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Grammys 2012: Bon Iver Wins Best New Artist, Feels Conflicted About It
In an interview with the New York Times back in December, Vernon expressed his feelings about the Grammys even more forcefully than he did on stage.
“I don’t think the Bon Iver record is the kind of record that would get nominated for a Grammy,” he said then. “I kinda felt like going up there and being like: ‘Everyone should go home, this is ridiculous. You should not be doing this. We should not be gathering in a big room and looking at each other and pretending that this is important.’ That’s what I would say.”
It’s not just the Grammys that offend him, though, but the entire arena of music awards shows. In a blog post last August, Vernon bashed the VMAs even more passionately.
“Why do we NEED this shit so bad? Why don’t we just have MUSIC? DO music? soul? I don’t know,” he wrote, criticizing MTV for being about “the dollars.”
He echoed that sentiment in the New York Times interview, where he came down on Grammys nominees by saying “98 percent of the people in that room, their art is compromised,” as well as in his acceptance speech, when he thanked “all the non-nominees who’ve never been here and never will be here,” alongside his friends, family, and the voters.
God bless Justin Vernon.
totally worth it!
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