@@Malkmusianful Eh, I personally wouldn't say excellent. Distinctive and recognizable, definitely! The main thing I liked about the Crash Test Dummies................was that they never made the same album twice. Their debut was a very stripped-down acoustic-driven folksy, occasionally country-adjacent affair. Then it was followed up with a more polished, radio-ready sophomore album that leaned more into adult alternative rock. Then "A Worm's Life" cranked the guitars up more as a whole. Then after that album failed they completely changed their sound up with R&B, soul and electronic influences. Then they went all-out country, then had a sleazy wah wah pedal-heavy come-on album, then a bare-boned apocalyptic religious record of sorts, etc. I respect them greatly for always keeping you guessing where they'd go next. The main drawback with them in my opinion................was how inane some of Roberts' lyrics could truly get. When he hit he really hit: especially with broaching all these bizarre topics pretty much no one else would touch.................but then you'd get stuff like "Keep A Lid On Things" that would really make you scratch your head.
The story of Lauryn Hill is just the darkest of Ironies. She got the love and support from making her album and very likely ended up saving people with her music, but she couldn’t save herself (music-wise and mentally), kind of like that Tragedy Of Darth Plagueis story, except instead of the Apprentice… It was fame.
Yeah the only hit by Hootie & The Blowfish that I know is "I Only Wanna Be With You", and even with that song I wouldn't say it's a song that deserves an award. I'm not really mad at the fact that they got nominated, just pretty shocked & confused (just like with Andrea Bocelli, if that's how you spell his name)
I'm a sucker for retrospectives, so I'd totally be down for this series to continue with other decades. 00's would definitely give me a nostalgic tickle, but the 80's would be fun to learn (more) about.
I'm flabbergasted that the Spice Girls weren't nominated. At the very least, I wanted Ginger Spice to grow old and wise with three grammies under her belt - a sort of Geri hat trick!
@@TheJbhmetal- 1997 was when the 90s - and all of popular music - pretty much died. 0r at least been dealt a major blow. All the math is there: 1997 - Spice Girls/Hanson/BSB/post-grunge/pop-punk 1998 - boy bands on Disney Channel 1999 - Ricky Martin, Britney/Christina, TRL, nu-metal 2000 - napster / 2001 - 9-11 / 2002 - AMERICAN Idol (go USA get dem liberdals and islams ima patriut w00000! git-r-done and pissing calvin and all that) late 2000s - High School Musical, Glee... little kids never saw the world 10-15 years earlier, so here they thought all popular music has to be like this. 2010s - soundcloud and tiktok. you know the rest right? I say it all stems from 1997. Still had great music and shows, but the teen pop that teens HATED was ALL OVER the place and it was ALL OVER.
@@rayanna7188 More than double, actually! One of the secrets of the 90s was that grunge didn't do as well in the numbers as everyone assumes - especially not on the pop charts, but even in album sales. I remember reading an article estimating the 10 top-selling artists of the 90s, and it had *Elton John* but no grunge bands at all! Thank you Lion King soundtrack, eh? Another way to put it: Only 2 albums from the grunge wave ever went diamond. Nu-metal had 3.
@joshthefunkdoc man that's kinda sad that grunge didn't get the appreciation it deserved. but hey, at least 2 grunge albums were popular! and let me guess, was Nevermind one of the 2 grunge albums that went diamond? I hope so
@@joshthefunkdoc The Lion King soundtrack wasn't the only popular thing that Elton John did in the '90s. His Princess Diana version of Candle In The Wind did gangbusters.
@@rayanna7188 Nevermind and Ten are the two Diamond Grunge Albums. There's also a few post-grunge albums like Human Clay by Creed and All The Right Reasons by Nickelback. Nu-Metal has Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park, Devil Without A Cause by Kid Rock, and I'm not sure how genre classification goes, so maybe the third one is Fallen by Evanescence?
The fact that this is the video where I learn that the Spice Girls somehow never even got nominated for Best New Artist in the year when they were basically the only artists anyone talked about is stunning, but it's why this is such a great series because of that extra detail of "Oh here's who else was eligible then" element. I hope there are more of these, so many of the decades have fascinatingly weird choices to talk about I can't wait to hear them all (just saying, the 1960s list of winners looks insane)
i like watching both crash and todd because crash can ask "were they cursed?" and i can point and go "oh i know this one!" edit: let me be clear this isn't me saying anything about crash's content. i would LOVE to see more of these. i love learning even more about stuff that i was cognizant for but unaware of.
The Dixie Chicks are an interesting case cause they were technically a band since the 80s, but with a completely different lineup. Wide Open Spaces was the first album with the classic lineup that they're known for
Nas not getting credit from the grammys for ILLMATIC in 1995 was probably the ultimate foreshadowing for his career when it comes to the grammys lol. top 5 rap record of all time and nothing. Just recently got a "we messed up here's your grammy for being a legend" grammy
The list for 1999 is even more complicated when you consider that Natalie Imbruglia was nominated off of a cover song. "Torn" is just an English cover of a foreign song.
@@NFSF1McLarenTechnically speaking, the English version *was* the original version-it was apparently meant to be a solo song for Anne Preven back in 1991 before she and cowriter Scott Cutler formally formed Ednaswap, but that record never materialised-but the first released recording was Lis Sørenson's Danish version in 1993, with the band releasing a studio version in 1995 and Natalie Imbruglia, an Australian, covered the English version in 1997. Fun fact: One of the cowriters on the song was producer Phil Thornalley, who is probably best known for his association with The Cure during the early '80s.
I gotta say Crash: I'll always be around for these long-ass videos. Ever since getting into you in 2019, I've always enjoyed sitting and listening to you ramble on about music for hours on end. The insights, the comedy, the recommendations (seriously, I 100% owe becoming a Barenaked Ladies fan all to you man). Even if I don't recognize half the artists you talk about (zoomer speaking), you make me want to go out and explore. Not much to say other than thank you for being one of my favorite youtube reviewers. 😊
1) Sheryl Crow was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The ceremony won't be held until deep into the fall but still. She *definitely* wasn't cursed! 🤓 2) The jab at the Grammys for picking Diddy, known as Puff Daddy at the time, as gangsta rap's first Best New Artist nominee was satisfying. 3) That Scott Stapp impression nearly had me dying! 😂 4) I didn't know that the "Torn" girl was Australian.
also would've been odd, but from this & the other Curse Of The Grammy video about the 80s, there were even odder picks. I still can't get over in this video that a freaking OPERA singer was nominated in 1999 of all years
I think Sheryl Crow makes perfect sense when you consider the 90s were the decade of not just grunge, hip-hop, and country crossing over into pop, but also the decade of the female singer/songwriter. Seriously, I could name a dozen off the top of my head besides Crow and Morrisette.
