Perspective: Listening again to a bloated list of Grammy nominees for album of the year
recently called Doja Cat and Lil Nas X counterparts in today’s popscape, and that pretty much checks out. Both singer-rapper-content creators have mastered performing provocatively for their ravenous online audiences and prudently for their less adventurous pop music audiences.
, we can be sure that he finally knows his own voice. As a singer, he’s never sounded better — pillowy and mature, completely aware of both his charms and his limits. What Bieber, now 28, doesseem to know, however, is the cultural mood outside the celebrity bubble that was perma-sealed around him as a child.
This is the only way to explain why “Justice” samples two different Martin Luther King Jr. speeches amid songs about smoking weed with your spouse while the Lord smiles down on your hot monogamy. Then, near the end of the album, during “ ,” when Bieber lashes out against those who “criticized the things I did as an idiot kid,” the MLK samples suddenly feel less appalling. In the end, the justice that Bieber wants is for himself.
when the Recording Academy nominated “Donda” for album of the year, I could barely summon the energy to listen to it again, so I listened to 2013′s “” instead. West’s greatest recordings — including that one — were not nominated for this prize, but it’ll only take 11 percent of the Academy electorate to think he’s overdue, and voilà, the worst Kanye album goes down in Grammy history as the best Kanye album.
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