2012 Grammy Nominations: Skrillex and deadmau5 earn top honors
The 2012 Grammy nominees were announced yesterday, and the selections prove that the people responsible for picking them are completely clueless. There are three EDM-related categories this year, including Best Dance Recording, Best Dance / Electronica Album, and Best Remixed Recording. Top honors go to Skrillex, who scored an astounding five noms — each of the three aforementioned dance categories, Best New Artist, and Best Music Video. To put things into perspective, that’s the same number of nominations as Lil Wayne, and two less than the most-nominated man of this year, Kanye West. Deadmau5 was also nominated for all three dance categories, and David Guetta secured two. To see all the nominees — and hear some thoughts on them — keep reading below.
BEST DANCE RECORDING :
Raise Your Weapon – Deadmau5
Barbra Streisand - Duck Sauce
Sunshine – David Guetta & Avicii
Call Your Girlfriend – Robyn
Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites – Skrillex
Save The World – Swedish House Mafia
The first word that comes to mind to describe the nominees for Best Dance Recording is “random.” The fact that “Sunshine” is in here and “Levels” is not is an absolute atrocity. Hat tip to Swedish House Mafia, but this whole list feels quite random. “Barbra Streisand” — seriously?
BEST DANCE / ELECTRONICA ALBUM
Zonoscope – Cut Copy
4×4 = 12 – Deadmau5
Nothing But The Beat – David Guetta
Body Talk Pt. 3 – Robyn
Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites – Skrillex
We’d be shocked if Guetta doesn’t bring this one home with Nothing But The Beat.
BEST REMIXED RECORDING
Cinema – Benny Benassi (Skrillex Remix)
Collide – Leona Lewis (Afrojack Remix)
End of Line – Daft Punk (Photek Remix)
Only Girl (In The World) – Rihanna (Rosabel Club Mix)
Rope – Foo Fighters (Deadmau5 Mix)
Skrillex’s remix of “Cinema” is probably the shoo in, but Afrojack’s remix of “Collide” could become even more infamous if it somehow takes the crown.
One thing is clear about all of these nominations: dance music is about to be thrust onto the American mainstage in a very big way. The Grammys are a major part of American music culture, and EDM is finally getting the recognition it deserves.
im sorry dancing astronaut but Barbra Streisand was by far the most influential dance tune of the year, but i do agree that theres no way levels shouldn’t be up there as well.
Wut?
i seriously laughed when i saw this i thought it was a joke.
prolly b/c levels was released after september 30th…i bet it’ll be nominated next year
agree as far as dance music itself ok barbra striesand did not hit hard around the world. . . but in the US it went big. Its a great track, I love it, look at the fact that its featured in video games. US wise that was a big track. World wise not so much a hit but not out of the park, It should be up there for US i think its well deserved and LEVELS should def be up there released late or not that was one of the most anticipated releases of for a long long time
Are you people insane? I agree with Wonderfunkk. Barbra Streisand?!
If Vegas would take it I’d bet the farm Paradise (Fedde Le Grand Remix) is on the list for top remixed next year.
Yea but duck sauce was in 2010.. LOL
barbara streisand is weak. big bad wolf is their better track! go youtube the video for it haha!
And what about a Tiesto track in there?? Zero 76?
the most influential dance tune of the year…??? …yeah if you base your opinion off what high school prom DJs play
I personally don’t understand why any EDM fan cares about who the grammy awards has nominated for this genre. It’s about as pointless as the DJ Mag poll, both are popularity contests and a joke. For instance I’m no fan of Avicii or Guetta but let’s be honest Sunshine has no place on this list. It’s just not good enough. They needed to put Avicii on this list because of Levels, and since it was realeased so late instead they probably randomly choose another song of his and said “Oh look he did one with David Guetta, that’s definately a good one” and nominated it.
shm best liveact… obv…
skrillex is just a big looser and i hate his music -.-
Barbra Streisand hit hard, but not enough to be nominated. And if this tune is there, so Levels (the best ED music in the last 5 years at least, imo) should be a no brainer. It got dropped in the Christmas of 2010, but hit hard at 11.
My prediction of the winners (since the Grammy’s are mainstream, like DJMag top 100):
1. Save the World – SHM
2. Nothing But the Beat – DG
3. Cinema (Skrillex remix)
Who I think should win:
1. Raise Your Weapon
2. 4×4=12 or Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites
3. Cinema (Skrillex remix)
FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YO MOMMA IS A BITCH
GUETTA’S A BITCH.
FUCK TIESTO!
i really like avicii in fact he is my favorite dj at the moment but WTF man why isn’t levels on here. I fucking hate guetta right now before he was better but now all this crap with pop it just doesn’t go remember the days of the world is mine. skrillex is great but scary monsters is a year old and lets not even say anything about barbara striesand it fucking doesn’t deserve this position and for shm there was too much hype around save the world but undoubtable a very good track but LEVELS was day better in all senses
Levels might be nominated next year, but I don’t know how it was overlooked this year
FUCK OFF! u asshole from the dinosaur world dont even know wht electronica music is.. lol. pathetic!
whtever man
Skrillex <3
against me? whtever.. u r from the fucking damn dinosaur years anyway :P.. just, go back to where u belong.
Late to this, but needs to be addressed before the Grammy’s take place this weekend. First of all, none of you seem to know shit about the Grammy nomination process, and second of all, Levels wasn’t even SUBMITTED. It was released in OCTOBER, which is past the deadline for this year’s Grammy’s, so it didn’t qualify. Plain and simple. Maybe next year, but for now, Sunshine will do since that one was actually submitted by Guetta’s team. I doubt it will even win considering how much the Grammy’s seem to be trying so hard to hand Robyn her first trophy and the fact that Skrillex is nominated in a Big Four category along with a song and album nod in the Dance categories. So quit the whining because no one here seems to know what the hell they’re talking about.