As you all probably already know, the 54th Annual Grammy Award nominations were announced last night, and Kanye West was the big winner. However, he was also the biggest loser.
Kanye West led the pack — receiving seven Grammy nominations for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and his collaboration album with Jay-Z, Watch The Throne.
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So why was he the biggest loser?
Because, even though he received the most nominations over any other artist this year, he was snubbed for Album Of The Year for his masterful My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
What? That’s completely unacceptable!
Here are the albums that were nominated for Album of the Year for 2011:
Adele – 21
Lady Gaga – Born This Way
Bruno Mars – Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
Rihanna – Loud
OK, we understand Adele’s album and the Lady Gaga album. We get it — those were great. But Bruno Mars, Foo Fighters and Rihanna? Over Kanye?
We were thinking things over, however, and we have theories.
Here are the seven Dark and Twisted reasons why Kanye should have been should have been nominated for a Best Album Grammy.
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Because it’s more than just a hip-hop album.
He had Fergie and Alicia Keys sing solos on a song where he’s talking about slapping his girl. He had Bon Iver sing on a track while Jay-Z rapped about how he served fiends. He had John Legend smoothly croon while he viciously aired out his ex-chick. This ain’t just hip-hop, Grammy people! It’s a mixture of mad genres. So don’t only box it in with the rap albums.
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Because controversy can be great art.
Kanye wanted his album cover to be him boning a white phoenix with what we can only assume is a Heineken bottle in hand. Of course the suits at Wal-Mart wouldn’t let him rock, so he had to settle with a blurred version of that cover. But how cool is that original cover?
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Because being douchey is in style now, and Kanye created the greatest douche-anthem of all time.
In this era where self-serving reality TV stars are more prevalent than ever, it’s only right that they have a proper douche anthem. Well, “Runaway” is that song. It’s a song that will be remembered and cherished by assholes and douchebags for years to come.
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Because he aired out a lot of dirty laundry on this album.
He never once mentions her name, but this entire album is one big 70-minute-middle-finger to Ms. Amber Rose up there. Artists should be rewarded when they are willing to bare so much of themselves on a project. Now, let’s compare that to Bruno Mars, who recorded a song about being f*cking lazy. (And that was no shots to Bruno Mars. We got love you for you, brah.)
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Because excess is freakin’ cool, dammit!
There was no album released over the last year that was as grand as My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. There was a 2-minute electric-guitar break, six-minutes of incoherent robotic singing, raps about losing $30 million dollars, Chris Rock going on an epic rant, videos with naked golden women, Elton John, etc. Hell, he made the entire album in front of a Hawaiian sun over some crepes. Give the man some damn props, Grammys!
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Because there’s always a chance he could pull a Ol’ Dirty Bastard and bumrush the stage.
Couldn’t you just see Kanye run up the stage, manhandle Adele for the microphone and start to yell “Kanye West is for the children!” Trust, if you thought what he did to Taylor Shift was wild, just wait until Grammy night.
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Because shouldn’t the bad guy win at least once?
No, we don’t think Kanye is a bad guy, but we could understand why others would feel that way. The last couple of years have been a public relations disaster for Kanye. From his run-ins with paparazzi, to the Taylor Swift thing, to the interview with Matt Lauer, we could understand why a publicist would run for their life when they see Mr. West.
Mix all that in with the fact that the album is like the perfect evildoer backdrop — from the sinister sounding synths to the dark keys — and this is the bad guy album right here. And the bad guys desperately need a win.
