It also, conveniently, displaced a lot of the performance pressure off Lil Nas X, who won two of the six Grammys he was nominated for - he’s still very green, and it shows. It was like a Technicolor meme convention, a gathering of misfits, and perhaps the most honest representation of the new pop-economy rule making that the Grammys have ever seen. Lil Nas X performed on a rotating stage cut into sections representing different versions of the song: one featured BTS, the K-pop supernova another held the child yodeler Mason Ramsey and Diplo absently strumming a banjo yet another was seemingly built for Young Thug, who was a no-show.Īt the end, everyone - including Billy Ray Cyrus, whose appearance on the original remix vaulted the song to pop novelty infamy - convened together, dancing and partying and generally indulging in the utterly absurd unlikeliness of it all.
Rather than turn “Old Town Road” dour, perhaps with a performance by some country elders, the Grammys leaned into the mayhem. What’s left? The veterans who are a part of the show’s firmament, but more intriguingly, the new kids on the block. Think about everyone who was not in attendance this year: Drake, Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Kendrick Lamar. The Grammys have systematically alienated a whole generation or two of hip-hop and pop stars, many of the most crucial musicians of the last two decades. That there’s room for those performers on the show now is, in part, a positive side effect of the institution’s own necrosis. And while there were plenty of the usual serious-as-a-snore Grammy performances, they faded from memory thanks to the night’s cleverest and hungriest attendees. Instead, Sunday night’s show featured several impressive moments spotlighting some of pop music’s youngest innovators: Tyler, Lizzo, Billie Eilish, Rosalía. To me, it’s just a politically correct way to say the N-word.But this year may well be remembered as one of severe, jolting transition for the Grammys, and not just because of the behind-the-scenes conflagration about conflicts of interest, irregularities in the nomination process, sexual harassment and more that overshadowed the event. But also, it sucks that whenever we, and I mean guys that look like me, do anything that’s genre-bending, they always put it in a ‘rap’ or ‘urban’ category,” he said at the time. “On one side, I’m very grateful that what I made could just be acknowledged in a world like this. Tyler, the Creator won his first Grammy award in 2020 in the best rap album category for Igor, but criticized the Recording Academy for failing to recognize Black artists in mainstream pop categories when their music spans more than one genre. I do not know what the f–k I’m gonna do, but figuring that out. Didn’t expect it, so let’s see what the f–k is next. “ Call Me If You Get Lost, definitely not finished, ” he said. Tyler also hinted that there’s more to come of his current album cycle. And if you put that much energy into something maybe everyone would be proud of you too. “I know you’re seething and angry, and ‘no one listens to that album…’ these arena tours that are selling out says different. The rapper added that he was thankful that he “could just make an album where I can just flex all godd- day” and took a brief moment to call out people who feel like he does not deserve the award.
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