It approaches again: the music industry’s annual memoriam of itself, in which thousands of music-industry luminaries (and just as many who’d like to think they are) lavish mucho pomp and drawn-out circumstance upon a set of artists basically nobody else agrees are the best of the year.
音乐工业一年一度的大事件又来了。按照惯例，上千个音乐工业里的内行，以及更多装作自己是内行的人，将会再次强行给一堆“这要是年度最佳你特么逗我”的艺人，戴上各种光环。

STANDBY FOR A MANUFACTURED WAR BETWEEN TAYLOR AND KENDRICK
想设计一场撕X大战？
Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift lead the nominations with 11 and 7 nods respectively, the former the most Grammy nods a rapper has gotten in one night; they compete in Album and Song of the Year. Equally pertinent: wherever Swift goes, awards show drama follows. Surely the producers will be looking play up a nonexistent rivalry. The potentiality for drummed up beef is exactly as silly as it sounds; Swift and Lamar have collaborated before and the Grammys are among the stodgier of ceremonies (though it seems they’d love to shed that stigma).
Kendrick Lamar 11提，Taylor Swift 7提。前者创下了rapper单届提名格莱美最多的记录，后者则更不必多说，是个奖都得照顾一下。而且两个人都提名了年度专辑和年度歌曲，所以是不是说，评委们等着看一场撕X大战呢？其实这种可能性是微乎其微的，毕竟两人关系很好，还合作过，况且格莱美不过是个（撕X界的）小奖罢了（虽然这么说格莱美肯定不干）。

Alas, the world demands bad blood for the bad blood god (and the ratings god, a much stronger deity), and barring unlikely drama from Ed Sheeran or the Weeknd, this is the stone from which the Grammys will wrench it. The battle lines are just too clear: pop squad leader vs. rap visionary, timeless retro-pop vs. timely social commentary, celebrity and model pal vs. serious thinker, Grammy darling vs. Grammy snub (good kid, m.A.A.d city won zero out of its seven Grammy nominations, but it did win him a Macklemore wall-of-text!)
然而，撕X才有话题；全世界人民都盼望着撕X的情况下，格莱美总得照顾下自己的收视率吧，总不可能指望Ed Sheeran和the Weeknd来撕X。何况霉霉和喇嘛两个人特质划分得很明显：流行天后vs说唱天王，复古潮流vs社会评论，闪耀大明星vs深沉思想家，格莱美亲女儿vs格莱美养子（想当年good kid, m.A.A.d city全程陪跑，最后得了一个马克摸的安慰奖）。

SNUBS ARE A LIE
遗珠不存在？
Closely related to the tradition of complaining about the Grammys is the tradition of complaining about Grammy snubs. At the moment you read this, a million Directioners are furiously Tweeting vitriol about Justin Bieber’s moment as tween of the hour; meanwhile, the more critic-infested parts of the Internet mourned the omission of such cult favorites as Carly Rae Jepsen’s E•MO•TION, Lana Del Rey’s Honeymoon, and (inexplicably to some) Nick Jonas’s "Jealous".
人们在吐槽格莱美的同时，也为一些艺人没能提名格莱美而愤愤不平：就在你看这篇文章时，许多破团萝莉粉正在推特上痛骂着刚刚提名格莱美的丁日。不过，在跟乐评走得更近的网站论坛上，更多人吐槽的是，他们喜欢的Carly Rae Jepsen的E•MO•TION，Lana Del Rey的Honeymoon，以及Nick Jonas的Jealous本届提名颗粒无收。

Chief among artists that might actually have been snubbed: the Foo Fighters, who’ve for years turned categories into, in effect, Best Dave Grohl; and former Grammy darlings Mumford & Sons, whose No. 1 album Wilder Mind received a scintillating zero noms. But even this isn’t a snub, on the minor technicality that the album was so undeniably not good even the Grammys couldn’t fake it.
这回真正算得是遗珠的，是曾经垄断分类奖的Foo Fighters，以及前任格莱美亲儿子Mumford & Sons，他们今年的冠军专辑Wilder Mind没有获得任何提名。很明显，这张专辑烂到连格莱美都看不下去了。

