53rd Annual Grammy Awards

[Gidget]

Okay so from what I've seen so far. Mumford and Sons with Avett Bros following was amazing. And Eminem with Rihanna and then Dre was mind blowing. I am not even that big of fan of most rap, but when I watch Eminem perform live it gives me goosebumps. He is a remarkable artist.

[Soccermom]

Y Ohio will be happy to know that Train's "Hey Soul Sister" won best pop duo.

[Commando]

Y Ohio will be happy to know that Train's "Hey Soul Sister" won best pop duo.

I now have a better idea of what DDD looks like.

[TripletDaddy]

Y Ohio will be happy to know that Train's "Hey Soul Sister" won best pop duo.

:rockon1: :rockon2:

[MarkGrace]

The Grammy's is the biggest crock of shit of an awards ceremony out there. That said, I'm sitting down to watch it right now.

[Sizzle]

People are going to think Lady GaGa is Mormon with those horns she is rocking.

[Gidget]

The Grammy's is the biggest crock of shit of an awards ceremony out there. That said, I'm sitting down to watch it right now.

You know I actually can't completely disagree with this. I don't really care who wins the awards, who does? But I like watching the live performances a lot.

[Surfah]

God bless Rhianna.

[grapevine]

I never watched a whole grammy or Oscar show. Boring I could care less who gets what rewards. I don't watch any sitcoms anyway. Ball Games, News shows and some movies. Don't care about Granny awards.

[MarkGrace]

You know I actually can't completely disagree with this. I don't really care who wins the awards, who does? But I like watching the live performances a lot.

If you're bored, this is an interesting look at the Grammy's. Some snippets:

It's Grammy time again, as the world's most bizarre awards affair lurches toward its 53rd presentation on Sunday night. There are tackier award-giving groups, to be sure—like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes. There are more corrupt ones, too—like, um, like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the Golden Globes. But no group matches the goofiness of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences and its annual Grammy awards: the arcane categories, the corrupt process, and the studied out-of-it-ness.

The biggest scandal about the Grammys is the ruling cadre's secret manipulation of its membership's nominations. This is almost never noted in reporting on the awards. The recording academy, like the motion picture academy, has a putative raison d'être that's secondary to the needs of presenting a worldwide TV broadcast. The awards show is an ATM of bovine proportions, funding the group's activities for the rest of the year.

Plan B established a committee whose members' names are not made public, supposedly to protect them from record-industry pressure. The group is allowed to overrule the membership's nominations for its four biggest awards: album of the year, record of the year, song of the year, and best new artist. They take out nominations that might embarrass the academy—one official has hinted that "Macarena" might otherwise have been nominated one year—and replace them with artists they think are more deserving or, more importantly, who will bring in more viewers to the TV show.

The problem: What do you do when your membership is so out of touch with popular culture that it affects the ratings? Over in Hollywood, the troubles arrive because the academy's tastes have become too rarified. The membership is actually giving nominations and awards to the best movies of the year—even when they are fine films that don't make much money.

Artists like the Rolling Stones, the Who, Elvis Costello, Prince, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Randy Newman, Bob Dylan, the Clash, the Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, and Sly Stone never won a major award during their formative recording periods, and most weren't even nominated for one. (It should be noted that for a time in the mid-1970s, the awards opened a bit with acts like Elton John, the Eagles, and Paul McCartney garnering nominations. The Stones even got an 1978 album-of-the-year nomination for Some Girls.)

A few, like Steely Dan or Bob Dylan, were given awards late in their careers. And once in a while, when newfangled sounds are coming up, the organization covers its ass by sticking things like Nevermind in a "best alternative album" category. What Grammy likes best is a PR angle. Any hackneyed all-star collection—Santana's guest-heavy Supernatural, Quincy Jones utterly forgettable Back on the Block, Ray Charles' Genius Loves Company—is practically guaranteed an album-of-the-year trophy. Just two years ago, Herbie Hancock—once a vibrant artist—won record of the year for a quickly forgotten collection of Joni Mitchell covers with a raft of guest stars.

http://www.slate.com/id/2284690

[MarkGrace]

DDD get his Grammy! And hits with a Justin Beiber joke!

[MarkGrace]

Apparently Howie Mandel is in Train.

[MarkGrace]

Gaga is performing her new single, which I also heard earlier in the day, and I swear at any moment that song sounds like it's going to break into Madonna's Express Yourself.

[TripletDaddy]

Gaga is performing her new single, which I also heard earlier in the day, and I swear at any moment that song sounds like it's going to break into Madonna's Express Yourself.

Speaking of Lady Gaga, shoutout to some female BYU a Capella group who performed Paparazzi at the halftime of the Utah game. They dedicated it to Jimmer.

[creekster]

Gaga is performing her new single, which I also heard earlier in the day, and I swear at any moment that song sounds like it's going to break into Madonna's Express Yourself.

True, but I liked the shoulders thing. Sort of cool looking I thought. Her voice? Meh. The song? Even more (or is it less?) Meh.