Grammys!
 

I have already posted my thoughts in some other forums, I wondered if anyone here watched last night.

Aretha - NO.

Kelly Rowland - NO.

*N Sync - yay.

Ashanti - yay.

Bruce - YAY.

Dixie Chicks - yay, but gawd, the techs could have at least fixed the audio...it's the freakin Grammys

SO much bad fashion. Sigh.

I was flipping between 3 shows. I really enjoyed what I saw. Favorite moment was when that 16 year old new artist-(Something about Your Body is a Playground) introduced JAMES TAYLOR. He referred to him as "the blueprint" and that, he is.
He also has more talent than 90% of the entertainers they had last night. I know you said you liked N'SYNC, but I have to say "OUCH". I felt something run up my spine on some of their harmony...http://www.handykult.de/plaudersmili.../shakehead.gif

Grammy sucks.

i thought robin william's comment about the grammy's was pretty funny. when he accepted his award for whatever he got, he put the award up to his ear and said "oh listen, you can hear careers ending!"

and what was up with Kylie Minogue's dress? :eek:

OMG - Aretha!!! She looked like she was wrapped in blue cotton candy!!!

I hated Ashanti's performance - DULL!

I didn't think NSync was THAT off. Definitely not at the top of their game, though.

I just thought it was lame. Apparently they were trying to showcase perfromances and not "awards". Um, last I checked, it was an "awards" show! They only showed something like 10 on the televised show - and half of those went to Norah Jones so it got boring listening to her thank everyone (although she did keep them short at least). And there was no performace that I thought was outstanding, or even very exciting. I thought the best was the tribute to the Clash, and I'm not even a fan - just the guys doing it performed well.

Am I the only one who thinks Robin Williams must have been pretty drunk?
I love him, and think he's a very funny guy, but it just wasn't working for him last night. His timing was off and the stuff he said wasn't delivered well. Just everything about watching him made me think he had a little too much champagne! :D

typical Grammy, giving acknowledgement way after its due. Santana should have won it in the 70s, why haven't the Grateful Dead ever won anything? Why honour Clash now, they help mold the music back in the 70s and 80s. etc. But I guess their musical taste is as good as Milli Vanilli. Have the Talking Head, Sonic Youth, Afrikabambada, George Clinton and P-Funk ever won anything? (I'm really asking)

I missed the Grammys for the most part. I saw the musical tribute to the Clash with Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, etc. They were really good. They are honoring the Clash now because Joe Strummer died suddenly a few months ago.

Ashanti's # was the biggest waste of talent I have ever seen. SO boring!!!

And why did they keep saying John Mayer was 16??? He's like 21 or something. Definitely older than me and I'm 20.

AND, anyone else think Faith Hill was screaming instead of singing?? That was kinda painful to listen to.

Arya -
I'm pretty sure George Clinton has won a grammy or two...although I really am not sure....So why, then, did I anmake an attempt to answer....

Sorry, bad day! :rolleyes:

John Mayer looked great (love him!!!) and he sounded grea, as usual :D

He's 25 by the way - he was born in '77 - he sings a song about it :D

(and if you can't tell, i'm obsessed with him, i love him!!)

I hope that you have a better day. Come to the NYC get together.

If you want to learn about previous Grammy Award winners, go here .

My friend does talent escorting at these events and guess who she escorted last night! John! I haven't had a chance to talk to her about it yet. I'll let you know anything exciting that happened - like if he professed his undying love for you!!! :p

robin williams was off. the whole Trent Lautt and Jesse Helms comment was ill.Was it supposed to be funny with the racist connotations?
What he said about 50 cent was too funny!
paraphrase: 50Cent said he was coming but he cant get through the metal detectors with all that metal in his a**.
It was dirty but too funny!
Ashanti sucked.
Eminem w/the Roots was interesting.I liked it
My BF's dad won one for best Gospel Album. That was cool even though it wasn't televised

I liked the *NSYNC performance the best, but then again I am completely obsessed with them, and therefore totally biased. I did want to attack JC with my scissors tho and chop off about 5 inches of his hair. But damn, how freakin hot did Lance look, YUMMY stuff, whew! That was the only part I watched, the Grammy's just really don't do it for me. :confused:

:eek: YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I tuned in right when she was singing her single "Cry" and my father said she is the worst singer ever. I will admit she sounds much better normally, but that performance was TERRIBLE! She was off key, off pitch, and screaming half of her song.
My dad said that he read an article that stated that she really can't sing and they spend thousands in the recording studio to make her voice sound better than it is. I don't know that I necessarily believe it, but after last night's performance I was disappointed.
Oh well.

