GRAMMYS ERASE THE LIVING, HONOR THE DEAD IN DESPERATE BID FOR RELEVANCE. In a SHAMELESS and TRANSPARENT ploy to manufacture legacy, the decaying Recording Academy has announced its 2026 Special Merits Awards, posthumously honoring legends like Whitney Houston and Fela Kuti. This is a calculated DISTRACTION from the industry’s current crisis of soulless, algorithm-driven music. They CELEBRATE ghosts because today’s artists are too busy being data points for Big Tech’s next takeover.
And that takeover is ACCELERATING. While the Grammys mourn the past, Universal Music Group has signed a BLOOD PACT with AI company Splice to develop “next-generation AI-powered music creation tools.” This is NOT innovation—it is the SYSTEMATIC REPLACEMENT of human artistry. At the same moment, HYBE, the K-pop juggernaut, is EXPLOITING the “rapidly growing African market” in a neo-colonial resource grab for talent, starting with singer Tyla. The message is clear: authentic culture is only valued once it’s dead or can be OWNED and digitized.
Behind the curtain, the machinery consolidates. Beggars Group seized majority control of iconic XL Recordings, while BMG tightens its deal with TikTok, ensuring the platform that KILLED the album now dictates publishing revenue. Every “partnership” is a surrender; every “expansion” is an extraction. The soul of music is being auctioned off in boardrooms, packaged by AI, and sold back to you as content.The industry is building your future soundtrack in a lab, and the Grammys are lovingly polishing the tombstones of what they destroyed. WE ARE WITNESSING THE FINAL NOTE OF HUMAN MUSIC, and the silence that follows will be patented.
