Metal Singer Has Best Response Ever to Not Winning a Grammy
One metal vocalist was up for a Grammy Award on Sunday and didn’t win. But, she had the best response ever. – Author: Cat Badra, Photo via Jonathan Weiner
Being nominated for a Grammy Award is no doubt a great feeling. It just feeling amazing to be recognized by your peers and the greater music industry for being the best in your genre. But, not everyone can win, and really, just getting nominated is a wonderful thing.
One metal vocalist was up for a Grammy Award on Sunday, February 2, and didn’t win. But, she had seriously the best response ever.
Spiritbox’s Courtney LaPlante Makes Classy Move
Courtney LaPlante and her band Spiritbox were nominated for a Grammy Award on Sunday for Best Metal Performance for their song “Cellar Door.” LaPlante and Spiritbox were up against some big names, including Gojira, Judas Priest, Knocked Loose featuring Poppy and the mighty Metallica.
LaPlante was at the Grammys to celebrate the nomination, and in the end, she and Spiritbox didn’t win. Instead, France’s Gojira picked up the award for their “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ca Ira!)” Olympics performance with Marina Viotta and Victor Le Masne.
Upon heading the news, LaPlante took to social media to offer her congratulations to Gojira.
“Thirty years as a band, no member changes, opened the Olympic ceremony in their home country….no one deserves it more!” she stated on X.
That was really such a classy response to losing, and she’s right that Gojira are an epic band probably deserved the honor this year. All of the nominees in the Best Metal category were solid, though.
Speaking with Metal Injection in an August 2022 interview about the rise of Spiritbox’s career, which has really blown up the past few years, LaPlante said it’s been “so different” getting such acclaim as an artist.
“I say this in interviews all the time, but this whole thing feels very abstract because we were just going about our normal day to day operations, working our jobs and then now last year it’s become like not abstract anymore,” she said. “It’s become like a physical, like identifying it physically at a show, looking at people reacting.”
She added that it’s all very physical right now and that “you’re at a show, you’re seeing people enjoying it or not enjoying it or caring or not caring.”
“There’s all these identifiers that you visually see, and we also haven’t seen them because of the Internet world,” she added. “It makes me realize how those two worlds are blending in the real world and the online world.”
Women Ruled Rock and Metal at the Grammy Awards
Hard rock and heavy metal have usually been dominated by men, and that’s still the case today. What’s cool, though, is that many women popped up in the rock and metal categories for this year’s Grammy Awards. It’s typical to see women in pop and country, but seeing them in metal is special.
When it came to women in the heavy music categories, the female nominees included Marina Viotta, with Gojira, Poppy, with Knocked Loose, St. Vincent and Spiritbox. Annie Clark was also nominated as a songwriter for St. Vincent’s “Broken Man” and won. While that still may not seem like a ton of female, it’s a good showing compared to previous years.
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