#grammyssomale

[in-burning-red]

While everyone is on the topic of the Record Academy, let’s take a minute to remember that in 2018:

Out of the 84 Grammys awarded, only 11 were awarded to women.

Alessia Cara was the only woman to be awarded a solo Grammy during the live telecast.

Not a single woman was nominated for Record of the Year.

The category for Best Pop Solo Performance included 4 female nominees and 1 male nominee. Not only was the category won by a white male but it was awarded to a song that objectifies and reduces the female body to an object for sex.

The nominees for Pop Vocal Album included three of the strongest woman in the industry today but alas, the category was won by a man.

Lorde was the only woman nominated for Album of the Year and she was the only nominee in this category who did not get a chance for a solo performance.

The president of the Record Academy, Neil Portnow, response to the clear gender discrimination included hid statement that “(Women) need to step up because I think they would be welcome...”

[inothernews]

In response to the Grammy president’s tone-deaf call for women to “step up” if they want to win more awards comes this handwritten missive from P!nk.

[twiggiekid]

https://twitter.com/harrisooooooon/status/958054862951993344?s=17

[lloydkaufman]

#toxiespicoftheday @pink is correct! More proof that mainstream media like the Grammys is sick and perverted! My grandmother , wife, 3 daughters have talked down to like the STEP UP DOUCH who had run the #Grammys since 2002! He is entrenched and acts like his Grammy Shit Don’t Smell! #downwithpatriarchy #grammyssomale #grammyssoshit ! @violetpaley @vadacallisto @troma_d @tromacathy @pink @nadiawhiteofficial @kevin_walter_troma_4_life @lindseyjenningz @amanda_flowersss @_rat_fetus_ @dr_hanz_ @double_dementia @penelopegazin

[silviamirse-blog]

"Pink Has the Best Response to Recording Academy Telling Women They Need to "Step Up" " After the #GrammysSoMale backlash, Pink responded to the Recording Academy's statement that women need to "step up" to be recognized in the music industry. , http://yoog.be/07aM0

[ropedandtied]

tfw you’re told you need to step up by an old white man who has never won a grammy or had a commercially successful album yet here he is in my fuckin timeline. #grammyssomale #cancelled #neilportnow #resign

[erainbowd]

The Glamour of the Grammys

In the old times, the fairies roamed the green hills. They were powerful and mischievous. There were many varieties of fairy – with different specialties but the power they principally possessed was something called glamour. It was an enchantment that placed a sparkling illusion over a human’s eyes. The glamour made the ugly beautiful. It made the empty full. It turned a pile of old shoes and tin…

[creeasion-blog]

#Repost @iamtiap • • • Your response to #GrammysSoMale is to tell women to #StepUp???? We’ve BEEN stepping up and been stepped over long enough in the music industry Mr. Neil Portnow. #REVOLUTION #TheWakeUp #IAmTiaP #feb1 #DoBetter #grammys2018

[thefeministherald]

The #GrammysSoMale controversycontinues. After males swept up nearly the awards presented during the live telecast of the 60th annual Grammy Awards Sunday night, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow said female artists need to “step up.” (The only women to take the stage to accept awards on Sunday were Alessia Cara, for best new artist, and Rihanna, who was featured on best rap/sung performance winner Kendrick Lamar‘s song “LOYALTY.”) Backlash ensued, and Portnow hasreleased a statement regarding his comments. “Sunday night, I was asked a question about the lack of female artist representation in certain categories of this year’s Grammy Awards. Regrettably, I used two words, ‘step up,’ that, when taken out of context, do not convey my beliefs and the point I was trying to make,” Portnow said in a statement to PEOPLE on Tuesday “Our industry must recognize that women who dream of careers in music face barriers that men have never faced. We must actively work to eliminate these barriers and encourage women to live their dreams and express their passion and creativity through music. We must welcome, mentor, and empower them. Our community will be richer for it,” Portnow’s statement continued. The statement concluded: “I regret that I wasn’t as articulate as I should have been in conveying this thought. I remain committed to doing everything I can to make our music community a better, safer, and more representative place for everyone.” In the press room following the awards ceremony Sunday, Portnow said: “It has to begin with women who have the creativity in their hearts and souls, who want to be musicians, who want to be engineers, producers, and want to be part of the industry on the executive level … [They need] to step up because I think they would be welcome. I don’t have personal experience of those kinds of brick walls that you face but I think it’s upon us — us as an industry — to make the welcome mat very obvious, breeding opportunities for all people who want to be creative and paying it forward and creating that next generation of artists.” Portnow’s comments caused an uproar, and several musicians slammed the Grammys exec on social media.

[valhallamusic]

The President of the Recording Academy thinks women need to "Step up" if they are going to be acknowledged by the music industry... I guess no one wants to acknowledge the elephant in the room that we are stepping up and repeatedly being struck with systematic discrimination every time we do. This is just ONE example out of hundreds I could site, over my 15 years actively working in the music industry. Here are some YouTube comments from a time when Guitar World Magazine asked me to do a video review of a Daisy Rock guitar called the Rock Candy Special. The top line Daisy Rock guitars were extremely well made (I believe at the Hamer factory?). I still get compliments from men who have played this guitar (i still own to this day), not knowjng what it is when they play it and saying "what is this, i love this guitar so much!" But you see, this company is no longer around because when men were told BEFORE playing it that these guitars were marketed towards women, how do you think men "handled" that hit to their coveted male illusions of POSSESSING rock n roll as "THEIRS" ? 😧😬😒😔 but you know.... It's probably my fault they attacked ME as a woman, and not my music... I should have "stepped up" and scolded Guitar World for even asking me to be involved I guess. Then I wouldn't have had to be reduced to less than a guitar player by a bunch of men I didn't know, right @recordingacademy ? #sexism #stepup #womeninmusic #womenofrock #womenrock #womenmusicians #musicbusiness #musicindustry #recordingacademy #makemeasandwich #rocknrolldoesnotbelongtomen #rocknrollforall #rocknrollforeveryone #musicisforeveryone #womenbelong #femaleguitarist #rockerwoman #rockerchick #grammyssomale #girlsrock #rocknrollgirl #sherocks #musicforher #daisyrock #guitargirl #guitargirls #sexistbastards #poorbastards

