steelyd said:

If Stevie didn't have a problem playing with them, why should you?

...and insofar as fluff acts getting A-list attention, who cares? Listen to who you want to listen to, support the artists of your choice faithfully and keep it moving.

Nice to see Plant/Krauss, Radiohead, My Morning Jacket, Beck, Gnarls Barkley, Kings of Leon and Mars Volta all win or get nominated. Yes - there is still good music out there.

Bishop31 said:

I can't front either. Her performance, front to back, was the best of the night.

steelyd said:

I was furious as well. ...Who thinks up these ridiculous collaborations?

AnckSuNamun said:

Sho looked like a shag to me. Straight from 1981.

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

Agreed on both points. It was obvious that the Miley thing was written by the other chick. She meant and felt what she was singing while Miley was just singing a song. ...I said exactly the same thing about Al. The producers of the Grammys have done that stupid stuff since I was a kid. Let Al be Al.

bobsteezy said:

I forgot about the "Shag". All this time I been callin' it an AfroMullet

Duffy wins a Grammy.....what happened?...oh yeah I forgot ...AMY still in rehab....so this is the replacement ...

US music must be going down hill fast if Duffy can win a Grammy...

Coldplay's worst CD in years gets 3 Grammy....that's not right...

Ah at least Adele...&... Estelle keeping it real....nice one girls


Well done the Brits...

what did MC perform and when I missed it

okay yeah I missed whitney's fazed out part. damn.

Ottensen said:

The over promotion of corporate fake fluff acts are does bother me (that also includes the current state of Rap & R&B). If it doesn't bother you...to each his own. This thread is about the Grammy performances and I was commenting on a performance that I HATED. Whatever the reason for that performance, it was whack on every level. I've already expressed my views about this performance. I moved on a while ago.
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Timmy84 said:

Nippy didn't look high. She was high! Did you see how weird she was acting???

Justin, you have an innocuous voice, but you're just so damn dull! Isn't one performance already too much? It's like watching Donny Osmond with Al Green.

Cold Play, I always knew you were a diluted version of Radiohead, and your wife's adoration of them just confirmed that for me!

Whitney, you need to find a meeting to attend.

John Mayer, you've proven you're talented, why you gotta win for the most fluffy song you've ever written?

Paul McCartney c'mon, Sting, Dave Matthews & Pharrell already ruined that song on the Grammys, no need for you to do it so soon after.

M.I.A., cute song, but you are the luckiest person at the Grammys!

Radiohead, way to ensure that you remain out of reach to the average man!

I wonder the point of M.I.A performing if she was lipsyncing

tamewar said:

I noticed a few people I thought were lip synching, like Cold Play at least had taped backup vocals (as far as I could tell)

missfee said:

Agree, Al didn't need any help, I couldn't understand that either...



Also, agree. I could never stand that damn "duckbut" donald duck hairdo from the 80s.
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2elijah said:

I think the music industry wants to claim that it is still what it once was--that Justin is like the new Al Green or something ludicrous like that. That the Jonas brothers are like the new Little Stevie Wonders.

But all these performances do is highlight the differences between the legends of yesterday & the pop stars of today.

The Grammys sucked this year!

lastdecember said:

100% agree to all, except maybe the U2 comment... hate the song.

NDRU said:

True. It's basically saying, like asking where is the creativity of today's talent? Justin will never be the new Al Green. Not when you have artists like Raphael Saadiq and others that are much more talented that Justin, but the industry seems to want Justin to be the new face of R&B when he never will be. He makes a couple of nice songs, but they all seemed borrowed off of the styles of many legends. Adele, is a young up and coming artist, but how long will she last? Duffy and Adele both seem to borrow off of Amy, and Amy definitely borrowed off of the Supremes and Motown altogether. All borrowed styles, nothing original. It's one thing to have a "touch" of your influences in your musi, but all those original artists came with their own style, sound.


The Jonas brothers, although talented, can never be Stevie Wonder or not even close to his sound. The Jonas Brothers reminds me of the Beatles and the Beach Boys, that's just about it. I could see them lasting a while.

Mylie and Taylor, in my opinion, would both do better sticking to country singing. Mylie seems to be copying , the girl that won American Idol (forgot her name--the one that screams a lot trying to be mini Joan Jett), and Taylor seems to be a copy of Jewel.


Now, Carrie Underwood, has a beautiful, singing voice and can definitely carry a song. She doesn't holler when she sings, she actually sings, and her female guitar player has talent as well.
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All the Grammy's did for me was prove that the music industry is in cardiac arrest. It'll take an Act of God to get it anywhere near the heights of yesterday. So sad I tell ya.

2elijah said:

It's true, even competent performances like Carrie Underwood were nothing particularly interesting. And everything is derivative, as you said.

really (from what I saw) Radiohead had the only truly interesting & original performance, and their stuff is so anti-pop that nobody really gets it but their fans.

I actually kind of like that Kanye song, however I hate to admit it!

Ahhh! Stevie with autotune and the fcuking Jonas brothers

NDRU said:

My son like Radiohead and find them awesome. However, it's really sad that we are missing real talent in the music industry or that they just don't seem to look for real talent anymore. It's almost like they look for "manufactured" acts and try to call it talent. Not a good thing. There are so many independent artists with their "own" creative styles that are not being picked up by these record execs.

When the record execs actually think that "Britney Spears" is the in-thing in music, something is definitely wrong.
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2elijah said:

My brother use to braid the back of his head so that his shag would be fluffy!!!...Guys were coming off of wearing afros when that style started in the late 70's..it was considered "GQ"...at least in Detroit. Shag, Dingo boots and "GQ" (horn rim) glasses. It was weird to see that style on Kanye.

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2elijah said:

I remember the guys were wearing vests and their pants inside boots to go with that hairdo as well. I remember the kid from that movie "Breakin'" (?) wearing his hair like that too, the one that used to dance with "Shabadoo", a break dancer. I can't stand that look. The "duckbut" 'do, to me is no different then when white and hispanic guys, used to wear that "mullet" hairdo. Back in the "Menudo" and "Hall and Oates" days, so-to-speak.
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Timmy84 said:

Wha-WHAT???

Ottensen said:

I'm watching it right now.

Stevie and those boys...? Dear history, please forget about this.

BlueNote

NDRU said:

Carrie Underwood and several other "artists" seemed really uncomfortable in their skin on stage. I guess that's what happens when you are a concocted, contrived star instead of someone that actually hones their skills in the studio and on the road.