again, i never heard bieber, but i HAVE heard ms. spaulding, and i think she's quite good. the idea of bieber as we see him appears to be created due to mindless manufacturing, and ms. spaulding was coming up for some years now.
the utter disrespect williams shows for, as someone i know says, "america's (only) classical music" shows how immature he is. that he don't wanna see a 'woman of colour' coming up (who plays a mean bass). he wants to see some manufactured kid who (as far as i know) came out of nowhere.
What!!!!???
Where the hell you live at?
And can I move in?
Please?
I always found Bieber to be very arrogant,and I dont understand why he and so many other people felt he was so entitled to that award.
Im so very happy for Esperanza!
hee hee, you're the second person on this site to ask me where i live... i do live in the states, but i don't watch television nor do i listen to commercial radio. and i do radio but it's on a non-commercial station (it's mainly terrestrial but can be streamed on the internet), where we bring our own music from home for the most part. every time i do a show i lug a bunch of vinyl with me.
i couldn't name half these people out today if you asked me. my sister makes fun of me all the time- 'if someone came out after 2000 you wouldn't know who they were.' she's kind of right.
The whole point of the Grammy awards is to be voted in by your peers, it's seen as being accepted as an artist.
But face it, Taylor Swift WON last year because of the Kanye incident. SHe didn't win because she had all these amazing songs. And I think the Grammy people didn't want another country artist who had an okay album winning best album.
Someone asked Natalie Maines on Twitter what she did with her Grammys:
and him touching her hair... it made me think of living in washington state, and having all these white people grab my hair, asking me how (and if) i washed it. it's like, did i ASK you to touch me? do i look like i'm in a petting zoo to you? do you see me touching you??!!'
That made me cringe as WHOLLY hell. Why do some non-blacks do that? Folks are too damn PC-handcuffed to tell me the reasoning behind this fascination, but they're not too damn handcuffed when they reach out and feel my hair.
And I love how they act brand new when you tell them to refrain from doing that shit again. I just love it.
oh, dear lord... ms. spaulding has been around for some time. she's got at least two albums. she's from portland oregon, and played for a president.
these kids are attacking a freaking artist? wow... the academy voted for her. this is how narrow we as a culture are encouraged to be. she did an AMAZING version of 'i can't help it' though- the best i've heard since the original!
This is amazing I clicked on this with low expectations, most cover songs done recently by younger & upcoming artists are either over sung or whiny beyond nausea. I'm so glad she kept it subtle and most of all, sincere.
i'm glad you were pleasantly surprised... she flipped the script on the song, something most people don't do with michael or STEVIE.
Yep, she sounds like she's got her head on straight.
When I look at her, I keep thinking Patrice Rushen.
Telepathy, got to be. Because I swear, all the while I was listening to that youtube clip of "Can't Help It", the first person I associated Esperanza with in mind, was Trice. I didn't even think of MJ the whole time I was listening to the song.
and that is why her rendition was so amazing. and patrice rushen is one of my favourite pianists. so ms. spaulding is in great company.
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Folks are too damn PC-handcuffed to tell me the reasoning behind this fascination, but they're not too damn handcuffed when they reach out and feel my hair.
I clicked on this with low expectations, most cover songs done recently by younger & upcoming artists are either over sung or whiny beyond nausea. I'm so glad she kept it subtle and most of all, 
