Brittany Howard, John Prine Among Array of Nashville Grammy Honorees The Highwomen, Billy Strings, Fisk Jubilee Singers, Miranda Lambert and more took home trophies Tweet
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Awards shows are generally overblown affairs, which is part of why we ask a seasoned cultural critic like Ashley Spurgeon to take a poke at the big ones when they come around. (Sadly, Spurgeon wasn’t available this weekend, so no Oh Balls™ recap this time.) But the messages they send get to a huge audience regardless. It’s good to see a focus on the work of women, Black people and other people of color among the slate of nominees and winners just a couple of years after The Recording Academy’s then-leader responded to criticism by telling women they needed to “step up” if they wanted to be recognized.
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Ashley Spurgeon is a lifelong TV fan â nay, expert â and with her recurring television and pop-culture column And Another Thing, she ll tell you what to watch, what to skip, and what s worth thinking more about.Â
Like millions and millions of kids, I grew up loving Disney movies, including quite a few of the ones with the Princesses â Belle and Cinderella were my favorites. But I also loved media-critical media:
The Simpsons,
Calvin and Hobbes,
Mad Magazine. And all those white Gen-Xers (and your more anti-establishment boomers) instilled a maxim I basically agree with: Disney is evil. So a deep, perhaps correct part of me feels as if, someday, Iâm going to have to issue a dril-style apology and retraction for this article praising content from multinational mass-media conglomerate The Walt Disney Company. Expect a future addendum: âYou do not, under any circumstances, âgotta hand it to them.ââ Because