The Grammy's SUCKED this year!!!! Not a Norah, otherwise I might have been down, but ... nope. And Em?? I love him, but dayam, that performance left a little to be desired. To be honest, I didn't like most of the live performances, they sucked.. NSync's was okay, and Lance looked hella good for once....Overall, the biggest waste of three hours of my life that has occurred in a while.

The song by John Mayer is 'Your Body Is A Wonderland' and I love him too. The first time I heard him, I could have sworn it was Dave Matthews!
I thought that the Grammys was a little boring this year. No real stand out over the top performances. I love Norah Jones though. I think she deserved all the wins. Cause the other artists couldnt have proved otherwise with last night's performances. especially avril lavigne and faith hill. can we say sucked? :rolleyes: i mean faith is great but when I first heard the song 'cry', i was very disappointed.
However, the best performance of the night......COLDPLAY!!! God, I love them. So Amazing and underappreciated. Their new album is incredible!!!!
So if you took out their performance, the grammys would have been a real sleeper.

Agree. They did no justice to the Bee Gees music at all. Too bad.

I thought Simon and Garfunkle doing "The Sounds of Silence" was outstanding -- especially since they haven't performed with each other in years. Showed some real talent -- not special effects. I wish they could have done one more -- Scarborough Fair or Bridge Over Troubled Water -- which could have been magical. Or they could have closed the show as well as opened it.

Wonder why they did it in Madison Square Garden? What an acoustic nightmare! Are the other NYC venues too small? Unbelievable choice. Why not Lincoln Center or Radio City?

No real emcee made for no real pace and structure for the show.

It was nice, however, that a true musician won the most awards.

Delt Alum-I thought Simon and Garfunkle doing "The Sounds of Silence" was outstanding -- especially since they haven't performed with each other in years. Showed some real talent -- not special effects.

I was so ticked of that I tuned in too late to hear Simon and Garfunkle. Just for the "moment" of a reunion would have been worth it.

Faith Hill-I love her CDs, but I agree, this was NOT her finest hour.
BTW-what in the HELL was she wearing!!!

OK-I'll give all the (Out of)'Sync -J/J ;) - fans a little bit back-they did sing acapella and that's tough with 5 voices...

BUT THAT NELLY THING!!! WHAT was THAT all about!

The (conservative) talk shows were all over Cheryl Crowe for her "No War" T-shirt.
I was waiting for some big anti war speech. They said there were rumblings of them, but most changed their mind. Did I miss any???

First of all, popular census around the world thinks the Grammys sucked ass. And why were actors at a music award show. . .is it because they basically double as singers too?

John Mayer should have won something. He's had 3 hit singles out and I keep hearing that one stupid song from Norah Jones. Where's the rest of the album singles? I'm definitely ot going to waste money and buy the album because personally, I don't think she's done anything for jazz music. She just made a new sound.

What else? Oh, and I really didn't understand some of the outfits that the performers were wearing. . .but after Eminem's bland song. . .I turned off the TV to watch cable. The Disney channel rocks.

John did win Best Male Vocal Performance for "Your Body is a Wonderland" and he definitely deserved it b/c i think he's amazing!!

I saw him in concert last summer and he's great - he's touring again this summer with Counting Crows, should be a good one :)

That's a tour I'm going to have to catch. CC are my favorite band, and I loved John Mayer live. Woohoo!!! :D

Her album has just gone platinum in the u.s. for the forth time. it has sold six million albums world wide. i would have liked someone such as john mayer or michelle branch (who have alot of talent) to have won. if avril or ashanti won, i would have killed myself....well maybe not:)

Her songs arent exactly radio friendly. it is just not for pop radio. however, i work at starbucks and half the album gets tons of playing time there. I like the album. You do have to be in the mood for that kind of music. it isnt for everyone.

