Graycap23 said:

babynoz said:

deebee said:

What makes this all the worse is I bet she'll murder it. Beyoncé's fine at singing something like a pop/R&B ballad in which she can growl and warble a bit in a dramatic, stagey way, but she has nothing like the richness and variation of tone, the control, and the depth Ledisi displays in that recording. I can already imagine her making a show of 'digging deep' and making it all too apparent that she really doesn't go that far down.

Your prediction came true. She butchered the song.

In fairness, I think she was a little bit nervous that she was set to be married-off to Beetlejuice at the end of the performance.

Ledsi don't have to worry about nothing. Yesterday's grammy's was the lowest in YEARS.

Grammy Ratings Hit 6-Year Low with 25.3 Million Viewers

In updated national estimates from Nielsen, the Grammy Awards on CBS averaged an 8.5 rating in adults 18-49 and 25.3 million viewers overall from 8 to 11:30 p.m. on Sunday — six-year lows in both categories. It was down 14% in the demo and 11% in overall audience from last year.

The only entertainment telecast to rate higher in 18-49 this season was the season premiere of AMC’s “The Walking Dead” in October (8.65 rating). Ratings for last night’s midseason-premiere episode of the drama are expected to be released later today.

In primetime, CBS on Sunday more than doubled NBC, ABC and FOX combined in viewers (20.10 million vs. 9.59 million), adults 25-54 (7.7 vs. 3.4), adults 18-49 (7.0 vs. 2.8) and adults 18-34 (6.1 vs. 2.0).

CBS.com saw record traffic for a Grammy Awards broadcast, with +133% year-over-year growth in unique users to Grammys-related content. Live-streaming of “Grammy Live,” CBS.com and Grammy.com’s multiplatform coverage leading up to and throughout the telecast, generated nearly 7.5 million streams, up more than 40% over the previous year.

In addition, Nielsen Social ranks the “57th Annual Grammy Awards” as the biggest social entertainment program of the 2014-2015 TV season to date, with more than 13.4 million comments on Twitter.

While the Grammys will remain the No. 2-rated awards telecast of the 2014-15 season (behind the Oscars later this month), this year’s event, which saw Sam Smith come away the big winner with four trophies, was down by more than 14% in the demo from last year (9.9/25 in 18-49, 28.51 million viewers overall).

Due to an earlier January air date, last year’s Grammys didn’t have to face AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” which made its midseason return last night, but the music kudocast had faced the zombie drama the prior two years.

Earlier in the 2014-15 season, adults 18-49 ratings were also lower for the CMA Awards on ABC (down 4%, 4.5 vs. 4.7), the American Music Awards on ABC (down 16%, 3.8 vs. 4.5) and the Golden Globe Awards on NBC (down 11%, 5.8 vs. 6.5).

CBS dominated Grammy night as usual, with the awards show more than tripling its combined ABC-NBC-Fox competition from 8 to 11 p.m. (8.8 vs. 2.9 in 18-49 and 26.2 million vs. 8.3 million).

“60 Minutes” was the night’s No. 1 series broadcast (1.5/5 in 18-49, 9.9 million viewers overall), while AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” ratings for which will be issued later today, is expected to rule as Sunday’s No. 1 series overall.

ABC ran second to CBS among the broadcasters with an original “America’s Funniest Home Videos” (1.4/4 in 18-49, 6.6 million viewers overall) and the network television premiere of “The Hunger Games” (1.1/3 in 18-49, 3.5 million viewers overall).

Fox aired original episodes of its Sunday comedies “Mulaney” (0.5/2 in 18-49, 1.2 million viewers overall), “The Simpsons” (1.2/3 in 18-49, 2.8 million viewers overall), “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” (1.2/3 in 18-49, 2.6 million viewers overall), “Family Guy” (1.4/3 in 18-49, 2.7 million viewers overall) and “Bob’s Burgers” (1.0/2 in 18-49, 1.9 million viewers overall).

Preliminary 18-49 averages for the night: CBS, 7.0/19; ABC, 1.1/3; Fox, 1.0/3; Univision, 0.8/2; NBC, 0.7/2; Telemundo, 0.3/1.

In total viewers: CBS, 22.1 million; ABC, 4.2 million; NBC, 3.2 million; Fox and Univision, 2.2 million; Telemundo, 0.7 million.

http://variety.com/2015/data/news/grammy-ratings-down-cbs-show-dominates-but-appears-to-have-hit-a-6-year-demo-low-1201428656/

When is Beyonce gonna get a new hair weave? Almost everytime we see her,she's got that same 1972 Marcia Brady wig on isn't it time for something new?!

mjscarousal said:

Ledsi don't have to worry about nothing. Yesterday's grammy's was the lowest in YEARS.

Grammy Ratings Hit 6-Year Low with 25.3 Million Viewers

Musically there isn't much 2 celebrate. Did u see that list on nominees?

95% unlistenable.

deebee said:

babynoz said:

Your prediction came true. She butchered the song.

In fairness, I think she was a little bit nervous that she was set to be married-off to Beetlejuice at the end of the performance.

LOL....Tony would have an absolute field day with this mess right here.

Supposing Kanye actually got his head out of his own arse for long enough to see this mess of a performance... then he'd see a real example of 'being disrespectful to inspiration'.

