Sure enough, Tweets easily lit up with dissatisfied Skrillex and Nicki Minaj lovers who had no concept who Bon Iver was. “Lol and best new artist...... BonIver.... Who? Lol” tweeted @scottspeed. “Bon Iver who r u?” tweeted @haileybaldwin. “Who was that guy? Bon Iver?” tweeted @Paige_Duke.
For the inexperienced, Bon Iver is a team from Eau Claire, Wis., and people who do not know their popular music on its own may be familiar with of them from their cooperation with Kanye Western as assisting vocalists on “My Wonderful Black Draped Fantasy.” Bon Iver’s misunderstandings also motivated a YouTube mashup from a team that known as itself Bon Joviver, enjoying off Tweets customers conflating the team with Bon Jovi.
Washington Publish popular music essenti Chris Richards evaluated Bon Iver’s self-titled record in May, getting in touch with it, “amorphous and successful — a errors of sound instruments, breezy synthesizers and eroding percussion sailing below Vernon’s hallucinogenic yowl, like two stratus atmosphere the overlap golf in an ideal.
Those who did know the team recognized frontman Justin Vernon for his respectful popularity language. “It’s challenging to take because when I began to create popular music, I did it for the built in compensate of creating popular music, so I’m a little bit unpleasant up here,” he said. “I want to say thank you to all of the nominees, to all of the non-nominees that have never been here and never will be here, all the companies I major with, all of the companies that motivated me.”
Last season, a Grammy win motivated identical misunderstandings and a spin-off site when Video Shoot won Album of the Year, defeating out Woman Crazy, Eminem and Katy Perry. Fans took to Tweets to ask about the team, even though they had been creating information for decades. Who is Arcade Fire? chronicled their anguish.
