The Recording Academy has made some changes to the Grammy Awards. That includes a provision stipulating that “only human creators” can win the music industry’s highest honor. artificial intelligence in popular music.
Under the new “artificial intelligence (AI) protocol” announced Friday, “works that do not contain human writing do not qualify in any category,” they said.
The rule, set after last month’s semi-annual Academy board meeting, states that as long as human creators are responsible for making “meaningful” contributions to music and lyrics, works featuring AI elements will not be allowed. determined to be eligible. .
The new requirement reads, in part, that “the human authorship element of the submitted work must be meaningful.”
The news came shortly after Paul McCartney announced on Tuesday The upcoming “last Beatles record” is said to have been composed using artificial intelligence to extract John Lennon’s voice from old demos. At the time, he described AI as “somewhat scary, but exciting,” adding, “We’ll have to see where it goes.”
In addition to the AI rules, the Recording Academy has announced quick changes to other categories as well. Currently, a music creator must occupy at least 20% of his work to be nominated for Album of the Year. . This includes all credited artists, featured artists, songwriters, producers, engineers, mixers and mastering engineers, and anyone who worked on the album can be nominated in 2021. is different from the decision of
The number of nominees for the “Big 4” categories (Best New Artist, Album of the Year, Song and Record) has been reduced from 10 to 8.
Previously, 50% of documentary footage had to be performance-based to be nominated for Best Musical Film. The Recording Academy has eliminated that requirement.
This change better reflects the evolution of music document formats, which are often veritable or collections of archival footage, such as Billie Eilish: The World Is A Little Blurry on Apple TV. Biopics and dramatic feature films continue to be ineligible.
Also eligible are “music-centric individual music videos that make up a visual album (if the videos are packaged and submitted as one cohesive film)”, which is a reference to Beyoncé’s 2016 film Evidence of a cross-genre explored trend spearheaded by Lemonade. Like Halsey’s 2021 “If I can’t have love, I want power.”
The Recording Academy also changed the award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo to Best Jazz Performance and Best Musica Mexicana Album (Including Tejano) for Best Mexican Regional Music Album (Including Tejano). also announced. To be in the latter category, either 50% of the lyrics are sung in Spanish, or the majority of the music is traditional Mexican music such as bandas, norteños, coridos, gurperos, mariachis, rancheros, ciereños, and jarochos. It should reflect your style. , Wasteco, Wapango.
These changes follow Tuesday’s addition of three new categories: Best Pop Dance Recording, Best African Music Performance and Best Alternative Jazz Album.
