Ugh, you’re annoying.

That story contradicts your point. You inserted your straight self into a private conversation between gay men, that was presumably about levels of irritation with straight women treating gay men like pets. And when they pushed back you basically told them to lick your hand.

Can we just cancel the damn cookout? I’m tired of hearing about it. Plus you know it’s too hot in Texas to be outside on the grill most of the year. Unless we hold it in December or something.

Who’s Gary Owen?

There are incredibly beautiful Japanese models out there – use one of them for something like this.

This is an insane opinion. Maybe you like Kelly’s tone better or something, and that’s certainly a perfectly cromulent opinion. But, there was no better technical singer in Destiny’s Child than Beyonce. Period.

Asian-Americans obviously. The shoot reflects American bias in favor of white women as the most beautiful.

Yeah, because you get to be a racial majority living half a world way from the people who demand your assimilation into their culture and then co-opt yours as a display of their dominance. Must be nice. Nice enough, I’d imagine, to leave you the emotional bandwidth for some empathy and solidarity.

The repeated erasure of actual POC from depictions of their culture is racist. And I don’t understand parsing words in that way. A system of racial oppression can absolutely be referred to as racism. The same way a system of oppressing an entire gender is sexism.

Carlos Santana has spent the last 20+ years making tasteful, expensively produced, profoundly boring music for people who don’t really like music but enjoy shopping and wine. In Adele, he recognizes a kindred spirit.

NEVER FORGET: To Pimp A Butterfly lost to 1989 in last year’s Grammys but that is because Kendrick Lamar brings out all the dancers and props while Taylor Swift just stands there and sings.

Oh, is that why Macklemore beat Kendrick Lamar in 2014 for Best new Artist? Daft Punk beat him for AofY? Artistry is inseparable from politics and message. Art isn’t just beauty or “what I like to put in my earholes on my commute to work”. I’m not dense –the Grammy’s aren’t awarded for actual artistry.

I don’t know..saying she’s not a singer, and makes modelling music...which he describes as music to show off a dress is pretty disparaging. How can you tell any vocalist they’re not a singer and make it not disparaging? I don’t know a way to do that.

Oh man, that would be awesome if she did one of those MTV Unplugged’s. Ppl would still find fault in her, though. How dare she be pretty, talented, Black, rich, wear blond hair, make Black music, etc etc?! Who does she think she is?

“Album of the Year” isn’t just awarded for vocal quality otherwise Taylor Swift wouldn’t have beat out 8 better vocalists in the 2 years that she won. It’s also about artistic quality and technical proficiency. 25 is more or less a collection of hits by a powerful vocalist. Lemonade has amazing production values,…

Respectfully disagree. Best Album is not just about best vocals. That’s why it’s not called Best Vocals on an Album. Which album was more artistically significant? Which album had something to say? Which was more likely to affect people’s hearts and minds?

Decades and decades is right! The shit Sammy Davis Jr. had to do just to be considered even remotely in the neighborhood of Frank Sinatra was beyond. Sammy outsang him, out danced him, out acted him, out charmed him...he had to quadruple excel just to be given a bone.  

As a part-time cover vocalist of many years, I can corroborate that Beyonce CAN sing. As a matter of fact, it is much, much harder for me to get through even one Beyonce song than it is for me to get through all the radio singles off “21.” There is also proof many times over that Beyonce can do it without studio…

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Have you done gone and lost your goddamn mind?