Alessia Cara Defends Her Best New Artist Grammy Win After Backlash: ‘I Didn’t Ask To Be Submitted’!

Alessia Cara Defends Her Best New Artist Grammy Win After Backlash: 'I Didn’t Ask To Be Submitted'!

Alessia Cara couldn't be prouder of her recent Grammy win.

As you may've seen, Twitter had A LOT to say after the 21-year-old songstress beat out Khalid, Lil Uzi Vert, Julia Michaels, and SZA for the Best New Artist prize at Sunday's award show. Apparently, many are so upset with Cara taking the trophy as they don't consider the Here singer a "new" performer.

Related: Pink SLAMS Recording Academy President's "Step Up" Comments!

Since Alessia's debut studio album, Know-It-All dropped in 2015, we understand her critics' frustration. Regardless, the Canadian-born hitmaker is standing by her win and has even taken to Instagram to defend her Best New Artist title.

In a lengthy post, Alessia refused to apologize for "winning something [she] had no control over."

She wrote:

You tell 'em, girl!! As Alessia is an incredibly talented artist, we're glad to see that she's standing up for herself.

At the end of the day, people should raise complaints with the Recording Academy. Although, they've already proven that they need to update their way of thinking…

[Image via Ivan Nikolov/.]

Tags: alessia cara, awardz, controversy, grammys, instagram, julia michaels, khalid, lil uzi vert, music minute, shade, sza, twitter, young hollywood

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