Just odd he went that sarcastic seeing that Darius is black. You know another group that tends to get overlooked. Just kinda seemed off, especially seeing a woman won the previous year. Hell women won every year from 94-2004 except for Hootie...
Here are my picks for that when he is doing that 2000-19: 2000 - Christina Aguilera: Not Cursed 2001 - Shelby Lynne: Cursed 2002 - Alicia Keys: Not Cursed 2003 - Norah Jones: Kinda Cursed? 2004 - Evanescence: Maybe Cursed 2005 - Maroon 5: Not Cursed (The Band Chicago Style) 2006 - John Legend: Not Cursed 2007 - Carrie Underwood: Not Cursed 2008 - Amy Winehouse: RIP 2009 - Adele: Not Cursed 2010 - Zac Brown Band: Kinda Cursed? (But Lady Gaga should've nominated that year, but she was ineligible, because she was nominated the year prior. The Grammys decided to make new rules for that category hadn't won the artists prior year.) 2011- Esperanza Spalding: Cursed 2012 - Bon Iver: Not Cursed 2013 - fun.: Cursed 2014 - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: Maybe Cursed 2015 - Sam Smith: Not Cursed 2016 - Meghan Trainor: Kinda Cursed? 2017 - Chance The Rapper: Maybe Cursed 2018 - Alessia Cara (snubbed from 2015 and '16): Cursed 2019 - Dua Lipa: Not Cursed
One of the biggest things I’ve regretted about being Gen Z is that I never got to experience the music renaissance of the 90’s when it was happening. Man, that would’ve been amazing to live through.
A lot of this music wasn't truly appreciated at the time and overplay was a thing. Streaming wasn't a thing and you were at the mercy of radio djs and music video vjs. Also most of what you hear from the 90s is the good stuff that stood the test of time...and some of stuff you hear now wasn't popular at all back then.
This Ain't A Scene is exactly right--you were at the mercy of radio DJs. Sometimes that was awesome (if the dj had great taste) and sometimes it was...interesting. One dj on the radio station I listened to played Metallica's "Unforgiven Too" nine times in a row and got suspended from his job for it. That station also overplayed Hero of the Day which I have not heard since I was a teenager and I do not miss it.
Ah, I was blessed to live in Atlanta which had 99X in the 90s. One of the best radio stations in the country during the 'Alternative" revolution. And yes, it was an amazing era to be a teenager in, but ThisAintaScene is also right, the cream floats to the top and we tend to forget all the crap that got radio play too. I'm really enjoying this Grammys series b/c he talking about so much of the bad music that I also remember from the era. Same thing happened in the 60s. I grew up listening to Oldies stations playing "The Hits of the 50s, 60s, and 70s!", and it made it sound like every song released in the 60s was a banger, and I always felt like I missed out. But while it WAS a great decade for music, there was drek back then too. My mom lived through the-year-music-completely-changed-forever (1964), and I lived through the-year-music-completely-changed-forever (1992 (all those classic Grunge albums may have released in 1991, but at least by my recollection, they didn't really start getting mega air-play until '92)). I keep waiting for y'all's generation to get something game changing, but so far: nada.
Leann Rimes also had a great season of Masked Singer. She basically won the season with her opening number and never lost her momentum. Of all the seasons I’ve seen so far, it was the season with the most foregone conclusion.
I'd totally watch more of these. Also, I did not know that Garbage got a Best New Artist nomination back in the day. I've always loved them and I never would have guessed that the Grammies of all institutions would get even that much right.
If I could pick any possible alternative universe, it's the one where crash test dummies win best new artist. The butterfly effect is just too good to only contemplate.
Yes, Crash, please cover the other decades for Best New Artists @ the Grammy Awards, and please not only the 1980’s, 2000’s, & 2010’s, go back to the first decade of the awards, the 1960’s, I’d love to hear your take on not only The Beatles winning that one very memorable year (even if I was less then 1 years old, & those not even born), but also that year comedian Bob Newhart won as Best New Artist, but also please cover the 1970’s, when I was both a child and a teen (especially those last 3 Disco heavy years of that decade). Thanks.
i would definitely like to see a version of this for the 2000s! i love your music history and long form videos like this, plus it’s also nice to see more LGBT (and just LGBT-positive in general) figures in the review/commentary section of youtube (bi and trans person here!)
I would love to see a 2000s one so you can be perplexed by the continued absence of Muse at the peak of their powers. I know they're kind of bad now, but the Grammys had nothing for any album of theirs until The Resistance got best rock album in 2011. Which... The Resistance is very much the last of the really good Muse albums, like, no qualifiers or asterisks or anything, and it's definitely weak compared to the rest of their previous output. I don't think Muse would've deserved to win BNA for Showbiz, or even really get nominated for it... but Origin Of Symmetry is one of the best albums of the 2000s and that was the one where America started to take notice.
Conspiracy theory. The Grammys murdered Lauryn Hill, and what we got afterwards was her body controlled by a computer chip running an advanced AI set to crazy.
49:20 you and I must have very different definitions of mom jeans music because I might as well have come out of the womb with both Blondie and Cyndi Lauper’s greatest hits memorized
The Grammy's should've had Brandy win like I still listen to her music today like it just came out! It never gets old and it just reminds me of a simpler time. ❤️ keep this series going please!
Lol I’m back in the comment thread to show my appreciation towards you my man! THANK YOU for acknowledging how impactful rap/hip hop/r&b has been during that time! You seem to be REALLY gunning for those genres that’s awesome!
