Rumba: the spice girls left without a Emma-nominations – the reason song early version used a racist expression

Every year one or more of the band rising phenomenon. As such, which cannot be overheard, if you even remotely follow the music field.

This year, that band is the spice girls, Vaalasta from the sisters Enter and Kaisa Karjalainen surprising popduo. The popularity of tell, for example, the fact that the spice girls had in the summer about 40 gigs, although at that stage the band had released only two singles and one cover clothing ads in the.

the debut album All roads lead to Peltolaan released in October. It rose to open the week on Finnish official album chart number one.

Emma-awards award criteria are the musical attraction, success musically and commercially sound field, as well as the artist's popularity of the various indicators assessed.Finland's official list is maintained and managed also to Emma-gala organising the music producers – IFPI Finland ry.

Rumba-magazine published on Thursday an article (you move to another service), which tells anonymous sources citing that the spice girls is falling in spite of everything without Emma-nominations. Rumba-magazine to get hold of according to the document, the band would have been short listed for four categories, but the final nominations couldn't get.

the short list are Emma-gala organising the music producers group on handwriting. The panel in turn sitting music journalists, merchants, critics and other music industry professionals.

in the Summer of spice girls present If I don't have you, I don't have any -the name of the song Yle Live series.Joonas Josefsson / Yleylen of the panel members strongly opposed Maustettyttöjen nominations

Rumba magazine insider sources say that the spice girls remain without nominations should be the result of the band's song, I suppose lottorivini wrong, which in the early version used the word nigger.

in Particular, one of the Emma-gala of the panel members objected to the Rumba, according to heavily spice girls set of award nominations.

He said it would be racism the normalization, if the spice girls has been nominated in any category, an anonymous member of the panel told Rumballe.

Song lyrics have received its final form last year. The verses I heard today, for example, on the disk, like this:

”When the balls spinning in the gutter, thinking about Sudan, a little boy, who would like to get drunk, they have a problem, at least the right, when the banana tree has fruit been brought to my downstairs Alepa shelves.”

in the Early version is used in the Sudan a little boy instead of the phrase "Sudan negro boy".

the Issue was controversial on social media in February, when the band's record company Is This Art Aki Roukala comment on topic (you move to another service) Rumballe.

– This is the song of the old version, you might say, that the demo version, which is presented in the job on a few occasions. [...] Can be said that there has been a small locations due to the increased young people's ignorance and carelessness.

the spice girls came the music field out with a bang. In the summer the band appeared at major festivals like ruisrock in.Rosa Huuska / YleMaustetytöt lost the vote with one voice

the selection of Candidates is the Rumba case on the basis of been a confusing process.

That's where more of the panel types is presented concerns the fact that the spice girls remain without nominations would rise hello, nominations opposed the the person has stated he is speaking publicly about it, that Emma-panel normalizes racism, if the band would get nominations.

the Matter was held on Rumba data by open hand vote. The panel types are telling the magazine that the spice girls ' candidacy against a member of the panel managed, in their opinion, to turn the vote the focus.

according to Them, no longer vote on it, do I earn the spice girls nomination for rookie of the year, but because they accept the jury of racism.

the rumba, according to the spice girls lost the vote with one voice. The result of the candidacy of the opposed member initiated a round of applause, to which many in the room agree.

the spice girls ' record company Is This Art does not belong to Emma-gala system music producers – IFPI Finland ry:hy. Music producers member companies represent about 83 per cent of phonograms of the total market in Finland.

the nominees Emma-prizes to be announced 12. December.

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