The Grammy Awards are adding a category specifically for video games
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The Grammy Awards are getting with the times and adding a category specifically for video game soundtracks. Well, that and four others, including Songwriter of the Year (Non-classical), Best Alternative Music Performance, Best Americana Performance and Best Spoken Word Poetry Album. There’s also a new award for special merit being added, called Best Song for Social Change.
Specifically, the description of the video game category reads like this.
“Best Score Soundtrack For Video Games And Other Interactive Media: Recognizes excellence in score soundtrack albums comprised predominantly of original scores and created specifically for, or as a companion to, a current video game or other interactive media released within the qualification period.”
That sounds pretty good, and the addition of ‘any other interactive media’ neatly puts a pin in arguments about what actually qualifies as a video game. Some of you might be wondering, if that’s what the category looks like now, what did it look like before?
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Time for a little bit of history.
To get an idea of how slowly award shows move on this kind of thing, it’s been over a decade since video games even got their own billing. Before 2011 video games got included in the ‘other visual media’ part of the category. Only television and film received their own separate billing.
Which wasn’t the worst thing
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