I was under the impression that the Grammy award for Best New Artist was not given for the current album, but for the artist. So, I checked the Grammy site and, lo and behold, in the Best New Artist category, no albums or songs or even labels are mentioned. I've quickly scrolled through the entire list of nominees for 2011, and unless I missed something in EVERY other category, usually a song or album and always the label is mentioned.

http://www.grammy.com/nominees

But that's only a peripheral issue. The thing is, no matter how much anyone speculates, nobody knows why people like or dislike things. Are the grammies rigged? I don't know, maybe. Here's their process: http://www.grammy.org/recording-academy/awards/voting-process

Either way, though, I'm happy Esperanza won, and I don't particularly like Dave Letterman (though I'm a big fan of Will Lee's smile ).

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way. -Johnny Cash

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-niteshift

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