Let's talk about the 2018 Grammy's. Just because it's topical and I want to. But before we go into the Grammy's, let's back it up a little.
At the end of October in 2016, Lady Gaga released her latest album, Joanne. What I didn't know at the time was that this would be Marie's Grief Album: Part 1. A few weeks after Joanne's release, my Dad died. I remembered listening to her album earlier that week, and loving, but not needing the lyrics "every part of my aching heart needs you more than the angels do" (from Joanne, the song). The whole album, which I had loved before, suddenly became the album I needed. I think it's a cliche to say that songs say what we can't, and I'm not sure I quite feel that way, and I know, logically, that Lady Gaga did not release this album for me in preparation for my father's untimely death, but here we are a year later, and it is still what I refer to as the album of my early grief. Fast forward not quite a year. In early August of 2017, Kesha released her newest album, Rainbow. For her, it was an album of redemption, a comeback album to say the least about her music career. Kesha had been to hell and back and here she was standing, and while our versions of hell were entirely different, I felt her reborn strength through her album strongly. Rainbow, was, and is, Marie's Grief Album: Part 2. In October, I was lucky enough to see her perform live at the Filmore in Detroit, in front of a sold out audience. We had nose bleed seats. I cried. I felt close to Kesha, and close to my father and I know how that sounds but there it is. Okay, so that's my connection with the two albums. Now, come Grammy nomination season, I realized that my Grief albums, and songs, were about to be pitted against one another and I struggled for which album/which song I would be pulling for but resolved that I would be happy regardless because how could one of them not win in their categories? (Let me start this next chunk of thoughts by saying that I love Ed Sheeran. I saw him live approximately a week before I saw Kesha's concert and I cried there too.) So then, I come to find out that last night Ed Sheeran won Grammy's for Pop Solo Performance and Pop Vocal Album BOTH of which he was up against Kesha and Lady Gaga for. Now, I love Shape of You, I move and groove just as much as the next person every time it comes on, but I am beyond disappointed here (which is to say nothing of the fact that it also snubbed Kelly Clarkson and P!nk both artists I not only love but who's music has been amazing this year). I just find it absolutely ridiculous that Given the options of such powerful collections of work, we wound up with winners like Shape of You and Divide.
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