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At first I thought it was cute that Kanye was riffing on his Taylor Swift debacle.

Then I heard the radio this morning.

Fool was serious?!?!?

I can't with him.

And he gave what was easily the worst performance of the night. Then again I gave up on Beyonce after 45 seconds so I have no idea is she saved her performance or not. By the time I got back to the TV John Legend was singing his ASS off!

On a side note I suspect we all know that the general public could care less about this because the new audience thinks integrity is boring. Beyonce stealing a rightful performance is just smart career advancement. And Kanye heavily auto-tuned and sampling the entire music catalogue of the known world is a well sung genius.

I could muster up some respect if she just simply owned what she did. She used her leverage 2 get what she wanted just because she could. She didn't consider that this could be Ledisi's moment or that Ledisi has her own fans that were looking forward 2 her appearance on the world stage. What if another artist had insisted on singing "At Last" following Bey's appearance in Cadillac Records? She stole that from her sister.

thedoorkeeper said:

Linn4days said:

Now, she will definitely be singing the song alone at the Academy Awards in a few weeks..

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I doubt anyone will be singing that song at the Oscars since it isn't nominated for an award.

Well, there it is....

Maybe, but...That show has its own PR problems with the film...

I would not be shocked if they dedicated a special segment, but I don't watch.

Graycap23 said:

I could muster up some respect if she just simply owned what she did. She used her leverage 2 get what she wanted just because she could. She didn't consider that this could be Ledisi's moment or that Ledisi has her own fans that were looking forward 2 her appearance on the world stage. What if another artist had insisted on singing "At Last" following Bey's appearance in Cadillac Records? She stole that from her sister.

I'm still appalled at how badly she sung after pulling something so low down. The regard I had for her has evaporated after the last few stunts she's pulled.

Why take an opportunity away from somebody who could use the exposure when you don't need it? Out of control ego is an ugly thing.

Karen Hunter is dragging her on the radio right now. She said that John Legend should grow a pair and learn to say no as well.

deebee said:

babynoz said:

Your prediction came true. She butchered the song.

In fairness, I think she was a little bit nervous that she was set to be married-off to Beetlejuice at the end of the performance.

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Dressed like she was about to be raptured.

So many different shades of wrong. But not surprising.

Oh No! Not Miss Feminist Beyonce saboagating a fellow female singer. Surely she's never done this before! ( ) I thought you were all about Girl Power, girl? Or does that only matter when you got an album to promote?

And of course her stans are jumping through hoops and doing all kinds of mental gymnastics to explain why Beyonce wasn't wrong for this.

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Also I find her performance last night compared to her Grammy performance last year of her busting it wide open to be hilarious.

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ScarletScandal said:

SoulAlive said:

This reminds me of when Obama had Beyonce performing the Etta James classic "At Last" at his inauguration ball...instead of the real Etta James,who was still alive back then! Why does Beyonce get all of these opportunities?! Etta James was rightfully pissed off about that.

That's what this made me think of as well. She's so quick to snub another "Black" female artist...but she sure gave Taylor Swift her time to shine on stage after Kanye wrecked her little moment...but nobody wants to talk about that. This Negeopean is doing too much as usual...

@ Negropean

That's why I don't and will never buy any of her feminist BS. Her and her father made sure she got to the top of the industy even if it meant climbing on the backs of other female artists to do it. Matthew Knowles once talked about sabotaging Mary J Blige for his daugther.

And even now with Beyonce being a well-established singer, she STILL has to have all the spotlight. I think she wants to be the ONLY Black female singer.

Bow Down?

2014 Grammys singing about "surfbort"

2015 Grammys singing about "precious Lord take my hand"

Bey aint about ish.

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horrible...

I didn't like Beyonce's performance at all. She didn't do the song any justice either.

Just wanted to show some Ledisi love in this thread.

Leave

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"I wrote that! Alone".

lrn36 said:

NaughtyKitty said:

So much misinformation in this thread. Ledisis was not invited to sing, neither was Beyonce. Beyonce asked and got what she wanted. Ledisis shoulda thought of that. It's not Ledisi's song. It's been sung by tons of people.

Ledisi did not make the song famous. Ledisi has had a longer solo career than Bey. She's not a new artist. I've been buying her shit since 2000!

MidniteMagnet said:

So much misinformation in this thread. Ledisis was not invited to sing, neither was Beyonce. Beyonce asked and got what she wanted. Ledisis shoulda thought of that. It's not Ledisi's song. It's been sung by tons of people.

Ledisi did not make the song famous. Ledisi has had a longer solo career than Bey. She's not a new artist. I've been buying her shit since 2000!

Actually someone posted on the first page of the thread that it was Bey who asked to perform.

I don't think anybody is under the impression that it's a Leidisi song. Even Leidisi herself spoke about Aretha Franklin and others who have sung it. We are talking about performing the song in the context of the movie Selma, where Leidsi portrays Mahalia Jackson singing the song.

Therefore it would have made sense that she perform the song. Common and John Legend performed the song, Glory from the same movie, not somebody else.

She's been in the biz for a while, even did some shows with Prince a few years back but it still would have been good exposure for her since she isn't as well known as Bey.