4. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Wins Every Award Except the Big One
Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was ranked number 1 on virtually every critic’s list of the greatest albums of 2010, and yet when it finally became eligible for the 54tt Grammy Award in 2012, it wasn’t even nominated for Best Album. Billboard, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin and even Time magazine all placed the album on the top of their lists, but the Grammys felt the album should be relegated only to their rap categories. Though it did win the Best Rap Album award, many critics felt this was an obvious snub, another in a long line of examples of how out of touch the Grammys have always been.
That year, the Album of the Year award went to Adele, whose powerful performance of “Rolling in the Deep” earlier in the ceremony proved she deserved it. However, by completely leaving Kanye out of the nominations when the rest of the musical world was in unanimous agreement he made a near perfect album shows intentional ignorance. Some felt Kanye was snubbed due to his past outbursts at award shows, while others point out the unfair snubbing is what causes those outbursts in the first place.
