It’s taken one week for me to muster up the motivation to write about this year’s Grammy Awards. And its memory has already faded so much, its bland entries and uninspired performances leaving me wondering, “This is the best in modern music?” Previous years showed some innovation, trying to tie today’s rising stars to rock’s…
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Good Job, Grammy
The last few years the Grammys have seemed to represent everything that is wrong with pop music – style over substance, shock value over talent. So Sunday evening, I settled myself in my easy chair, laptop in tow, ready for lots of snarky comments about the state of today’s music. Boy, was I shocked. It…
Grammy Shmammy – Maybe, Maybe Not
The Grammy nominations were announced this week with lots of fanfare – in fact, the show, televised on CBS, resembled the actual awards ceremony, with a list of nominees for the nominations and a celebrity announcing the “winners” of the nominations. So for some poor artists (sorry Muse, Sugarland), adding insult to injury, they were…