Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's Beloved Soundtrack Snubbed in Prestigious Music Awards

I usually don't care about these dumb awards, but not including Expedition 33 for a music nom is insane.

Just goes to show you that these awards are worthless

Are you freaking serious? How did Silksong and Clair get snubbed?

Ignoring E33's score makes the list invalid.

Not even remotely surprising unfortunately. With 3 of the 5 being based on movie properties, it shows that they still aren't ready to consider video games as art.

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora wasnt even out this year!?

Admittedly I don't know too much about these awards, but looking at the previous nominees, it definitely feels like there's some really specific favouritism going on.

Despite only doing this category since 2023, they've managed to nominate both Bear McCreary and Austin Wintory three times and now they've nominated both Pinar Toprak and Wilbert Roget II for the second year running for DLC on the same games they were nominated for last year (respectively Avatar and Star Wars). And they even managed to give Wilbert Roget II his third nomination in 2 years time by giving him one for Helldivers 2 as well.

I mean, come on.

My understanding is that folks need to submit things for consideration. I'm wondering if they just didn't do that for some reason?

@Toot1st 4 of these games are 2024 games so maybe 33 can be included next year? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense nonetheless.

I mean the Grammys always seem out of touch when it comes to a lot of genres.

This is a good reminders that all award stuff are subjective in the end^^

You could also mention the two nominations for the 8-Bit Big Band, for its latest album „Orchester Emulator“ and the song „Super Mario Praise Break“.

They already won a Grammy in 2022 for the song „Meta Knight‘s Revenge“. What Charlie Rosen has achieved over the years is tremendous.

There are game soundtracks i can hear in my head ,halo, kcd2 , helldivers 2 , tomb raider and many more, i played the hell out of e33 and loved it , however , I couldn't hum one track from it , don't even remember the title track , I know it was good, i just don't remember, maybe that was the issue....I just tried to remember and for some reason it turned into skyrim 😂

Helldivers 2 is a year and a half old at this point, surely it should have been last year instead? Even then, the soundtrack didn’t stand out.

I’m not surprised it was the weakestt part of the game

Some whole games get snubbed, even at game awards - eg Hogwarts Legacy!

It's one of the greatest video game soundtracks of all time. I couldn't believe how good it was from start to finish. What a freaking game. This is a huge snub.

turned the music off after a couple of hours in e33, found it aggressively annoying.

The Grammys haven't been prestigious in quite some time

Honestly, the music was okay but not the best I heard in games this year tbh. I feel like people are getting tired of the E33 constant praise, and I do wonder if it will win less at the Game Awards because of that now (plus some other 10/10 games).

Watch everyone go mad when Spilt Fiction wins, haha. GK loves JF, and you know they aren't afraid to go against the grain.

Award shows are money based, pure and simple. They are as objective as a 24/7 cable news channel

I’m generally not too fussed on soundtrack awards but CO33 is among the best I’ve ever heard. It should have made the shortlist. It was top of the actual classical charts for a while ffs. Says a lot about the Grammys, for this category. The snub is insane