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Current mood: ADDED OUT!!!!
Category: ADDED OUT!!!! Music
So, a day after the event, I tuned in for 2 TV hours of the 50th Grammy's
Now, believe it or not, until yesterday, I had no idea what the Grammy's even were.
No boss, I'd heard of them for damn sure, but there are so many award ceremonies, I loose track of which ones mean what, and which actually have any bearing on things...
So, for those of you who still don't know, the Grammys are the big US whoopsie of music award ceremonies and this was the fiftieth edition...
Now, the thing that has to be remembered with award ceremonies is that they most often promote a whole load of forgettable crap and occasionally reward the deserving.
Yes boss, when Natalie Cole came out to present an award, they introduced her as being a previous winner of the Best Album category for her album Unforgetable...
And you could hear the collective sigh of people thinking:
'FUCK ME!!! I'D FORGOTTEN ALL ABOUT THAT ONE!!!'
Anyway, the whole ceremony is a complete sprawl of excess and success. There were some performances ommitted and some awards ommitted from the coverage I saw. There was also far too much of the Foo Fighters silky clean flowing locks, and not nearly enough electronic music, but I might as well headbutt the wall as complain about that...
Here are some other thoughts and observations:
Tina Turner needs to stop thinking she's 23 - AKA Plastic Surgery DOESN'T FUCKING WORK!!!! YOU'RE STILL FUCKING OLD!!!! AND WHEN YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT DOING IT - LOOK AT FUCKING JACKO!!!!!
Beyonce has very firm legs. In fact, she's an athlete...
Feists performance impressed me. She's good with the voice. She's still not to my personal taste, but she can sure as shit perform and I feel a bit mean for dissing her. I should have just said - I don't much like folky female folk voices and been done with it..
Little Richard was ACE!!
Of course, the UK media's star of the whole shebang was Fish Island diva Amy 'drink the' Winehouse - she took a whopping 5 out of 6 awards.
Yes boss, despite being a good few years and 2 albums into her career, Amy pulled in 'Best New Artist' as well as 'Best Song'...
She performed well, LIVE from London, but I wish she'd ditch the whole cabaret angle with the monkey dancing guys at the side - it cheapens and spoils the whole gig...
I do however love Amy's spastic leg movements - in fact the more I see of her, the more autisitic she seems to be - which is exactly what makes her good. I mean she's really not a natural mover. Put her next to Beyonce and you'll see exactly what i mean. But good art is all about restricted and repressed expression, that's then spilled out via a form, and Amy is a walking talking expression of that right now...
Amyway, we should have a parade with the mayor, fireworks, bonfires, virgin sacrifices, 300 paparazzi, a shitload of drugs, and dancing Komodo Dragons for when she returns to her Fish Island Den - if she returns.
Thing is, I get the feeling that her Fish Island flat is too tied in with her drug binges, for it to be somewhere she spends too much more time in, if she stays clean...
I guess my favourtite moment of the whole fest, was Herbie Hancock getting 'Best Album'. I've not heard the LP in question yet, but going on what I've heard of Hancocks discography throughout this last year, Herbie deserves everything he gets...
SO THERE!!!
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Widow City
By The Fiery Furnaces
Release date: By 09 October, 2007 | 23:20 - 32 Comments - 14 Kudos - Add Comment - Edit - Remove |
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