@@CountryChristmasCripple NO! That is a HUGE OVERSIGHT and disqualifies him from discussing popular music across multiple genres, especially in the 90s! These are sciolist, passive aggressive, music snob White guys who do NOT deserve the praise you bestowed on them. He actually referred to dishikis as being a fad... He described a Seal album as "little".... He even had THE NERVE to undermine and trash The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill... This is NOT a polished, savvy, informed critique of 90s music! You have been tragically fooled by his mediocrity and if you've learned from and survived the 90s then YOU KNOW BETTER....
LeAnn Rimes also had a song on the Coyote Ugly (lol i know) soundtrack - Can’t Stop the Moonlight. It’s still pretty fun to listen to now and then. These two videos were great. I’d love to see you do more. (“It’s not gay, you are” wrecked me and got a subscribe out of me.)
Dude, I can't even lie, Sheryl Crow is one of my favorite artists in general. I'm 25 and grew up hearing lots of stuff from her that my dad had. I have like half of her discography, still play If It Makes You Happy, Good Is Good and The First Cut Is the Deepest in regular rotation, and she's the reason I have such an ear for VH1 southern tinted rock and country, and country in general. (Funny she was nominated with Green Day, since Boulevard of Broken Dreams was/is one of my favorite songs. I like them a lot too, but I guess I like Sheryl more overall.) Otherwise, cool series, keep it up!
So many Masked Singer contestants on this list. I count 4: Jewel, LeAnn Rimes, Natalie Imbruglia, and Nick Carter. That seems like a pipeline from the BNA prize.
New sub here. This was such a nostalgia trip, as someone who grew up in the 90’s and when the Grammys still meant something to me. I definitely would love to see a 2000’s retrospective on this topic.
I love this series, but the pedantic part of me has to point out that Best New Artist is just that: about the artist. Their first/most recent record is not the nominee, they themselves are. Thank you for reading my obnoxious quibble.
My choices for the New Artist Grammy. 1995: Weezer's self-titled (a.k.a. The Blue album) 1996: Faith Evans's Faith 1997: Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt 1998: Yellowcard's Midget Tossing 1999: Only one I agree with, but a good second option if you want a longer lasting artist is DMX's It's Dark and Hell is Hot.
I'd definitely like to see you do every decade. I'd also like to see you talk about the growing trend of using AI to create artists, many of them deceased, sometimes flawlessly covering songs they never covered. Or in some cases, songs that came out years after they died. It's in its infancy right now, but I can easily see these AI covers dominate RUclips as the technology continues to improve. Some of them sound so real, it's downright eerie. And when the visual technology comes into play, where someone can upload MTV's Unplugged: Nirvana, but with say, an artist like Prince appearing in Kurt Cobain's place on that barstool, fooling both the eyes and the ears, it is going to be huge. Also, the copyright fuckers are going to lose their collective shit.
I just watched the first video and literally said out loud, "get SWV out your mouth!". So glad you addressed that immediately, haha! 😂 Love the videos!
Also, I'm old enough to remember that Paula Cole stopped being popular because she showed up on a red carpet with armpit hair. Dead serious. Then Julia Roberts did it and got praised for being brave. And then there was a whole media debate about it. That was actually a thing. Smh The 90's.
The 2000s could be interesting. The winners usually aren't Hootie-level cursed or anything, but some of the nominees are bewildering. Like, Sisqo? Really? Also, I've been looking at the other Grammy categories to see how wrong they can be, and... say what you will about the 1997 Grammy for Best New Artist, but the Best Hard Rock Performance feels like a personal attack. Four of my favorite songs - "Again", "Bulls on Parade", "Pretty Noose", and "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" - all lost to the song about the rat in the cage. I get that the Grammys don't matter, but that one stings.
Mild defense of LeAnn Rimes: she had a pretty good hit that I think crossed over to the pop charts in the aughts, "Nothing Better to Do", and around the same time did a decent live performance on a CMT show called Crossroads that teamed up different artists on an episode where she dueted with Joss Stone on songs from both their catalogs. So, if you look hard enough, you can find a "Fell in Love With a Boy" with guest vocals by LeAnn Rimes and a "Nothing Better To Do" with guest vocals by Joss Stone.
Excuse me, but Woman in Me had some bops on it. Any Man of Mine, Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under, I’m Outta Here, You Win My Love, and No One Needs to Know are all awesome songs! Also, I know it’s a technicality, but The Woman in Me is her sophomore album, her first album, Shania Twain, also had a few good songs too like What Made You Say That and Dance With the One That Brought You.
I knew there was something I liked about you. Keep being you. You stuff is fantastic. I’m a huge music fan indie and radio stream and vinyl. You doing great work thanks for it
95: Sheryl or Green Day? I’ll always respect Sheryl, but Dookie is. A. Banger. Can’t slam the pick though. 96: Another coin flip honestly. I’m a Hootie Stan but JLP is a force of nature in it of itself. 97: Blue was the first CD I owned. That said, No Doubt. No further questions. 98: Fuck yeah Paula Cole. Then again I’m a 34 year old male. I will also accept zero Hanson slander, and they’re a hoot live. Paula would still get my vote though. 99: You know what? I’m gonna stand up for The Chicks here. They’d be my vote. Props to the Grammys for pitting god damn opera alongside Lauryn Hill & Backstreet Boys.
While I highly recommend watching the full videos, here's the answer to "Were they cursed?" according to Crash. The other four questions and Crash's opinions on those are the meat of the videos. 1990: CURSED, if their win wasn't revoked 1991: Not Cursed 1992: Sorta Cursed? 1993: CURSED 1994: Not Cursed 1995: Not Cursed 1996: CURSED 1997: Maybe Cursed? 1998: Maybe Cursed? 1999: CURSED! That's 4 Cursed Artists, 3 Not Cursed Artists, and 3 artists who are uncertain. Count the 1990 win as "Nobody" and we get an even 3-3-3!
Huge Paula Cole fan, here. This Fire is my favorite album of all time. I truly love Amen but the reason why it alienated a lot of fans were that it wasn’t as “fiery” as This Fire, and some folks felt it was a bit preachy. My husband is a big H.I.M fan.
Loved this video! I was born in 1994 so I have bits and pieces of musical memory from this era but this video put it all in so much more context for me. It is absolutely insane how stacked the competition was for a few of these years.
Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu are PHENOMENAL r&b singers but years later as a person of color, SHEEESH they are so toxic in regards to their personal lives❤
Somehow, I think the thing I learned here that saddened me the most is what became of Erykah Badu. Yikes. I'm not even that big a fan of soul or R&B (much more of a rock fan), and yet... for some reason, hearing that really stung. She always seemed to exude a cool kind of class back in the day. Her more recent track record of defending the horrible actions of horrible people is... just so damn disappointing...
I keep hoping Lauryn Hill will have her D’Angelo moment. After quite a number of years, she just drops an album out of nowhere that fully measures up to her past glory.
What I’m wondering is if we get a sort of documentary about her life from her point of view, like where she talks about her life at the time, the stuff with the Fugees, and other things. That may be a sort of comeback thing for her.
Loved this series, would love to see more. I'm looking at the list of winners and nominees in the 80s and that seems like a fun time seeing who's there (and who is very noticeably not there).
Great video. It was nice to revisit those years, and you know your stuff. Just subscribed. I’m glad that you got to a place where you could accept your truth. ✌️
I noticed you mentioned Rufus Wainwright. Good. Hopefully, when you cover the early 2000's, you'll mention how his good friend, Teddy Thompson, has also been a Grammy . . . snubbee. 🤷♀️ Great video, by the way! 👍
If Papa Roach won the best new artist Grammy in 2001 they would be one of the sucsess stories, they definitely had a better lasting chart sucsess than Shelby Lynne
I wish Counting Crows wasn't ruined for so many due to retail. They have so many great songs to their name, as well as one of the greatest soundtrack songs of all time to their name in Accidentally In Love, and the fact that I'm not joking is a testament to how good they are at their best.
I saw Shania Twain in concert a few weeks ago and that woman still rocks hard even though she’s almost 60! Honestly I think her or Alanis would have both been way better picks than Hootie.
I think Hootie makes perfect sense when you think of America at large in the mid to late 90s. It’s a natural swing of the pendulum to go from the darker sounds of grunge to the lighter and happier alt rock with the beginnings of a pop influence. It did not matter what genre you were, if it took off it WAS popular music for almost everyone because, as you know, we took what we could get in those wonderful pre iTunes and streaming days. Now, why did we go out of the darkness into the light so to speak? Well, life was good! No war, no societal issues affecting everyone, and a prosperous economy! This isn’t to dismiss what was happening racially, but that didn’t have the reach into the consciousness of people at large in the same way it does today. Although, we were seeing the beginnings of that. So, in short, when life is good, the culture reflects that and that’s what I think we were seeing 1995-2001. If anyone can expand on this, I’d love to hear your thoughts!
Illmatic getting snubbed is all you need to know about the Grammys being a joke. And to this day DJ Shadow gets left out of every "top list", which is also insane.
It's weird seeing mentions of Leanne Rimes. If you went back to 97 or whatever it would have been assumed that she was going to have the career that Taylor Swift is having. It's surprising that she would totally fall off the map like that.
I grew up listening to country. LeAnne is not an unfamiliar name, but I don't think anything from her first album got continuing play. Her later work I definitely heard a lot, but I swear that first album got memory holed by the universe.
This was a great way to revisit the music of a decade! I am absolutely board for another decade review! I’d love to see the ‘80s, but if you’re more comfortable with the ‘00s that’s cool too.
Crash Test Dummies were based as hell for playing Weird Al’s parody with him on stage back in the day
Crash Test Dummies were always based as hell
Brad Roberts has such an excellent voice
@@Malkmusianful Eh, I personally wouldn't say excellent. Distinctive and recognizable, definitely!
The main thing I liked about the Crash Test Dummies................was that they never made the same album twice. Their debut was a very stripped-down acoustic-driven folksy, occasionally country-adjacent affair. Then it was followed up with a more polished, radio-ready sophomore album that leaned more into adult alternative rock. Then "A Worm's Life" cranked the guitars up more as a whole. Then after that album failed they completely changed their sound up with R&B, soul and electronic influences. Then they went all-out country, then had a sleazy wah wah pedal-heavy come-on album, then a bare-boned apocalyptic religious record of sorts, etc. I respect them greatly for always keeping you guessing where they'd go next.
The main drawback with them in my opinion................was how inane some of Roberts' lyrics could truly get. When he hit he really hit: especially with broaching all these bizarre topics pretty much no one else would touch.................but then you'd get stuff like "Keep A Lid On Things" that would really make you scratch your head.
I mean, most artists considered it an honor to have a Weird Al spoof.
The story of Lauryn Hill is just the darkest of Ironies.
She got the love and support from making her album and very likely ended up saving people with her music, but she couldn’t save herself (music-wise and mentally), kind of like that Tragedy Of Darth Plagueis story, except instead of the Apprentice… It was fame.
I've seen that clip of Tupac and Kiss giving the award to Hootie and the Blowfish, and it still makes my brain short circuit.
Yeah the only hit by Hootie & The Blowfish that I know is "I Only Wanna Be With You", and even with that song I wouldn't say it's a song that deserves an award. I'm not really mad at the fact that they got nominated, just pretty shocked & confused (just like with Andrea Bocelli, if that's how you spell his name)
@@rayanna7188they have way more hits than that, dork.
@@rayanna7188 they were pretty huge lol, besides the single the debutalbum is certified 2x diamond. Hold my hand, let her cry were also top10hits
I'm a sucker for retrospectives, so I'd totally be down for this series to continue with other decades. 00's would definitely give me a nostalgic tickle, but the 80's would be fun to learn (more) about.
I would be down to with either
that bit about you getting PISSED because Diddy got the nod for BNA has aged like fine wine *all things considered*
I'm flabbergasted that the Spice Girls weren't nominated. At the very least, I wanted Ginger Spice to grow old and wise with three grammies under her belt - a sort of Geri hat trick!
Geri hat trick ->Geri at ric. Well played.
*slow claps*
If the Grammys were UK based they probably would've been, same with Oasis
The Spice Girls are the WORST of the 90s.
@@TheJbhmetal- 1997 was when the 90s - and all of popular music - pretty much died. 0r at least been dealt a major blow.
