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LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT<\/span><\/p>\n

Why?\u00c2\u00a0 What’s the backstory here?\u00c2\u00a0 We need context.<\/p>\n

LEA MICHELE AND THE PACKER<\/span><\/p>\n

Just creepy.<\/p>\n

Like this Lady Antebellum performance.\u00c2\u00a0 Teddy Pendergrass is rolling over in his grave.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what I think of when I think soul music, middle class white country singers.<\/p>\n

What’s the meaning of the term "American Honey" again?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, everybody tells me "Need You Now" is about a booty call.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought it was just about lost love, I guess I’m a hopeless romantic.\u00c2\u00a0 And ignorant.<\/p>\n


MILEY AND THE KINGS<\/span><\/p>\n

Are they gonna do drugs together?<\/p>\n


GWYNETH PALTROW<\/span><\/p>\n

The movie stiffed, can we stop seeing her on music awards shows?<\/p>\n

CEE-LO<\/span><\/p>\n

Outfit of the night, he’s channeling Elton.<\/p>\n

Love the Muppets!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Gwyneth’s not terrible, but isn’t this really Christina’s role?\u00c2\u00a0 This calls for belting, and didn’t she just get a divorce?<\/p>\n

Give Cee-Lo credit, he’s having fun, and that’s what it’s supposed to be all about.\u00c2\u00a0 People will remember this performance more than who won, and I already know Cee-Lo did not.<\/p>\n

Old man can make fun of himself, Justin Bieber’s got to take himself seriously.\u00c2\u00a0 Bieber should have sung with the Muppets. Has Kermit ever won a lifetime achievement award?<\/p>\n

KATY PERRY<\/span><\/p>\n

HD is not her friend.<\/p>\n

Pop.\u00c2\u00a0 Here today, gone tomorrow, dependent upon hits.<\/p>\n

Is this the new single?\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise why would she lead with such a lame ballad?\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t tell me I should know, I’m not paying attention.<\/p>\n

Is that real footage from her wedding?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s a cheap shot.\u00c2\u00a0 Is nothing sacred?\u00c2\u00a0 Is everything grist for the mill?\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile, she’s singing like Madonna, from somewhere down in her chest.<\/p>\n

Okay, now she’s doing the hit.\u00c2\u00a0 The track is overwhelming her.\u00c2\u00a0 And I think she needs a new hairstylist.<\/p>\n

I wish she weren’t trying so hard.\u00c2\u00a0 Trying to cover up a certain lack of talent, a feeling of inadequacy.<\/p>\n

No "California Gurls".\u00c2\u00a0 That’s what I love about the Grammys, it’s not about the music, but commercialism.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever hear of giving the people what they want?<\/p>\n

MAYER, JONES, URBAN<\/span><\/p>\n

A new Crosby, Stills & Nash?<\/p>\n

The vocals are overwhelming the guitars, and this music is rooted in that acoustic sound.<\/p>\n

Did Dolly Parton die?\u00c2\u00a0 Then why are they singing "Jolene"?\u00c2\u00a0 Is she gonna come out and surprise us?<\/p>\n

I’d love to hear these three cover a seventies country rock classic.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe a whole album, cut in two days.<\/p>\n

SONG OF THE YEAR<\/span><\/p>\n

If Arcade Fire can win Album Of The Year, couldn’t Ray LaMontagne win this category?<\/p>\n

Is Lady Antebellum really the only act to thank God so far?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, they thanked Gary Borman.\u00c2\u00a0 He deserves an award, because he’s done this more than once.\u00c2\u00a0 He built not only Lady Antebellum, but Keith Urban and Faith Hill and…\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the mark of a great manager, someone who can do it more than once.\u00c2\u00a0 Which means if you’re a developing act, you’re better off with Gary Borman than Paul McGuinness.<\/p>\n

