Blame It On The Rain

You've Gotta Blame It on Something

You've Gotta Blame It on Something

This past week while attending Adobe MAX, I was walking to the L.A. Convention Center past the Grammy Museum and noticed the various awards in the sidewalk for the main winners for each year.  While walking over the 1990 plaque, I noticed that for the category of Best New Artist, the winner was ‘No Award Given’.  It didn’t take too long to figure out that it was Milli Vanilli.

I find it odd that this would be how they described that award category.  Milli Vanilli did indeed win that award for that category that year, but it was later revoked due to the lip-syncing issue.  Saying that no award was given is not accurate.

I think the plaque would have been a good opportunity to discuss the issue up-front as it makes more interesting history and does not leave Milli Vanilli off the hook.  As this plaque is currently, both Milli Vanilli and the Grammy’s get to pretend the incident didn’t happen.

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