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| By Jack Delano, November 1940 / via Library of Congress Flickr |
Below is the article, which is followed by a short podcast at the bottom of this post.
The following are actual quotes from Twitter reacting to the winners of the 2011 Grammy Awards this past Sunday.
"How can this group get album of the year when they didn't even have as many top 10 as Gaga. Did this group even have a number 1 hit?" (source)
"@thegrammys Fuck you! WHO THE FUK IS ARCADE FIRE? STOP RIGGIN THIS SHIT.... U LOST MANY VIEWERS..LOOK AT THE REACTIONS U LOST ALOT" (source)
"The Grammy's [sic] are fixed, like straight up; how are all these nobodys [sic] winning? And why is everyone from Arcade Fire hideously ugly? #appalled" (source)
"Esperanza Spaulding's [sic] twitter account isnt even VERIFIED thats how much of a nobody she is!!11k followers, thats it, & she won a grammy??!" (source)
"The fact that Arcade Fire are winning over people who have actually made an impact on the music industry is really fucking annoying." (source)
All the above were collected and found on whoisarcadefire.tumblr.com.
The issues at hand here are so great in number that it's nearly impossible to approach them all without dragging on a long discussion: kids raised in the autotune/Twitter/Facebook/MySpace age, bias, close-mindedness, mainstream mass marketing, good vs. bad, opinion vs. fact, etc. As a result, I'll try to stick to just a few points here.
