Woo hoo, it’s the 48th Annual Grammys tonight. Stereogum knows it’s hard to get excited about an awards ceremony in which Paul McCartney received his 10th Album Of The Year nomination since leaving the Beatles (10?!).
Quick primer:
Eligibility “year” is 10/1/04 to 9/30/05. That’s why no Ariel Pink! Mariah, Kanye, and John Legend lead with eight nods each. Here are the only categories we care about:RECORD OF THE YEAR
Award to the Artist (and Producers/Engineers/Mixers).
Mariah Carey “We Belong Together”
Gorillaz Featuring De La Soul “Feel Good Inc”
Green Day “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams”
Gwen Stefanni “Hollaback Girl”
Kanye West “Gold Digger” SONG OF THE YEAR
Award to the Songwriter.
Rascal Flatts “Bless The Broken Road”
Bruce Springsten “Devils & Dust”
John Legend “Ordinary People”
U2 “Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own”
Mariah Carey “We Belong Together” ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Award to the Artist and Album Producer/Engineer/Mixer/Mastering Engineer/Jesus/Etc…
Mariah Carey The Emancipation Of Mimi
Paul McCartney Chaos And Creation In The Backyard
Gwen Stefani Love. Angel. Music. Baby.
U2 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Kanye West Late Registration BEST NEW ARTIST
Award to the act who establishes its public identity during the elibiligy period. Winner will never be heard from again.
Ciara
Fall Out Boy
Keane
John Legend
SugarLand BEST ALTERNATIVE ALBUM
The nominating comittee never listened to the following albums, but some members read about Canada Rock in Newsweek and their grandkids like The O.C.
The Arcade Fire Funeral
Beck Guero
Death Cab For Cutie Plans
Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better
The White Stripes Get Behind Me Satan Other areas of note:
Killers & White Stripes duke it out in Best Pop – Duo Or Group, but will lose to Maroon 5.
LCD Soundsystem: Nabbed two Dance noms.
Coldplay: Got serverd … only three noms in rock categories.
Gorillaz: (1) “Dirty Harry” competes in Best R&B Song. (2) Animated act PERFORMS LIVE WITH MADONNA during the broadcast. WTF on both counts.
Blogger faves Arcade Fire (also nominated for Best Song For Motion Picture or Television), have tough competition. Frontman Win Butler isn’t feeling lucky. Via Rolling Stone:
ROLLING STONE: What was your reaction when you heard about your nominations?
WIN BUTLER: It’s cool, but it’s not like something that you’re really thinking about when you’re making music.ROLLING STONE: Was there disbelief?
WIN BUTLER: No, it was more like, “Didn’t our record come out last year?” It didn’t really catch on in the States until 2005, though. At least we’re not like one of those bands that’s been around for, like, fifteen years and gets nominated for Best New Artist.ROLLING STONE: If you guys win, who is the first person you’d thank?
WIN BUTLER: I’ll make Regine do a little dance or something. But I really don’t think we have much of a chance of winning, because the voting panel doesn’t have to listen to the album or anything. It seems like less people would know our album than most of the other albums that we’re up against.ROLLING STONE: Who would you most want to be paired with for a Grammy performance?
WIN BUTLER: We just played with U2 — that was pretty cool. We opened for them in Montreal, and we did a Joy Division cover with them. Maybe I’d try that again so we could nail it, because we only got to practice it in the backstage room.ROLLING STONE: Any artists that you think should have been nominated?
WIN BUTLER: Wolf Parade is amazing. There’s a song on their album called “I’ll Believe in Anything” that’s the best thing I’ve heard this year.
Obligatory YouTube: Aracde Fire late night in Union Square covering “Boys Don’t Cry”…
Instead of me live-blogging the Grammys — let’s do it together. Post your comments during the show (yeah, I know you’re too cool too watch … this applies to those who tune in).
Stereogum’s Grammy Drinking Game
Take a drink everytime Kanye thanks himself in an acceptance speech.
Photos, videos, & post-show commentary after the jump.
Will someone buy Madonna a new outfit?
Watch Madge & Murdoch…
BIG WINNERS
U2′s Bomb blew away the competition, garnering the group five awards. Mariah, Kanye, Alison Krauss, and John Legend got three (that’s Alison’s 20th, for those keeping score). Kelly Clarkson, Damian Marley, Chemical Brothers, and Stevie Wonder got two.
