2016 Grammy Awards

[topaz]

I do enjoy 1989. I downloaded the album and the songs are great pop songs. I love blank space and bad blood.

 

[shan]

I mostly heard blah blah blah but I think it was about a song Kanye sang recently at a fashion show/concert called Famous (or Fame) in which he says something about he'd still do Taylor and he made that b*tch famous.

Oh wow, I missed that. Good grief. What an idiot.

 

[Lacey]

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[Aussie Willy]

I´m not ashamed to say I love that song. Still not sick of it and I heard it A LOT throughout 2015

Uptown Funk is my karaoke song and it is so much fun. I get requested to do it a lot at my local pub.

As much as I couldn't care less for Taylor Swift, I am glad she said what she did. Good for her.

 

[marbri]

Uptown Funk is my karaoke song and it is so much fun. I get requested to do it a lot at my local pub.

It was one of the songs for mob dance at Canadian Nationals Synchro Championships last year (Fireball was another one) and those synchro comps are so much fun that I just associate a really good time with that music.

 

[Lacey]

I mostly heard blah blah blah but I think it was about a song Kanye sang recently at a fashion show/concert called Famous (or Fame) in which he says something about he'd still do Taylor and he made that b*tch famous.

Personally, I'm glad Taylor said what she said. Are we up to $53 million yet, ya right, what a smokescreen he threw up. Hopefully, Taylor has the last laugh or the biggest audience in the live theatre and on live tv. She's a winner, he is not.

 

[overedge]

I really like Taylor Swift, and props to her for what she said, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around her telling young women to follow your dreams and work hard and find your friends - while surrounded by an all-male team of producers.

 

[Allskate]

I think I zoned out for part of her speech. What did she say to reference him?

When she was saying not to let certain kinds of people sidetrack you. I know that playing victim is kind of a common thread for her, but I really think she was referencing this week's controversy with Kanye. I'm not a fan of Taylor's, but I'll take her over Kanye any day. I just hate that Kanye is getting any kind of publicity over this because I'm sure that's what he wanted. And I'm guessing she's perfectly happy with the publicity, too.

http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/12/kanye-west-taylor-swifts-song-bitch-sex/

 

[BigB08822]

I truly think Kanye is delusional and is very out of touch with reality.

Taylor's line was a good one without being too crass, which I wouldn't have blamed her for doing.

 

[marbri]

I think she was clever tonight and it is killing him that she didn't actually SAY his name.

Btw...I did say blah blah blah because I find she tends to blah a lot when she gets awards. BUT I do like that she said something and I do like that she genuinely seems to respect and enjoy musicians of all genres and does her part to promote them. She doesn't seem threatened by anyone and has no problem pulling on stage people far more talented than her, I respect that.

 

[Allskate]

I think she was clever tonight and it is killing him that she didn't actually SAY his name.

I'm not a Taylor Swift fan, but I think she is very, very savvy. She may not be a great singer, but she's a brilliant publicist and a marketing genius.

 

[Twizzler]

Just watching it back now. Everyone sounds awful- I think it's the acoustics in the auditorium. It almost sounds like there's an echo or something weird. I could barely hear Carrie Underwood.

 

[Lara]

I thought there was some technical issue that threw Adele off at the beginning - turns out the piano mics fell onto the piano strings. She did well considering!

 

[Allskate]

I thought there was some technical issue that threw Adele off at the beginning - turns out the piano mics fell onto the piano strings. She did well considering!

I love the way she's handled it:

https://twitter.com/Adele/status/699457178717958145?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

https://twitter.com/Adele/status/699457767896002561

In N Out must be thrilled about it, though.

 

[shan]

I thought there was some technical issue that threw Adele off at the beginning - turns out the piano mics fell onto the piano strings. She did well considering!

I knew something was weird about that music!

 

[Aussie Willy]

I'm not a Taylor Swift fan, but I think she is very, very savvy. She may not be a great singer, but she's a brilliant publicist and a marketing genius.

I have to agree. I am not a fan at all. But she also appears to be very sensible and doesn't carry on like many of her contemporaries. So good on her.

 

[genevieve]

Skipped the Grammys but just watched Gaga's Bowie tribute.

Now I know what would have happened to those great songs if Bowie had done a stint in Vegas.

What a freakin mess. Ugh.

 

[Yazmeen]

I loved Gaga's Bowie tribute - Bowie was not only a great singer/songwriter, he was a great visual artist. It was Bowie, but it was also Lady Gaga - for her to just sing a song straight like she did the National Anthem or the Sound of Music Tribute would have been boring and invited more criticism about how she doesn't sound like him.

I recently saw Tony Visconti/Woody Woodmansey's Holy Holy concert, which was the entire "Man Who Sold the World" album in the first set, and other Bowie in the second (absolutely amazing, if it comes near you, GO, if you're a Bowie fan). The lead singer at times sounded eerily like Bowie but also performed the songs as himself with his own voice and actions (admittedly they stuck to the traditional arrangements). This was not an imitation of Bowie, but a tribute, as was Gaga's performance. I think David would have approved, even if his son didn't and decided to be more than a bit of a jerk about it.

 

[marbri]

I think his son probably knows better than any of us what his father might have thought about the tribute.

 

[Garden Kitty]

Sweet article about an 80 year old Grammy winner who drives a school bus.

Those pre-K kids don’t really know what a Grammy is. Teachers say they just know Mr. Joe got a big prize.

Those same teachers say Mr. Joe deserves another prize for the way he makes each of his kids with special needs feel important and safe.

“He makes them feel like rock stars,” teacher Heather Howard says.