Harvey Mason Jr.
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Sure. And I hear them loud and clear. I would love her to win Album of the Year. I would also love a bunch of other people to win Album of the Year. I think there's great music. I think it's also subjective. Beyonce obviously has a ton of very loyal and supportive fans, which I don't blame them for. Beyonce's won a ton of Grammy awards, so we really respect her. creativity and her artistry.
Sure. And I hear them loud and clear. I would love her to win Album of the Year. I would also love a bunch of other people to win Album of the Year. I think there's great music. I think it's also subjective. Beyonce obviously has a ton of very loyal and supportive fans, which I don't blame them for. Beyonce's won a ton of Grammy awards, so we really respect her. creativity and her artistry.
There's no question about that as a voting body. There's different things that happen throughout the year that the voters sometimes resonate with in certain categories and other categories it doesn't resonate. So it's really hard to predict. I am excited for this year because there's been so many amazing records. There's been great work by some amazing artists. So I'm very optimistic for this year.
There's no question about that as a voting body. There's different things that happen throughout the year that the voters sometimes resonate with in certain categories and other categories it doesn't resonate. So it's really hard to predict. I am excited for this year because there's been so many amazing records. There's been great work by some amazing artists. So I'm very optimistic for this year.
There's no question about that as a voting body. There's different things that happen throughout the year that the voters sometimes resonate with in certain categories and other categories it doesn't resonate. So it's really hard to predict. I am excited for this year because there's been so many amazing records. There's been great work by some amazing artists. So I'm very optimistic for this year.
As far as who wins what and who gets snubbed, who's happy and who's mad. I mean, I can't predict that, but what I can predict is The voters will do their very best to listen to the music, to evaluate the music. The other thing I can say is we also have a very different voting body now than we had three years ago, than we had five years ago, than we had 10 years ago.
As far as who wins what and who gets snubbed, who's happy and who's mad. I mean, I can't predict that, but what I can predict is The voters will do their very best to listen to the music, to evaluate the music. The other thing I can say is we also have a very different voting body now than we had three years ago, than we had five years ago, than we had 10 years ago.
As far as who wins what and who gets snubbed, who's happy and who's mad. I mean, I can't predict that, but what I can predict is The voters will do their very best to listen to the music, to evaluate the music. The other thing I can say is we also have a very different voting body now than we had three years ago, than we had five years ago, than we had 10 years ago.
The only way.
The only way.
The only way.
It didn't come so much from the answers. Yeah. Maybe personally it did. I'll back that up. But what it really stemmed from was looking at the makeup of our voting body and then looking at the makeup of music creators and who's making it versus who's consuming it versus who's voting on it. And we wanted to make sure our membership was representative of our music community.
It didn't come so much from the answers. Yeah. Maybe personally it did. I'll back that up. But what it really stemmed from was looking at the makeup of our voting body and then looking at the makeup of music creators and who's making it versus who's consuming it versus who's voting on it. And we wanted to make sure our membership was representative of our music community.
It didn't come so much from the answers. Yeah. Maybe personally it did. I'll back that up. But what it really stemmed from was looking at the makeup of our voting body and then looking at the makeup of music creators and who's making it versus who's consuming it versus who's voting on it. And we wanted to make sure our membership was representative of our music community.
And when I got here, it just wasn't. We didn't have enough people of color. We didn't have enough women. We didn't have certain representation in certain genres in dance communities. Rock community, country. So we needed to rebalance or tweak or can't remember the word you use, which I like so much. Fiddle. We needed to fiddle with the membership.
And when I got here, it just wasn't. We didn't have enough people of color. We didn't have enough women. We didn't have certain representation in certain genres in dance communities. Rock community, country. So we needed to rebalance or tweak or can't remember the word you use, which I like so much. Fiddle. We needed to fiddle with the membership.
And when I got here, it just wasn't. We didn't have enough people of color. We didn't have enough women. We didn't have certain representation in certain genres in dance communities. Rock community, country. So we needed to rebalance or tweak or can't remember the word you use, which I like so much. Fiddle. We needed to fiddle with the membership.
We needed to fiddle with it and make sure that it was aligning with not just the world. But more importantly and specifically with music and the music community, the genres, we had to look at the genres. What genres are really popular? Do we have enough members in those genres to evaluate it accurately?
We needed to fiddle with it and make sure that it was aligning with not just the world. But more importantly and specifically with music and the music community, the genres, we had to look at the genres. What genres are really popular? Do we have enough members in those genres to evaluate it accurately?
We needed to fiddle with it and make sure that it was aligning with not just the world. But more importantly and specifically with music and the music community, the genres, we had to look at the genres. What genres are really popular? Do we have enough members in those genres to evaluate it accurately?