Top 5 Things I Loved About Tonights Grammy Awards: 5. The interestingly dark-themed performance given by Katy Perry. It almost felt like Harry Potter-meets-Salem-Witch-Trials, which has to be an improvement over her more poppish fare. 4. Yet another standing ovation for Taylor Swift, as her performance of All Too Well led to that now-classic look into the camera that has so much raw, hateful emotion behind it that it has the power to instantly freeze a man in his tracks and zap him with a laser beam. The man-killer look, ill call it. Except unlike last year, she was so fierce that face almost looked like it was spasming and shaking from the concentrated emotion. Shes cute and all, with how she danced to every song tonight while in the crowd, but that girl knows how to flip the revenge switch like a devious pro. 3. An excellent and energetic performance from Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons, which I was thoroughly surprised by. 2. Lorde winning lots of awards for Royals, and being so surprised that she barely knows what to say in front of the microphone. 1. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis team up with Madonna to perform a very emotional rendition of Same Love. Macklemore is tops in my book for the performance he gave tonight, and he stole the show away from Taylor Swift in the best of ways, not with flashy artistry, but with truth. Perhaps one of my favorite Grammy moments of all-time, next to Arcade Fire winning Album of the Year a few years ago. Top 5 Things I HATED WITH A PASSION About Tonights Grammy Awards: 5. No performances or award nominations for Lady Gaga. No Gaga tonight in any shape or form, and I feel like at the least, the song Applause could have gotten some kind of nomination somewhere. Oh well. 4. Kanye Wests Yeezus didnt win Rap Album of the Year. In an ironic twist of fate, I have to say, Macklemore, Imma let you finish, but Kanye West just had one of the best albums of all-time. All-Time!!! 3. Whose idea was it to let Ozzy Osbourne even 10 feet within the vicinity of a microphone? Just for the record, I dont think he was drunk, only blind and unable to see the teleprompter. Which isnt a lot better. Props to him for winning Best Rock Performance though (one of the pre-show awards). 2. Poor audio! This was most apparent when any of the old-timers tried to sing, whether it be Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard, or even Metallica. Next year, turn those mics up on the singers so we can hear what theyre singing! 1. Daft Punks Random Access Memories is NOT the best album of the year, in my opinion! Granted, I said the same thing for Arcade Fire a few years back and ended up having to eat my words (although Neon Bible is heads-over-tails better than The Suburbs, but I digress). Not to say DPs album isnt without its good moments, because it is, but Taylor Swifts Red has been the album thats basically defined my life for over a year now. Red was my most memorable music purchase I ever made while at UNC-Asheville, so I have such a huge spot in my heart for that record. HOWEVER, Ive said it once, and ill say it again, now that its caused Taylor to lose Album Of The Year to a pair of mute robots: Red is a much more consistent album without The Last Time, Holy Ground, and maybe even Sad Beautiful Tragic. At the least, she could have put bonus tracks The Moment I Knew and Come Back, Be Here in their place. So yes, I know its an unpopular opinion, but if I may put on my Mean Critic hat for a bit, I called this after the first time I even heard this album; that Red is perhaps one of the best album of all-time ONLY if she hadnt bloated the album with filler like those duet songs.
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:29:02 +0000
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