The Weeknd Opens Up On Grammy Snub Says He Has Moved OnLike many other artists, The Weeknd, was without a doubt anticipating a bunch of GRAMMY Award nominations especially for his top-selling album After Hours. After Hours was certainly one of his greatest pieces of art ever released and so suffice it to say his expectations weren’t necessarily farfetched. The album had a clear vision behind it, as evidenced by over a year of performance art and identity play by the artist. To the artist’s surprise, when the big day came around, his name was nowhere to be seen. He did not have even a single nomination in any categories.
This would later see the artist who was frustrated about the whole thing of being snubbed, call out the GRAMMY committee on social media for the next couple of days after he received zero nominations. Since then, things have however changed as he seems to be over the situation.
“Look, I personally don’t care anymore,” he said during his recent cover story with Billboard’s Carl Lamarre. “I have three Grammys, which mean nothing to me now, obviously. It’s not like, ‘Oh, I want the Grammy!’ It’s just that this happened, and I’m down to get in front of the fire, as long as it never happens again. I suck at giving speeches anyways. Forget awards shows.”
Members of his team, including Wassim “Sal” Slaiby, La Mar C. Taylor, and Amir “Cash” Esmailian, were also interviewed for the piece. They were a little more annoyed about the snub. Taylor termed it “shocking”. Slaiby added it was “disrespectful”. And Esmailan claimed the situation was “nightmarish”.
“I use a sucker punch as an analogy,” said The Weeknd about not being nominated. “Because it just kind of hit me out of nowhere. I definitely felt … I felt things. I don’t know if it was sadness or anger. I think it was just confusion. I just wanted answers. Like, ‘What happened?’ We did everything right, I think. I’m not a cocky person. I’m not arrogant. People told me I was going to get nominated. The world told me. Like, ‘This is it; this is your year.’ We were all very confused.”
