Grammy Award: Toy for millions

The twenty -fourth issue of the program "Music at Free" is dedicated to commercial modern music. Rock Critic Artemy Troitsky overcomes internal prohibitions and talks in detail about the music competition for millions and hundreds of millions to demonstrate its boundless possibilities.

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Some radio listeners are interested in what principles I take away the songs? Or they ask me to include music in the program performed by famous artists. I will answer today the respected-both this: the program "Music at Free" is devoted to music at large, not music in the framework of show business.

Indeed, strictly speaking, almost all the so-called pop stars in fact in fact inhabited only one tiny section of musical space, limited by the notorious poppies, the Mainstim Rock and hip-hop. In addition, these mass consumption products were produced almost exclusively in two countries - the USA and Britain. I try to expand these frames in free music: due to alternative rock, author’s song, blues, folk, music around the world, including quite exotic ones.

Nevertheless, in order not to be known as the snob and illuminate the and so brightly lit segment of the world musical process, I decided to see what is being done there on the side that is being done in this very show business? Naturally, the easiest way to find out about this is to find out who receives Grammy awards , awards of the most noisy and prestigious world of musical cleaning the prize in the brilliant world. And now we will see and listen to who became the winners of the Grammy Prize of this year.

The most prizes, that is, somewhere about five or six, including in the nominations "Record of the Year", "Album of the Year", "Best Song of the Year", "Best solo-performer of the year", and so on, received the English singer Adele . A pretty artist, performing a dramatic pop-blouse, from whom it turns out something like modern city romances. "Song of the Year" performed by Adele is called Hello. There is, in addition to singles, also on the latest album Adele, "25". Like the two previous long -playing records of the singer, she is so named by the number of years performed by her exit (the first disk, if you remember, was called "19").

In the most popular nomination, the Best Pop Group defeated a relatively new American duet, in my opinion, absolutely not out of any direction, but, nevertheless, since we undertook to consider business in the clearing of show business, then let's listen to it. The group is called Twenty One Pilots , “21 pilots”, and it was formed in the city of Columbus, Ohio, in 2009 and consists of young people named Tyler Joseph and Josh Dan . Their latest album, the fourth in a row, which was also nominated there, but did not, however, Grammy, is called Blurryface , the "vague face". I will present you with this album - a hit of the Twenty One Pilots duet called Stressed Out. I repeat that the popularity of Twenty One Pilots - and not only in illegible adolescents, but also members of the American Academy of Sound Recording, which steers Grammy is a complete mystery for me.

Beyoncé is a famous singer, a multiple laureate, who also received the Grammy Award this year - in the Urban category, that is, "City Music". This refers to music with “black“ roots ”-Soul, Funk-and the dance bias. Beyoncé was nominated for his Lemonade album and in the“ Best Rock Artist ”category, but there was nothing there. One of the tracks from this album, a real mix of rock, Soul and hip-hop, we’ll listen to Beyonse here and here. The famous American guitarist and producer are playing along with, the last participant in the White Stripes duo Jack White is called the Don`t Hurt Yourself song, "not to be harmful to yourself."

Among the Grammy nominations there are classical music (by the way, the only section in which musicians from the USSR and Russia became laureates), and rap, and rock. In rock, by the way, almost all prizes - and not only for sentimental reasons, but absolutely deservedly, got the late David Bowie , well -known (I have not devoted part of one of the programs to him) with the Blackstar album. This "black star" received the title of "rock album of the year", the song of the same name defeated in the nomination "Best rock-song of the year" and so on. And in the category of country music, the Grammy prize for the best country album received a very nice performer, one of those musicians who are trying to breathe into the traditional American "rural" style of a new sound. The album is called Sailor's Guide to Earth , "a guide for a sailor traveling along the ground", and the artist's name is Stargill Simpson. By the way, it is interesting, that the guitarist Stargilla Simpson is an Estonian citizen, but by nationality there is also an Estonian, the name of Laur Joamits is called, and all of Estonia is very happy about this circumstance. Here is the composition of Brace for Impact .

I am quite respectful about the well-made pop music, although I do not like the inherent glamor. But to be honest: returning to my exotic endless kindergarten, I feel a sense of great relief.

Playlist of the program "Music at Free" (release 24):

1. Bonga (Angola). Banza Remy, LP Recados de Fora

2. Hannah Cohen (USA). Just Take The Rest, Lp pleasure Boy

3. Hackney Colliery Band (UK). IT's Normally Bigger, LP Sharpener

4. Adele (UK). Hello, LP 25

5. Twenty One Pilots (USA). Stressed Out, LP Blurryface

6. Beyoncé ft.jack White (USA). Don`t Hurt Youurself, LP Lemonade

7. Sturgill Simpson (USA). Brace for Impact, LP A Sailor's Giude to Earth

8. Dez Mona (Belgium). Get out of her, lp live

9. Los pirañas (Colombia). Lambada de Oceania, Africa Y America, LP Toma Tu Jabon Kapax

10. Fei Scho (Germany). GEHT SCHO, LP AUSSEGRASN

11. Claudia aurora (Portugal/UK). Promessa, lp mulher do norte