why the GRAMMY'S suck | Mike The Music Snob 

Cardi B won a grammy. That's enough evidence that the grammy's don't mean shit.

Cardi b winning was very disrespectful to hip hop in general. She didn't deserve to win.

Cardi B has literally been spoon fed bars that she didn't even write and gets an award for best Rap album, Dear God, help us all

I can feel that mike had been drinking whiskey for 5 hours before he did this video

Simpsons said it best. "HEY! DON'T THROW YOUR GARBAGE DOWN HERE!"

If the Grammys don’t want to air rock and metal awards and artists, okay fine. But what is really inexcusable is when they commemorate the dead musicians from that year and completely neglect metal and rock icons, like Vinnie Paul and the Rev.

I hate the Grammys

At least there was no Maroon 5.

Nailed it.

You know its gonna be good when Mikes gonna talk about Cardi B

The last time I remember anyone getting something they deserved at the Grammy's, was back in 2013 when Daft Punk won. My Metalhead heart has a soft-spot for Daft Punk.

The only band that deserved a Grammy was Trivium. They may have gotten nominated, but they deserve it all.

Mike the Music Snob didn't get Best New Artist. That's the worst part of it all.

I can't tell, but I'm pretty sure Mike doesn't like Cardi B?

The Grammys left out Vinnie Paul and Fast Eddie Clarke from their 2018 obituary list. That alone is a kick to the groin.

I didn’t watch the Grammys and my jaw is on the floor right now at the fact that you said that Greta Van Fleet won best rock album. Edit: excuse me, I meant Greta Van Zeppelin

“Sad but true!”

