looking for new talent (grammy awards live blog)
Perusing the list of Grammy nominees, one question comes to mind: How do they decide whether or not an artist qualifies as "new"? What're the criteria?
Because ... I see Imogen Heap listed in the Best New Artist category, despite the fact that I've had an album of hers ("i Megaphone") since it came out in 1998. I can see from her Wikipedia entry that her music has been featured in previous years on TV shows like "The O.C." and in movies like "Garden State" and "Shrek 2."
She's hardly new to the music arena. So what makes her suddenly a New Artist contender? It doesn't make sense to me.