Grammys: Hey, That Might Have Been Worth Watching!
I’m not a fan of award shows – too long, too dull, and I don’t really get off on seeing celebrities glammed up and celebrating themselves. Last night’s Grammy Awards, however, had some pretty cool performances – not enough to sit through the whole thing, but great for YouTube highlights. The winner was definitely an about-to-pop pregnant M.I.A. doing “Swagger Like Us” with Kanye West, Jay-Z, T.I. and Lil Wayne. How cool was that? A close second was Radiohead’s performance of “15 Step” with the USC marching band. Very cool as well.
Lowlights? Yeah a couple … Al Green and Justin Timberlake’s version of “Let’s Stay Together” was stale, but I’m laying that one on J.T. Also, Jay-Z and Coldplay doing whatever song they do together was positively atrocious. Thanks Coldplay, you can go away now. Anyway, here’s M.I.A, et al. and Radiohead from last night – and you can check out all of last night’s performances here. Enjoy …
Right there with ya Cor. I can’t stand awards shows (the Grammys least of which), but it seems like they stepped up their game with presenters this year.
WTF is the story with the Brown/Rihanna brouhaha? I have to admit that I couldn’t muster a single song name by Chris Brown if held at gunpoint, but I hear the kiddies like him.
Also, did I read that right? Robert Plant won a country music award?!
MIA thing was cool, but can I ask why my TV needed to go to black and white for that? Lame. Also, I was liking the Radiohead thing too, but was a little disappointed the whole band didn’t show – I guess the USC marching band is acceptable.
Radiohead is a band? I thought it was just Yorke & Greenwood…
Yeah, that was kind of weird to me too. Apparently, Queen Latifa introduced M.I.A. and did some sort of setup that made that make more sense … I think. C’mon Panther, let them have their artistic vision!
By the way … how amazing would it be to be in that band? Oh, we’re only going to play with the biggest band in the world. No big deal.
Almost as cool as this (Feetwood eff’n Mac!):
i absolutely love coldplay and think they did a great job considering they won three grammys!