Part of being a musician is pushing the status quo and making some people feel uncomfortable.
I'm not saying you should be an asshole. What I mean by "uncomfortable" is that you take charge of things and start pushing buttons.
Good art, including good music, makes people think. It's not about doing the same thing everybody else is doing, just because it will sell or be accepted.
That means you take chances. You ask, "What if?"
What if a gangsta rapper drove around in a Hello Kitty Smart car?
The answer is that it would make some people very uncomfortable.
But who cares? That's part of your job as a musician.
Right now, a musician named Al Walser is making a lot of people very uncomfortable. That's because he's taken a song called "I Can't Live Without You" and gotten in on the Grammy ballot for the EDM category, alongside top acts in the genres, such as Avicii, Swedish House Mafia, and Skrillex.
NOTE: This is not the "nominations" which every artist and his brother gets on the Internet and begs for... He's taken it a step further and gotten himself on the actual ballot that Recording Academy members will use to vote.
Here's a video of the song...
I hope he wins, for no other reason that he's pushing the boundaries of both music and promotion. He's taking the old system and turning it on its head.
Forget the Grammy Awards for a bit... Other than a nice slap on the back, they're not that important. They're certainly not necessary for an artist to have a successful career in music.
Al Walser is only a example of a bigger question you should be asking yourself...
What if?
This is what makes great music.