EDMBoston believes the big story happened back stage at the Grammy's. The vocal Kaskade spoke out to the press core about things needing to change at the Grammys. Kaskade brought light to the fact that "Best Dance Recording" and "Dance/Electronica Album" are only relegated to the untelevised pre-cast at the Grammys. Meaning not one person in the primetime audience last night witnessed the riches 2012's electronic music had to offer.
On one hand this could have been a good thing, considering...
the public would have thought Al Washer was a major player in EDM. However, it is a slight at the music industry's biggest live event category in the last three years.
"We're selling more tickets than any other artists out there. And I feel like it's our time to move into the primetime now. It's a slow evolution," he told reporters backstage at the Grammys. The Academy "has really embraced us... There's a lot of us out there."
If david guetta and deadmau5 were hot enough commodities to feature in last years Grammy's, in a silly primetime live performance, why not show off what the rest of the genre has to offer in prime time? Maybe it is because the Academy is ashamed of its voter's lack of knowledge of electronic music and the resulting nominations??? Just maybe?? It certainly isn't conforting when you have Kaskade saying in a press conference:
"The Grammys are putting in the necessary means that nothing like that ever happens again, that it really truly does reflect what's happening, that it's not somebody's friend that squeaked by," he said. "It felt very forced. No one was really aware of who [Walser] was and what was going on. It wasn't a representation of what was actually happening with the music and our world. It was kind of out of left field."
PS is Kaskade's non-jab/jab at the press core meeting secretly the greatest Al Washer joke:
"No one's refuting that [Walser] works hard," Kaskade countered, adding a little dig: "The space suit was a good touch."
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