American award shows like the Grammys and Oscars don't mean much outside the US, the speakers argue. Growing up watching them feels like cultural brainwashing that treats them as the ultimate achievement. Real significance comes from how your work touches people, not from institutional honors.
But this is my— no, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, but let me digress. You know the Grammy nomination only means something in America, right?
But
this is my— no, no, no, no, no, no.
Yeah, but I'm saying this talks about how brainwashed we are because growing up One of as a child watching every, watching the Grammys that that was the pinnacle.
So you don't you don't you don't think it's a big don't even sit
here.
But I'm saying to you as an individual, no hard work.
No no well no I I I am I am happy and overjoyed that by the standards of America and the standards in which they go, I've been recognized. I've been celebrated. Yes, I am. I'm humbled by the experience. I'm happy about the experience. But in terms of internationally and globally, it carries very little weight. Wow. For instance, all right, okay, so for instance, like LisaRaye, who was here last week, right? And Kim. They don't know them from a can of paint over here. So all your hard work and your decades and decades of putting in the work, the one to get the Oscar, that That means nothing. So what means something is how you touch people. That's at the end of the day. That's what means something.
Life is too short. Now turn that corner. Real player. Real player. Dream chaser.
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