'Not always about the music': Singer Halsey slams Grammys for snubbing her

Singer Halsey has called out Recording Acemy for its unfair practices, days after she was snubbed during minations for 63rd Grammy Awards. singer did t receive a single mination for her 2020 album 'Manic', which included chart-topping single "Without Me".

Taking to Instagram Stories on Sunday, 26-year-old singer said, "I've been thinking and wanted to choose my words carefully because a lot of people have extended sympathy and apology to me since Grammy minations."

Halsey slammed Recording Acemy for its "elusive process" in which artists are minated. "It can often be about behind scenes private performances, kwing right people, campaigning through grapevine, with right handshakes and ''bribes'' that can be just as ambiguous eugh to pass as ''n-bribes''," she ded.

Halsey furr said that "committing to exclusive TV performances" is only way artistes could secure Grammy minations, more than music itself. "It''s t always about music or quality or culture," she wrote.

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singer also lent support to Weeknd, who was also snubbed despite having released a popular album in "After Hours". "Just wanted to get that off my chest," her statement concludes. " Weeknd deserves better, and ''Manic'' did too. Perhaps it''s unbecoming of me to say so but I can't care anymore.

"While I am THRILLED for my talented friends who were recognised this year, I am hoping for more transparency or reform. But I''m sure this post will blacklist me anyway," Halsey concluded. Earlier, Weeknd, who was expected to rule main categories, after picking up multiple awards at both MTV VMAs and American Music Awards 2020, h called out Recording Acemy for igring him in minations.

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" Grammys remain corrupt. You owe me, my fans and industry transparency," singer, whose real name is Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, h tweeted after mination anuncement on vember 24. Responding to singer''s accusation, Grammy chief Harvey Mason said though he too was surprised that Weeknd did t receive any minations, every year number of artists vying for recognition at "only peer-voted music awards" is much more than minations.

Grammy minations are multi-step process in which committees, which include veteran music professionals, make ir decisions based on a shortlist handed down from a screening committee that considers thousands of submissions.