Final fall, after the nomination of Louis C.Ok. and others like Marilyn Manson — who’s going through an investigation over a number of sexual assault allegations — drew public ire, Harvey Mason Jr., the chief govt of the Recording Academy, defended the proper to appoint anyone so long as they met the group’s eligibility guidelines.
“We gained’t look again at folks’s historical past, we gained’t have a look at their felony report, we gained’t have a look at something aside from the legality inside our guidelines of, is that this recording for this work eligible based mostly on date and different standards,” he advised the commerce publication The Wrap. (Marilyn Manson was later faraway from the nominations checklist as a songwriter on Kanye West’s monitor “Jail,” however remained eligible as certainly one of West’s collaborators on “Donda,” which was up for album of the 12 months.)
Fairly than weighing in on who may very well be nominated, Mason stated the Grammys would as a substitute draw a line round who was invited to the ceremony, held this 12 months in Las Vegas. The comedy award was certainly one of dozens offered in a ceremony that was held earlier than the prime-time broadcast and was proven on-line solely. Louis C.Ok. didn’t attend. Representatives for the Recording Academy didn’t return requests for remark.
On the album, amid bits about faith, getting old and intercourse, Louis C.Ok. addresses his misconduct a number of instances, principally jokingly. “Man, I used to be in lots of hassle,” he says within the opening. “Wait until they see these photos of me in blackface. That’s going to make it rather a lot worse. As a result of there’s lots of these, there’s hundreds of images of me in blackface. I can’t cease doing it. I simply — I prefer it. I like the way it feels.”
This trophy is the third Grammy for Louis C.Ok. within the comedy album class.
The Recording Academy doesn’t launch particulars of how its greater than 11,000 eligible members vote. Members are restricted within the variety of classes they could forged a vote in, because the academy tries to encourage them to vote of their numerous areas of experience. The nominations course of was tweaked for this 12 months’s awards after complaints of secret agendas and uneven taking part in fields, and boycotts by main artists just like the Weeknd.
In recent times, the Recording Academy has additionally been roiled by accusations that it didn’t embrace or acknowledge sufficient girls or folks of shade, and the group has pledged to do higher. However a report final month from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative on the College of Southern California discovered that the variety of girls credited on pop songs has remained largely unchanged for a decade, and {that a} Grammy-led effort to rent extra feminine producers and engineers did nearly nothing.
Supply: NY Times