THE GRAMMYS CONTINUE TO NOT GET DANCE MUSIC（格莱美不懂舞曲？）
A quick recap of the heyday of EDM, as told by the Grammys:
2012: A David Guetta/Chris Brown/Lil Wayne "tribute" to the genre that came off like a hostage situation.
2013: The humiliating nomination of Liechtensteinian grifter Al Walser and his execrable "I Can’t Live Without You", whose legacy consists of one Bandcamp power-pop cover, one beef with Zedd, and the continued inclusion in lists like this.
2014: A year in which the Grammys still called EDM "electronica." (Perhaps fittingly, actual electronica, the kind that peaked in the late '90s variety, get disproportionate love from the Grammys; this is an awards ceremony that nominated BT(!) in 2011(!!!)
2016’s slate, then, is as good as one can expect: an even split between critical favorites (Jamie xx, Caribou), populists (Disclosure, Jack Ü) and Chemical Brothers (Chemical Brothers) that may well go to unlikely safe choice Skrillex.
按照格莱美的说法，我们简单回顾一下EDM的黄金年代吧：
2012年：David Guetta、Chris Brown和Lil Wayne在这届格莱美上，进行了人质一般的表演。（http://lins-bros.com/?p=26665 ）
2013年：列支敦士登的Al Walser和他的I Can’t Live Without You神奇地被格莱美提名，紧接着受到了大量的质疑和猛烈的吐槽（很多人怀疑和评委拉关系、走后门），这其中就包括Bandcamp的翻唱，和Zedd的决裂，等等等等。
2014年：这一年，格莱美仍然管EDM叫做"electronica"。请注意：electronica是一类上世纪90年代盛行的曲风，当时却始终不受格莱美待见，而格莱美直到2011年！终！于！第！一！次！设立了electronica奖项（Best Dance/Electronica Album）。
2016年：这次提名看上去终于不错了：乐评宠儿(Jamie xx, Caribou)和人气团体(Disclosure, Jack Ü)平分秋色，再加上Chemical Brothers。保守一点的话，还是会给Skrillex（Jack Ü）吧，但这次格莱美不见得保守了。

Ed Sheeran is, of course, the opposite of an underdog; the record coated the radio in saccharine goo for months on end, nigh-ensuring its spot in both the Record and Song of the Year lists. But the latter goes to songwriters. One of the more useful functions of the Grammys is its staunch focus on honoring songwriters, continually overlooked and often financially beleaguered even as producers become celebrities. (Everybody has heard of Max Martin.) And despite Sheeran’s lone-troubadour-dude image, "Thinking Out Loud" is equally the work of someone actually unfamiliar to all but Sheeran diehards: Amy Wadge. The Welsh artist and solo singer-songwriter has worked with Sheeran for years—one of his early EPs was called Songs I Wrote With Amy—but her "Thinking Out Loud" only made the cut after she took her financial troubles to Sheeran, who cut the track almost on the spot, earning her a large pile of royalties. It’d smack of publicity stunt if Sheeran didn’t follow through with this, such as by paying off her mortgage; it almost makes the record’s reign of sap worth it.
说Ed Sheeran竞争力弱，当然是不可能的。这首歌今年在电台上白天黑夜地循环，提名年度制作和年度歌曲，谁都不会奇怪。然而，年度歌曲奖是颁给歌曲作者的，而格莱美最重要的作用之一，就是让人们关注这些作者：他们很多都不被大众注意，甚至有时陷入财政危机。尽管大众熟知的是Ed Sheeran腐国民谣创作才子的形象，这首歌的实际作者却是Amy Wadge。这位威尔士唱作人，Ed Sheeran的死忠们一定非常熟悉：她和Ed早期有数年的合作，甚至Ed出过一张EP叫I Wrote With Amy；当她告诉Ed她的财政危机时，Ed立刻要下了这首歌，后来通过这首歌为她赚了大量的版权费。因此，Ed需要坚持帮助Amy彻底摆脱财政危机，否则（提名？）更像是一种噱头（这里我逻辑有点混乱，求梳理- -||）。而这样，这首歌的提名，凸显出了格莱美（关注作者）的意义，也算物有所值。

AND, TRAGICALLY, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD WHO LIKE "SEE YOU AGAIN"
最最最最最悲剧的事情：这个世界上居然还有人喜欢SEE YOU AGAIN！！！！！！！！！！！！！

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