Congratulations, Grammy People. You have once again proved that winning the music industry's highest honor requires very little artistic value. You can be an 18-year-old "country sensation" who sings music that 13-year-olds write in their diaries, you can be a psuedo hip-hop group that records a bunch of electronic noise with lyrics like "I'm so three thousand and eight", you can be an American Idol winner with song titles like "I Do Not Hook Up" and "My Life Would Suck Without You", and STILL earn the highest accolades modern music has to offer.
Let's take a look at the Record of the Year nominees just to get a taste of what we're dealing with here -
Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling"
Taylor Swift, "You Belong With Me"
Beyonce, "Halo"
Kings of Leon "Use Somebody"
Lady Gaga "Poker Face"
It seems like the Academy ("the Academy") skimmed through the iTunes playlist of a high school sophomore for their nominees, and then at the last minute decided, "Oh, let's just throw in the Kings of Leon for some credibility".
We really don't need to explain much else, you can imagine what sort of garbage made the rest of the list. Although kudos for nominating MGMT as Best New Artist. At least the Academy ("Academy") had that much sense.
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