'This has to be the last year that we award a pop star for a dance category,' says DJ and producer Heidi Lawden.
for bringing the sounds of underground clubs and warehouses to the world stage. But the music was somehow rebranded as pop. This year, it’s not.for a Grammy for best dance/electronic music album in 2022 observes, “Throughout the years whenever a pop artist does something that has elements of house, it’s never called house, it’s always called pop. Justin Timberlake’s “SexyBack” had every element of an underground house track, but because it was Justin Timberlake, it was no longer called house.
“Everything about me wants Beyoncé to win this year,” says Heidi Lawden, a fixture on the global dance music scene as a DJ, a manager, a promoter, a producer and a label owner for over three decades. “Not because of Beyoncé, but because of everyone who has touched the album who is deserving of recognition: Kevin Aviance, Honey Dijon, Luke Solomon. I want these absolutely integral people to get their flowers.
The Recording Academy acknowledgement of dance music as a legitimate genre deserving of its own categories took a long time. They established the ill-fated best disco recording award in 1980 after the genre had fallen out of favor. It lasted one year. This did not help in getting a best dance/electronic recording category instated for another 18 years.
“But,” she continues, “this has to be the last year that we award a pop star for a dance category. It needs to be re-examined. I don’t know if the people on the nominations committee are out-of-touch, or afraid. The Diplos of the world and his ilk are easy to find. You don’t have to dig. but if you’re going to award a dance album, it should really be from the world of dance. Honey Dijon herself should be winning next year for her album.
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