8:08: Prince, presenting, looks as impeccably badass as ever. He hands Best Female R&B Whatever to foregone-conclusion winner Alicia Keys, as the Grammy producers pull out all stops to keep her onscreen as often as possible. I have to imagine that if "No One" had come out a week earlier it would've swept this thing instead of getting relegated to a couple of token categories. The song absolutely deserves its win here, if that counts for anything.

8:17: Jimmy Jam, who holds some sort of ceremonial Academy title, is out to say something, but it turns out that he's just setting up the original-members reunion of Morris Day and the Time. The sight of these guys back out makes my heart sing. Morris Day, it should be noted, looks exactly the same as he did in Purple Rain. The bit where Jerome holds a giant mirror
for him still kills, and "Jungle Love," it turns out, flows surprisingly well into "Umbrella" as Rihanna makes her big non-surprise surprise-guest appearance. She might not be able to sing like either of them, but Bridget's right to point out that Carrie Underwood and Alicia Keys could both learn something about holding a stage by watching Rihanna; she isn't getting blown offstage by Morris Day, which is a real accomplishment. Still, I'm not sure why she needs all those cheeseball backup dancers when Morris Day and Jerome are standing right there. Rihanna goes from "Umbrella" to "Don't Stop the Music" as the Time's still-nasty Minneapolis funk sometimes peeks its head through Rihanna's robo-dance backing track. And then it's back into "Jungle Love" as Rihanna kind of stiffly does all the Time's dances with them. The fact that this wasn't the best moment of the night is pretty amazing.

I'm just surprised that no one here has mentioned Rihanna calling for some "Chili Sauce". That's Jimmy Jam's job!!!! Or at least definitely not her's. It just didn't sound right coming from her mouth, along with the very stiff and robotic moves this reporter was talking about. Sigh...oh, I sincerely wish this original line-up actually would release a new album (I don't think it's gonna happen NO matter what they say) and tour!!

Has Rhastus weighed in on this performance yet?

alexnvrmnd777 said:

yeah, but I don't remember if i posted it around here or not
anyway here it is again





More Jesse, less Rihanna

Well the day I had been waiting for finally arrived. The reunion of the original members of the Time on the 50th edition of the Grammys

I had to work unfortunately, but I had my buddy call me when the Time were about to play and I snuck down to the break room to watch it. I got in there right when Jimmy Jam was talking followed by Morris and Jerome taking the stage.The band launched into "Jungle Love", not their biggest hit, but probably the most well known due to the Purple Rain connection. When the curtain came down and I saw the rest of the band, especially JESSE MOTHERFUCKING JOHNSON. I was as hyped as a mug. The Time absolutely killed it!!! Now what pissed me off was when Rihanna got on stage. I called Jason back at that moment and we both said it at the same Fucking time. "Get off the Fucking stage" Jesse was just starting to rip into the solo(and he was on!!!) and I have to listen to two lame ass songs that I had never heard and watch some really horrible generic award show dancing. The coolest thing she did was yell "Chili Sauce", but hey I'm the worst dancer in history and I pulled that slide off better than she did when I've been up there with the fellas.

If thats what it took to get all of the fellas together Cool, so be it. Let's hope it really is the starting point of new Music and shows from the original band. ITS ABOUT TIME