Sufjan to Grammys: “Friendly Reminder: Don’t Be Racist”

At last night’s Grammy Awards, Beyoncé’s Lemonade lost Album of the Year to Adele’s 25, but won Best Contemporary Urban Album. Sufjan Stevens has now joined a growing list of artists (including Adele herself) outraged by the Grammys’ decision. “Friendly reminder: don’t be racist,” he wrote on his website, before posing the following dialogue:

Q: WTF is “Urban Contemporary”?
A: It’s where the white man puts the incomparable pregnant black woman because he is so threatened by her talent, power, persuasion and potential.

St. Vincent echoed his sentiment:

Re: Beyoncé and the Grammys. What Sufjan said.

— St. Vincent (@st_vincent) February 14, 2017

Sufjan has been very active on his blog lately, writing impassioned posts about the Ten Commandments, refugees, and the concept of a “Christian Nation”—the latter of which was later published as an op-ed in the Washington Post. 

For more of Pitchfork’s coverage of this year’s Grammy Awards, click here. And read “Adele Macklemored Beyoncé and 7 Other Grammy Takeaways” on the Pitch.

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