The Grammy Awards, a show that recognizes performers for popularity in music, were broadcast on CBS or maybe NBC or QVC Sunday night. The Grammys, which are shaped kind of like golden Flintstones telephones, are given out to the musicians with the most middle-class white fans who listen to Top 40 stations like Z100 in New York City. Those two expository sentences were intended to explain to readers that the Grammys award show and the trophies themselves are called Grammys. There is a further, third layer of confusion that may emerge for readers, stemming from the fact that the Grammys is an event where musicians tell other musicians how special they are, but the television broadcast is also called ‘The Grammys’.

So to be clear the word ‘Grammys’ refers to the trophies, the event in which those trophies are awarded to their recipients, and the television broadcast of the event. Additionally, it’s a near certainty that a golden Flintstones-telephone-shaped individual trophy may not be the bearer instrument of a Grammy award, but the awardee or recipient of said trophy is the one who holds such a title, regardless of the personal possession of said trophy. Such a title is an artificial construct, and whilst the accolade is prestigious in the popular music world, it has no tangible physicality to it other than the Grammy trophy. Coming into possession of a Grammy trophy does not make one a Grammy winner. It just makes one owner of a Grammy trophy. The winner of Grammy award is conferred the trophy.

So, for example, if in ten years, one of the winners of a 2021 Grammy trophy pawns it to buy drugs, the pawn shop will not be a Grammy winner. It’ll just be a pawn shop. Who won a 2021 Grammy? I don’t know, nor do I care. We try to avoid reporting on celebrity bullshit here at National Zero.