Frank Ocean absent from 2017 Grammy Awards, producers clash

A few hours of the Grammy Awards 2017, the producers have returned to the problematic Frank Ocean and have not missed the clash!
It hurts ! While Katy Perry has unveiled her new single “Chained to the Rhythm” , the world will be watching the Grammy Awards tomorrow night. The reason ? We will see on stage an incredible performance of Lady Gaga with Metallica but also Beyoncé pregnant with twins while Katy Perry will sing her new title for the occasion. High Mass in the music scene in North America, the Grammy Awards are regularly followed by 25 million Americans . This is probably why the producers of the event avoid at all costs any bad press. But this year, it seems complicated. As early as last fall, Frank Ocean did not fail to explain that he would not attend the Grammy Awards and would not submit his albums to voters because of lack of diversity among the nominees. He accuses the Academy of looking only at artists already established and never interested in those of color who try to break through and possess an undeniable talent. Subsequently, Kanye West supported Frank Ocean by not attending the ceremony if Frank Ocean was not named.
Frank Ocean not named to the Grammys, Kanye West will not be there . Like Justin Bieber, who, surprisingly, expressed more or less the same reluctance as Frank Ocean with regard to the selections and the winners. And while we wondered recently whether Justin Bieber’s absence at the 2017 Grammy Awards was not just a whim, star producer Ken Ehrlich and screenwriter David Wild responded The problem. It was at the microphone of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast . And clearly, the two men personally took the remarks of Frank Ocean. They say, “If they’re worried about hip-hop [Grammy], they have to say, ‘Of course we’ll be here.’ They all went on stage in the past, and I do not want to exaggerate, I think that we have contributed a lot to Kanye West’s career, and he has done epic performances on our show if we go back to Jesus Walks. That he had his problems last year, but we support him, and we would love to have him here, and Drake, but very early, before the nominations were announced, Drake had already planned to be in Europe So, there’s nothing I can do. “Justin Bieber, we’re still arguing with – he might or may not be there.”
And if the two men are hitherto very sympathetic towards the artists they name, there is one that, obviously, is no longer in their hearts. Frank Ocean, of course. Acclaimed by the press and the public last summer (he released Endless and Blonde) , the 29-year-old singer seems in very bad terms with the organizers of the Grammy Awards. They went on to talk about his atypical and highly commented performance of 2013: “Frank had a very precise idea of ​​what he wanted to do.” Ken told him it was not good for TV and what he told us To all ‘We do not do a radio show … You have to make a television performance.’ And he knew from the start that it would not be one of those moments. ” Ehrlich adds: “We executed his vision knowing it was wrong, and we tried to tell him, to tell his manager, we tried to tell his label, so his feelings about the Grammys Today, I guess it’s because of that. But honestly, it was not our fault. ” During the interview, Ken Ehrlich did not fail to describe Frank Ocean as “rigid” about his idea of ​​live. Not sure that the main interested person enjoys this sting but after having sold more than 500,000 copies of his album Blonde , the interpreter of “Nikes” has nothing more to prove to anyone . In the rest of the musical news you will notice that the Dangerous Woman Tour of Ariana Grande already makes a cardboard ! What do you think of Frank Ocean?