All the math is there: 1997 - Spice Girls/Hanson/BSB/post-grunge/pop-punk
1998 - boy bands on Disney Channel
1999 - Ricky Martin, Britney/Christina, TRL, nu-metal
2000 - napster / 2001 - 9-11 / 2002 - AMERICAN Idol (go USA get dem liberdals and islams ima patriut w00000! git-r-done and pissing calvin and all that)
late 2000s - High School Musical, Glee... little kids never saw the world 10-15 years earlier, so here they thought all popular music has to be like this.
2010s - soundcloud and tiktok. you know the rest right?
I say it all stems from 1997. Still had great music and shows, but the teen pop that teens HATED was ALL OVER the place and it was ALL OVER.
the sequel we've all been waiting for, keep up the great work Crash \m/
Thank ye kindly. 🙏
He definitely blessed us with a banger pt 2 🎉
It’s still wild to me Hootie’s Cracked Rearview sold more copies than Nevermind.
WAIT WHAT?!
@@rayanna7188 More than double, actually! One of the secrets of the 90s was that grunge didn't do as well in the numbers as everyone assumes - especially not on the pop charts, but even in album sales. I remember reading an article estimating the 10 top-selling artists of the 90s, and it had *Elton John* but no grunge bands at all! Thank you Lion King soundtrack, eh?
Another way to put it: Only 2 albums from the grunge wave ever went diamond. Nu-metal had 3.
@joshthefunkdoc man that's kinda sad that grunge didn't get the appreciation it deserved. but hey, at least 2 grunge albums were popular! and let me guess, was Nevermind one of the 2 grunge albums that went diamond? I hope so
@@joshthefunkdoc The Lion King soundtrack wasn't the only popular thing that Elton John did in the '90s. His Princess Diana version of Candle In The Wind did gangbusters.
@@rayanna7188 Nevermind and Ten are the two Diamond Grunge Albums. There's also a few post-grunge albums like Human Clay by Creed and All The Right Reasons by Nickelback. Nu-Metal has Hybrid Theory by Linkin Park, Devil Without A Cause by Kid Rock, and I'm not sure how genre classification goes, so maybe the third one is Fallen by Evanescence?
The fact that this is the video where I learn that the Spice Girls somehow never even got nominated for Best New Artist in the year when they were basically the only artists anyone talked about is stunning, but it's why this is such a great series because of that extra detail of "Oh here's who else was eligible then" element. I hope there are more of these, so many of the decades have fascinatingly weird choices to talk about I can't wait to hear them all (just saying, the 1960s list of winners looks insane)
This dumb guy had NO IDEA who SWV was so how is he gonna talk about music in other decades he was alive or aware about?
i like watching both crash and todd because crash can ask "were they cursed?" and i can point and go "oh i know this one!" edit: let me be clear this isn't me saying anything about crash's content. i would LOVE to see more of these. i love learning even more about stuff that i was cognizant for but unaware of.
I did the same. "Hootie and the Blowfish? Uh oh! I know how this ends!"
Knew I wasn’t the only one doing it
The Dixie Chicks are an interesting case cause they were technically a band since the 80s, but with a completely different lineup. Wide Open Spaces was the first album with the classic lineup that they're known for
Nas not getting credit from the grammys for ILLMATIC in 1995 was probably the ultimate foreshadowing for his career when it comes to the grammys lol. top 5 rap record of all time and nothing. Just recently got a "we messed up here's your grammy for being a legend" grammy
AGREED
Yes, please keep this series going! Would love to see you making your way through other decades. This is fascinating.
The list for 1999 is even more complicated when you consider that Natalie Imbruglia was nominated off of a cover song. "Torn" is just an English cover of a foreign song.
weirder still, it's a cover of a cover of a foreign song
@@NFSF1McLarenTechnically speaking, the English version *was* the original version-it was apparently meant to be a solo song for Anne Preven back in 1991 before she and cowriter Scott Cutler formally formed Ednaswap, but that record never materialised-but the first released recording was Lis Sørenson's Danish version in 1993, with the band releasing a studio version in 1995 and Natalie Imbruglia, an Australian, covered the English version in 1997. Fun fact: One of the cowriters on the song was producer Phil Thornalley, who is probably best known for his association with The Cure during the early '80s.
I gotta say Crash: I'll always be around for these long-ass videos. Ever since getting into you in 2019, I've always enjoyed sitting and listening to you ramble on about music for hours on end. The insights, the comedy, the recommendations (seriously, I 100% owe becoming a Barenaked Ladies fan all to you man). Even if I don't recognize half the artists you talk about (zoomer speaking), you make me want to go out and explore.
Not much to say other than thank you for being one of my favorite youtube reviewers. 😊
Same thing, same respect, agreed all the way
1) Sheryl Crow was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The ceremony won't be held until deep into the fall but still. She *definitely* wasn't cursed! 🤓
2) The jab at the Grammys for picking Diddy, known as Puff Daddy at the time, as gangsta rap's first Best New Artist nominee was satisfying.
3) That Scott Stapp impression nearly had me dying! 😂
4) I didn't know that the "Torn" girl was Australian.
Imagine if chumbawamba got nominated for bna in 98, that'd been epic
also would've been odd, but from this & the other Curse Of The Grammy video about the 80s, there were even odder picks. I still can't get over in this video that a freaking OPERA singer was nominated in 1999 of all years
More awards shows to derail! That'd've been great.
I think Sheryl Crow makes perfect sense when you consider the 90s were the decade of not just grunge, hip-hop, and country crossing over into pop, but also the decade of the female singer/songwriter. Seriously, I could name a dozen off the top of my head besides Crow and Morrisette.
I was wondering when you would mention the fact that 1996 Grammys had the only male act win lol.
I would love for you to do this for the 2000s decade.
man when Crash does the 2000s it's gonna be even CRAZIER, & I'll love it
Just odd he went that sarcastic seeing that Darius is black. You know another group that tends to get overlooked. Just kinda seemed off, especially seeing a woman won the previous year. Hell women won every year from 94-2004 except for Hootie...
Here are my picks for that when he is doing that 2000-19:
2000 - Christina Aguilera: Not Cursed
2001 - Shelby Lynne: Cursed
2002 - Alicia Keys: Not Cursed
2003 - Norah Jones: Kinda Cursed?
