🎧 Listen: In today's episode of The Journal podcast, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. explains how he's trying to steer the organization into the future and rebuild trust among artists
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Harvey Mason JR.: It's impossible. It's not an answer I can even come close to giving. I've done so many songs. And the one that I'm most proud of is the one I've done last. Every time I do a song, I get excited. I go to sleep thinking about it, I wake up thinking about it. I'm like, this is my favorite song. I love this.
Harvey Mason JR.: And as we got closer and closer, we started looking at alternate options. We have almost 400 people working to put the show together on the ground for two weeks, leading up to the 31st and those people and our fear that possibly they could be exposed and it could be on our watch. Those were all things that we considered as well as making sure we had enough artists to put together the type of show that we expected to make and that people watching would expect to see on TV.
Harvey Mason JR.: I definitely shared some criticisms. I think you gave a long laundry list there, Ryan, but I shared some criticism and that was the reason I actually ran to be elected as a board of trustee. Because as I said, I am of this community and I thought we could do things slightly differently as an academy, as a body that is a central system or a central representative of all aspects of the music industry.
Ryan Knutson: The group that puts on the Golden Globes similarly pledged to change its diversity standards and expand its membership. To help solve the Grammys problems, The Recording Academy's been trying to change the makeup of the organization itself, which is responsible for picking nominees. There are currently more than 12,000 voting members from the music industry, but the majority of them are men. So the Grammys recently started inviting new members.
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