Are the Grammy's becoming irrelevant?

Milk toast for years now....

Mainstream garbage at best. Not the least bit interesting, or intellegent.

The grammys are irrelevant as is the record industry for the most part. The record companies are so out of touch with what makes good "music" and their awards show can only re-iterate that fact. By contrast the Oscars are fairly relevant and actualy award "quality" work regardless of box office. Case in point - the Oscars devoted 15-20 minutes to a pretty darn good composer named Ennio Morricone - whereas, guess how much time the grammys will be devoting to beethoven or glass or film scores or the recent coltrane recordings or any record that anyone on audiogon cares about...? Every year at this time I marvel at the contrast between the Oscars and the grammys - one industry is really developing and promoting an art form and the other is in the trash business.

Gdoodle - well said... couldn't agree more. Although I'd say the Oscars are treading head first into the PC lake. By most critical accounts I've seen, Al Gore's movie was poorly crafted at best.

Art will always cross the divide into the political arena, but Hollywood and the Academy Awards IMO is in no position to teach or lecture the public. I thought this was the most political Academy Award show I've ever seen.

Yes but then they never were relevant to me. With internet radio and Qobuz new music discovery is so accessible. I enjoy discovering new artists and never thought the Grammies or mtv fit my music taste. Award programs always have snd always be a bunch of bureaucrats picking snd pushing their winners and losers. Now data all the radio.net and labels are run by two corporations and push the same crap on us because they have picked them.