2004 - Evanescence: Maybe Cursed
2005 - Maroon 5: Not Cursed (The Band Chicago Style)
2006 - John Legend: Not Cursed
2007 - Carrie Underwood: Not Cursed
2008 - Amy Winehouse: RIP
2009 - Adele: Not Cursed
2010 - Zac Brown Band: Kinda Cursed? (But Lady Gaga should've nominated that year, but she was ineligible, because she was nominated the year prior. The Grammys decided to make new rules for that category hadn't won the artists prior year.)
2011- Esperanza Spalding: Cursed
2012 - Bon Iver: Not Cursed
2013 - fun.: Cursed
2014 - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: Maybe Cursed
2015 - Sam Smith: Not Cursed
2016 - Meghan Trainor: Kinda Cursed?
2017 - Chance The Rapper: Maybe Cursed
2018 - Alessia Cara (snubbed from 2015 and '16): Cursed
2019 - Dua Lipa: Not Cursed
“Mom Jeans” is genuinely in my top ten favourite genres and I will forever thank you for giving it a name
Seeing Tupac on stage with Kiss giving a Grammy to Hootie & The Blowfish makes me feel like I just licked a frog.
One of the biggest things I’ve regretted about being Gen Z is that I never got to experience the music renaissance of the 90’s when it was happening. Man, that would’ve been amazing to live through.
Same, as a fellow Gen Z. My mom as a Gen Xer got to live through the 80s and 90s
A lot of this music wasn't truly appreciated at the time and overplay was a thing. Streaming wasn't a thing and you were at the mercy of radio djs and music video vjs. Also most of what you hear from the 90s is the good stuff that stood the test of time...and some of stuff you hear now wasn't popular at all back then.
This Ain't A Scene is exactly right--you were at the mercy of radio DJs. Sometimes that was awesome (if the dj had great taste) and sometimes it was...interesting. One dj on the radio station I listened to played Metallica's "Unforgiven Too" nine times in a row and got suspended from his job for it. That station also overplayed Hero of the Day which I have not heard since I was a teenager and I do not miss it.
Ah, I was blessed to live in Atlanta which had 99X in the 90s. One of the best radio stations in the country during the 'Alternative" revolution. And yes, it was an amazing era to be a teenager in, but ThisAintaScene is also right, the cream floats to the top and we tend to forget all the crap that got radio play too. I'm really enjoying this Grammys series b/c he talking about so much of the bad music that I also remember from the era.
Same thing happened in the 60s. I grew up listening to Oldies stations playing "The Hits of the 50s, 60s, and 70s!", and it made it sound like every song released in the 60s was a banger, and I always felt like I missed out. But while it WAS a great decade for music, there was drek back then too.
My mom lived through the-year-music-completely-changed-forever (1964), and I lived through the-year-music-completely-changed-forever (1992 (all those classic Grunge albums may have released in 1991, but at least by my recollection, they didn't really start getting mega air-play until '92)). I keep waiting for y'all's generation to get something game changing, but so far: nada.
Leann Rimes also had a great season of Masked Singer. She basically won the season with her opening number and never lost her momentum. Of all the seasons I’ve seen so far, it was the season with the most foregone conclusion.
I think I remember her being on there but I'm not sure. it's been a while since I've seen the show
Can't wait for your retrospective on the 80s, 2000s and 2010s, this was super fun, hope you plan to do more!
This was a great project Crash, I'd love to see more of these decade breakdowns. 2000's would be fun to look back on.
I'd totally watch more of these.
Also, I did not know that Garbage got a Best New Artist nomination back in the day. I've always loved them and I never would have guessed that the Grammies of all institutions would get even that much right.
Henry Rollins got a Grammy Award from get in the van for the best spoken word album
If I could pick any possible alternative universe, it's the one where crash test dummies win best new artist. The butterfly effect is just too good to only contemplate.
todd in the shadows has a really good video going over hooties second album, it's really interesting if you want to know more
And Lauryn Hill's second album, for that matter.
Sure he’s seen them
I love this series of videos. I’m definitely down for tackling another decade!!
same! 2000s next?
Someone on the Toddintheshadows subreddit mentioned you and I checked this series out. Quite good stuff!
Do every BNA ever, please.
Yes, Crash, please cover the other decades for Best New Artists @ the Grammy Awards, and please not only the 1980’s, 2000’s, & 2010’s, go back to the first decade of the awards, the 1960’s, I’d love to hear your take on not
only The Beatles winning that one very memorable year (even if I was less then 1 years old, & those not even born), but also that year comedian Bob Newhart won as Best New Artist, but also please cover the 1970’s, when I was both a child and a teen (especially those last 3 Disco heavy years of that decade). Thanks.
i would definitely like to see a version of this for the 2000s! i love your music history and long form videos like this, plus it’s also nice to see more LGBT (and just LGBT-positive in general) figures in the review/commentary section of youtube (bi and trans person here!)
I would love to see a 2000s one so you can be perplexed by the continued absence of Muse at the peak of their powers. I know they're kind of bad now, but the Grammys had nothing for any album of theirs until The Resistance got best rock album in 2011. Which... The Resistance is very much the last of the really good Muse albums, like, no qualifiers or asterisks or anything, and it's definitely weak compared to the rest of their previous output. I don't think Muse would've deserved to win BNA for Showbiz, or even really get nominated for it... but Origin Of Symmetry is one of the best albums of the 2000s and that was the one where America started to take notice.
Conspiracy theory. The Grammys murdered Lauryn Hill, and what we got afterwards was her body controlled by a computer chip running an advanced AI set to crazy.
49:20 you and I must have very different definitions of mom jeans music because I might as well have come out of the womb with both Blondie and Cyndi Lauper’s greatest hits memorized
that's mom leather
The Grammy's should've had Brandy win like I still listen to her music today like it just came out! It never gets old and it just reminds me of a simpler time. ❤️ keep this series going please!
Lol I’m back in the comment thread to show my appreciation towards you my man! THANK YOU for acknowledging how impactful rap/hip hop/r&b has been during that time! You seem to be REALLY gunning for those genres that’s awesome!
HORSESHIT! He had NO IDEA who SWV was....
@@marciomancono ok he’s not familiar with a popular band and that’s fine
@@CountryChristmasCripple NO! That is a HUGE OVERSIGHT and disqualifies him from discussing popular music across multiple genres, especially in the 90s!
