The Morning After: Ima Let You Finish (Assessing the Grammys for Me)

I thought it was a better-than-usual show. It moved along, & was all about performances & not much about the awards themselves. So much so, I know who gave acceptance speeches, but I’m not really sure who won what.

Not counting the President of the Academy (because no matter the industry, the “president part” is the dud of the show), Steven Colbert was the winner of long-winded, on-the-stage-too-long speaker of the night (& I normally love him). Otherwise, the speeches were pretty short & it was all about music.

The show continued the long running theme of pairing new & old performers to collaborate & do a medley, and this year’s combos made sense & sounded good. I think Taylor Swift’s performance with Stevie Nicks showed that Swift can not sing well outside of her own range & style.

For me, Green Day’s performance was by far the most outstanding piece of the show and will be the part I remember for awhile. Although not the new/old collaboration, the punk band/Broadway musical collaboration was a great way to “change” the music.

I only caught the last hour or so. Eminem, Lil’ Wayne, and Drake were great… Except half of it was edited out. It ruined it. Does anyone know if they just went off script and started swearing a ton? That can’t have been planned… the edits weren’t 1 second skips, it was up to 10 seconds at points. Terrible.

Anyway, I think Dirty Projectors were robbed, they totally should have won album of the year.