Foo Fighters won five awards at last Sunday’s Grammy Awards. Dave Grohl’s acceptance speech for their best rock performance win ticked off some viewers after he said their latest album, “shows that the human element of music is what’s important. Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do. It’s not about being perfect, it’s not about sounding absolutely correct, it’s not about what goes on in a computer. It’s about what goes on in here,” pointing to his heart, “and what goes on in here,” pointing to his head, Grohl said on Sunday. Critics slammed Grohl’s comments calling them “wrong on so many levels.”

Grohl defended his comments saying he was criticizing the digital enhancement of fixing or perfecting music after it’s been recorded, as removing “the human element” – and not the pop, electronica or dance music genres. “That thing that happens when a song speeds up slightly, or a vocal goes a little sharp. That thing that makes people sound like PEOPLE. Somewhere along the line those things became “bad” things, and with the great advances in digital recording technology over the years they became easily “fixed.” “A lot of music sounds perfect, but lacks personality. It’s the one thing that makes music so exciting in the first place.”