Sunday, January 26, 2014

It's the Grammy Awards y'all - Part 5!!!!!

Now, Cyndi Lauper, who FINALLY won her 2nd Grammy tonight after winning her only one in 1985 for Best New Artist. She won for Best Cast Album for the Tony winning Kinky Boots. She introduced Carole King with Sara Bareilles performing together, first Carole's Beautiful followed by Sara's Brave. Love Carole, love Sara, love Brave. Just them and their pianos. I just love this!! I hope they collaborate again. Now they are presenting Song of the Year. Hmm, this is a tough call. Just not Royals. So of course it wins. Blech. Get you some girl from The Ring.

Now, Oscar nominee Jared Leto is paying tribute to Lou Reed by quoting from Reed's Walk on the Wild Side, which referenced a cross-dresser, like Jared was in Dallas Buyer's Club. Now he's introducing Metallica playing One with Chinese pianist Lang Lang. If I liked Metallica or hard rock/metal music, I would probably enjoy this performance. Lars Ulrich does make the odd faces when he drums, but the man has nothing on the Mick Fleetwood drum face, NOTHING AT ALL!! That was loud.

Now Steven Tyler is presenting Record of the Year with Smokey Robinson. I love Smokey. Steven looks like someone they found on the street and put in a suit and sent to the Grammys. Him trying to sing You Really Got a Hold on Me sounded like it too. Ok, not creepy girl, not creepy girl, or creepy Robin Thicke ...and the Grammy goes to Get Lucky!! The helmets win again. Do you think it's really those guys under the helmets or just a few guys they paid? Hmm...

Now Queen Latifah is introducing Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Mary Lambert doing Same Love. Well this won't go over well in some areas. At least one song has a choir at the Grammys, this is the one. Weddings, Madonna, Choir.

Love the Bing/Microsoft commercial showcasing Brave and heroic women of the current and the recent past.

Now Ryan Seacrest & John Legend are up there giving a music educator award. Kent Knappenberger was the winner. Congrats! Music & music education are huge to me. Now the part of every awards show where they honor those who passed away, aka the death parade. The piano player from the Metallica performance now plays honoring Van Cliburn. That's versatility. Now Miranda Lambert and Billie Jo Armstrong from Green Day are singing When Will I Be Loved, by the Everly Brothers in honor of the recently deceased Phil Everly. Wow, they sound great together.

Finally, Album of the Year, it's being presented by Yoko Ono, Alicia Keys, and Olivia Harrison. Aww, two Beatles widows. And the Grammy goes to...DAFT PUNK! R2D2 and C3PO win again.

Now, to end the ceremony, more music that I don't really get & care about. Nine Inch Nails & Queens of the Stone Age plus Lindsey Buckingham and Dave Grohl. So yeah, there's that. Hope you enjoyed the show. Good night everyone!

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