Sigh, where do I begin (a RANT) . . . When I attended the 1st Metal exhibit at the Grammy Museum (folks, you'd be surprised who was represented, and their interactive kiosks in the overall museum actually has a Metal section with almost ALL subgenres), albeit small, about 5 years ago, was very cool and the staff who created it were all Metalheads. When I went outside around the Staple Center in downtown LA (also met dUg Pinnick of Kings X, Rob Flynn of Vio-lence/Machinehead, Brian Slagel founder of Metal Blade and said hello to Steve Vai as they were heading to the "Golden Gods of Metal Awards"), I sat to get a bite to eat, and I was talking to an older gentleman who happened to be a member of the Grammy's, who was a Jazz and Classical composer. He had said that the main reason many genres don't get represented were because of "Time constraints"; "Do you recall that the Grammy's used to be more than 3 hours long?" - my 1st thought was, I didn't care how long, but when I was younger, I naively waited to see "someone" represent Rock, and later, Metal and Progressive music that I actually cared for (I taped the Metallica/Tull fiasco on VHS as it happened - and I'm a Jethro Tull fan as well ;). But that statement basically answered many questions, and as you have pointed out Mike, all that matters is "What is POPULAR". The 2 curators of the Metal Exhibit were 2 women in their late 20's/early 30's that were Metalheads, and told me that the staff of "volunteers" were all metalheads as well. So I asked them the question everyone wants to ask; "What the fuck is up with the Metal category; 'Best Metal Performance'? Why not 'Best Metal Album', what, these people think that Metal is about Hit Singles, its about crafting ALBUMS?" - They laughed and agreed, they said its a HUGE frustration for them in many ways, but they also brought up that its the Metal Industry themselves that are also to blame. They (from photographers, engineers, artists/illustrators, producers, crew and the bands/musicians themselves. Whoever is a grammy member) don't want Metal to be homogenized, sanitized, watered down or become popular where everyone will make it stale and boring. I think they may have thought _way beyond_ what I (and everyone else) wanted; bands from the past and the new to get recognition from their peers. And most importantly (in my head), they would get more recognition in the industry, that it would cause those in the industry to clean up their act, and these bands would get exposure to more people - in turn, more albums sales, more concert tix sold, and they could make a living doing what they love. But year after year of disappointment, I had enough and gave up on the organization. But the truth is, the industry is almost destroyed, but Metal survives because of 1 factor the most . . . . US. Their "peers" were not the mainstream grammy members, but other musicians, producers, engineers (etc.) and WE the fans. Metal and Progressive Rock (and all the subgenres) thrive because of its International fanbase, the most loyal group of people to _each_ band that is out there; Classic, Obscure or new and exploding. The struggles still continue, but the stronger survive and persevere. Jazz and Blues has been on a decline (unfortunately) for the past few years, and less heard by the community that invented it. But as Mike says; Rap/Hip-hop is the dominant music heard everywhere. Its in commercials, its in stadiums, in movies/backgrounds, TV shows, where you eat, where you shop . . . its overkill, and I can not sit through it as it ruins my meal :p (if it augments other musics, it can be cool, but I never could get into the music on its own, no matter underground or pop). Its no surprise that people have championed mediocrity, took music for granted, and the acceptance of formula and the familiar has killed the radio. Even many Country performers, for the past 20-30 years sound like Pop muzak with a southern accent (as my late-father used to say). Watch these 2 documentaries why "popularity" is championed: 1. www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/ 2. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/generation-like/ I came to the conclusion that the best bands of Metal and Prog will stand on their own, the genres will always thrive and never die. Where 50 people say; "Metal has become boring", me and millions of others will always find something unusual because we LOOK for it. Metal will always be obnoxious and piss people off, even other Metalheads because it needs to "evolve". Progressive Rock/Metal will always be virtuosic, bombastic and break rules to keep it all interesting, and BOTH will "weed out the weak" as both are an _exclusive_ music . . . that EVERYONE can join in and enjoy, its "our" niche, its different than all other musics that are more known and accepted, it doesn't follow an industry standard. But our music has longevity, we don't listen to older bands and albums as nostalgia, WE listen to them because its well crafted music that stands the test of time. Note: the last bastion of "musicianship" was the category; "Best Rock Instrumental", but the Grammy's put an end to it in 2012 - See the winners and "nominee's" especially: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Award_for_Best_Rock_Instrumental_Performance So everyone can listen to their "flavor of the weak" while washing the dishes, or as background muzak to keep the pulses in their brain active, the rest of us can listen to music and lyrics with depth, music that challenges our heartbeats and brains to think on another level, to be surprised, and stop what we are doing to intensely listen to a part of a song (or its entirety) that is filling our soul with brilliance, being astounded, or wanting to make us air guitar/drum or bang our collective heads . . . and we can see them do it LIVE and actually playing real instruments with all they have learned and crafted. No matter if they are the most obscure or known bands, they push their stamina/will and craft to the maximum. "1" band in the ridiculous "Best Metal Performance" category is not going to represent each Metal fan, because there are TONS upon tons of bands out there from every shore and continent, and most of us can list 50 or more bands a year that hit us like a ton of bricks . . . not just 1 band that a grammy member randomly picked, because their son's girlfriends cousin who has listened to Metal for 2 years liked said band (and even if its a band we actually enjoy!). That's my rant and I'm sticking to it \m/. Loved your vid Mike! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Nvuv0357O8I.html Porcupine Tree said it with much less words . . . "Hear the sound of music Drifting in the aisles Elevator Prozac Stretching on for miles The music of the future Will not entertain It's only meant to repress And neutralize your brain Soul gets squeezed out Edges get blunt Demographic Gives what you want One of the wonders of the world is going down It's going down I know It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares No-one cares enough Now the sound of music Comes in silver pills Engineered to suit you Building cheaper thrills The music of rebellion Makes you want to rage But it's made by millionaires Who are nearly twice your age One of the wonders of the world is going down It's going down I know It's one of the blunders of the world that no-one cares No-one cares enough" - The Sound of Muzak .

Bad enough the super bowl performance was bad but here wow and you know is bad when Cardi B wins a grammy at this point anyone can win a grammy is a joke.

