so..artists singing their old songs can be nominated for this year's grammys?

[144000]

notice here...Sara Smile by Hall and Oates..and Celebration, by Madonna have been nominated for this year. yes..it makes me wonder why nothing from THriller 25 got nominated, the year it was released. anyway...here is the list:

Grammy Awards 2010 Nominations List
Album of the Year:
* “I Am…Sasha Fierce” - Beyonce Knowles
* “The E.N.D.” - Black Eyed Peas
* “The Fame” - Lady GaGa
* “Fearless” - Taylor Swift
Record of the year:
* “Halo” - Beyonce Knowles
* “I Gotta Feeling” - Black Eyed Peas
* “Use Somebody” - Kings of Leon
* “Poker Face” - Lady GaGa
* “You Belong with Me” - Taylor Swift
Song of the Year:
* “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” - Beyonce Knowles
* “Poker Face” - Lady GaGa
* “Pretty Wings” - Maxwell
* “Use Somebody” - Kings of Leon
* “You Belong with Me” - Taylor Swift
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals:
* “I Gotta Feeling” - Black Eyed Peas
* ” We Weren’t Born to Follow” - Bon Jovi
* “Never Say Never” - The Fray
* “Sara Smile” - Daryl Hall & John Oates
* “Kids” - MGMT
Best Rap Solo Performance:
* “Best I Ever Had” - Drake
* “Beautiful” - Eminem
* “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)” - Jay-Z
* “Day ‘N’ Nite” - Kid Cudi
* “Casa Bey” - Mos Def
Best Rock Album:
* “Black Ice” - AC/DC
* “Live From Madison Square Garden” - Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood
* “21st Century Breakdown” - Green Day
* “Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King” - Dave Matthews Band
* “No Line on the Horizon” - U2
Best New Artist:
* Zac Brown Band
* Keri Hilson
* MGMT
* Silversun Pickups
* The Ting Tings
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance:
* Adele - “Hometown Glory”
* Beyonce Knowles - “Halo”
* Katy Perry - “Hot N Cold”
* Pink - “Sober”
* Taylor Swift - “You Belong With Me”
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance:
* John Legend - “This Time”
* Maxwell - “Love You”
* Jason Mraz - “Make It Mine”
* Seal - “If You Don’t Know Me By Now”
* Stevie Wonder - “All About the Love Again”
Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals:
* Rosanne Cash & Bruce Springsteen - “Sea of Heartbreak”
* Ciara & Justin Timberlake - “Love Sex Magic”
* Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat - “Lucky”
* Willie Nelson & Norah Jones - “Baby, It’s Cold Outside”
* Taylor Swift & Colbie Caillat - “Breathe”
Best Pop Vocal Album:
* Black Eyed Peas - “The E.N.D.”
* Colbie Caillat - “Breakthrough”
* Kelly Clarkson - “All I Ever Wanted”
* The Fray - “The Fray”
* Pink - “Funhouse”
Best Dance Recording:
* Black Eyed Peas - “Boom Boom Pow”
* David Guetta & Kelly Rowland - “When Love Takes Over”
* Lady GaGa - “Poker Face”
* Madonna - “Celebration”
* Britney Spears - “Womanizer”
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance:
* Beyonce Knowles - “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”
* Melanie Fiona - “It Kills Me”
* Lalah Hathaway - “That Was Then”
* Ledisi - “Goin’ Thru Changes”
* Jazmine Sullivan - “Lions, Tigers & Bears”
Best Male R&B Vocal Performance:
* Anthony Hamilton - “The Point of It All”
* Maxwell - “Pretty Wings”
* Musiq Soulchild - “Sobeautiful”
* Pleasure P - “Under”
* Charlie Wilson - “There Goes My Baby”
Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocals:
* Jamie Foxx & T-Pain - “Blame It”
* India.Arie & Musiq Soulchild - “Chocolate High”
* Musiq Soulchild & Mary J. Blige - “Ifuleave”
* Robert Randolph & The Clark Sisters - “Higher Ground”
* Calvin Richardson & Ann Nesby - “Love Has Finally Come at Last”
Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance:
* Beyonce Knowles - “At Last”
* Anthony Hamilton - “Soul Music”
* Boney James & Quinn- “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight”
* Ann Nesby - “Sow Love”
* Calvin Richardson - “Woman Gotta Have It”
Best R&B Song:
* Jamie Foxx & T-Pain - “Blame It”
* Jazmine Sullivan - “Lions, Tigers & Bears”
* Maxwell - “Pretty Wings”
* Beyonce Knowles - “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)”
* Pleasure P - “Under”
Best R&B Album:
* Anthony Hamilton - “The Point of It All”
* India.Arie - “Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics”
* Ledisi - “Turn Me Loose”
* Maxwell - “BLACKsummers’night”
* Charlie Wilson - “Uncle Charlie”
Best Contemporary R&B Album:
* Beyonce Knowles - “I Am…Sasha Fierce”
* Jamie Foxx - “Intuition”
* Pleasure P - “The Introduction of Marcus Cooper”
* Trey Songz - “Ready”
* T-Pain - “Thr33 Ringz”
Best Rap Performance By a Duo or Group:
* Beastie Boys & Nas - “Too Many Rappers”
* Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent - “Crack A Bottle”
* Fabolous & Jay-Z - “Money Goes, Honey Stay”
* Kid Cudi, Kanye West & Common - “Make Her Say”
* Kanye West & Young Jeezy - “Amazing”
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration:
* Beyonce Knowles & Kanye West - “Ego”
* Keri Hilson, Kanye West & Ne-Yo - “Knock You Down”
* Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West - “Run This Town”
* The Lonely Island & T-Pain - “I’m On A Boat”
* T.I. & Justin Timberlake - “Dead And Gone”
Best Rap Song:
* “Best I Ever Had” - Drake
* “Day ‘N’ Nite” - Kid Cudi
* “Dead And Gone” - T.I. & Justin Timberlake
* “D.O.A. (Death Of Auto-Tune)” - Jay-Z
* “Run This Town” - Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West
Best Rap Album:
* “Universal Mind Control” - Common
* “Relapse” - Eminem
* “R.O.O.T.S.” - Flo Rida
* “The Ecstatic” - Mos Def
* “The Renaissance” - Q-Tip
Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television, or Other Visual Media
* Miley Cyrus - “The Climb” (From “Hannah Montana: The Movie”)
* Paramore - “Decode” (From “Twilight)
* A.R. Rahman, Sukhvinder Singh, Tanvi Shah, Mahalaxmi Iyer & Vijay Prakash - “Jai Ho” (From “Slumdog Millionaire”)
* Beyonce Knowles - “Once in a Lifetime” (From “Cadillac Records”)
* Bruce Springsteen - “The Wrestler” (From “The Wrestler”)
Grammy Nominations: 2010 List

