Dear Reader,
The Grammys were awful. Period. I never really watch the award show because I think they suck (which is generally true). But I did watch the 2010 Grammys for two reasons only:
1. To see the MJ tribute, and to hear his kids speak, and
2. To see Lady Gaga’s performance
Here is my recap (not in order) of last night’s painful 3-hour telecast of the Country Music Awards—I mean, the Grammys:
-Lady Gaga opened the show with a brilliant performance with music’s great Sir Elton John. (Kind of got my hopes up for the show)
-Stephen Colbert begins an awful and extremely UN-funny monologue to present or introduce something or someone. See, it was so bad I don’t even remember. Note to the Grammys: use Jon Stewart next time.
-I didn’t know the Grammys started playing music to end acceptance speeches. What’s worse is that they cut off the mic, and several people (notably The Dream) got TREATED TO THE MAX. Watch when it happens at 0:53 HERE
UBER Grammy FAIL.
-Beyonce’s performance was a snore. I very much dislike the song “Halo” therefore she lost with me from the get-go.
Some boring, recycled performances in the middle:
-Pink and her Cirque du Soleil routine that she did during MTV’s VMAs last September. Only this time she added water. Mother said it looked like she was peeing everywhere.
-Black Eyed Peas, blah.
-Some country and/or rock performances.
-I don’t listen to them, but Green Day’s performance was cool.
-Thank God for the tom-foolery of a performance by Jamie Foxx, T-Pain, and Slash (and Doug E. Fresh, I guess) to wake us up.
-And why the HELL is LL Cool J still presenting anything? He is so irrelevant right now in the music industry.
MJ Tribute
I’m upset that I didn’t have the 3-D glasses to watch the tribute in, but it was still good nonetheless. All were great singers and did a great job. Bravo.
And EXTRA MAJOR BOOOO to Sony for forcing Lionel Richie to make that shameless plug for the recently released This is It DVD before the tribute. Seriously.
The kids: Nice speech from Prince—Paris, not so much, but whatever. Watch at 0:50 for the SPEECH
She broke our hearts at her father’s memorial, and she was probably nervous last night, so who cares. And for everyone who still doubts that those are MJ’s biological kids, remember that all you can do is take his word for it. Yeah, it may seem a little sketchy, but remember that black comes in every color, shape, and form. And even IF they weren’t biologically MJ’s, he raised them as his own, and that’s all that matters. Moving on.
-It seems that the production crews tried to “out-light” themselves for a lot of performances to make up for the lack of creativity. I could have sworn it was a light show and not a singing performance for most of the night.
-Yes, Lady Gaga got RIPPED OFF for not winning anything on the televised event. (She won two Grammys in the pre-telecast). But remember—MJ only won one Grammy for his Off The Wall album before winning EIGHT for his next album Thriller. Justice will prevail.
-TOMATOES for that Drake, Em, and Weezy performance that was censored about 75% of the time. Thought it was just my TV, but realized that you just don’t put those three on TV for a Grammy performance.
-Kanye was heavily snubbed by the Grammys, even though he did win one for the compilation of “Run This Town.”
Speaking of which, it’s funny that everyone wanted him back on stage when Taylor Swift won Album of the Year, etc. Despite her genre’s lack of popularity in mainstream pop, the girl isn’t even 20 years old, and wrote all her own material on her album. And to be fair, the majority of people reading this post probably didn’t list to her album, so you can’t really comment outside of your own bias. Kudos to her—she probably did deserve those awards. But let’s be real—she probably owes her new-found fame to Kanye’s outburst at the VMAs. And maybe we didn’t didn’t want her to win.
The Grammys are an extremely poor representation of an artist’s worth, and I hope they know that.
Exhibit A: last night.
