By: Mikael Wood - Pop Music Critic
This Entertainment/ Music article is about the author's personal thoughts and opinions on the Grammy Awards, previous ones and future Grammy Awards to come. This article was posted on Monday (Nov. 27, 2017) in response to the nominations for next year’s awards being announced the next day, Tuesday. Considering that this article is labeled as an Entertainment/ Music article, the intended audience would to targeted towards fans of celebrities and music lovers. The author himself seems to be a music lover since he is anticipating the Grammy Awards and expresses his fondness for many artists in his article. The purpose of this article was to share Wood's belief that the Grammys are biased towards artists when it comes to handing out awards, which Wood suggests is a "problem". Wood believes that the Grammys prefer traditional over innovative, which could be shown in the 59th Grammy Awards that was held in February when Adele's "25" album of love songs beat Beyonce's "Lemonade" album about black womanhood. This biased belief is also emphasized when the Grammy Awards overlook artists, such as Migos, Cardi B, and Lil Uzi Vert, who are hip-hop artists. A concern that Wood expresses is the worry that deserving and hardworking artists will not get the praise and recognition they deserve since they do not fit the Academy's particular taste. Wood's tone is critical. He points out a flaw within the Academy that he believes should be fixed and projects himself as a guy who knows what he's talking about. A connotative style of diction was also used as the article was informal and conversation-like. Dashes (syntax) were used throughout the article along with a satire rhetorical question to conclude the article. The author seems passionate about his love for music and believes that the Academy should put its unfair preferences aside to allow for new artists to get the praise they deserve, not those all-too-familiar names for a change.
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