Pop star Justin Bieber finds his Grammy Award nominations strange, and is upset that his nominations were in pop instead of R&B categories.
Bieber earned four Grammy Award nominations for his album Changes, including Best Pop Solo Performance (Yummy), Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (Intentions featuring Quavo), Best Pop Vocal Album, and Best Country Duo/Group Performance (Dan + Shay’s 10,000 Hours).
A little after the nominations were announced, Bieber wrote a short letter to the Recording Academy on Instagram, sharing his thoughts on how his mission to make an R&B album was not honoured properly by placing it in the wrong category.
“To the Grammys,” he started his letter, writing: “I am flattered to be acknowledged and appreciated for my artistry. I am very meticulous and intentional about my music. With that being said, I set out to make an R&B album. Changes was and is an R&B album. It is not being acknowledged as an R&B album, which is very strange to me.” “I grew up admiring R&B music and wished to make a project that would embody that sound. For this not to be put into that category feels weird, considering from the chords to the melodies to the vocal style, all the way down to the hip-hop drums that were chosen, it is undeniably, unmistakably an R&B album,” he wrote on Instagram. (IANS)
