Flying Lotus Shares His Thoughts On The YouTube Music Awards

While the news of M.I.A., Tyler, the Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, Arcade Fire, Eminem and Lady Gaga hitting the stage this year’s YouTube Music Awards gathered all the headlines, acclaimed producer, Flying Lotus, decided to share his thoughts on the award show’s choice of nominees. Taking to Twitter to voice his opinion, FlyLo went on to say that he felt the YTMAs were pointless and practically a mirroring image of MTV’s VMAs, and that they didn’t capitalize the opportunity to highlight deserving and innovative artists.

Seems like the YouTube music awards are pretty much the same as the VMAs. I don’t really see the point.

— FLYLO FM (@flyinglotus) October 22, 2013

If it’s all about hits sure I get it but let’s be fair. YouTube award nominations clearly don’t care about cutting edge/innovation. — FLYLO FM (@flyinglotus) October 22, 2013

They had an opportunity to shine a light on all the artists that they helped to gain notoriety just to shit on them for uber famous acts — FLYLO FM (@flyinglotus) October 22, 2013

No disrespect to the nominees yadda yadda

— FLYLO FM (@flyinglotus) October 22, 2013

The YouTube Music Awards currently have nominations for artists such as Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, Katy Perry, PSY, One Direction and Selena Gomez, so it definitely looks like Flying Lotus has brought up a valid point. You can check out the list of nominees by clicking here, and be sure to weigh in with your thoughts down below. The award ceremony is set to air live from New York City on November 3.