[ifuckinglovestvincent]

St. Vincent: Why She's Excited to Go to the Grammys & Work With Sleater-Kinney

by Brooke Mazurek

January 25, 2019, 12:13pm EST

"We create myths as a way to get through life,” says Annie Clark, the indie-rock virtuoso who has released music as St. Vincent for the past decade. “There are myths with a capital ‘M,’ like Bob Dylan changing his name from [Robert Allen] Zimmerman and claiming to have traveled the railroads across America.” There are lowercase ones, too: “the tiny things you tell yourself to get out of bed every day. It’s all kind of the same to me.”

If everything from the way you part your hair to the name you choose allows you to hide, expose or wholly transform yourself, you can be whomever you want so long as you give yourself permission. In Clark’s case, that means embracing both the Texas-raised kid whose grandmother baptized her in a kitchen sink and the Grammy winner (for best alternative music album in 2014) who flouts repressive ideas about sexuality through her lyrics and latex onstage get-ups. She can be intellectually intimidating yet still exude Southern warmth and self-deprecating charm in conversation. On Masseduction, Clark’s late-2017 album on Loma Vista, which peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard 200 and landed her two Grammy Award nominations -- for best alternative music album and best rock song for the title track -- she gave herself permission to be something else still: darker, sadder and more pop-centric than ever before.

During the course of 13 tracks that veer between the brash and the delicate, Clark explores fear, desire, mortality and gender roles using distorted tones -- including guitars that do not quite sound like guitars -- and her own mutable voice, at times omniscient and at others punching through the fourth wall. To get the LP just right, she recorded another version of it with only her voice and piano. “It’s a game of millimeters instead of miles,” she says of the stripped-down end result, which was rereleased as MassEducation last October.

It also exemplifies her changeable nature as an artist. Masseduction, which Clark produced with Jack Antonoff, has been compared to David Bowie’s Let’s Dance! and, like Bowie, Clark has an exacting approach that places her music both within and well beyond the boundaries of pop. There are synths and gloss shellacked onto the record, but for all its sheen and big hooks, the songs and the artist herself prod at the artifice of the pop genre rather than becoming it.

“It’s not really my job nor interest to be the genre police,” says Clark of her nominations. “But I’m glad [“Masseduction”] was nominated as a rock song. I’m thinking maybe because it has a guitar solo?” While it’s true that she can seriously shred, Clark is still one of only two women nominated in the alternative category (Björk is the other) at a time when young women with guitars, like Snail Mail’s Lindsay Jordan and boygenius’ Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, are the most exciting new performers in the genre. “I’m not sure where it lands with me,” she says. “But I am in a position of power to change the climate from within. I want to go even further with that.”

For now, she’s looking forward to a Grammy ceremony that, with all five female album of the year nominees confirmed to perform and Alicia Keys announced as host, already looks more inclusive than the #GrammysSoMale debacle in 2018. “I was stupidly on tour when I won for alternative album [her only other nomination], and I kick myself every day that I wasn’t there for that,” she says. “So I’m really excited this year.”

There’s also her next big project: producing Sleater-Kinney’s just-announced forthcoming record. “It has been one of my favorite things I’ve ever done,” she says. “The great thing about producing is that you aren’t contending with your own ego.” She knows what it means to be vulnerable inside of a vocal booth. And now she’s ready to embrace yet another archetype -- the unflinching pilot driving toward an artistic destination unknown. “It’s like, ‘We’re going down a road, and if it’s not the right road, we’re fucking fine,’” she says. “The song will reveal itself. It just does.”

This article originally appeared in the Jan. 26 issue of Billboard.

Main Image: St. Vincent, aka Annie Clark, photographed on Jan. 17, 2019 at Cherry Soda Studios in Los Angeles. Djeneba Aduayom.

Read More: Photos from the Billboard shoot

[iwatcheditbegin]

Remember #oscarssowhite ? Looks like this year it's #grammyssomale

[manxita]

I still cannot believe that in the year 2018 there are media outlets STILL publishing articles about Taylor and her "list of boyfriends", many of which were not even in a relationship with her and are just made up. Why, Billboard, why??? After GrammysSoMale and MeToo??? Why did you even think this was a good idea???

[jackisreallycool]

Out of 28 major categories, Alessia Cara was the sole female winner last night at the Grammys. GrammysSoMale

[1direction-unpopularopinions]

I feel embarrassed for whoever that sent the Harry/Kesha. She had an amazing album but women cant win every single time? Imagine if men had started a trend like #GrammysSoFemale when Adele, Beyonce or Taylor Swift won big. The #GrammysSoMale hashtag was literally one of the cringiest things to trend and I say that as a grown woman and a feminist. Harry's song SOTT was really wonderful and fully deserved to be recognized with a nomination. Why are you comparing apples to oranges?

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[paulturner76]

New blogpost (Queer Women And LGBTQ+ Allies Ruled the 2019 Grammys) has been published on Musings Of A Mild Mannered Man

MusicEntertainment, Music, EntertainmentFrom Janelle Monae to Dua Lipa, we had to stan. EntertainmentMathew Rodriguez Just three words summed up last year’s Grammys ceremony: #GrammysSoMale. Despite plenty of worthy female nominees, men triumphed in most major categories....