Irrelevant: The Grammys-as-award show that actually credits worthy work. The Arcade Fire’s competition included a Katy Perry album. Kanye’s universally chosen AOTY was released after an arbitrary deadline and won’t be eligible for contention until 2012. And consider the voting pool: old people who work for a dying industry and still consider Eric Clapton live albums to be relevant new releases. Someone needs to explain this to teenage Justin Bieber fans. (Note: This applies to any list or award-choosing not your own, whether Pitchfork’s or Rolling Stone’s. I’ve already blogged about this.)
Not irrelevant: The ability of the Grammys-as-massive-pop-spectacle to bring a band like the Arcade Fire (or Janelle Monae) to a new, broad audience in an important way. The Arcade Fire will now sell a bunch of records and Merge will get to continue doing what they do, which is putting out actual album of the year contenders by Destroyer and Spoon. This is a Good Thing. If you are worried about “lamestreamers” liking your favorite bands, you are 12. If you’re as cool as you think you are, you already saw them play intimate sets in small venues — you got your chance. Now let everybody else.
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The Arcade Fire IS Lamestream. They are the poster children for Lamestream-ness. Their win solidified the...
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