Is the irrelevance of the Grammys a good thing?

[Ghoulish Delight]

So, the Grammys are pretty much a joke. Often out of touch (Milli Vanilli anyone?) and laughably egalitarian ("And the Grammy for best solo album by a polka band with 3 members whose name starts with "L" goes to..."), they make the Golden Globes seem important.

But I'm starting to think that that's a good thing. Mostly due to one quote I heard on an NPR story. It was something along the lines of, "What you don't see is people tailoring their music to win a Grammy. They just don't care enough. Whereas you see movie studios gearing their output to get Oscars because winning an Oscar translates into millions of extra dollars."

Wait, that's supposed to be a problem? That musicians, in general, write and perform music for the sake of making good music, not for the sake of conforming to some award-giving body's standards? That's sounds like a good kind of problem to me. If having a legitimate awards show means music in general becomes more manufactured-for-the-sake-of-awards, I think I'm happy with the Grammys as they are.

Especially when it is able to provide comedy gold like this:

Homer: Oh, why won't anyone give me an award?
Lisa: You won a Grammy.
Homer: I mean an award that's worth winning.
["award show"-style music plays while a disclaimer scrolls
by on the screen, reading, "LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Mr.
Simpson's opinions does not reflect those of the
producers, who don't consider the Grammy an award at
all."]