The new Grammy nominations are here! The new Grammy nominations are here!
Mariah Carey's comeback came full circle Thursday as she was nominated for eight Grammys, including album of the year for "The Emancipation of Mimi" and song and record of the year for her torch ballad "We Belong Together."
"This year has been such a blessing," Carey told The Associated Press shortly after the nominations were announced. "This is prayers answered. I'm grateful for the nominations and I'm really grateful for the fact that people are responding to the music I've made."
I'm reminded of one of Evan Dorkin's comic strips, which shows God watching an awards show and commenting, "Don't thank me, kid...I fucking hated your album."
The Grammy people aren't responding to your music, Mariah, they're just happy you released an album so they can continue to prove their irrelevance by nominating dreck like Fall Out Boy, Rascal Flatts, and Kanye West instead of Ryan Adams, Coldplay, or - dare I say - the Transplants.
Speaking of West, he was back to his old tricks during his "nomination acceptance" speech. I don't expect you to sit through it, even though I did, so here's the transcript:
If I don't win album of the year, I'm gonna...I'm really gonna have a problem with that.
I could NEVER talk myself out of it. You know why? Because I was in a studio, and I put in the work. I don't care if I jumped up and down on the couch right now like Tom Cruise, I don't care WHAT I do. I don't care how much I STUNT, you can never take away from the amount of WORK that I put into it.
So, I don't wanna hear all that politically correct stuff. You put the camera in front of me, I'm gonna tell you like this: I worked HARD to get here. I put my love, I put my heart, I put my money...I don't make that...I'm $600,000 in the hole right now on that album. And you tell me about being politically incorrect? People love these songs! You talk to someone whose grandmother just died and listens to "Roses." And you tell me about being politically incorrect.
I'm talking about HISTORY. I never got five mics in the Source, never got five stars from the Vibe. They said it's not a classic. So, Jesus Walks is not a classic? Roses is not a classic? Gold Digger wasn't song of the year?
50 Cent gets shot nine times and nobody can spare a bullet for this moron?
"50 Cent gets shot nine times and nobody can spare a bullet for this moron?"
Maybe we can toss R. Kelly into Kanye's closet?