These are sciolist, passive aggressive, music snob White guys who do NOT deserve the praise you bestowed on them.
He actually referred to dishikis as being a fad...
He described a Seal album as "little"....
He even had THE NERVE to undermine and trash The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill...
This is NOT a polished, savvy, informed critique of 90s music!
You have been tragically fooled by his mediocrity and if you've learned from and survived the 90s then YOU KNOW BETTER....
I’d absolutely love to see a continuation in the 80s or 2000s. These were some of the best videos you’ve put out in like 5 years.
I would love to see another deep dive like this on another decade's best new artists. I really enjoyed this.
LeAnn Rimes also had a song on the Coyote Ugly (lol i know) soundtrack - Can’t Stop the Moonlight. It’s still pretty fun to listen to now and then.
These two videos were great. I’d love to see you do more. (“It’s not gay, you are” wrecked me and got a subscribe out of me.)
It was here where I found out HIM was Finnish….damn.
Dude, I can't even lie, Sheryl Crow is one of my favorite artists in general. I'm 25 and grew up hearing lots of stuff from her that my dad had. I have like half of her discography, still play If It Makes You Happy, Good Is Good and The First Cut Is the Deepest in regular rotation, and she's the reason I have such an ear for VH1 southern tinted rock and country, and country in general. (Funny she was nominated with Green Day, since Boulevard of Broken Dreams was/is one of my favorite songs. I like them a lot too, but I guess I like Sheryl more overall.)
Otherwise, cool series, keep it up!
So many Masked Singer contestants on this list. I count 4: Jewel, LeAnn Rimes, Natalie Imbruglia, and Nick Carter. That seems like a pipeline from the BNA prize.
Crash doing these types of videos makes me want to check out new artists and dust off the CDs of bands I already have.
same
We need one for 2000-2004. That time was so chaotic and interesting. Seeing Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Brad Paisley nominated but not win
This is an awesome series! Thanks for the content
We all know you named yourself after the Crash Test Dummies 😅. Really great video, awesome!
New sub here. This was such a nostalgia trip, as someone who grew up in the 90’s and when the Grammys still meant something to me. I definitely would love to see a 2000’s retrospective on this topic.
I love this series, but the pedantic part of me has to point out that Best New Artist is just that: about the artist. Their first/most recent record is not the nominee, they themselves are. Thank you for reading my obnoxious quibble.
I am on board and buckled in for another decade! I love your long form content. Tell us another story, Crash!!!
My choices for the New Artist Grammy.
1995: Weezer's self-titled (a.k.a. The Blue album)
1996: Faith Evans's Faith
1997: Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt
1998: Yellowcard's Midget Tossing
1999: Only one I agree with, but a good second option if you want a longer lasting artist is DMX's It's Dark and Hell is Hot.
This just gets curiouser and curiouser with each winner
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I feel like I'm on the biggest high of my life seeing Tupac Shakur flanked by K.I.S.S. announcing Hootie & the Blowfish as BNA 1996.
I'd definitely like to see you do every decade. I'd also like to see you talk about the growing trend of using AI to create artists, many of them deceased, sometimes flawlessly covering songs they never covered. Or in some cases, songs that came out years after they died. It's in its infancy right now, but I can easily see these AI covers dominate RUclips as the technology continues to improve. Some of them sound so real, it's downright eerie. And when the visual technology comes into play, where someone can upload MTV's Unplugged: Nirvana, but with say, an artist like Prince appearing in Kurt Cobain's place on that barstool, fooling both the eyes and the ears, it is going to be huge. Also, the copyright fuckers are going to lose their collective shit.
I just watched the first video and literally said out loud, "get SWV out your mouth!". So glad you addressed that immediately, haha! 😂 Love the videos!
Also, I'm old enough to remember that Paula Cole stopped being popular because she showed up on a red carpet with armpit hair. Dead serious. Then Julia Roberts did it and got praised for being brave. And then there was a whole media debate about it. That was actually a thing. Smh The 90's.
The 2000s could be interesting. The winners usually aren't Hootie-level cursed or anything, but some of the nominees are bewildering. Like, Sisqo? Really?
Also, I've been looking at the other Grammy categories to see how wrong they can be, and... say what you will about the 1997 Grammy for Best New Artist, but the Best Hard Rock Performance feels like a personal attack. Four of my favorite songs - "Again", "Bulls on Parade", "Pretty Noose", and "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" - all lost to the song about the rat in the cage. I get that the Grammys don't matter, but that one stings.
What a rollercoaster of a video, really hope you follow up with another decade.
Mild defense of LeAnn Rimes: she had a pretty good hit that I think crossed over to the pop charts in the aughts, "Nothing Better to Do", and around the same time did a decent live performance on a CMT show called Crossroads that teamed up different artists on an episode where she dueted with Joss Stone on songs from both their catalogs. So, if you look hard enough, you can find a "Fell in Love With a Boy" with guest vocals by LeAnn Rimes and a "Nothing Better To Do" with guest vocals by Joss Stone.
Excuse me, but Woman in Me had some bops on it. Any Man of Mine, Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under, I’m Outta Here, You Win My Love, and No One Needs to Know are all awesome songs! Also, I know it’s a technicality, but The Woman in Me is her sophomore album, her first album, Shania Twain, also had a few good songs too like What Made You Say That and Dance With the One That Brought You.
I knew there was something I liked about you. Keep being you. You stuff is fantastic. I’m a huge music fan indie and radio stream and vinyl. You doing great work thanks for it
I just love your long-form vids because I can listen to you indefinitely. Beautiful content sir.
These video's are some of the best you have made. Very entertaining.
Very fun video. Also, ew, didn't knew that about Erykah Badu
@@marissawolff8491 Nothing, it's ok to enjoy music by people who aren't very good(to put it mildly in some cases) as long as you aware of that
95: Sheryl or Green Day? I’ll always respect Sheryl, but Dookie is. A. Banger. Can’t slam the pick though.
96: Another coin flip honestly. I’m a Hootie Stan but JLP is a force of nature in it of itself.
97: Blue was the first CD I owned. That said, No Doubt. No further questions.
