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To me, expanding existing genres seems to be a way to keep the awards current with modern styles. 20 years ago, a LOT of the existing categories didn't even exist.

I would just question whether lyrical content alone would be the right way to categorize. Aren't genres there for the listener, so that if one likes a certain genre, they might also like another artist in that genre?

Only Christian music usually has at least one use of the word "God", or "Jesus" in it and is generally inspirational in topic, but there are many different sub-genres of Christian music. I've even listened to some Christian music that I didn't know was such - it just sounded like good pop/rock to me. Others are more acoustical in style.

We can also talk about the "blues" as a lyrical category as well as a stylistic genre.

Taking the "gay topic" as another example, if someone wanted to listen to lyrics about gay issues, would they want to hear both acoustic jazz AND gothic metal songs on that topic? Don't people tend to like music STYLES rather than lyrical subjects?

Just a few questions to ponder...I haven't made my mind up about it yet.


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Larry
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