February 11, 2019

Childish Gambino wins Grammy, skips the show, does a troll

LA Times makes an interesting point on Childish Gambino and his non-appearance at the Grammys: "Less than an hour into the telecast, Google pulled the biggest troll of the Grammys so far. The ad for a new phone sported an animated Glover in a seemingly silly dance-off with a digital avatar of himself... The ad spot largely just highlighted what’s absent from the Grammys. Glover’s always striking moves stood in stark contrast to the spot onstage where Glover, who skipped the ceremony entirely, would have been standing to accept one of the night’s marquee awards... If the artists writing the most trenchant, popular work and winning the big awards aren’t bothering to show up, has the genre already left Grammy behind?".