98: Fuck yeah Paula Cole. Then again I’m a 34 year old male. I will also accept zero Hanson slander, and they’re a hoot live. Paula would still get my vote though.
99: You know what? I’m gonna stand up for The Chicks here. They’d be my vote. Props to the Grammys for pitting god damn opera alongside Lauryn Hill & Backstreet Boys.
While I highly recommend watching the full videos, here's the answer to "Were they cursed?" according to Crash. The other four questions and Crash's opinions on those are the meat of the videos.
1990: CURSED, if their win wasn't revoked
1991: Not Cursed
1992: Sorta Cursed?
1993: CURSED
1994: Not Cursed
1995: Not Cursed
1996: CURSED
1997: Maybe Cursed?
1998: Maybe Cursed?
1999: CURSED!
That's 4 Cursed Artists, 3 Not Cursed Artists, and 3 artists who are uncertain. Count the 1990 win as "Nobody" and we get an even 3-3-3!
Huge Paula Cole fan, here. This Fire is my favorite album of all time. I truly love Amen but the reason why it alienated a lot of fans were that it wasn’t as “fiery” as This Fire, and some folks felt it was a bit preachy.
My husband is a big H.I.M fan.
Loved this video! I was born in 1994 so I have bits and pieces of musical memory from this era but this video put it all in so much more context for me. It is absolutely insane how stacked the competition was for a few of these years.
Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu are PHENOMENAL r&b singers but years later as a person of color, SHEEESH they are so toxic in regards to their personal lives❤
AGREED
34:45 I know Leanna Rimes mainly from her pop hit off Coyote Ugly, Can’t Fight the Moonlight, and that came out around 2000.
Somehow, I think the thing I learned here that saddened me the most is what became of Erykah Badu. Yikes. I'm not even that big a fan of soul or R&B (much more of a rock fan), and yet... for some reason, hearing that really stung. She always seemed to exude a cool kind of class back in the day. Her more recent track record of defending the horrible actions of horrible people is... just so damn disappointing...
The omnipresence of Hootie and the Blowfish in 95 still strangely radiates to this day in every mildly enjoyable song written
I keep hoping Lauryn Hill will have her D’Angelo moment. After quite a number of years, she just drops an album out of nowhere that fully measures up to her past glory.
What I’m wondering is if we get a sort of documentary about her life from her point of view, like where she talks about her life at the time, the stuff with the Fugees, and other things. That may be a sort of comeback thing for her.
Loved this series, would love to see more. I'm looking at the list of winners and nominees in the 80s and that seems like a fun time seeing who's there (and who is very noticeably not there).
Great video. It was nice to revisit those years, and you know your stuff. Just subscribed.
I’m glad that you got to a place where you could accept your truth. ✌️
I noticed you mentioned Rufus Wainwright. Good. Hopefully, when you cover the early 2000's, you'll mention how his good friend, Teddy Thompson, has also been a Grammy . . . snubbee. 🤷♀️ Great video, by the way! 👍
If Papa Roach won the best new artist Grammy in 2001 they would be one of the sucsess stories, they definitely had a better lasting chart sucsess than Shelby Lynne
I wish Counting Crows wasn't ruined for so many due to retail. They have so many great songs to their name, as well as one of the greatest soundtrack songs of all time to their name in Accidentally In Love, and the fact that I'm not joking is a testament to how good they are at their best.
I saw Shania Twain in concert a few weeks ago and that woman still rocks hard even though she’s almost 60! Honestly I think her or Alanis would have both been way better picks than Hootie.
Yeah, I wouldn't have picked the Dummies as a Best New Artist contender either, but I will stick up for "God Shuffled His Feet". That album is great.
Incredible & Quality Video, Keep it up Mate.
I think Hootie makes perfect sense when you think of America at large in the mid to late 90s. It’s a natural swing of the pendulum to go from the darker sounds of grunge to the lighter and happier alt rock with the beginnings of a pop influence. It did not matter what genre you were, if it took off it WAS popular music for almost everyone because, as you know, we took what we could get in those wonderful pre iTunes and streaming days. Now, why did we go out of the darkness into the light so to speak? Well, life was good! No war, no societal issues affecting everyone, and a prosperous economy! This isn’t to dismiss what was happening racially, but that didn’t have the reach into the consciousness of people at large in the same way it does today. Although, we were seeing the beginnings of that. So, in short, when life is good, the culture reflects that and that’s what I think we were seeing 1995-2001. If anyone can expand on this, I’d love to hear your thoughts!
The only thing I remember about LeAnn Rimes is "Can't fight the Moonlight " from the Coyote Ugly soundtrack
alanis morsette is gonna be playing in a pasture behind my house this fall
Great stuff, Crash! Definitely plenty to mine from this weird and wild well
would love to see more decades covered, great job Crash
I got a shout out!!! Take your time, but could we have more please....perhaps even dip into the 70's?
hm 70s Grammy's seems interesting
54:53 Don't worry. It won't be soon before long that Kara's Flowers will get good. They just have to write some songs about Jane.
I’ve been loving this series! Thanks, Crash! ❤
54:36 Now I want to hear you perform other Creed songs.
Great video Crash, keep em coming. Hello from Colombia
Illmatic getting snubbed is all you need to know about the Grammys being a joke. And to this day DJ Shadow gets left out of every "top list", which is also insane.
It's weird seeing mentions of Leanne Rimes. If you went back to 97 or whatever it would have been assumed that she was going to have the career that Taylor Swift is having. It's surprising that she would totally fall off the map like that.
Would love to see the cursed grammy winners from the 70s
Live throwing copper most underrated album of the 90s
Oh yeah, HIM mentioned! 🎉😀🎉
I grew up listening to country. LeAnne is not an unfamiliar name, but I don't think anything from her first album got continuing play. Her later work I definitely heard a lot, but I swear that first album got memory holed by the universe.
Well, the whole gimmick is : look what a 14 year old can do! Those were the words said by anyone sliding it into a CD player in the mid-90s
i love these videos. please keep them coming!
This was a great way to revisit the music of a decade! I am absolutely board for another decade review!
I’d love to see the ‘80s, but if you’re more comfortable with the ‘00s that’s cool too.
Strange that you didn't had a heart attack while mentioning jermaine dupri ^^ Very good video, even if i didn't really care for grammys :)