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Chris Brown getting nominated for (extra) Grammys is incomes main backlash. Well-deserved backlash.
Chris Brown has been accused of quite a few wrongdoings, together with beating up his personal followers. He pleaded responsible to assaulting Rihanna in 2009, confirming the legal costs towards him at the moment.
Which implies that Chris Brown not an “alleged” monster; he’s only a monster. It is understood.
And but … the business does not appear to care. Neither do whichever folks truly hold shopping for his music.
Gross! Chris Brown has been nominated for extra Grammys
The Grammy nominations are in! Many of the names are precisely who you’d count on after a strong 12 months for music.
Obviously, Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter are up for Grammys. Beyonce is as soon as once more a music business MVP, even when some awards exhibits have snubbed her.
Charlie XCX. Taylor Swift. Billie Eilish. All music that ordinary folks with style doubtless listened to (even when not everybody listens to all of or solely this music, after all!)
But then, the Grammy Awards nominations take a bitter twist.
For Best R&B Performance, Chris Brown has a nomination for “Residuals.” For Best R&B Album, Chris Brown has a nomination for 11:11 (Deluxe).
The Best Contemporary Christian Music Performance/Song consists of anothe rnomination. Chris Brown was one of many individuals who labored on “Praise.” And for Best African Music efficiency, Chris Brown has a Grammy nomination for “Sensational.”
Obviously, Chris Brown getting Grammy nominations is getting well-deserved backlash
Even although Twitter is in its demise spiral as a platform, tweet after tweet is looking out the Grammy Awards for nominating Chris Brown.
An admitted home abuser who has been accused of getting different victims will very doubtless get to stroll onto the stage on the subsequent Grammys and maintain up an award.
Some of his accusers could also be within the viewers. Alleged victims who’ve by no means come ahead could also be there. Future potential victims may be there, assume that he should be an okay individual, and discover out the laborious method that he’s not. Whatever occurred to the “cancel tradition” that terrible dudes are at all times whining about?
The grim actuality, after all, is that “cancel tradition” as so many individuals imply it by no means truly existed. And that’s unlucky.
Yes, there are completely individuals who spend their free time callout out others on social media. Usually, it’s for clout, and could be for invented causes — fandom disagreements and the like. In that sense, positive, “cancel tradition” exists. But that’s not what folks imply after they say it.
The “cancel tradition” in direction of sexual predators, abusers, and different monsters? If latest political occasions have taught us nothing else, it’s that we don’t stay in a ok or simply sufficient society for many of the evil in our midst to face significant penalties.
‘Cancel tradition’ isn’t only a fable; it’s a grift
In truth, for years now, claims that somebody is “silenced” or “deplatformed” or “canceled” have been nothing in need of farcical.
The working joke is that these males get their very own talking excursions, their very own Netflix comedy specials, their very own information segments, their very own Grammys. All in order that they will focus on simply how a lot “cancel tradition” has harmed them. There’s a whole business that has cropped up round grifters coasting on the declare that they’ve been unjustly “canceled.”
In the case of Chris Brown, he’s up for a Grammy Award. Again. Because folks hold shopping for his music. They hold going to his concert events. And then report corporations and members of the academy hold nominating him for awards that he may by no means deserve.
