That's a very simplistic and frankly nihilistic view of the music business. You don't know what you're talking about.
Hmm... while I suppose that I don't know much about the music business if I don't elect to put bullshit like record sales and commercial media awards ahead of the actual music involved, I don't think that I brought up half a shit worth of 'music business' talk anyway so I fail to see how that makes any sense.
Also, I'd like to know why it's 'nihilistic' to call the Grammy awards complete and utter bullshit - I'd just consider it 'having good taste' and 'not buying into hype over what some suit in an office somewhere thinks is good music'. This doesn't have a thing to do with nihilism, and throwing that word around for no apparent reason won't get anything done.
As far as not knowing what I'm talking about when I say the Grammy awards don't indicate quality and shouldn't be used as a measure of success any more than record sales, let's just see some awards from the past...
All-4-One
Beastie Boys
Blackstreet
Boyz-II-Men
Bill AND Hillary Clinton, separately (because spoken word needs *that* kind of recognition)
The assholes from the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
Eminem
Enya
Flock of Seagulls
Kenny G
Green Day
Jay-Z
R Kelly
Korn
Nelly
Pink
Salt-N-Pepa
Will Smith (apart from the abomination that was the Fresh Prince, he got more)
Britney Spears
Usher
Velvet Revolver
The White Stripes
Young MC
... and wonder why I think actually making music that stands the test of time and influences generations of music has importance. Well, at the very least, even if I don't know much about 'the music business', I won't have to defend my taste when trendy bullshit fades away...
Jeff