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Grammy commentary

#103
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#105
One Drop said:
Just preference and who you connect with.

There are plenty of singing legends who do nothing for me. I recognize their talent but get no emotional response from them nor feel any personal connection.
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That reminds me of a Miles Davis quote that I can't quite remember. He was putting down someone else's music and he said something like "It's like seeing a woman you're not attracted to naked. All the right parts are there but I just can't be into it."
 
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#111
socialleper said:
Alright; I'm going to be that metal listening @$$hole :

F U Grammys. While you are busy giving reach arounds to entertainers and having more live performances than awards, music categories like metal, jazz, blues, classical, etc, where actually write and perform their own music, are relegated to a "pre-show" that is attended by no one except the people being nominated and isn't hired on the web anywhere (Its 2016 you jerks! Its called a webcast, look into it.) The music industry doesn't understand why it is collapsing in on its self while doing nothing to prevent it. Anyone with half a brain knows that a Grammy is in no way a mark of any true talent, its a marketing tool for selling more units. If you only give air time to performers already in the top 1%, how the @$&* do you expect to grow a broad base in music. Metal deserves to be a part of the broadcast. Nothing would have made my day more than seeing the faces on those dip$#!& pop star's faces if Ghost could have accepted their Grammy on air. They are a light weight metal band, and yet still 100x more dark than anything those sackless twerps could imagine (except Dave Grohl; he gets a pass.)

With that out of the way:
I'm sure my parents would have loved the Eagles tribute.
How did Bieber so quickly go from being a child to looking like someone that would lure a child into a van.
Dudes in dresses? Yeah I get it; its edgy and all that. You know who else does that? Jaden Smith and he's an idiot. Grats.
Hollywood Vampires? Could you think of a name that reeks more of the bad-old-days of glam metal? Where did they dig up Joe Perry; and why did they need 4! guitarists to sort of play one song no one knew, and half of a Motorhead song. I love Alice Cooper, but they guy seriously didn't look like he wanted to be there.
Adele had a bad night. She's a talented woman, but something was just not clicking for her.
Lionel Richie's tribute- Demi Lovato showed off her cleavage again, I don't remember the rest.
Having a performance from Hamilton was cool, but it was a middle finger to the other performances in that category. "Gee I wonder who is going to win this one? Maybe the only one that we got to see performed live."
I've heard of Kendrick Lamar before, and have heard people rave about his stuff. Its cool that he uses real music for his backing tracks. His stuff might be avant garde. I dunno. He isn't as annoying as Kayne. I think I can safely say I'm not his target demographic.
I think Taylor Swift has some balls for taking credit for her fame when two of her biggest songs, Bad Blood and Shake it off, were co-written by human-single-machine Max Martin. Guys like him write the songs that these performing poodles take credit for. This middle aged Swede has written more chart topping singles than Madonna, Elvis, or the Beatles.

I think its pretty clear that I didn't care for them, and don't care for the Grammys in general (or any award show for that matter.) Maybe an award show should spend more time handing out AWARDS than performances we can all see on YouTube.
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Amen, except what you said about the Vampires. I like Rock'n'Roll that's teetering on the edge of falling apart.
 
#113
48thStreetCustom said:
Amen, except what you said about the Vampires. I like Rock'n'Roll that's teetering on the edge of falling apart.
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Rock 'n roll that teetering on the edge of falling apart, or the people playing it nearly falling apart?

Did they need some real rock in that mess? Oh yeah!
However, there are literally thousands of metal bands that would give their left nuts to do a tribute to Lemmy anywhere, let alone on TV, that would have done a better job. Instead they go with a "super" group playing a song no one has heard. If the Grammys are all about accessibility then play something people recognize, and if that was supposed to be a tribute to Lemmy, then do some Motorhead and STFU. Throw Eat the Rich or Overkill in there with Ace of Spades.
 
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socialleper said:
Rock 'n roll that teetering on the edge of falling apart, or the people playing it nearly falling apart?

Did they need some real rock in that mess? Oh yeah!
However, there are literally thousands of metal bands that would give their left nuts to do a tribute to Lemmy anywhere, let alone on TV, that would have done a better job. Instead they go with a "super" group playing a song no one has heard. If the Grammys are all about accessibility then play something people recognize, and if that was supposed to be a tribute to Lemmy, then do some Motorhead and STFU. Throw Eat the Rich or Overkill in there with Ace of Spades.
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Naw, they weren't falling apart. Those GnR guys are a rock solid rhythm section. And yeah, there's countless bands that would have done a better job, but they don't have that star power. This is the big show after all. You gotta bring out the A List.
 

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