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Disappointment is essential to awards shows.
Would 2018 be the year when talent took priority above all else?
But still, last night, it had to be seen to be disbelieved.
Bruno Mars, who hardly lacks for talent, had himself the best night.
The usual sense of disappointment was amplified by a new factor.
(Apparently her record with sexual harassers under her powerisnt all that stellar either.)
Its not an easy time for the music industry, nor the awards show that reflects its values.
You could say that the Grammys are damned if they do, damned if they dont.
If only some genius could make an album tracing the complexities and channeling the tensions of such a dilemma.
But it would, just as certainly, never win the Grammy for Album of the Year.
