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Hypocrisy Awards 01-30-18 See Michael's latest cartoons HERE
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2018 Grammy Award winners dedicate themselves to hypocrisy
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Letter: Hypocrisy was everywhere at the Grammys, and it made me sick
Louis Gardella Published 6:08 a.m. MT Jan. 30, 2018 AZ CENTRAL Letter to the editor: The so-called music the 2018 Grammy Awards celebrated actually promotes bad behavior among men. Watching the Grammy Awards was such a brutal exercise in musical perversion, it was nauseating. To think that these performers, not all, but certainly many, have the audacity to speak of the abuse that women endure at the hands of powerful men is laughable, considering the very music they peddle is riddled with misogynistic lyrics, often demeaning women, debasing them at every turn. Yet they all join hands in the #TimesUp craze! Certainly there is a problem which exists in the predatorial behavior of some men, but the so called music, making some of these artists filthy rich, actually promotes such behavior. To propel such people to extreme notoriety only destroys their so called cause! — Louis Gardella, Sun City read more Why the Grammys continue to fail women and hip-hop
Laura Snapes THE GUARDIAN The event may yoke itself to issues like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, but when it comes to actual awards, women and hip-hop continue to be overlooked Mon 29 Jan 2018 11.26 ESTLast modified on Tue 30 Jan 2018 01.32 EST Expecting radical action from an awards ceremony is like expecting the weather forecast to rearrange the skies. These events reinforce cultural norms rather than setting them, even if institutions such as the Oscars and Golden Globes are trying to reinvent themselves in the aftermath of Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump and Black Lives Matter. But rarely has that culture of affirmation been more apparent than at this year’s Grammys, which rode numerous political moments without contributing to or rewarding them. The Grammys’ 60th year boasted two advance headlines. One was that hip-hop might finally get its dues at the ceremony. The first hip-hop record to win the album of the year category was Lauryn Hill’s The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in 1999; the second, and latest, was Outkast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below in 2004. This year marked the rare occasion when no white men were up for the award, populated instead by Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic, Childish Gambino’s Awaken, My Love!, Jay-Z’s 4:44, Kendrick Lamar’s Damn and Lorde’s Melodrama. Yet Mars won with his third album of cosy funk and R&B. His acceptance speech nodded to its retro influences – 80s and 90s stars Babyface, Teddy Riley, and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis – putting him in stark contrast with his more progressive, political competitors. Elsewhere in hip-hop, Jay-Z received the most nominations of any artist, with eight nods for 4:44, but won no awards. Lamar won in the rap categories for album, song, performance and collaboration, but lost in the top-billing general slots for album, video and record. The Grammys’ failure to recognise hip-hop undermines its flashy overtures to the genre, and fails to reflect its status as the most popular genre in the US. read more 
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