Attempted category fraud alert: Tyla to compete in Pop categories and not R&B
Tyla's 'Tyla' will compete in Pop categories at the #GRAMMYs, despite initially being submitted as R&B (via THR). pic.twitter.com/OXkCbc3ikb
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Tyla’s self-titled effort was submitted to best R&B album but was kicked to best pop vocal album by the Recording Academy’s R&B screening committee, which is not made up of Academy staffers but of artists, producers, songwriters and more who are deemed experts of the R&B genre.
If nominated in pop - an extremely stacked category - Tyla would compete alongside albums like Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department, Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft, Sabrina Carpenter’s Short N’ Sweet, Ariana Grande’s Eternal Sunshine and Chappell Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.
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I'm happy about this. Nothing about her music is r&b. This was an attempt at category fraud so she could win another grammy.