SETH ROGEN<\/span><\/p>\n

Didn’t he lose all his credibility with "The Green Hornet"?\u00c2\u00a0 What, does he have a new show on CBS?<\/p>\n

ADAM LEVINE<\/span><\/p>\n

Does the stiff of Maroon 5’s new album prove for good that James Diener has not invented a new paradigm, that nothing has changed and it still comes down to hit songs?<\/p>\n

EMINEM<\/span><\/p>\n

I know this is working live, you’re feeling the energy, it’s a Marshallthon, but at home it’s just not working.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, next year can NARAS simulcast the Grammys on HBO, or at least the hip-hop performances, so we can hear the swear words, so half of the songs are not cut out?<\/p>\n

GLENN FREY<\/span><\/p>\n

"Boycott the Grammys until they change the name to the ouncies."<\/p>\n

ESPERANZA SPALDING<\/span><\/p>\n

This is what eviscerates the credibility of NARAS.\u00c2\u00a0 Is it a mainstream clusterfuck or an insider circle jerk?<\/p>\n


NEIL PORTNOW<\/span><\/p>\n

Please explain again how you make more money than almost everybody on stage?<\/p>\n

Why don’t they play HIM off?<\/p>\n

DAVID GEFFEN<\/span><\/p>\n

You’ve got to stop with the plastic surgery dude.<\/p>\n

Just because you’re a billionaire, that doesn’t mean you get a good result.<\/p>\n

IN MEMORIAM<\/span><\/p>\n

Why do the jazzbos come first?<\/p>\n

MICK JAGGER<\/span><\/p>\n

Wow, I can’t believe it, he’s GOOD!<\/p>\n

Good song selection, let this be a lesson to so many others.<\/p>\n

But I can’t stop thinking about his small dick.<\/p>\n

This is the music that was embedded on 45s that we lost our virginity to at house parties.\u00c2\u00a0 We were infected by the music, needed to get closer to it, made us feel positively alive.\u00c2\u00a0 Too much modern music pushes us away.<\/p>\n

Wow, he’s working the dynamics like it’s 1969.<\/p>\n

He’s killing it, he hasn’t been this good in decades.\u00c2\u00a0 Put tickets on sale for the 50th anniversary tour tomorrow!<\/p>\n


KRIS KRISTOFFERSON<\/span><\/p>\n

I understand the casting, but he can barely get it out.
But he did write those classic songs that are still paying his bills decades later.\u00c2\u00a0 As for today’s new artists?<\/p>\n

BARBRA STREISAND<\/span><\/p>\n

Wait a second, it’s 1965 all over again!\u00c2\u00a0 Want to know what the Grammys were like prior to Mike Greene’s modernization, watch this.<\/p>\n

RIHANNA AND DRAKE<\/span><\/p>\n

It’s TRIBAL COUNCIL!<\/p>\n

Isn’t this taking cross-promotion a bit too far?\u00c2\u00a0 Or are they both on the next season of "Survivor"?<\/p>\n

RECORD OF THE YEAR<\/span><\/p>\n

I got e-mail about this hours ago.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a hit song.\u00c2\u00a0 But a minor composition.\u00c2\u00a0 Evidence how vapid the scene is.\u00c2\u00a0 Or how lame NARAS is.<\/p>\n

ARCADE FIRE<\/span><\/p>\n

A great surprise…\u00c2\u00a0 IF IT WAS A SURPRISE!<\/p>\n

CBS refuses to live in the Internet age.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, is there anybody in America who would refuse to sell out like these Canadians, who would refuse the major label money and go their own way?<\/p>\n

Yes, more people will now know their music, but the vaunted Grammy bounce evaporated with the change of centuries and the democratization of music distribution by Napster and ultimately iTunes.<\/p>\n

Arcade Fire is a beacon, that you can do it your own way and survive.<\/p>\n

As for winning…\u00c2\u00a0 If you think that matters you’re still living in the nineties.<\/p>\n

Okay, we’re done, on to March Madness!<\/p>\n

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