The Juno Awards are the Canadian version of the Grammy's. They started in the 1970s and were named after the first head of the Canadian Radio-Television Commission, Pierre Juneau, however his last name was shortened to Juno. The Juno's were created to recognize the talent and accomplishment of Canadian artists and bands, by having a 13-14 month period of work to be submitted and then a big ceremony is held in which the winners are awarded.
I personally am not a huge fan of the Juno's, yea I think that it is great that we recognize our Canadian artists but at the same time, they still get recognized at the Grammy's which awards all artists. Canada doesn't always need to act like they are so seperate. I understand that it tends to be harder or more rare for Canadian artists to "make it in the big leagues" but I find that the Juno's kind of just makes Canada look worse. Take this year's Juno's for instance...no one who performed sounded anything partially good. Everyone was off-key, or out of breath, just seriously didn't seem to know how to perform well live, which was a huge disappointment and made them look bad. It just comes across as a cheaper less important, less-elegant celebration. Frankly, I don't like the Juno's at all, and I think everyone should just be lumped together equally in one ceremony. But that's just my take on it.
Personally, if I want to recognize good Canadian music, I'll just put on a Rush album. Canada has produced some horrible music recently. Justin Bieber and that Nickelback garbage...can't understand why it's popular.
ReplyDeleteThat's why I think having one ceremony for all music would be kind of unfair. There should be different awards for different genres, not just mainstream stuff. Mass produced pop and souless rock gets enough recognition as it is.
I personally really like the junos they show case a lot of good Canadian artist and even if you're not a "JB" fan you have to give the kid some credit he did work hard to get to where he has gotten and i think that can be said for most Canadian bands, being a Canadian artist does make it a bit harder to break out into the industry because were in competition with the states, who produces so many talented artist as well.
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