I will have to disagree with that, Becky. The Grammy Awards weren´t always a joke. It became a joke as MTV got power and by the time Sony Music bought Epic Records, CBS Records and so on...

Michael Jackson´s Thriller is undoubtly a masterpiece, even for those people in the biz who now criticize him to death. It simply inspired almost everyone out there, no matter what kind of music people are playing. Just an example... Sheryl Crow used to be one of Michael Jackson´s backing vocals at that time. Look where she is now. Well... the thing is that music changed a lot, and now the industry is a complete bunch of stereotypes and image-driven commerce instead of good art. Music´s history is being told wrong. Elvis didn´t create rock and roll. He became popular and helped rock and roll become too. So did the Beatles. But what people forget or don´t know is that the rock and roll roots comes from the black people, who turned the blues into rock and roll and r&b. Today we got several genres of music which are all descendant from the black origins. That´s what Michael Jackson is currently trying to make everyone see. But hey... media also changed. They´re not interested in that. They want money. So they create dirty and "cool" pop artists in order to get their bills paid and expand their global presence.

So, I come to the conclusion that not only the music industry and the Grammy Awards are a joke nowadays. The whole media is among this kinda garbage. I am not saying everyone out there on MTV and in the press is bad. No, I´m just trying to make my point on the biz matter. There are artists who don´t need that. There are those who do. Why doesn´t Elton John sell like he used to? What about Michael Jackson? Let´s remember that the king of pop´s last album was considered a flop by the press. But it sold over 9 million copies worldwide with no massive promotion. Hasn´t Crush reached something like that? OK, now we know that the industry is made of stereotypes and not actual facts.

Michael Jackson said this year "good art never dies" in a response for all the crap Sony has made with the promotion of his last album. Now it seems they´re willing to pay for his comeback (cause he´s now a free agent) and fix their mistakes, without Tommy "Devil" Mottola´s hand. Hope it works out and hope he uses Sony for a goodbye promotion. This is all sh*t, I go insane when I read something like this, and I shall say my music taste is also very far from the mainstream, so very few exceptions.

Well... don´t worry if Bon Jovi don´t get any Grammys. If they do, great. If not, great too. As long as they keep doing good music that´s all what matters to me.

Thanks for reading