aguilera
- "Beautiful Liar" - Beyoncé & Shakira
- "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" - Robert Plant & Alison Kraus
- "The Sweet Escape" - Gwen Stefani & Akon
- "Give It To Me" - Timbaland (Feat. Nelly Furtado)
POP COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS
- "Steppin' Out" - Tony Bennett & Christina Aguilera
- "Beautiful Liar" - Beyoncé & Shakira
- "Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
- "The Sweet Escape" - Gwen Stefani & Akon
- "Give It To Me" - Timbaland Featuring Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake
POP INSTRUMENTAL PERFORMANCE
- "Off The Grid" - Beastie Boys
- "Paris Sunrise #7" - Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals
- "Over The Rainbow" - Dave Koz
- "One Week Last Summer" - Joni Mitchell
- "Simple Pleasures" - Spyro Gyra
ROCK ALBUM
- Daughtry - Daughtry
- Revival - John Fogerty
- Echoes, Silece, Patience & Grace - Foo Fighters
- Magic - Bruce Springsteen
- Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
ROCK SONG
- "Come On" - Lucinda Williams (Lucinda Williams)
- "Icky Thump" -- Jack White (The White Stripes)
- "It's Not Over" - Chris Daughtry, Gregg Wattenberg, Mark Wilkerson & Brett Young (Daughtry)
- "The Pretender" - Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel & Chris Shiflett (Foo Fighters)
- "Radio Nowhere" - Bruce Springsteen (Bruce Springsteen)
SOLO ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE
- "Timebomb" - Beck
- "Only Mama Knows" - Paul McCartney
- "Our Country" - John Mellencamp
- "Radio Nowhere" - Bruce Springsteen
- "Come On" - Lucinda Williams
ELECTRONIC/DANCE ALBUM
- We Are The Night - The Chemical Brothers
- † - Justice
- Sound Of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
- We Are Pilots - Shiny Toy Guns
- Elements Of Life - Tiesto
DANCE RECORDING
- "Do It Again" - The Chemical Brothers
- "D.A.N.C.E." - Justice
- "Love Today" - Mika
- "Don't Stop The Music" - Rihanna
- "Love Stoned/I Think She Knows" - Justin Timberlake
RAP ALBUM
- Finding Forever - Common
- Kingdom Come - Jay-Z
- Hip Hop Is Dead - Nas
- T.I. vs T.I.P. - T.I.
- Graduation - Kanye West
RAP SONG
- "Ayo Technology" - N. Hills, Curtis Jackson, Timothy Mosley & Justin Timberlake (50 Cent Feat. Justin Timberlake & Timbaland)
- "Big Things Poppin' (Do It)" - Clifford Harris & Byron Thomas (T.I.)
- "Can't Tell Me Nothing" - A. Davis & Kanye West (Kanye West)
- "Crank That (Soulja Boy)" - Soulja Boy Tell'Em, songwriter (Soulja Boy Tell'Em)
- "Good Life" - A. Davis, F. Najm & K. West (Kanye West Feat. T-Pain)
RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION
- "I Wanna Love You" - Akon (Feat. Snoop Dogg)
- "Kiss, Kiss" - Chris Brown & T-Pain
- "Let It Go" - Keyshia Cole (Feat. Missy Elliott & Lil' Kim)
- "Umbrella" - Rihanna (Feat. Jay-Z)
- "Good Life" -- Kanye West Featuring T-Pain
R&B ALBUM
- Funk This - Chaka Khan
- Lost & Found - Ledisi
- Luvanmusiq - Musiq Soulchild
- The Real Thing - Jill Scott
- Sex, Love & Pain - Tank
R&B SONG
- "Beautiful Flower" - India.Arie
- "Hate That I Love You" - Rihanna (Feat. Ne-Yo)
- "No One" - Alicia Keys
- "Teachme" - Musiq Soulchild
- "When I See You" - Fantasia
Posted at 12:35 PM
Tags: Amy Winehouse | Grammys | Kanye West
Honestly...Herbie Hancock for Album of the Year? I'm all for diversity in music, but that is a joke.
How did the not honor Springsteen's "Magic" with a nomination?! Amy Winehouse deserves NONE of these awards.
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complete list:
http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/50th_Show/50thNominations.txt
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God I hate the Grammys
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Haha, let's give a grammy for a song that was released as a single more than two years ago and was only just now popular (Hey There Delilah). How do they decide what should be nominated for a grammy? A lot of fantastic albums that should be nominated aren't, like Crowded House's Time On Earth. It seems to me they want to boost ratings, so they choose the top singles and albums of the year, and not what was the best music of the year.
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Oh, unless you are a musician/band who has been around for more than 20 years. Put out an album and you're guaranteed a grammy nod. McCartney, Springsteen, Fogerty etc..
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Wilco, Justice and LCDSS got nods!! I mean, yeah the list sucks horribly, but hey..
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when did Lily Allen become an alternative artist?
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They best be giving the award to Justice.
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daughtry? love? i think not.