Hey tobias forge made an appearance so that was cool. St vincent also sounds interesting to say the least

I can smell your whiskey breath though the screen

This is the reason why I seek out my own music

i hate the grammys but i was quite happy that childish gambino won

Can we also just mention that for their in memoriam they left out Vinnie Paul, Kyle Pavone, Oli Herbert, and XXXTentacion. Explain Grammys explain yourself. EDIT they also left out Eddie Clark from Motörhead and Dolores’O Ridian from the Cranberries

1:40 Best metalhead impression ever! lol

The funny thing is that GVF won Best Rock Album 2018 for their 2017s EP.

Awesome point of view! Glad we have someone like you. The more voices like yours, the more the Hollywood elite will be ignored

I'm old enough to remember when bands like "The Doobie Brothers" were winning Grammys. But even then, you had a lot more Debbie Boones &KC & Sunshine Bands getting nominated and sometimes winning Grammys, over the Led Zeppelins, Genesis's, ELO's and Peter Framptons. The Payola, coked-up A&R parties and Don Kirshner/Bill Graham/Robert Stigwood-influence in pop music, was what was driving all the nepotism, fake stars and fame over talent-formula. No idea what's driving it today. *shrugs*

The American Music Awards just happened. Billie Eilish won best new artist... and best alt-rock artist. (yes, really). Taylor Swift won best album. Post Malone won best rap album. This is why these award shows don’t mean shit to anyone who actually cares about music.

Love the T-Shirt 😎

Totally agree, also I wish more people knew about the loudness wars, it's hard to keep up with current mixing styles and stay true to your art form. Great video!

Grammys are good for the publicity of the less popular artist when they they are nominated, especially in the big categories. Janelle Monae, Kacey Musgraves etc. Got great exposure for the album of the year. It did wonders for Arcade Fire.

The Grammys should be re-named the Unit Movers Award.

I appreciate your videos dude. Lol. They make life a little better.

I never thought about that perspective. I always simplified it as rap becoming mainstream because it had the "cool" factor everyone wanted to be a part of it. Your points make sense, especially the sex sells aspect. Even women in hip hop nowadays always rap in a hypersexualized way. It's just funny, even new country is borrowing from r&b/hip hop beats now like pop does. Snaps are in every song.

I'm soooooo envious! Your hair🥰😍

Mass seduction won best rock song. And what do ya know, it's *surprisingly* the most non-rock out of the other nominees. Yaaayy.

Simple music, for simple minds.

You came up in my recommended, watched the Cardi B one and agreed fully. I'm currently watching the and once you mentioned the loudness wars I was decided. I'm subscribing.

Your videos make me smile. I'm not a "metal head", but I feel like we're on the level. Keep going! ✌

This is differently one of my favorite videos done by you so far. :)

Virtually any celeb who has achieved a "star" status, music related or not, has performed atrocious and gruesome acts to get there. It's when those individuals start to crack under guilt and corruption, we find out in the news that they did in fact do those things. R.I.P. Mr. Jackson

Just discovered your channel; Only a few videos now, and i'm already a huge fan.

Thank you, Mike, got putting all my thoughts and emotions about this topic inti words.

I haven’t watched the Grammys since 2004 🤣

Hip hop has taken over the top 40... I call it garbage, it's even an insult to hip hop

That was your best, most concise, and informative rant yet

This was such a well constructed video and i couldn't agree more with your statement.

I forgot the Grammy's still existed

I watched the ice in your glass melt for nine minutes and you have yet to even drink half. But knowing that youre mike the music snob you probably finished 2 bottles before hitting record haha love the vid

I love the editing in this video mike, adds a lot of character to your already likeable personality, keep up the good work!

I am watching this at my office and that whiskey is making me want a pour. Great video as usual Mike by the way.

Mike: 7:39 Me: wait what was that last bit? Mike: “go and do his own thing”?

