The Grammies: They Was Robbed?

It's awards season, so we hear a lot about how it's wrong that there were no female directors nominated for the Golden Globe and how the Oscars are so (too) white, or how it was unjust that Kendrick Lamar didn't win record of the year at the Grammies. But there is a fallacy at the heart of the argument, which is that there is some objective standard for the arts that is so clear that we can say who was and wasn't robbed. When it comes to music, I can tell you who was robbed. It was the thousands of musicians who are as good or better than any of the musicians featured on the Grammies. Now, since judging the arts is subjective as opposed to objective, maybe there is some racism or sexism at work anyway. That is, if the nominations are arbitrary, what is behind the decision to honor some works and not others? Money and clout, for sure. And those things can be (are) tied up with biased power structures. But the bottom line is, I don't give a shit about arts awards.

UPDATE, 2-13:
It occurred to me that there actually is an objective standard about artistic worth, and that's the test of time. But this is only true to an extent, since the process of forming a canon eliminates works from inclusion. However, those doing the excluding might not have seen things the way we might now. Many great works simply get forgotten. What time does do, then, is to allow us to fairly rank the works that now are included in the canon.