I only got to see a few of the performances so the ones I saw were Nelly's, Faith Hill's, Eminem's, and Norah Jones.
I think Norah Jones did a great job. I don't really like her song or her music but compared to the other performances, I think her's was great.
Nelly's was really bad. I think part of the problem was that Kelly Rowland was wearing these 8 ft. stiletto heels. She couldn't move. You could tell she was having a lot of trouble walking in them. I'm guessing Nelly didn't want to jump all around the stage and just have Kelly standing there because she couldn't move. It just made the performance look bland.
Eminem's was ok. I've seen him do a lot better.
What was up with Faith Hill's performance???? She sounded like a cat in heat. There has never been a live performance of her's that, in my opinion, sounds good. She then had to go and pick a song like 'Cry' which is in a very high octave and requires a really powerful voice. She just couldn't pull it off. I think she should've chosen an easier song or brought the song down an octave. Even Celine Dion, who can actually sing, will sometimes bring her songs down an octave when in concert to prevent the possibility of her not hitting the notes and sounding like she is screeching.

john mayer didn't say he was 16... literally. He said that in the moment he was in right then and there... he was FEELING like a 16 year old boy. I guess a metaphor for feeling excited and overwhelmed all at the same time.

Hey just a little report from the inside-
My dad's a member of NARAS (national academy recording arts and sciences) and everyone at all the after parties had the same comments we did!!
Biggest complaints of the night-
Ashanti's reputation preceded her. Song and setup was too Whitney Houston wannabe.
Faith Hill has no talent, something most people have known for years but she was not someone they wanted to perform in the first place!!! Most people were upset about that.
No host??? I know the economy's bad, but come on....
Norah Jones. Yeah, the Grammy's are supposed to be about quality, so she's one of the very few examples where that was rewarded. But when she got up to accept best album, 5 or 6 people went with her. like, this is this songwriter, this guy produced, this guy was a co=songwriter, etc.....a lot of people at the awards were kind of confused b/c if you think about it, she's almost as packaged as Avril Levigne...I mean, her image and everything is all her, but 4 songwriters for one song??? Playing the piano w/a very generic, repetitive jazz song does not a Grammy winner make.

If Norah Jones is "jazz," it's smooth jazz. That song doesn't contain any improvisation, scatting, or characteristics of true jazz songs. She can't hold a candle to the greats like Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald or Billie Holiday.

Just another manifest of how "marketing" people have taken over music.:rolleyes:

I *loved* Simon & Garfunkel....that started the night off well....because it was downhill after that!

Dustin Hoffman's opening speech made me cringe. It was just bad, bad, bad.....

Avril Levigne was ok. But did she sound weird to anyone else? Like she had an accent or something? Yes, I understand that she's Canadian, but that wasn't a Canadian accent coming through. :confused:

Dude I am totally with you, I can't stand her either. And the first time at the Grammy's she won everything, now what does she have to look forward to. Kind of sucks if you ask me.....oh well. :rolleyes:

The Grammy's definately were a major let down this year, except of course for the performance by the all powerful ever-popular band *NSYNC (not that I am biased or anything haha) :D

Why does everyone think hes 16, his name is John Mayer and he is 25.

AngelPhiSig-Why does everyone think hes 16, his name is John Mayer and he is 25.

Because that's what they said...just didn't know they were trying to "make a funny"!
...and his response of "I'll try to grow into it (award)..." lent credence to the misunderstanding.

I'm still waiting for the greatest band that ever lived, Wang Chung, to get lifetime achievement award (another word for we didn't have the balls to give you the award when you should have won it, so we give it to you when you become legendary)

Maybe he didn't have enough? :p

I LOVE WANG CHUNG!!!!

I haven't read this whole thread, but I ge the impression that it is sort of anti-Norah. Shame on you all! :)

She is a beautiful women full of talent and grace, and she is great because she is unique! And, the daughter of reknowned Ravi Shankar, to boot!

I'm not a fan of Norah Jones, but I don't hate her. She's okay. I think that Bruce Springsteen was robbed.

The entire Grammy show was either mediocre (N Sync, John Mayer- I do NOT get the fuss) or BORING (NORAH JONES, I like her album, it's okay but damn does she put me to sleep)

THe only things that stuck out to me:
Faith Hill: hurt my ears

Aretha: why did I feel like any minute she was going to say bibbity bobbity boo?

Bee Gee tribute: I was so moved when Maurice Gibb's son came on. That was sooo sad.

THE CLASH TRIBUTE ROCKED

EMINEM AND THE ROOTS KILLED IT.

Everything else was just blah.