2010 Grammy Awards - My 2 Cents

Ok...so its been over a year since I wrote anything...So friggin what?!?!??! That's the point of blogging anyway right?

To me, blogging is like listening to a Coldplay album...I love it when its top of mind...and don't think twice about it when its not...to say my interest in blogging is fleeting is more than fair...once again...Its my Bobby Brown (prerogative....the wit is in warm up mode)

ANYWAY...I choose the 2010 Grammy Awards as the muse of my first blog entry since that emotional Yankee game I last wrote about) The 27th World Series win? No...the last game at the OLD Stadium)

Now that its getting late...I am going to give you my quick-hitting, sometimes-witty, brutally honest opinion of "Music's Biggest Night."

First...the performances

1) Elton John & Lady Gaga...The bitch is back...and so is Lady Gaga...frankly, she hasn't left...and she is here to stay...that chick is all world and Gaga is amazing too...other female "pop stars" need to take notice...they have all been lapped on the race to superstardom...Gaga gets the gold.

2) Beyonce...just imagine how many grammys she would have if she didn't have to sing next to Kelly Rowland all those years...Booty is superb & the actual live singing was a nice touch...Don't know if covering Alanis would be my first choice to create a major grammy memory...but she did the song better than its author.

3) Pink...Wowzer...The best female singer out there right now...and prolly best in a long while...She doesn't need the acrobatics to make her performances amazing...the fact that she can sing that well and still swing around on a bedsheet only makes her performance that much better.

4) Black Eyed Peas...eeeehhhh...seen them much better...I think Will.I.Am & Fergie should just kick the other 2 dudes out of the band and only split the royalties 2 ways...those dudes are useless..."Imma Be" thinking that was one of the worst songs written in a long time...But "I Gotta Feeling" still keeps the elliptical machine moving.

5) Green Day...AWESOME...I am lining up now to get my tickets for Broadway

6) Jamies Fox / T Pain / Doug E. Fresh / Slash & the girl from "Precious"...The reason for the blog...There is a reason Jay-Z wrote "D.O.A."....its because that auto-tone (or whatever its calls) shit has given people like Jamie Foxx a "singing" career...that whole thing is a joke...Doug E. Fresh & Slash were just there to further mask the fact that Jamie WASN'T singing...Jamie Foxx should start work on the Stevie Wonder story...T Pain needs to stop trying to look like 'Lil John & Doug E. Fresh...well...he & Slash were the only ones there with any real talent...

7) Taylor Swift...she was on the biggest stage & had a chance to prove Kanye & everyone else wrong about her talents and she laid a big egg....but....she is still good & will still run the tween world for a while...

8) Michael Jackson "Tribute"....as for the performance...It was NICE song...I am sure it would have been cool to see in 3D...seeing as I ALWAYS keep 3d glasses in my house...alas...I don't...so...the only reaction I had to that performance was to reach for Advil to get rid of the "no 3d glasses-havin" headache....And...as for Michael's kids coming up to accept his lifetime achievement award....Shouldn't Joe Jackson have just come up on stage and told the kids what to say directly into their ears??????? Talk about nerves trying to remember the speech granddaddy wrote for them.....he prolly told them that if they didn't get it right, they'd have to grab a switch....I think @ this point the kids would be better off with Randy Jackson from American Idol.

9) Bon Jovi should retire.

10) Dave Matthews Band...I was really surprised...that was the only good song I have heard them sing in over 10 years.

11) Maxwell...dude is a panty dropper...not that I would know from experience...but geez...that boy can sing...It was a little weird seeing him sing with Robert Flack (intentional typo) as she wore a Lady Gaga-type neck brace...but all in all, he did a great job doing the part of Donny Hathaway

12) Mary J & Andrea Bocelli...moving...beautiful...period...Mary is on her own island.

13) Eminem...Lil Wayne & Some other dude....This was the big finish????? REALLY???? Call it my East Coast bias...but I don't get the Lil Wayne hype...I don't get what all the fuss is about....I really don't...I could name 15-20 OTHER rappers / performers who I would have wanted to close the show...Eminem has jumped the shark...and Drake? yeah no. Gimme Jay-Z, ...Kanye....Nas...Common...Talib Kweli...Hell, LL Cool J was in the audience...Something....how about Janet Jackson doing a 20 year anniversary performance of "Rhythm Nation"...Or a reunion of "The Fugees" (great idea wife)....Think of how HUGE that would be...especially with 'Clef so much in the news these days.....The Grammys missed the mark on this one.

Speaking of missing the mark...how in the good name of God do you have an "In Memoriam" & Michael Jackson is nowhere to be found????????? Yeah....you did a tribute song...but you can't throw the guy's name up on the big screen?

To finish up on the performances....not the best year...but certainly not the worst...the only band I think we SHOULD have seen would be Kings of Leon...I am not the biggest fan...but they did have a HUGE year and should have been recognized for it.

As for awards...all I have to say is Lady Gaga was f*n robbed..."The Fame" was where it was at in 2009....4 singles releases...4 singles straight to #1...then a 5th consecutive single, this time from the new album...straight to #1...Not to take anything away from Taylor Swift...but she owes alot of her post-MTV awards to Kanye...he ripped that mic from her hands and she became America's innocent sweetheart who needed to win everything to be vindicated...

This felt pretty good