The Weeknd is officially boycotting the Grammys
he broke up with them
first!
On Thursday, the Canadian pop star behind the history-making hit "Blinding Lights" said that he will "no longer allow my label to submit my music to the Grammys," accusing the institution's "secret committees" of shutting him out of a nomination this year.
Though the Grammys are voted on by music professionals, an anonymous ("secret") committee is able to alter the final nominations as they see fit. The committee exists, supposedly, to help adjust for awareness bias (when artists with greater name recognition are favored over lesser-known emerging artists), although "the lack of transparency makes artists suspicious about the process,"