Why even bother showing up at some of these awards shows?
Last night Taylor Swift won 10 Billboard Music Awards. “Won” is a flexible term, but anyway…
Taylor sent in a video acceptance speech but so did everyone else. Everything on the show was canned. The audience was cast so it looked like there people spontaneously enjoying themselves.
This is the new world for at least the B list awards shows where the winners are not only known in advance but arranged for by record companies, managers, and publicists. I like the idea that all pretense is gone, and these are just assembled commercials. It’s very Trump era cynicism.
Swift, meantime, somehow sold another 200,000 copies of her “Tortured Poets Department” album this week. It’s heading toward 7 million total. SoundScan is now accepting QR sales report from Mars.
