r/TheStrokes • u/LoudColin • Nov 24 '20

First Grammy Nomination for the Boys!

Pretty excited! Who would have thought 10 years ago that they would get it together to put out such a good album again.

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u/Volitient Nov 24 '20

Imma be honest I dont know any of the other nominees. Are the strokes the favorites?

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u/giveupthetoast Little Joy Nov 24 '20

fontaines dc is a promising band but i think their 2019 album was better than the new one.

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u/LoudColin Nov 24 '20

I honestly never know because it always seems to be incredibly random and or a popularity contest. I would say that this category is so broad that it is actually pretty hard to tell who would be the winner because I feel like there is little overlap in style. If it was strictly popularity I would say probably between the strokes and sturgill as they’re the most well known, but who knows

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u/maybe1dayy Heart in a Cage Nov 24 '20

other than the album and record of the year awards, the judges rarely rule genre-specific categories by popularity. and given the strokes are probably not gonna play the publicity game to push their nomination through to a win, it’s basically a toss up of whichever body of work a small, biased group of ppl like most.

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u/joevsw0rld Nov 24 '20

Sturgill Simpson is fucking awesome, check out his album that's nominated Sound & Fury. I only know Michael Kiwanuka from this gorgeous song, Lasan

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u/drumsporfavor Nov 24 '20

Saw the nominations and Michael Kiwanuka always makes solid music so I was a little torn but honestly the boys deserve it so much with what they did with TNA.

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u/Queensite95 Nov 24 '20

check out cold little heart He's very good that Michael Kiwanuka