The 2017 American Music Awards really screwed up: artists nominated this year in many of their major categories seem to completely miss the mark. Everyone nominated for Artist of the Year is a man, as well as every nominee for Tour of the Year, Video of the Year, and four of the five nominees for New Artist of the Year.
It's a cis, male, largely white group of people we're seeing nominated for AMAs this year, which nominee Halsey took notice of and critiqued on Twitter:
To give a picture of a better world, we've decided to create our own nominees for Artist, New Artist, and Video of the Year:
Artist of the Year:
Lorde
Lana Del Rey
SZA
HAIM
Halsey
New Artist of the Year:
Cardi B
Kehlani
Kelela
Dua Lipa
Julia Michaels
Video of the Year:
"Boys" by Charli XCX
"John Wayne" by Lady Gaga
"Green Light" by Lorde
"New Rules" by Dua Lipa
"Praying" by Kesha
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