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\n\tThe history of contemporary music is littered with hundreds of rivalries both amicable and otherwise. The Beatles versus the Rolling Stones. Britney versus Christina. Iggy Pop versus shirts. With this year\u2019s Grammy<\/a> nominations, a new feud has emerged to top them all: Milli Vanilli\u2019<\/a>s Fab Morvan versus the Dalai Lama<\/a> and Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.<\/p>\n \n\tEach year\u2019s list of nominees always bring some unlikely people to the party \u2014 looking at you, Bernie Sanders<\/a>\u2019 and Alex Trebek\u2019s<\/a> Grammy pages \u2014 and the most quietly fun category is Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording. Past winners include such odd interlopers as Edward R. Murrow, Dudley Moore, two non-musical Burns (George and Ken), Betty White, and 10-time (?!) nominee Jimmy Carter.<\/p>\n \n\tFor this year, scroll past the A-list musicians<\/a> in the big categories and land on \u201cCategory 70,\u201d which will find Jackson and the Dalai Lama<\/a> battling for Grammy supremacy against one-half of the disgraced Nineties duo.<\/p>\n \n\tBrown is nominated for her memoir, Lovely One<\/em>, which the New York Times<\/em> called \u201cdeeply personal and full of hope.\u201d Meditations: The Reflection of His Holiness the Dalai Lama<\/em> features the Dalai Lama\u2019s reflections over Indian classical music and pieces by Maggie Rogers and Rufus Wainwright. (Trevor Noah and actress Kathy Garver round out the nominees.)<\/p>\n \n\tBut it\u2019s Morvan\u2019s memoir You Know It\u2019s True<\/em> that will earn the most ink if he wins. The group\u2019s Grammy history is hardly illustrious, winning Best New Artist in 1990 and then getting it revoked after it was revealed they did not sing on the album and lip-synced through performances. (Rob Pilatus, the group\u2019s other member, died in 1998.)<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cFab lived one of the most dramatic and surreal rises the music world has ever witnessed,\u201d a description of the book reads. \u201cAt the height of fame, with chart-topping singles and screaming fans worldwide, everything imploded.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t(Not for nothing but as a fun aside, if an artist wins a Grammy, gets it revoked, then wins again, are they technically a first-time Grammy winner? Rolling Stone<\/em> investigates.)<\/p>\n \n\tIf Morvan wins, it could signal the apex of a redemption arc that found him going from the industry\u2019s most disgraced figure to a sad figurehead of the morally dubious machinations of an industry that is now running head-on into AI vocals and quasi-legitimate tracks.<\/p>\n