 

[DuranDuran]

Because it's a new recording (not the 1976 version), not a re-release or a remix. It's the same as if someone else remade it, like Bill Withers winning a Grammy in the mid 1980s for Club Neuveau's remake of "Lean On Me". When a song was written is irrelevant.

 

[144000]

Because it's a new recording (not the 1976 version), not a re-release or a remix. It's the same as if someone else remade it, like Bill Withers winning a Grammy in the mid 1980s for Club Neuveau's remake of "Lean On Me". When a song was written is irrelevant.

so...if MJ releases wanna be startin somethin, and it happens to sound a little different, and has AKOn as a guest, it is not the same as Hall and Oates, putting out a new recording of Sara Smile, without rearranging the song? aren't they both new recordings, except one act decided not to rearrange the song? Michael's vocals are new, and it's not a rerelease, and it's not a remix of the eighties wbss...it's a remix done in a new recording.

 

[DuranDuran]

I really have no interest in award shows, so I don't care who is nominated. They're phony, and always has been. It's all bribery and record business politics, maybe Sony didn't campaign for Mike to be nominated. The voters don't just pick what gets nominated out of thin air from the hundreds or thosands of records released every year. The record companies submit the music for the voters to nominate. They also supply money or that stuff that they give the performers in those gift baskets. A lot of the stuff isn't even listened to by the commitee. Do you really think that they all listen to whatever is nominated for "Best Spoken Word" or "Best Polka" or "Best Native American"?

 

[144000]

I really have no interest in award shows, so I don't care who is nominated. They're phony, and always has been. It's all bribery and record business politics, maybe Sony didn't campaign for Mike to be nominated. The voters don't just pick what gets nominated out of thin air from the hundreds or thosands of records released every year. The record companies submit the music for the voters to nominate. They also supply money or that stuff that they give the performers in those gift baskets. A lot of the stuff isn't even listened to by the commitee. Do you really think that they all listen to whatever is nominated for "Best Spoken Word" or "Best Polka" or "Best Native American"?

no..actually i don't. i agree with that. that's why i don't respect awards, like i used to during the beginning of Michaelmania. but i do feel the awards committees were swept up in the Michaelmania, at first,and all of MJ's awards are legit...but later, with the media hate against MJ, it was easier for them to get more political..this is why, even tho some may not agree with me, and tho it may be flawed to some, for me, the greatest award a musician can get is when consumers plop down their money for that artist. and for me personally, that's MJ's greatest reward. and, quite frankly, he outsold a lot of people, and the later award snubs cannot erase that. and i do respect the WMA's and other awards that do go by sales. the majority of people are swept up, financially..., and acknowledge it..by good music.

 

[mjscarousal]

I really have no interest in award shows, so I don't care who is nominated. They're phony, and always has been. It's all bribery and record business politics, maybe Sony didn't campaign for Mike to be nominated. The voters don't just pick what gets nominated out of thin air from the hundreds or thosands of records released every year. The record companies submit the music for the voters to nominate. They also supply money or that stuff that they give the performers in those gift baskets. A lot of the stuff isn't even listened to by the commitee. Do you really think that they all listen to whatever is nominated for "Best Spoken Word" or "Best Polka" or "Best Native American"?

Exactly..... its alot of politics and things going on behind the scenes... Look at everyone being nominated. Its very predictable just like it is every single year. I really could care less about it.