Why Was Kacey Musgraves’ Album Disqualified From Grammy Country Nominations? Insiders Weigh In

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Grammy nominations are always fraught with drama, but it started early this year — six weeks before the nominations are even announced — when the president of Kacey Musgraves’ record label fired of…

after years of criticism and accusations of self-interest, culminating in the Weeknd being shockingly excluded from all nominations last year.

“The idea that a handful of people including competitors, who would benefit from Kacey not being in the country category, are deciding what is country only exacerbates the problem,” Mabe writes in her letter to the Academy chief. “The system is broken and sadly not just forbut for our entire genre because of how these decisions are made for music’s biggest stage. Building roadblocks for artists who dare to fight the system is so dangerous and against everything I think the Grammy’s stand for.

The decision was split, though: A song that Musgraves and her label submitted as a country song, “Camera Roll,” stayed in the country song category.

 

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