In the comments of Charli XCX’s Instagram post, Grimes shared her views on the Grammy Awards with her fellow artist. She wrote, “The [Grammys] are so irrelevant, I wouldn’t even sweat it. I stopped even clocking them in any capacity when I was on the producer of the year board and they quite literally would not allow me to nominate anyone who wasn’t on a pre-fabricated list that was exceptionally boring.” Grimes also stated that she was only one of three women on that board as well as the only person under 40. “It’s literally not a relevant thing. I tried to nominate [producer] SOPHIE and was told that wasn’t allowed,” she added.
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The website for the Recording Academy, the body responsible for the Grammy Awards, lays out how the voting process for the awards works, including the submission, screening, and nomination processes. The Recording Academy also reported eliminating nominations review committees in 2021, allowing nominations in all of the categories to be determined by a majority of Recording Academy voting members. The Academy welcomed a more diverse membership class of over 2,000 musicians and musical professionals to vote on this year’s awards, which may reflect a change from Grimes’ past experience. However, there is no clear demographic breakdown of the overall membership, which consists of 12,000 voting members, according to Billboard.
