It’s been a tragic week for the United States, and all of us should be mourning the events that have occurred.
Surely the WikiLeaks controversy played an important part in this week of tragedy and, of course, losing the bid to host the FIFA World Cup in 2022 was unnecessary.
But the devastating event that should have everyone in a crazed uproar is the snubbing of Lady Gaga at the Grammys this year. Troublesome indeed.
Now, I know some of you just groaned out loud, but stay with me.
Sure, Gaga was given a few nominations here and there — six to be exact — but nevertheless snubbed in two categories that she surely would have won.
Apparently a mistake was made, and the epic song “Bad Romance” was excluded from the nomination for song of the year as her album “The Fame Monster” was denied record of the year.
There really shouldn’t be an argument about this; it’s simple.
“Bad Romance” was this year’s biggest song. In fact, it became No. 1 in 19 different countries, it spent 29 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold more than 4 million digital copies.
To add to its soon-to-be-legendary status, it set the record for most weekly plays in the 17-year history of Billboard’s pop songs.
And ladies and gentlemen, let’s not forget to mention the blockbuster music video that pushed Gaga to become the first artist to reach a billion views on YouTube.
Don’t lie — you know every word, every “rah rah” in the song from beginning to end, and so does your mom and all your friends.
Our Lady Gaga rightfully deserved those nominations.
She produced the infamous “Bad Romance,” as well as penning those catchy words that have spun millions of Facebook statuses, tattoos, hand gestures and melancholic breakups.
Perhaps you don’t quite agree with me — after all, she did manage to get get nominated for the most-coveted album of the year award, which she’s bound to receive.
But Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” is more than just a personal anthem.
It was a song everyone in the entire world could recognize just from listening to the first 10 seconds of the tune.
I’ve personally boycotted the song for various reasons, which include the continuous looped radio in the office in which I work.
But surely the nomination committee for the Grammys doesn’t have the same ill feelings toward that song.
When the music industry is one of the only successful industries during this economic crisis, we should all take our Grammy nominations a tad bit more seriously.
Long live Gaga.
Hassan Casanova is a third-year family, youth and community science student at Santa Fe College. His column appears every Friday.
