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Monday, February 18, 2008
India Arie’s Grammy ‘Boycott’ -Explained
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A week after the music industry’s highest honor was handed out, there’s still a bit of Grammy news.
At the more recent NAACP Image Awards, also in Los Angeles, Atlanta’s R&B singer-songwriter India Arie (right) told the audience she purposefully skipped the 50th annual Grammy Awards even though she was up for, and lost, best R&B song (for “Beautiful Flower”).
After playing the excerpt from the telecast, V-103’s Frank and Wanda Morning show hinted that the two-time Grammy winner may still be upset that she went 0-for-7 nominations in 2002. We have since learned from Arie’s publicist that Arie feels the awards have become increasingly political. And while she has gone since her shut-out, this year “I was at home [in Atlanta] on the couch,” she told the Los Angeles Daily News. “Eating chocolates and laughing and crying and watching the TV and yelling. It was more authentic for me. I didn’t feel I had any reason to be there and I was right. Some things are so predictable that it just makes you mad.”
Arie’s “boycott,” as she called it, is yet another reason to talk about some of the choices the Grammys’ voting body makes.
For example, most recently, in Arie’s R&B category, do you think veteran Chaka Khan’s “Funk This” deserved a grammophone over Musiq Soulchild’s “Luvanmusiq”; Jill Scott’s “The Real Thing”; Tank’s “Sex, Love & Pain” or Ledisi’s “Lost & Found”?
Or move over to the major categories — Did Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab” earn record AND song of the year? And on that topic, what do you think about one-time substance abuser Natalie Cole saying after the ceremony that Winehouse shouldn’t have gotten any Grammy recognition at all, that she should clean up her personal life before she gets professional accolades?