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Hopefully will nab Rap Album of the year in addition to AOTY. Out of those candidates he really crushes the field.
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god forbid we show some love to the dillinger escape plan in the rock category. lord knows there were so many rock/metal albums that got 84 or above on metacritic.
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Feist? Best New Artist... for her third album? She's been around since 1999. What the fuck.
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The Vince Gill album is great. If you get a chance.
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Menomena for best album packaging.
And Party Like a Rockstar for rap collabo or duo.
Nice.
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I FUCKING HATE HEY THERE DELILAH
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Who's willing to bet that Winehouse will show up completely wasted- if she comes at all?
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how do these twats consistently fuck up the new artist category?
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@Batten - You are a douche. Herbie Hancock is one of the greatest living musicians. If you've ever seen him perform, you would realize this in an instant.
Do you seriously think Kanye, Winehouse, Grohl or Vince Gill are actually better than him? Get a life and go study for geometry class or something.
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The album of the year nods are insane. If Kanye doesn't win that, I'll be really surprised.
Spyro Gyra FTW!
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Do the Grammys matter anymore? They're now as irrelevant as the VMAs. Don't see either event existing a decade from now.
A live television event in honor of the RIAA is like the crew of the Titanic throwing a party for itself while being capized.
The only thing that can save the show now are instituting some new categories like "Downloading Consumer of the Year" and "Label Lawyer of the Year".
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remember when the grammys were culturally relevant?
yeah, neither do i
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how the FUCK did Beck not get nominated for best album packaging??? (he just missed the cutoff date to be on last year's noms, by the way)
STICKERS!!!
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You can be submitted for best new artist three times -- this is likely the first time Feist's label submitted her for nomination.
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Icky Thump? What a dumb song. Some Zeppelin sounding riff with lyrics like you can't be a pimp and a prostitute too, na na na, and thunk a trunk.
Jack White is for knuckleheads.
And Herbie Hancock's Joni Mitchell tribute? It sounds like a nice thought but it wasn't that great.
Who am I kidding anyways. The Grammys have always sucked. It's always nice to see Bjork get a nod though.
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"Coming up next, we've got the Grammy-nominated Soulja Boy, stick around."
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daft punk alive 2007
album of the YEAR
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"Coming up next, we've got the Grammy-nominated Soulja Boy, stick around." lol!
the only category i care about is the "alternative" and im happy that feist got a nod...just the wrong category -___- oh well Grammys just get suckier every year. to be honest. i mean, Daughtry gets nominated.seriously, u know theres something wrong with the guys that select the nominations when they pick DAUGHTRY. ugh.
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Back to Black is a fantastic album. Though I liked it a lot more back in January before the Winehouse train-wreck media circus was in full force.
She's a waste-case, no question, but the album is solid.
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this is depressing
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Hey wingo...no disrespect to Herbie and he's heads above the company he keeps in that category...the man is a living jazz legend, I agree whole heartedly...but was it the album seriously the "album of the year"?
Frankly, I'm just pissed off (like I am every year) with these nominations. How many times does Springsteen need to get screwed...The Rising lost to Norah Jones' first record for cryin' out loud! He puts out his best album in YEARS and not even a nod. Not just cause he's old, but because he is a proven artist consistently putting out great material and deserves the nod...not some junkie who has a decent album because a great produser got his hands on her.
And yes, I realize my rant above only backs up the fact that Herbie Hancock deserves a nomination...so I retract that Herbie thing I said before...good for him...frankly I hope he wins.
Sky Blue Sky should have got an Album of the Year nod too. I DOUBT the new Foo Fighters or kanye record have as much mastery in playing and songwriting as that disc....
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Didn't Paul McCartney team up with Jay-Z and Linkin Park to perform "Yesterday" at the Grammys a few years back? Yeah, they're just oozing with credibility. Though they did get it right when Jethro Tull beat out Metallica back in the day. Fuck you, Lars!
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Lilly Allen is shit.
Let's go Maroon 5!
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Nickelback got nominated for "If Everyone Cared."
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Will the Grammies ever learn not to nominate Kanye? He's just going to throw another hissy fit.
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my soul hurts.
who's in for "neon bible" taking alternative album of the year? it's a great album but damn if it hasn't already caused many hard-ons in the music industry.
and lily allen is alternative? were they desperate?
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This is a horrible representation of any sort of relevant musical achievement in the past year.
OK, so Kanye deserved to be an Album of the Year nominee, and I guess I could understand why a few of the Pop nominees are there, considering the nature of the genre, but winning a Grammy these days is completely irrelevant. Whoever is behind these decisions for nominees clearly have their heads firmly up their asses.
If I won a Grammy and actually took myself seriously as a musician/artist/whatever, I would feel insulted. I don't think I would ever even display it.
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Everyone nominated for "POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCALS" should be punched... well, most of the nominees should be, but them especially super powerful hard...
It's all poopy.
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BJORK DESERVES A GRAMMY NOW!!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGh
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