Kanye West's New Album - Album Of The Year?

[iLLmaticV3]

sapphi_snake said:

iLLmaticV3 said:

sapphi_snake said:

Necromunda said:

sapphi_snake said:

When you say Album of the Year, do you mean whether it will win the Grammy for Album of the Year of what? 'Cause if that's what you meant, then no, he won't win it. The Grammys (and the music industry in general) hate him for being such a douche who thinks he should win every award on the planet.

I honestly doubt that is going to matter considering the rave reviews this is getting. And how good the album in general is. I honestly have no doubt that it is going to win the Grammy for Album Of The Year.

His first album got raves also, yet he lost the Album of the Year Grammy to a dead guy's duet album. He didn't even win Best New Artist that year (he lost to Maroon 5). Likeability within a particular industry matters a lot for these awards shows that are not voted by the public (why do you think Sandra Bullock won an Oscar for a performance that any actress could've done right in a terrible movie?)

The guy's an a-hole (think what he did to Taylor Swift at the VMAs last year) and the music industry and the Grammys hate him. It doesn't matter how good the reviews for his album are, I'll bet you that at the 2012 Grammys (his album was released too late to be eligible for next year's awards) he will not win Album of the Year (this will also be because the Grammys don't give top awards to Hip Hop/Rap albums or songs - Outcast's Spealerboxx/The Love Below is the only Hip Hop album who ever won the Grammy for Album of the Year, and no Rap/Hip Hop track has ever won Record of the Year or Song of the Year).

Lauryn Hill's - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, says hello.

I won't be shocked if he does win, I mean this album is just doing too well commercially. if they ignore this, people are gonna go crazy...

Don't you think I didn't know about that album. It's just that it had a lot of R&B in it, and was actually submitted and won in the R&B  categories (there was not Rap Album category back then, and it might still have been submitted in the R&B field regardless). Plus, even if you were to consider it a rap album, still only 2 such albums would've won, which isn't a lot.

And don't mind me saying "I told ya so" when Kanye looses in 2012.

Its all good man. I'm just hoping he wins, because it would make a statement and maybe the way award shows are run might change. I haven't really liked how certain artists/genres of music have been treated during certain award shows lately, its kind of unfair. I think almost anyone can agree about that, I can barely even watch them anymore. It seems more like a popularity contest these days.