The Weeknd
He's boycotting the Grammy Awards in the future
The Weeknd is no longer submitting songs to the Grammys.
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The Weeknd is tired of the Grammy Awards. After criticizing the selection process for the music award, he now drew the necessary conclusions.
Now it's official: Canadian singer The Weeknd (31) is boycotting the Grammy Awards with immediate effect. He announced this in an interview with the "New York Times". In the future he will not submit any more songs for the most famous awards ceremony in the music industry. In the last few weeks he criticized the organizers' decision not to nominate his hit "Blinding Lights" for the upcoming 63rd edition of the Grammys on Sunday.
For a long time, the so-called "Secret Committee" of the Grammys has been heavily criticized for being biased and tendentious. The accusation of latent "subliminal racism" is also emerging again and again, as black artists are said to have been underrepresented for years. The background is primarily a non-transparent, mysterious voting system that has repeatedly led to controversy in the past.
The secret committee is causing a lot of criticism
The artists and their works are actually nominated by the members of the so-called Recording Academy, a non-profit organization from Santa Monica in the US state of California. It is made up of artists, producers and leading figures in the music industry. The problem: Some of the most coveted awards, such as the "Song of the Year" and the "Album of the Year", are not determined by this but by the "Secret Committee".
Since 1995 the aim was to ensure that the nominations would be musically more adventurous and not so predictable. In recent years, however, more and more criticism has spread, especially from the black musician scene. Only four black artists have won Grammys in the major categories for nine years, so there would be a significant deviation from their success in the charts.