Do you tune out both literally and figuratively during the Oscars when Jennifer Hudson, Beyonce, Amy Adams or the like launch into Mariah Carey-like melismatic histrionics that send your ears running to the hills? Yeah, you’re not the only one.
The Academy is finally waking the fuck up to the fact that the ratings for the show are not alive with the sounds of music these days and people are tuning out during the long-winded and annoying musical performances seemingly aimed at your long-dead grandparents that did the Charleston in their tween years.
So what’s the remedy? Well, for one, you limit the number of nominations feel-good musicals like “Dream Girls,” and “Enchanted” can hog up (both films were nominated for three songs each in a category that holds only five contenders).
Now, the Oscars have ruled that only two songs from one film can be nominated in the Best Song cater gory (these films however, can still submit as many songs as they want for Academy consideration). Minor alterations to the Foreign Film category have been made as well, but the changes are nominal and dreadfully dull, but if you must, you can read about them here.