Everything is not the same like 10-20 years ago, things were more real back then

Love the edits in this :D

Loved this video, was really looking forward to it since the grammys ahahaha

I lost faith in humanity because I can't nor do I want to admit that this pile of golden turds have talent let alone great music. this is the biggest FU in history not to just rock and metal.but to all music of the world and the smart people who live in it 🤘⚡🎸🇺🇸

"Time to make me forget that I'm alive!!!" I want that tattoo'd on me.

Cardi B exist : Mike : Lets kick some arse 😁

Glad I stumbled across your channel dude, keep up the good work.

I really really really really hate Hip-Hop music. I listened to it exclusively for the majority of my life because I felt safe listening to the music everyone around me was listening to. I felt so safe that I never even tried to branch out. When I finally did I honestly just felt pissed at Hip-Hop as a whole genre, it’s not rational but I just can’t go back to it because of that.

Vinnie Paul

Thanks for this birthday gift, Mike.

I love your vids Mike, very articulate, great points that are well backed up always thoroughly explained and most importantly, all the content is spot fucking on!

3:32 you can hear Mike's sanity snapping when he has to repeat "Greta Van Fleet won the Best Rock Album"

You see the fact that it's alot easier to sell a single icon than a group in rock and metal all the time where fans obsess about the singer and ignore the rest of (the equally as important) band

I was waiting for this soooooo bad

I think I'm in love with you dude! Thank you for your thoughts.

I'm really pissed of things like these. Everyone can see that other artists deserve these awards and honestly i have no idea why nothing is happening to make Grammys at least a bit better. I won't mention they, sometimes, give an award to someone who died but if he was alive they wouldn't even think about it ( and that's hypocrism ) or to those who are first in charts because people make them overrated and are hyped calling them " Oooooh the queeeeen ! " ( yep, i'm watching your videos a lot :3 ) without giving specific terminologies about why they are queen or king or idk what the hell. I have no idea how you are so relaxed explaining, i just want to throw and smack everything around and outside of the window XD Omg idk how to explain what i want to explain, but you did and you always do in your videos so thank you for it :') PS: You can't imagine how many mouths i shut, in argumenets with friends etc, when i mention what you mention in your videos :3

I admire for speaking your mind

5 years later and I still watch this laughing at how great it is

love the editing on this one

Look, Queen never won a Grammy, Pink Floyd never won a Grammy, Led Zeppelin never won a Grammy until 2014, and David Bowie never won a Grammy for music until after he died. The Grammys are a farce and a fucking joke. Metallica knew it when Jethro Tull beat them in thee hard rock division and most of us have known it for years. I haven't watched them for almost two decades now.

I scrolled a bit through the comments, and one thing I didn't find was anyone talking about K-Pop. One of the points Mike made was about his "Michael Jackson" thing. I believe it is true to an extent. As much as I despise most of that genre, almost every single mainstream artist is a boy band. Yes, K-Pop has life and attention just because they have a bunch of pretty boys with make-up that were, in a sense, trained to be used by private media companies and to basically be an introverted teenager's wet dream, but from what I have seen, the main artists there are good at making a choreography, but lyrics are aimed at, again, introverted teenage girls. There are few of these artists that I truly believe would never use a "ghost writer", and even then, the lyrics I talk about are absolute garbage. But, they're still a boy band most of the time. I'm not trying to disprove Mike, I believe in his little theory, I just believe that it is true to an extent. Other than what I've already said, K-pop is still filled with obnoxious, unoriginal and truly boring things, and I don't say this as a metalhead, I say this as a musician. But, I'll repeat myself, just because it's the norm doesn't mean there aren't exceptions. I've done my research, some of these guys are actually talented, some using things like reggae beats and other genres to fuel their music. But who knows, maybe they aren't even the ones who wrote them.

