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"Congratulations, young pop star! You have just won the Grammy Award for Best New Artist! Get ready for a long and fruitful career. Perhaps in the field of VCR repair or rotary-phone design. Maybe managing an Internet caf&amp;#xE9;? Let&amp;apos;s face it, this Grammy goes to a lot of artists who never get heard from again, so don&amp;apos;t worry too hard about Lorde. It&amp;apos;s the notorious Curse of the Best New Artist. Winning the award can be a sign of impending doom &amp;#x2014; it&amp;apos;s like the scene in a Mel Brooks movie where somebody says, &amp;quot;At least it&amp;apos;s not raining.&amp;quot;\r\nBut that&amp;apos;s why Best New Artist is everybody&amp;apos;s favorite Grammy category &amp;#x2014; it&amp;apos;s the one with the most bizarro picks. Some years they give it to the Beatles, Mariah Carey or Adele. Other years it&amp;apos;s the Starland Vocal Band, A Taste of Honey or Evanescence. And once it was Milli Vanilli. Nobody can predict these things. When Lily Tomlin presented the statue for Best New Artist of 1982, she said, &amp;quot;This award is not just for the new star of today, but for someone who just possibly may be a star for years to come.&amp;quot; Then she gave it to Men at Work. That&amp;apos;s how it goes when you bet on the rookies. Sometimes they score wildly successful debuts, then suddenly find themselves up the hootie without a blowfish.\r\nSo here&amp;apos;s a salute to 21 awesomely weird BNA wins. (The pre-Beatle years don&amp;apos;t count, unless you really want to argue about how Ann-Margret got robbed in 1962.) Some of these were surprise upsets. Others were total one-shot scams. And one was Milli Vanilli. But practically all of them gave the world a half-decent song or two, which is all you can ask of a pop star. Better one glorious moment than a career of mediocrity &amp;#x2014;&amp;#xA0;that&amp;apos;s what Best New Artist is all about. By Rob Sheffield"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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