I was surprised and can empathize with what he’s feeling. Mason also stated: “We understand that the Weeknd is disappointed at not being nominated. This content is not available due to your privacy preferences. All Grammy nominees are recognized by the voting body for their excellence and we congratulate them all,” Mason wrote. “To be clear, voting in all categories ended well before the Weeknd’s performance at the Super Bowl was announced, so in no way could it have affected the nomination process. Representatives for both the Weeknd and the Grammys did not respond to Yahoo Entertainment’s requests for comment, but the Recording Academy’s interim CEO, Harvey Mason Jr., did address the Weeknd’s accusation of corruption and TMZ’s story in a written statement to Variety. You owe me, my fans and the industry transparency.” It wasn’t clear whether Tesfaye was implying that he believed his shutout had been a retaliatory move by the Recording Academy or that he was simply complaining about the awards’ notoriously opaque nominations process in general. On Tuesday evening, the Weeknd (real name: Abel Tesfaye) took to Twitter to angrily address his Grammy snub, vaguely posting, “The Grammys remain corrupt. (Photo: Kevin Mazur/MTV VMAs 2020/Getty Images for MTV)
The Weeknd at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards, where his "Blinding Lights" won Video of the Year.
However, while Variety assumed that “the nominating committees legitimately, by the Grammys’ standards, chose other releases over in their categories,” TMZ speculated that “hammering out a deal to do both could've cost Grammy nominations.” Sources told Variety a similar account about this tense back-and-forth, though both TMZ and Variety reported that the Weeknd’s camp and the Academy had eventually come to some sort of agreement that would allow for both performances. 31 Grammy ceremony and on the Super Bowl LV halftime show a week later had grown “testy,” with the Recording Academy allegedly issuing an “ultimatum” demanding that the pop star choose between the two events. TMZ claimed that negotiations over whether the Weeknd could perform at both the Jan. Fans and industry pundits alike were baffled, but by the afternoon, TMZ had seemingly shed some light on the situation. When the nominations for the 63rd annual Grammy Awards were announced Tuesday morning, the Weeknd, who was widely predicted to be the leading nominee, was shut out entirely, in one of the most shocking snubs in Grammy history.
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