{"id":128,"date":"2018-02-19T10:55:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T15:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/?p=128"},"modified":"2018-02-19T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T15:55:31","slug":"why-didnt-despacito-receive-a-vma-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/2018\/02\/19\/why-didnt-despacito-receive-a-vma-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t Despacito Receive a VMA Nomination?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Despacito<\/em>\u00a0is the rare Spanish track that has become a massive success in the U.S. and around the world. The hit song, which recently became the first video to hit 3 billion views on YouTube, has become the most streamed track of all-time and is spending its 14th week at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Despite its clear success, it didn&#8217;t receive a VMA nomination.\u00a0<em>Despacito<\/em>\u00a0missed out on\u00a0 nominations such as video of the year, best collaboration, best editing and other more which it should have stood a fair chance at winning.\u00a0\u00a0MTV said &#8220;<em>Despacito\u00a0<\/em>was not submitted for consideration&#8221;\u00a0 to The Associated Press because they never received a notice to submit the song. There is no concrete reasoning as to why it didn&#8217;t receive a nomination, but there&#8217;s a strong belief that race plays an underlying role. Despacito is the first Spanish song to hit #1 on U.S. charts and many believe it is due to the song&#8217;s lyrics being in Spanish and not English that it did not receive proper recognition . This language bias shows how race and biases are prominent in popular culture. The nominators hesitated to allow a foreign song to compete for song of the year despite the success. In 2018, this type of hostility should be recognized and criticized. The media should embrace the diversity and multiculturalism of pop culture and music and allow awards to be given regardless of tongue, being rather evaluated by\u00a0 success and ratings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Link:\u00a0https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/2017\/08\/14\/despacito-vma-nomination\/566969001\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despacito\u00a0is the rare Spanish track that has become a massive success in the U.S. and around the world. The hit song, which recently became the first video to hit 3 billion views on YouTube, has become the most streamed track of all-time and is spending its 14th week at No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/mixingitup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}