February 12, 2008
The Grammys Don't Suck
Posted by Amanda Rose at February 12, 2008 4:24 AMOK, they do. In the actual to-whom-they-give-awards part of it.
I'm watching the show now, FF'ing through most of BUT there are cool bits:
The Band being given the Lifetime Achievement Award. (shot of Robbie. No Levon.)
TINA TURNER. Look Beyonce is hawt undoubtably and definately talented and I've nothing against her but her part of the stage is maybe Top 24 elimination ep of Idol and the other part of the stage is TINA TURNER.
Oh wow, Andy Williams. Did you know that at My Olde Blog probably the most visited page was this post on Claudine Longet? HELL of a LOT of people Google "Sp**** Sa****"" every day. I can't even type his name because I don't want them to find me here too.
Brad Paisley. He's OK, as far as they go, but this song is so unbelievably skeevy and Brad is too nice to pull it off. It's so weird. How can you even sing it? Effing TICKS? NO. Just NO.
ARETHA FRANKLIN
ARETHA FRANKLIN
ARETHA FRANKLIN
Carole King and Dierks Bentley tributing Earl Scruggs!!
Joe Mantegna! It's immature I know, but I wanted him to say "Max Roach, he sleeps with da fishes."
Amy Winehouse's mum is so cute!
Trustees Awards: people we have never heard of, we totally salute you!
Montage of dead people: Full marks for muting the sound on the applause. At the Oscars, some people get only a sprinkling of polite clapping and the real famous deceased get a massive thunderous reception. It's kind of real tacky and embarrassing to watch. Either everyone gets non-half hearted applause, or everyone gets a generic swirl of made-for-TV movie overture music. That's how it should be. Well played, Grammys. Oh wait, I hear some muffled applause now. Bastards.
BONNIE RAITT!
LITTLE RICHARD AND JERRY LEE LEWIS!!!! and John Fogerty. I'd like to dislike Jerry Lee, but shucks, I just can't. Ha ha, Little Richard is so insane. Amy Winehouse, you pathetic vanilla amateur, are you taking notes? Is Fogerty's guitar even plugged in?
oh Quincy Jones. Yeah! OK, Herbie and etc winning Album of the Year is very cool.
Hey wait. That's it? No Steve Ealre, no Levon, no Terrance Simian, not even even Eric freaking Clapton? NO BRUCE?
Grammys telecast: you suck.
I missed the telecast, so thanks for filling me in and sparing me the bad parts! :)
I did see the Amy Winehouse performance on YouTube, though -- made me happy to see her, you know, alive, basically! And having fun onstage.
I'm glad to hear about the death-montage change, too -- the unequal applause always bothered me, too.
Posted by: stacy at February 12, 2008 11:55 AMstacy said: I did see the Amy Winehouse performance on YouTube, though -- made me happy to see her, you know, alive, basically!
Thanks for making me pass coffee through my nose.
Posted by: nemski at February 12, 2008 2:37 PMNow, let me see. If you are a drug addict, not really a great singer, wear bad make up and your hair looks like something a mad hairdresser came up with, you can win multiple Grammys? America IS something, isn't she? English girls, who just happened to listen to Aretha, Bettye, Etta and Billie can come to the U.S., not pay any dues and instantly land on Letterman, Leno, The View -- make millions and be called "soul singers" right along side Aretha, Bettye and Etta, who had to work their asses off for the shit THEY got. Something's wrong with this picture...
Posted by: nneprevilo at February 13, 2008 8:53 AMI guess America just loves nice teeth and a pretty smile.
Posted by: Hal at February 13, 2008 11:13 AMOr bad caked-on makeup and a skinny a**...
Posted by: Jim Pipkin at February 13, 2008 7:53 PMWhatevs but her mum was cute. So little and shocked and happy and very English and I just thought that if you were in the process of fracking up your life on multiple fronts and in public (all I know about Amy Winehouse is that one song and what I see scrolling through Defamer) ... well, she seemed like a good mum to have.
Posted by: Amanda at February 14, 2008 2:32 AMAll snide comments aside, I really do think Winehouse is a crazed genius. She's almost singlehandedly changed the course of the British music scene. She really hangs it out there.
And I think her mum is cool, too.
Posted by: Jim Pipkin at February 14, 2008 9:16 PM
