Hey....interesting point, but I really don't see the connection between Sting winning and the industry catering to the target 13 year old audience. If anything, they would have given the award to that Pearl Harbor song or Enya song, as one features a currently popular country/pop singer and goes along with Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett's respective muggs, and Enya is riding a wave of popularity right now.  (not to mention that Lord of the Rings is HUGE). I find it a little surprising  that Sting won, but not entirely, because even though he isn't largely popular with the desired youth market (as was evident with the My VH1 awards where he came in dead last in voting), he's still popular with the older crowd.  

I don't think it's a matter of being 'fixed' as it is that the voters from the Hollywood Foreign Press and other related award shows  tend to be a little older than the MTV crowd and more set in their musical tastes.....and they always seem to favor Sting.  (And that's perfectly fine with me!)


 

>From: "Jeremy ."
>To: police@xmission.com
>Subject: [Police] What's with the Golden Globe joke..
>Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 07:59:04
>
>Maybe it is just me, but Stings winning of the Golden Globe for
>Until seems
>like a fix to me. I am sorry, I have been a fan for a long long long
>long
>time as most of you know, and he keeps winning awards for songs that
>even
>most of the hard core fans don't know, which means that the majority
>of the
>world doesn't have a clue at all.
>
>It is a known thing in the UK music industry.. (home of the
>one-hit-wonder-per-week) that they just make you number one, and
>then sell a
>ton of cd's on the back of it being number one. Elton John has said
>that his
>recent album will be his last works due to the pathetic nature of
>the
>industry and its constant 13 year old target market abuse.
>
>Is this award given under the same circumstances ?, I remember when
>he won
>for the Disney thing, I thought to myself, while this is an OK song
>at best,
>it isnt worthy of being the best song in a movie for the year, it
>has now
>happened with a few other things, and I can't help but feel that it
>is a
>little odd.
>
>Jer
>
>
>
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