{"id":89317,"date":"2024-06-25T15:06:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/06\/25\/what-the-grammys-new-rule-tweaks-mean-for-the-dance-electronic-community\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T15:06:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T19:06:14","slug":"what-the-grammys-new-rule-tweaks-mean-for-the-dance-electronic-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/06\/25\/what-the-grammys-new-rule-tweaks-mean-for-the-dance-electronic-community\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Grammys\u2019 New Rule Tweaks Mean for the Dance\/Electronic Community"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tLast week, the Recording Academy unveiled a flurry of rule tweaks<\/a> that will be implemented at the 2025 awards. Among these 10 changes, three are directly related to the dance\/electronic categories, and a fourth also affects those categories. <\/p>\n

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\n\tOne of the changes involves an award that was introduced to the Grammys just this year, with the best pop dance recording category now being called best dance pop recording. This tweak is not just a matter of aesthetics, but meant to make the category more accurately reflect the well-established style of dance pop music it was created to showcase. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe proposal for this name change, reviewed by Billboard<\/em>, stated that \u201clast year we conceded with Recording Academy staff to amend the award name to \u2018Pop Dance\u2019 rather than \u2018Dance Pop\u2019 for the purposes of classifying and defining: \u2018what kind of Dance.\u2019 However, the result of this decision has been one of regular confusion and clarification. Numerous articles in mainstream media would either \u2018correct\u2019 or get \u2018confused\u2019 or \u2018incorrectly label\u2019 the Grammy Award. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe confusion,\u201d the proposal continues, \u201chas also led some people to question if this is a Pop category award, or a Dance category award. It is of extreme importance to the Dance\/Electronic community, and the driving intention of the invention of the award, that it be recognized in the Dance category, albeit for the most Pop-leaning sounds of Dance music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWith this new category functioning as intended<\/a> during its debut this year, this change is likely to only help the category establish itself as a home for electronic music with a pop lean, allowing space in the best dance\/electronic recording category for more traditional electronic tracks and generally creating more space for dance\/electronic music at the Grammys. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe next rule change involves the best remixed recording category, which has long focused on dance\/electronic artists but was never an official dance\/electronic category. <\/p>\n

\n\tThat changes in 2025, with this category being moved from the production, engineering, composition and arrangement field into the pop and dance\/electronic field \u2014 a shift that makes sense, given how deeply remixing is embedded in and largely synonymous with the dance\/electronic realm. <\/p>\n

\n\tTo wit, the 2024 nominees in this category included tech house titan Dom Dolla and longstanding producer Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, with winners since the award was introduced in 1998 having included genre legends like Frankie Knuckles, Deep Dish, Roger Sanchez, Louie Vega, Justice, David Guetta, Skrillex and Ti\u00ebsto.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe next tweak changes the name of the best dance\/electronic music album award to best dance\/electronic album. The title change was made given that the word \u201cmusic\u201d was more or less considered unnecessary. <\/p>\n

\n\tMore crucially, this change also amends the definition of the category, which now states that \u201calbums must be made up of at least 50% dance\/electronic recordings to qualify.\u201d This change is quite likely a result of the nomination of and subsequent win for Beyonc\u00e8\u2019s Renaissance<\/em> in 2023. Given that the album is not composed entirely of dance\/electronic music, Renaissance<\/em>\u2019s inclusion in the dance\/electronic album category sparked major debate within the electronic music community. <\/p>\n

\n\tMany felt it wasn\u2019t a purely dance\/electronic album, while others embraced it not only for its music but for how it shined a light on the Black and LGBTQ origins of the genre music itself. Given this definition change, however, it\u2019s possible a similar album may be included in the dance\/electronic album category going forward. <\/p>\n

\n\tAnd while the final change is one that affects many categories, it\u2019s especially significant for dance music. The tweak states that all eligibly credited featured artists with <\/em>under <\/em>50% playtime will now be awarded a winners\u2019 certificate for all genre album categories. These certificates previously went only to producers and engineers with less than 50% playing time, mastering engineers (if they weren\u2019t also the artist) and immersive producers and immersive engineer\/mixers.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMost often,\u201d the proposal for this change stated, \u201ca Featured Artist would be a Vocalist that performed on one or multiple songs on the\u00a0record, but\u00a0didn\u2019t achieve 50% playtime as a whole (otherwise they would be a Grammy winner).\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile featured artists could still previously get a certificate, this certificate was not awarded automatically, and many featured artists were unaware that they were eligible to apply for a certificate, which also previously cost $150. This was different from the process for contributors like engineers and producers, who received certificates automatically for free.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Rules and Guidelines booklet for the upcoming 67th annual Grammy Awards sheds some light on certificates: \u201cIndividuals on a Grammy-winning recording whose roles are listed under Certificate receive a Winners Certificate from the Academy after the telecast but are not Grammy nominees or Grammy winners. These individuals can say they \u2018worked on a Grammy-winning project\u2019 but are not \u2018Grammy winners.\u2019<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAdditionally, those who worked in certain roles on Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated projects but are not nominees, winners or recipients of Winners Certificates can order a Participation Certificate. These can be ordered for a fee from the Academy website.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe proposal, introduced by members of the electronic music community, argued that in dance, this difference \u201cdisproportionately affects female creators or people of color,\u201d stating that \u201cvocalists in the Dance\/Electronic community are predominantly people of color and female.\u201d The last four winning albums in the dance\/electronic category (Fred again..\u2019s Actual Life 3 (January 1 \u2013 September 9 2022)<\/em>, Beyonc\u00e8\u2019s Renaissance<\/em>, Black Coffee\u2019s Subconsciously<\/em> and Kaytranada\u2019s Bubba<\/em>) included 27 featured artists, 14 of whom are women and 21 of whom are people of color.<\/p>\n

\n\tGiven that the dance\/electronic categories have had a dicey history in terms of representing women and people of color, this change opens up the category to recognize a more diverse group of artists. The change was co-proposed by Aluna, who last year expressed frustration<\/a> about the number of white men nominated in the categories. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou can say awards are bullshit but they ARE career builders,\u201d the producer-writer-singer and label founder wrote<\/a> upon the announcement of the new rule tweaks. \u201cToday I got word that a change I fought for was implemented at the Grammys and I want to explain why it\u2019s MASSIVE! As a Black woman in Dance music you get the message loud and clear; your value is as the Featured Artist not the main act. Labels, managers, leading (white male) artists in the field, festival bookers and media all tell us that our voices are incredibly valuable but investing in us as artists is rarely on the table. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNow, while I can\u2019t change this culture overnight with my label\u00a0Noir Fever,\u201d the statement continues, \u201cI saw that while being featured artists is our bread and butter, it\u2019s someone else\u2019s Grammy award so there\u2019s a simple shift that could be made; Featured artists need the credit they deserve when contributing to Albums. In the past if you poured your heart into a song on another artists\u2019 Album that won you still went home with nothing. Now I\u2019m proud to share that every featured artist who has sung on a Grammy winning album will get a certificate.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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