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Justin Bieber and Drake Lose out to Esperanza Spalding: Fair???
Esperanza Spalding
The Grammys Sunday night were great. But there were a few major upsets in the awards.
Eminem didn’t win Best Album of the year, losing out to Canadian rock band Arcade Fire. This was a shocking upset.
Another upset: Justin Bieber and Drake losing out to Esperanza Spalding.
The 26-year-old jazz bassist who snatched the Best New Artist Grammy out of the hands of Justin Bieber and Drake, has been making headlines in the jazz world since before her 2006 debut solo album.
Did you read that? 2006! It’s 2011! What makes her a “best new artist”???
Justin Bieber has been all over the place! Perhaps the Grammy voting members didn’t feel he should win a Grammy so early in his career – the 16-year-old needs to work a little harder and longer before winning that honor?
But the category is “best new artist”, not “best new performer”… and many would argue that although Bieber is a cutie patootie, he’s a better performer than an artist.
Drake would have been a better choice then, no? No disrespect to Spalding but she’s been around for almost five years – that hardly counts as NEW!
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2 Comments
Alex commented on Feb 14 11 at 12:16 pmDrake has been around since 2006 as well, in fact many past winners have been making music much longer then that and still won the award.
Michael Anderson commented on Feb 14 11 at 4:52 pmExactly as Alex said – she was well within the rules. Heck, Beiber’s 2010 was his ’2.0′,or second recording.
There seems to be a lot of complaining that the awards were NOT a popularity contest in some categories … whereas in other years there are complaints that they ARE popularity contests …
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