All I have to say about Stevie these days is hair line and waist line!

dreamfactory313 said:

lol.....that hairline is off the chain.

I recorded it, then ended up fast forwarding through most of it, as it was HORRIBLE!!!!! Especially all the rappers on stage at the same time. I love rap, but it almost always sounds horrible live.

SoulAlive said:

I haven't watched since the late 80s.

Timmy84 said:

Paul Mooney on Samuel L. Jackson;

"They put this n***a in movies n***as don't belong in!"


Yep, I see the comparison...

Graycap23 said:

Your high school talent show was better than Buddy Guy, BB King and John Mayer doing a Bo Diddley tribute?

dreamfactory313 said:

For real! People talking about Jessica Simpson and Janet. Have they seen Stevie lately?

The Jonas brothers looked like crickets, hopping all around Stevie like that.

SoulAlive said:

This was the first time that I didn't bother to watch it

Flipped to it for a second, but then say Chocolat was on so I watched that instead

It may have sucked, but...


http://www.baltimoresun.c...6018.story

Grammy ratings increase
The Associated Press
1:51 PM EST, February 9, 2009
NEW YORK - Music sales may be low, but interest in music isn't, at least according to ratings for the Grammy Awards.

Nielsen Media Research says that Sunday's ceremony was seen by at estimated 19.1 million people. That's about 2 million more viewers than for last year's show and higher than it's been for three of the past four years.

Among young viewers ages 18 to 34, ratings were up 23 percent. The Grammys tried to reach a mixed audience, with a duet featuring teen dreams the Jonas Brothers and Stevie Wonder. Last year's Grammy Awards, with 17.2 million viewers, was the least-watched Grammys since the awards were first televised by CBS in the mid-1970s.

Lammastide said:

Great. Then I guess we can expect more pairings of legends with the hot young act of the moment and other bizarre collaborations.

JackieBlue said:

Looks like it.
[Edited 2/10/09 19:14pm]

But aren't they just rebounding from some of the lowest viewership ever in recent years?

Cinnie said:

I think that's true. If I'm not mistaken, last year had the lowest ratings in the show's history.

Lammastide said:

That's what I remember hearing last year...

Lammastide said:

In times of recession, TV ratings across the board go up, because people can't afford to go out so much.

These shows are so terrible,I don't even know why the legendary artists bother showing up.Al Green and Stevie Wonder should NOT be participating in this fiasco...being paired up with lame wannabees

midnightmover said:

Exactly right.....

I find the best alternative to crap television is not to succumb to it but to simply do something else.

midnightmover said:

Ahhh, now that's an interesting point.

I love all types of music and enjoy Grammy's as a way to see what's going on in "popular" music.
yeah sometimes its a train wreck, but as someone else posted we did get a chance to see a nice tribute to Bo Diddly, I loved Radio Head's appearance with the USC marching band (wow) and i was pleasantly surprised by Carrie Underwood rocking the crap of a show at that point.

The main thing I got out of this year's show was that for me at least, it clearly illustrated that if a 20 something former American Idol contestant county artist can out-perform almost everybody on that stage, that the state of popular music is pretty lame. Case in point ALL the Hip-Hop and Urban acts were lame as hell.

Hip Hop and Urban music sounded like my grandma's version of what is cutting edge.
[Edited 2/11/09 9:01am]