Rather than just focusing my opinions on this year’s grammy awards, I’d like to address my overall opinion on them over the years. I feel as if these awards lack categorization and do not include enough genre specific awards, i.e. as Dr. Baumer’s sample blog post states that african american musicians are overlooked, or in my opinion metal is also slightly overlooked. I feel like culture is least accepting of anything but plain hip hop music, which, sure, maybe it deserves an award for the talent they exhibit. But I feel as if others’ talents should be recognized. For example, last year the Grammy’s awarded one of my favorite bands, Ghost. But the applause for them was minimum and the thank you speech they gave was followed by awkward silence. I think sometimes the audience is disrespectful and even though maybe they aren’t happy about the artist nominated that they can take the time to applaud in a respectful manner.