Grammy Nominations

The grammy award nominations were announced yesterday.

Kanye West leads Amy Winehouse with his eight nominations to her six. The two face each other for the coveted Album Of The Year award while Winehouse is up for Record Of The Year for Rehab. That would be one of the most ironic wins in quite a while. Still more ironic if she can't accept the award because she's in rehab.

As I read the nominees i'm reminded how inconsequential the award has become. There are some truly mediocre artists nominated this year. None of the artists for Album Of The Year would/should end up within the top five of any respected music critics best albums of the year. Graduation from West was pretty good without being great and the same can be said for Winehouse's Back to Black. Moreover, the most interesting of any of the album categories is one I don't usually care about, Rap Album of the Year. The Pop, Rock, R&B, and Country album categories move beyond inconsequential to downright silly with the one exception being Wilco's Sky Blue Sky. I'm not big into country but I know nominating Tim McGraw any year is questionable while ignoring Miranda Lambert's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is just ignorant.

click here to see the categories and nominees.