Kanye West - Grammy comment, re Beck

I can count the number of CD's I purchased last year on two hands... the Annie Lennox Nostalgia CD being one of my favorites.

The media that glorify individuals like Kanye West need a reality check. Look at what happened to Brian Williams... NBC for months ran ads trying to convince the general public that Brian Williams was really a frontline news reporter instead of a poster person that sits in a New York studio reading a teleprompter. Brian Williams got so full of himself that he self destructed.

IMHO if you want to hear talent, listen to the Iris DeMent "Sing The Delta" CD, or the John Fullbright "Songs" CD.

Kanye is a narrow minded, impulsive, egotistical, but talented rapper. He is not a musician and has no conception of music beyond his genre or what one would hear on a top 40 radio station. As such, he should keep his uninformed opinions to himself as dissemination merely reveals his shortcomings as an artist and as a human being.
Even though I preferred Sea Change, I still thought that Beck deserved the award for album of the year.

i can't comment on beyonce's music, which i haven't heard, and i agree with the general sentiment that kanye is an attention whore whose dis of beck is completely classless. however, i've always thought beck was a bit overrated--to me he's more craftsman than genius--a smart, well-connected guy with a knack for trends and a nice way with a hook, but (unlike say, david bowie) not quite the real thing. that said, his last one is impeccably well produced, which counts for something.

Hi Loomis,

My theory is that there isn't that much music or talent to choose from like there was in the great old days. If Paul Simon (or any of the greats) came out with one of his killer albums (and he could still sing), would Sam Smith have swept the Grammies with a song that sounds like Tom Petty's Stand By Me? I'm just saying--

Kanye's entitled to express his opinion but not on their time. I think the Grammy officials should ban him from being in the room. He's had his chance and he's blown it. Don't give him the platform to demean the voters' choices.