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this may seem sort of twisted, but i think i would really enjoy beating up that kalen porter girl :twisted:
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Hey! Did you see this one?
CD/DVD artwork design of the year: Seth (director/designer/illustrator) for A Story-Gram From Vinyl Cafe Inc. by Stuart McLean; Louise Upperton (director/designer), Christopher Mills, Kevin Drew, Justin Peroff (illustrators) for Broken Social Scene by Broken Social Scene; Rob Baker (director/illustrator), Garnet Armstrong (director/designer), Susan Michalek (designer), Will Ruocco (illustrator) for Hipeponymous by the Tragically Hip; Matthew Good (director), Garnet Armstrong (director/designer), Ivan Otis (photographer) for In A Coma: 1995-2005 by Matthew Good; James Mejia/Jud Haynes (director/designer/illustrator) for 2005 Album by Wintersleep.
Atta boy Will (et al)!
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Geeze. The rest of these lists reminds me of the days when Alannah Myles, Sass Jordan, Honeymoon Suite and Platinum Blonde were winning Junos <<shudder>>.
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Nobody learned their lesson from Kelly Clarkson's Grammy success, I guess....
These awards are about marketing more than anything else. They sure as hell aren't about merit.
I look at it this way: the music biz is cyclic. It's a rotten and corrupt money-making machine that shoves pablum into the ears of people who aren't discerning enough about music to decide what they like all on their own.
Then, every few years, there's a revolution. The birth of rock and roll in the 50s blew away hackneyed commercial country. The 1960s counterculture destroyed an entertainment paradigm utterly out of touch with reality. The Sex Pistols and other punk vanguards destroyed the aging 70s easy listening pop of the baby boomers. Nirvana et al consigned 80s pop to the trash bin, where it so richly deserved to be.
Each time this happens, the honeymoon lasts only long enough for the money men to figure out how to package the phenomenon, neuter it, and commercialize it. And they proceed to progressively neuter it, pablumize it, and stuff it into their hapless victims' ears.
We are now in the neutering phase, with punk-pop, various disposable and interchangeable female singer/sex symbols, and Nickelcrap.
I think we are about due for the next revolution.
Viva la revolucion, baby.
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Oh, and while I'm beating that cynical drum, the very existence of "alternative" categories at the Junos is intended to marginalize alternatives to pablum.
There are, by definition, now "mainstream" awards and "alternative" awards. The idea is to make "alternative" a permanent category outside the mainstream, and to market it as such.
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That is a god awful list of no-talent hacks if there ever was one...Skippy, I was just saying to some friends yesterday that the music scene is on the verge of a "Revolution", I actually used that word...and I don't think it can come fast enough.
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How Neil Young isn't up for ALBUM OF THE YEAR of beyond me.
Actually, I don't think I've ever seen Gord Downie (The Hip) up for SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR either. Pretty strange, considering the fact that he's probably the best lyricist in the country.
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*Yawn*... wake me when the people who do the Juno nominations get a clue...
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Well, despite all the crap-assed nominations... if anyone wants a reason to watch the Junos this year, yours truly and the missus will be in the GA floor area right in front of the stage. Hmm... perhaps I should get a Hipbase shirt and hopefully get some face time on-camera in some crowd shots...
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That's a great idea. I might actually watch the show if that's the case.
