The Grammys are the last victim of this tumultuous season

This has been unusually tiring for the entertainment world, between fervent reactions against Super Bowl half-time programming and hullabaloo to know who would host the Oscars (person), how many nominations have polarizing movies Green paper and Bohemian Rhapsody would receive (five each), how many nominees of original songs would perform in concert (all, apparently thanks to Lady Gaga), and well. . . we could continue.

But we'll stop there, if only to save our breath, in the latest TV series about prizes, this time about the Grammys. Pop singer Ariana Grande recently tweeted that she had pulled out of the scene due to a creative disagreement with her producers, while rappers Childish Gambino (Donald Glover), Drake and Kendrick Lamar all would have declined the series offers, which has history with hip-hop artists. This marks yet another difficult year for the Grammys.

It all started when Grammys producer Ken Ehrlich told The Associated Press In an article published Thursday, Grande and her animators had reached the point where a performance seemed possible to them, but she decided not to do it because she felt that it was "too late for her to do anything." ". Big was quick to refute this account on Twitter, his chosen media to deal with such issues.

"I can organize a performance all night and you know it, Ken," she wrote Thursday afternoon. "It's when your personal creativity and expression have been stifled that I decided not to attend, I hope the show is exactly what you want and more." She ended the tweet with her heart-black emoji.

Grande added that she had proposed playing three different songs, but that the process she had written had to focus on "art and honesty" and turn into a game: "This is not what music is for me," she concluded.

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The singer, who sent the tweets just hours before the release of her album Thank you U, Next, Won two awards this year: best solo solo performance for God is a womanAnd best pop vocal album for Sweetener. In addition to other general categories of terrain, Glover, Drake and Lamar all earned the record of the year It's America, God's plan and All stars, respectively. Ehrlich said The New York Times in an article also released Thursday that the rappers had also declined the invitation to perform during the show.

The tense relationship of the Grammys with the hip-hop community goes back several decades. In 1989, Will Smith and DJ Jazzy Jeff boycotted the show after learning that the presentation of the Best Rap Award was not televised, according to the same source. The Hollywood journalist. (Hollywood craftsmen have the same fears this year while the film's academy had previously announced its intention to present some Oscars during commercial breaks.It did not confirm which ones, but the rumors allude to the categories. techniques.)

Thirty years later, the Grammy Awards are still accused of mistreating hip-hop and R & B artists, who rarely win awards in the best categories. Some personalities that the Grammys have "alienated", for example The temperature, include Drake, Frank Ocean, Kanye West and Jay-Z, who called the 2018 Grammys specifically on a All is love, His joint album with his wife Beyonce. Although he received eight nominations that year – a record number – he returned home empty-handed.

Ehrlich, in The temperature interview, acknowledged that the Grammys "continue to have a problem in the world of hip-hop".

"When they do not win the jackpot," he said, "respect for the academy and what the Grammys represent continue to make less sense for the hip-hop community, who is sad ".

The Grammy also fought against gender inequality, a problem that came to mind last year. Best new artist Alessia Cara was the only woman to receive her own award during the TV broadcast, and Lorde, the only woman to win the album of the year award, was not invited to play her own music. A study published by the Innenberg Inclusion Initiative of the University of Southern California a few days before the ceremony revealed that out of 899 people appointed for the previous six editions, 90.7% were men.

Asked shortly after the show about the lack of winning women, the president of the academy, Neil Portnow, said that women needed to "step up" – now infamous words that immediately provoked outrage and that have been taken out of context. A few weeks later, the academy announced that she had hired Tina Chen, a lawyer and former chief of staff of Michelle Obama, to head a new working group on inclusion. and diversity. Portnow announced later in the year that he would not seek to extend his contract, which ends this year.

This year's show shows some efforts to combat these diversity issues – the academy, which The temperature reported invited 900 new members to vote, expanded the broad categories of five to eight nominees. Alicia Keys, 15-time Grammy winner, will be the first woman to host the ceremony for more than a decade.

Things Live Grammy Awards Monday afternoon, starting with the red carpet starting at noon.