Was it okay the Negrah won the Grammies?
Dec 30, 2017 0:09:07 GMT
Post by Brick Wall on Dec 30, 2017 0:09:07 GMT
How was Stevie Wonder’s Grammy success perceived back in the day?
Well?
I was born long after, but I know that Stevie Wonder won Album of the Year at the Grammys 3 times in 4 years.
These albums are regarded as his classics now, and I indeed know and love them all.
But how did everybody feel back then?
The modern analogs to Stevie in this category (multiple AOTY wins in close proximity) Taylor Swift and Adele. And in both of their second victories, the backlash was HEAVY.
Yes Adele and Taylor’s albums were loved by the general public, sold massively, and gave the Grammy Academy warm and fuzzies. But they were perceived by older listeners as being “too pop” or “not real music”, they were perceived by the younger snobbier set as having bought the awards, and they were perceived by a huge amount of people in the press and public as having won the awards at the expense of someone more deserving (people like Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar).
Did any of this backlash happen to Stevie? Put me in the head of someone seeing Stevie win the award for the third time in 1977.
These albums are regarded as his classics now, and I indeed know and love them all.
But how did everybody feel back then?
The modern analogs to Stevie in this category (multiple AOTY wins in close proximity) Taylor Swift and Adele. And in both of their second victories, the backlash was HEAVY.
Yes Adele and Taylor’s albums were loved by the general public, sold massively, and gave the Grammy Academy warm and fuzzies. But they were perceived by older listeners as being “too pop” or “not real music”, they were perceived by the younger snobbier set as having bought the awards, and they were perceived by a huge amount of people in the press and public as having won the awards at the expense of someone more deserving (people like Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar).
Did any of this backlash happen to Stevie? Put me in the head of someone seeing Stevie win the award for the third time in 1977.
