Feb 122007
Let’s review the evening with U2! There are many MANY categories that weren’t covered on the televised portion of the show. A complete list of nominees, with the winners highlighted in red, is at http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/49th_show/list.aspx
What was The Moment That Gave You the Willies? Which artist made you feel Most Out of Touch? Did you have any rooting interests?
I was rooting for Prince. He’s playing the game now — sitting in the audience and even acting as a presenter — but he still didn’t win anything, despite 5 nominations. Maybe he should go back to being distant and enigmatic.
The only rooting interest I had was in hoping that Peter Frampton would win Best Instrumental Album. Not kidding. I have no idea if the award was part of the telecast, but I was pulling for him.
I saw Frampton play two weeks ago at a theatre in Lancaster, PA and he killed. Again, not kidding.
And that new album is pretty good, too.
😉
What is it about the way the voting works that produces the ‘winner takes all’ effect? It seems common with the Grammys that the same artist wins multiple major awards. I remember it happening with Bonnie Raitt. Without doing research I don’t have time for, I can’t tell if it’s really that common or if the times it happens are just memorable.
The Kinder Gentler Prince of recent years is is a welcome phenomenon. This is the person I couldn’t quite remember last week, when Oats asked for other examples along the lines of recent-vintage David Byrne.
Hi everybody!
I got through most of the show but didn’t have computer access. I took a lot of notes, but I’m swamped not least because our own Bill Harley won a Grammy for spoken-word children’s album.
Anyway, a few comments:
* I was most of the way through the show and thought, “Wow – actually some things are better than others, but there’s been nothing that’s been flat-out hide-your-head awful. Are these really the GRAMMYs?”
Then Rascal Flatts came on.
* The first two award-winners of the night got played off. I immediately wroute “MJB is going to win five of these things – by No. 5, her speeches are going to get real interesting.” I only saw No. 2 – were there any more?
* Gnarls Barkley and Chris Brown underwhelmed me. Gnarls did what they could to throw a curveball into a lightweight, overplayed hit, but it wasn’t enough. I was disappointed he Brown did “Run It.” I was hoping for “Yo (Excuse Me Miss),” a song he, Robinson and Richie could’ve traded off on – contemporary yet classic. I guess the idea was “you’re on national TV – do what you do!” but I think most people knew all that. Going toe-to-toe with Smokey and emerging still standing would’ve shook people up a lot more.
* Almost as much as Smokey’s completely batshit-insane-looking eyes.
* String sections are the new robed choirs.
More later.