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The Grammys will no longer judge vocalists in single-sex categories. Will that work well?
The Grammys will no longer judge vocalists in single-sex categories. For example, there won’t be a “best male pop vocal” and “best female pop vocal.” Instead, men and women will compete for “best pop vocal.” Will that work well?
WENDY WALKER, Beavercreek: “I totally think it should be separated by gender. Female singers appeal to a certain audience, and men might appeal to another.”
KIM MCKINNEY, Liberty Twp.: “I would still like to see the separate categories, because each brings a different component to the performance.”
ANDI BUCY, Kettering: “I think it might be interesting to let the men and women compete like that. But a female voice and a male voice are very different, so I’m kind of iffy on a combined category.”
JOE LEITHOLD, Bellbrook: “You’re going to lose something if you don’t keep the individual categories. I don’t think it would be worth it. It’d be shortchanging the fan base.”
KIMBERLY BUCY, Kettering: “I’d rather them cut some of the more frivolous categories than combine men’s and women’s vocals. For the country music awards, for example, they have favorite radio stations. Why have things like that?”
Comments
By null
April 19, 2011 7:16 AM | Link to this
I’m all for combining the categories. The Grammy’s are for teh best, so why not have the best overall? You can judge a man and woman together. Terrible example but it is like the last round of Westminster. You have the best of each breed competing against one another. You pick who is the best overall, using their own specs to judge by. lol!
By Nathan Explosion
April 19, 2011 12:44 PM | Link to this
Bad Idea. Men have better vocal abilities than women. It’s science fact. Plus, women are incapable of brutality in their singing.
By The Old Cold Warrior
April 19, 2011 10:26 PM | Link to this
I don’t view or listen to media-whore award shows, since they matter as much as this chatter. But, it may not be PC of me, but I still and always will believe that there is a difference between boys and girls and men and women, the two human sexes, as God and Hugh Heffner and Larry Flynt intended, not being the same regardless of fame.
By It depends...
April 20, 2011 3:18 AM | Link to this
“Best Pop Vocal” will depend on when the fat lady sings. I suggest that everyone heed the words of “The Old Cold Warrior”. I, myself, am not amazed that there is, somehow, thoughts that music, vocal or otherwise, is the same from males and females. Welcome to your “brave new world”. Everything is to be judged “relative”. There is not up/down/hot/cold/light/dark/near/far….George Orwell would be proud, also. Individuality is now an idea to be frowned upon and “politically corrected” out of existance. We can all become mundane and as boring as our collective “group think” processes will allow…amd it allows much. Welcome to “the herd”…stray from the herd…and we’ll kill you, one way or the other.
By Philman
April 20, 2011 6:05 AM | Link to this
How about a White music Award, they still have the Black music awards don’t they??
By BET
April 20, 2011 8:42 AM | Link to this
Philman the white music awards are the American Music Awards…
By Why?
April 20, 2011 10:39 AM | Link to this
Makes no sense. I agree that male and female performers are different, with different vocal instruments. They have best new performer, don’t they, and lifetime achievement awards. Leave it at that. There always has been a herd mentality, usually with a wolf “guarding” the sheep. In God I trust, all others empty their pockets.