Today the nominees were announced for the American Music Awards and predictably Taylor Swift leads the nominations with six. However, right behind her with five is Michael Jackson.
Among the categories he's nominated in are Artist of the year, favorite male artist pop/rock and soul/r&b.
It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of Michael's and I absolutely think he should be honored for his work, but let's be honest they're basically honoring him for dying.
If they just decided to give him Artist of the year without having any other nominees or named the award after him, that would be appropriate. However, it feels a little wrong to place an artist in a category with current chart-toppers when he hasn't released new music in years.
It's also extremely unfair to the other nominees because while I love Jamie Foxx's "Blame It," it's no "Billie Jean" and Foxx would be the first to admit that.
The American Music Awards producers' hearts were in the right place but the execution should have gone a little differently.
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