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shanerbaner16 t1_j7mnzlt wrote

Reply to Modern Tribal music by [deleted]

I don't know any music that's specifically "tribal". But I know a couple songs that give me that vibe:

Far fowls - nujabes

Melt - flying lotus

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Legitimate-Professor t1_j7fjsbt wrote

Reply to comment by newpotatocab0ose in Viola Davis achieves EGOT status at the 2023 Grammys and becomes third Black woman in history to do so by theindependentonline

But all audiobooks are up for Grammys so I don’t get your point. The Grammys are recording awards, it’s just that music is what most people consider when they think of recordings. That’s why they also give awards for remixes, producers, and songwriters. You wouldn’t say that if she won a producer award, would you?

All EGOTs operate this way because it’s close to impossible for someone to be at the top of the game as a screen actor (movie AND TV), musician, and theatre actor. Jennifer Hudson is exceptionally special for this, because she’s the closest of these 3 women in to having all 4 be full primary wins - but people said the same thing when she won a Daytime Emmy in 2021 for Baba Yaga. The fact that 3/4 awards that Viola won are prestigious performance awards (her Emmy, Tony, and Oscar) is incredible to me.

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theLoneliestAardvark t1_j7fd8uu wrote

Reply to comment by newpotatocab0ose in Viola Davis achieves EGOT status at the 2023 Grammys and becomes third Black woman in history to do so by theindependentonline

Pretty much every egot winner has something cheap. A Grammy for spoken word, comedy, or the cast recording for a musical that they also won Tony’s for or an Oscar or Emmy for a movie or tv production of the musical. The Tony’s is probably the only one without “cheap” awards but it also has more major awards and less competition than the others.

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sayleekelf t1_j7fcsx9 wrote

Reply to comment by newpotatocab0ose in Viola Davis achieves EGOT status at the 2023 Grammys and becomes third Black woman in history to do so by theindependentonline

Aren’t all EGOTs this way? I’m no expert on them, but I feel like they usually are mainstream awards earned in the winner’s primary field, then less notable or prestigious awards for the others. Of course still very impressive and worthy of celebration. I don’t think we’d have any EGOT winners if we expected them all to be from “main” awards

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newpotatocab0ose t1_j7emfmp wrote

Reply to comment by skychasing in Viola Davis achieves EGOT status at the 2023 Grammys and becomes third Black woman in history to do so by theindependentonline

Of course it’s nothing to scoff at! That’s not my point at all. It takes skill to properly pace and enunciate, and to add necessary drama, if applicable. She’s incredibly skilled. But it’s something that was written for consumption at home in a book. It’s bviously just my opinion, but it doesn’t really feel like a standard audiobook should be up for a Grammy award. It’s completely different.

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newpotatocab0ose t1_j7egrki wrote

Reply to Viola Davis achieves EGOT status at the 2023 Grammys and becomes third Black woman in history to do so by theindependentonline

Good for her, but that seems kind of like a cheap EGOT. Right? That’s supposed to represent your extreme talent in these various fields, with a Grammy obviously representing music. What she did is obviously no small accomplishment, but reading your book aloud is an entirely different ballpark then, say, creating a Grammy-award-winning album or piece of music.

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