Saturday, June 6, 2009

Grammy Awards to Snub Polkas

"Polka fans are used to being mocked and maligned, but now things have gone too far.

"The Recording Academy, which doles out the annual Grammy Awards, has announced it's eliminating the polka category after 24 years."

http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/musicandnightlife/47111252.html


Meanwhile, some people have been updating the venerable polka:

3 comments:

SER said...

Weird Al Yankovic will go down the tubes now!

What are they going to do, add Line Dancing as a category?

kkdither said...

Not yo' mamas polka, for sure! lol

orbs, you better go outside and stand in the cold rain.... ;>

OrbsCorbs said...

I wanted something wilder musically, but less soft core porn visually. In fact, I've never much associated polka with sex at all, other than the term "doing the horizontal polka." But I was in a hurry and that's what came up on a YouTube search.