Bon Iver Turns Down Grammy Show Performance
On the eve of the Grammy Award Show, comes news that one of the nominations refused to perform. And you know what? I agree with their decision.
Bon Iver refused to perform on the Grammy Awards because the Grammy's wanted to team Bon Iver up with a more "known" act for a collaboration. I guess the Grammy's figured no one would know who they were and not want to listen to them perform their own songs. Bon Iver essentially called that horseshit and I agree.
"We wanted to play our music, but were told that we couldn't play," Justin Vernon, frontman for Bon Iver, said in the expletive-filled interview with Billboard Magazine. "We had to do a collaboration with someone else."
"We kind of said 'fuck you' a little bit and they sort of acted like they wanted us to play, but I don't think they wanted us to play," Vernon added. "I want people to hear the music that we make," said Vernon whose band is also up for best new artist.
He is dead right. They were nominated on the merits of their music and should be allowed to perform THEIR music. Not the music some producer of the show thinks people want to hear. While I don't like their music, I find it weepy vagina music for self-loathing hipsters, I respect their decision to give the finger to the Grammy's.
Bon Iver refused to perform on the Grammy Awards because the Grammy's wanted to team Bon Iver up with a more "known" act for a collaboration. I guess the Grammy's figured no one would know who they were and not want to listen to them perform their own songs. Bon Iver essentially called that horseshit and I agree.
"We wanted to play our music, but were told that we couldn't play," Justin Vernon, frontman for Bon Iver, said in the expletive-filled interview with Billboard Magazine. "We had to do a collaboration with someone else."
"We kind of said 'fuck you' a little bit and they sort of acted like they wanted us to play, but I don't think they wanted us to play," Vernon added. "I want people to hear the music that we make," said Vernon whose band is also up for best new artist.
He is dead right. They were nominated on the merits of their music and should be allowed to perform THEIR music. Not the music some producer of the show thinks people want to hear. While I don't like their music, I find it weepy vagina music for self-loathing hipsters, I respect their decision to give the finger to the Grammy's.
The Grammy's in the past couple of years have been known to do this. They feel collaborations of three nominated hip hop artists rapping Stevie Wonder's hits, is something people want to see. It's not. We want to learn more about artists and see them perform their songs they were nominated for. Not some half assed collaboration with Adam Levine of Maroon 5 and Bon Iver.
Of course, anyone who says fuck you to the Grammy's is OK in my book because those awards mean NOTHING now a days.
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