{"id":296418,"date":"2025-11-20T05:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296418\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T05:50:10","slug":"should-we-appreciate-australias-music-awards-show-a-little-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296418\/","title":{"rendered":"Should we appreciate Australia\u2019s music awards show a little more?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dissing our local awards shows is a national pastime I can generally get behind, but the knee-jerk cynicism flooding social media after last night\u2019s ARIA Awards<\/a> is ludicrous.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre the ARIAs even relevant any more?\u201d people ask. Well, maybe not when our commercial TV broadcasters air the ceremony on delay after winners have already been publicly announced, and then interrupt the whole thing mid-telecast so they can squeeze in an episode of Big Brother.<\/p>\n

\"Amyl<\/p>\n

Amyl and the Sniffers claimed the top prize at yesterday\u2019s ARIA Awards.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

Network 10 was the problem last night, ditching the live broadcast to their affiliated streamer Paramount+, but Channel Nine did the same thing last year and the year before. Maybe if we want our main Australian music awards to be more relevant, our broadcasters could start by treating them as more than an annoying afterthought each year?<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ARIAs are so out of touch, why did it take them so long to give Amyl and the Sniffers the top prize?\u201d went another critique. Sure, the Melbourne rockers have been a global sensation for years now, but their breakout Comfort To Me was actually nominated for album of the year at the 2022 ARIAs, losing only to Baker Boy\u2019s opus Gela.<\/p>\n

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If you wanna argue that a throwback pub-rock band should\u2019ve won the top prize over the first Indigenous rapper to ever claim it, a thrilling moment<\/a> for an awards institution that for so long treated BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour) artists and hip-hop as niche outsider stuff, then go ahead, there\u2019s probably some \u201canti-woke\u201d podcast that would love you on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWho even are all these winners? I\u2019ve never heard of them!\u201d went yet another critique. Well, good \u2013 now thanks to the ARIA Awards, you\u2019ve finally been exposed to something from outside your AM talkback radio bubble!<\/p>\n

Maybe instead of just complaining endlessly, you could actually give a spin to Boy Soda\u2019s Soulstar and find out exactly why the Central Coast neo-soul singer won the prize for best soul\/R&B release? Or you could find out why beloved Western Sydney rapper Barkaa beat out perennial winners the Hilltop Hoods for best hip-hop\/rap release for her EP Big Tidda? There\u2019s a whole world out there for you beyond, I dunno, your Daryl Braithwaite cassettes.<\/p>\n

The ARIAs haven\u2019t always been great at recognising our best musical talent \u2013 I\u2019ll still never get over the fact that the award for best soul\/R&B release is barely five years old; also, why is song of the year still a publicly voted prize? \u2013 but the current administration has done some work towards rectifying this, including expanding nominee numbers and prioritising new music on their charts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dissing our local awards shows is a national pastime I can generally get behind, but the knee-jerk cynicism…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-296418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}