As the only male nominee in the category for Best Pop Solo Performance, Ed Sheeran won for "Shape of You" — beating out Kesha's "Praying" and Lady Gaga's "Million Reasons."

In &ldquo;Men: 1, Women: 0&rdquo; news, Ed Sheeran took home the Grammy for Best Pop Solo Performance last night, at the 2018 Grammy Awards. &quot;Take home&quot; might be the wrong phrase, though, seeing as Sheeran didn&#39;t show up to retrieve it.&nbsp;The Academy-appointed king of pop was <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/news/ed-sheeran-was-sleeping-when-he-won-at-grammys-2018/">admittedly sleeping </a>at the time of the ceremony, as proven by his latest Instagram post which reads &ldquo;Woke up to the news I won two grammys [sic] last night. Thank you!&rdquo;

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However, the low-key snub that was Sheeran&rsquo;s absence from the awards doesn&rsquo;t compare to the very high-key snub against fellow female pop vocalists by the Academy.&nbsp;It has also been repeatedly noted that while fellow nominees Kesha and Lady Gaga produced albums articulating their struggle with sexual assault, Sheeran&rsquo;s &ldquo;Shape of You&rdquo; details a fantasy of the sexualized female body from the&nbsp;male perspective. The juxtaposition makes the snubs glaringly worse.&nbsp;&nbsp;

The industry, and the Academy voters, clearly have a long way to go in recognizing talent over sales. And&nbsp;don&rsquo;t forget the strong, contradictory evidence against Sheeran&rsquo;s win that came in the form of Kesha&rsquo;s live rendition of &ldquo;Praying.&rdquo;&nbsp;Backed by a league of female stars (like&nbsp;Cyndi Lauper and Camila Cabello) clad in white, Kesha still managed to own the night, as well as the hearts of the public.

It&rsquo;s been said that the Grammys are a popularity contest rather than a gauge of true musical talent. But with audible booing heard from inside and outside of the venue, as well as on the Internet, after Sheeran&rsquo;s&nbsp;win, it&rsquo;s more clear than ever that the &ldquo;contest&rdquo; of the Grammys still lies within the power struggle of the patriarchal foundation which the music industry was founded&nbsp;and functions on today.

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