The Grammys were more boring than usual last night.
Even the Chilli Peppers were boring.
And how old is that horrible Shakira song anyway??
Give Beck or the Kaiser Chiefs some recognition and maybe I'll be interested.
the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences took a wait-and-see attitude toward artists
and never really caught up.
No I dont think they get it at all. The Grammys have been irrelevant for many years.
Like - Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals - Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder? I didnt know Stevie Wonder even put out a record last year or that Tony Bennett was still alive and how does this even qualify as pop?
How could John Mayer ever beat out Elvis Costello? And how does Mayer get to be a nominee for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance? Is he Pop or is he Rock? Well he must be both and therefore a Pop-Rock!
But then Dylan won for Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance over fellow tired oldster retreads Tom Petty and Neil Young when Beck should have won hands down.
Best Urban/Alternative Performance OK, I dont know about anybody else but arent Urban and Alternative very different from one another?
But Gnarls Barkley wins Best Alternative Music Album and Best Urban/Alternative Performance? He sounds a lot more R&B to me. Ben Harper is more a lot more rock or alternative than Barkley.
Shouldnt there be separate categories for Urban, Alternative, Adult Alternative and perhaps even Adult Urban Alternative? And since Rap isnt really music in any sense at all why is there even a category for that?
And so OK, I can understand that giving the Dixie Chicks some sort of award was the politically correct thing to do for that crowd, but Best Country Album should have gone to Little Big Town and they are a lot more Rock than John Mayer BTW.
Given the sorry lot of nominees for Record and Song of the Year, it should have gone to Put Your Records On by Corinne Bailey Rae
And The Raconteurs should have won something.
Well at least Polka In Paradise by Jimmy Sturr And His Orchestra won Best Polka Album (sarcasm).
And Shakira? shes a Latin, Columbian born, blonde haired yodeler who belly dances
.Thats doesnt fit any category and probably shouldnt.