My favorite video of all time! The Grammys epitomize everything that is wrong with the industry

Quick question how did we go from great bands like the beatles the rolling stones pink floyd metalica queen slayer green day black sabbath iron maiden tool dream theatre my chemical romance to niki manaj cardi B maroon 5 imagine dragons five finger death punch limp biscuit nickleback ETC?

Rip Vinnie he didn’t even get a mention at the Grammies

One good thing: post malone and rhcp singing dark necessities

this guy’s videos are improving by time i hope he gets to the top one day he deserves it

I absolutely love the t-shirt

A lot of hip hop has become the butt rock of the current era

I spent almost the entire video watching that ice melt, watering down perfectly good whiskey. Invest in some good whiskey rocks, my man. Cheers! 🥃🥃

Love that type of Mike!

That shirt dude, I love it! Reminds me of the pink "DEATH METAL" shirt, with the rainbows, that Dan Avidan wears sometimes! :,D

I’ve been pursuing my career since I was 14. Majored in music, and political arts and science in my mid 20s. I write my own music, have learned to play instruments, but singing, writing, and arranging is my focus... But because I won’t be controlled, or put into a box because I love all music, and can do it all, basically I’ve been training in the arts since brith... Am also a pretty good 👩‍🎨 as well... And I agree with you. I’m in my mid 30s now, and I don’t quite fit the industry’s standards, so it’s disheartening because it’s in my DNA 🧬 music, and in my bloodline. And to see someone who has out right said they don’t care about music it breaks my heart... I’ve tried everything to pursue my dreams, and have been rejected so many times in my pursuit that I’m jaded now, but it’s my passion, I live to create, and sing! I’m not going to stop because if I did I would have no purpose... Even though I’m struggling, and barely staying afloat I will not give up putting the magic back into music. SN : I love your content.

Just wanna recognize the fact that Trivium got nominated.

Wow!.u know ur shizzz...thumbs up to ur recording knowledge...

This rant made me feel alive

Todays pop music industry is so beyond fucked. That’s why I am a metalhead.

Interesting thoughts on why hip hop replaced rock in pop music! I did some analysis of the Billboard Hot 100, and since 2010 there have only been 13 songs (out of ~580 songs) that I categorize as "rock songs" that made the top 10. The other ~567 songs were basically rap, hip hop, R&B or pure pop. (My loose and liberal definition of a "rock song" here is basically a driving electric guitar and drums in most of the song and/or an electric guitar solo. Rap-rock doesn't count, but there were only a couple of those, "Berzerk" by Eminem in 2013 and "Take What You Want From Me" by Post Malone & Ozzy Osbourne last year. Imagine Dragons and Twenty One Pilots might be rock, but their top 10 Hot 100 hits weren't rock.) I may have missed a handful of songs, and this is subjective anyway. jonas brothers - sucker (2019) dnce - cake by the ocean (2016) elle king - exs and ohs (2015) walk the moon - shut up and dance (2015) paramore - ain't it fun (2014) pink - try (2013) bruno mars - locked out of heaven (2012) neon trees - everybody talks (2012) taylor swift - red (2012) taylor swift - if this was a movie (2011) foster the people - pumped up kicks (2011) adam lambert - whataya want from me (2010) taylor swift - mine (2010)

I've never watched the grammies in my entire life. Thanks for validating my decision lmao

I'm back, Not just the day you post this but also it sucked this year. There pissed off again this year.

I don’t think rock/metal or any really good music in general will reach the billboard any time soon and that’s fine cus we know that it actually takes skill/talent and that’s enough imo

Then again, HoF won in (sadly non-Televised) metal category, and they were arguably the least mainstream-appealing band that was nominated

Man you NAIL IT all the Time!🎉✊👍😝😁

I love this editing lol

That whiskey is looking pretty full

“It came out of the hoods” you’ve never sounded more like an awkward dad 😂 bless

i love ur shirt bro

What an cool video of ice cubes melting in a glass of Jim Beam, AMAZING!