{"id":129575,"date":"2020-01-27T14:39:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T13:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/27\/grammys-2020-billie-eilishs-triumph-overshadowed-but-well-deserved\/"},"modified":"2020-01-27T14:39:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T13:39:03","slug":"grammys-2020-billie-eilishs-triumph-overshadowed-but-well-deserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=129575","title":{"rendered":"Grammys 2020: Billie Eilish&#039;s triumph overshadowed but well-deserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claims about voting \u2018irregularities\u2019 and inherent racism swirled around this year\u2019s awards but Eilish brought a powerful emotional punch to proceedingsAlmost all awards ceremonies tend to come with a side order of controversy, but whatever took place at this year\u2019s Grammys was clearly going to be overshadowed by what had happened before it. Just days prior to the event, Deborah Dugan, the former CEO of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences filed a lawsuit against the organising body, alleging sexual harassment and racial discrimination, accusing her predecessor as CEO of rape, and referring to \u201cirregularities and conflicts\u201d in the Grammys\u2019 nomination and review process. The whole thing is so rigged, her lawsuit suggested, that an artist managed by a member of the Academy\u2019s board was allowed to sit on the nomination committee of 2019\u2019s song of the year award, a category they were both eligible for, and subsequently nominated in.One unconfirmed rumour had Taylor Swift pulling out of a surprise performance at the 2020 awards in solidarity with Dugan. Then Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs weighed in. His speech at Clive Davis\u2019s pre-Grammys party apparently went on for 50 minutes. If you\u2019d ever looked at glamorous red-carpet photos of that event and wished you were there, here was a reason to be profoundly grateful you weren\u2019t. His central message, however, was clear: the Grammys are inherently racist. Not just hip-hop artists but black artists generally had \u201cnever been respected\u201d at the awards, and it had to stop. \u201cY\u2019all got 365 days to sort this shit out,\u201d he declared. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2020\/jan\/27\/2020-grammys-billie-eilish-recording-academy\" target=\"_blank\">Grammys 2020: Billie Eilish&#039;s triumph overshadowed but well-deserved<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claims about voting \u2018irregularities\u2019 and inherent racism swirled around this year\u2019s awards but Eilish brought a powerful emotional punch to proceedingsAlmost all awards ceremonies tend to come with a side order of controversy, but whatever took place at this year\u2019s Grammys was clearly going to be overshadowed by what had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}