RANDOM THOUGHTS
…but he later joined Jay-Z & Chester Bennington for an awkward “Yesterday.” Jigga’s “Yeah”s and “Uh Huh”s really made it really special [insert sarcasm emoticon.] Watch:
“I know I have the whole country confused … When I was a little boy, I said to my mom, ‘I’m gonna make it to the top of the socio-economic ladder … I will be a star.’ [beat] ‘And immediately go back to Africa.’”
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OK, someone brought this up briefly before, but:
How did Madonna walk BEHIND one of the cartoon characters? I paused this shit and it’s seamless. Any explanation would be greatly appreciated.
“And did Paul McCartney look confused when Bono said he discovered America! ”
ya i lolled at that. but i think he said “he discovered the country we are living in” not “America” … im guessing he meant the “country” of music… ah well he speaks his own language that only he can fully comprehend: bongolese
i also lolled when the camera caught queen latifah mouthing “What!?” right after kelly clarkson’s hurried acceptance speech. priceless
HAHA — the ratings for American Idol were higher than for the Grammy telecast. Gotta love that.
I thought Christina’s performance was aight, but with all her trills and runs up & down, the song was almost unrecognizable. Herbie Hancock is the MAN, though.
For those of you that want to know how the Madonna-Gorillaz effect was done:
It’s called “Pepper’s Ghost” and it’s as old as the hills. They use it at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. Basically it’s a projection against a piece of glass at a 45 degree angle. In this case they used a piece of transparent foil that was wide enough for the character to be displayed but had room for Madge to walk behind it. Because it’s transparent you see madonna on the other side. Because the background is black you don’t see any seams. For further explanation look it up on Wikipedia.
I just ruined the Haunted Mansion for everyone.
Fred, you’re the best!
And by the by, Haunted Mansion was already ruined for me when I saw my head on a ghost’s body and shat my pants when I was 6.
Har Mar was snubbed.
Get the Ray Charles version of “A Song For You”. Christina has a great voice, just no taste.
Oh my god who was that loudmouth white girl lousing up the first section of the Sly “tribute” oh my god that sucked so hard, it was so fucking pathetic, did they even practice? IT WAS SHIT. The aerosmith dudes were like Really Off! and that fucking goddamned no talent shit rapper, stupid dancer fucker from the ‘peas. what the hell? I loath to say it but the only one who gave even a stylistic nod to Sly was that BOOB outta moron5. Holy shit. Really, it got better when Sly came on, banged on his synth, mumbled a few lyrics and walked the fuck off the stage. Hope they gave him some cold hard cash for completely destroying his songs. What a fucking waste.
Yea, and where was ol’ Jon S.?
That wasn’t the real Madonna when she walked behind the Gorillaz. That was the hologram Madonna!! Notice that she wasn’t wearing stockings when she first appeared on stage, but when she joins her dancers, she’s wearing stockings.
uhh how do you explain pepper’s ghost if that one cartoon walked out there….was there a moveable pane of glass? or one giant pane of glass?
i think holographics are much more advanced than haunted mansion techniques….either that…or the hologram Madonna theory is correct
Dudes, where the fawk was my main man, Dapper Jonnie Stewart? Did he bow out due to the birth of his daughter, or wot?
wheres the helter skelter vid? sly stone? please and danke
I believe the hologram madonna is correct as she is wearing a different colored leotard and a corsety thing in the second part of the song. There was only a few seconds in between her being with the gorillaz and being with the back up dancers and i doubt she would have been able to change and run to a different part of the stage in that amount of time.
Am I missing something? Admittedly, I didn’t see Madonna and those irritating Brits on TV, just on blurry YouTube. But it looks like it’s just a pre-taped Madonna digitized with some CGI monkeys and projected on a big screen. Long musical pause follows, then we see Madonna live on the next (real) stage, miked differently and looking a little more haggard. So where’s the magic in that?
Also, holograms are three-dimensional. Stereoscopic. There’s no point in showing holograms on regular television. None at all. Nobody can see holograms stereoscopically on TV.
Sorry, Pepper.
the helter skelter is on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/?v=oybjnCYdFSk
to everyone asking about Jon Stewart, he’s hosting the Oscars, not the Grammies.
I loved the performances! although i think last year’s opening was better…but still, wait, if I’d known FF was nominated for best alt album I would’ve been pissed when I found out the stripes won! I love both albums, though. And as far as the gorillaz go, I’d like to see them live just to see if they can move around more than I have seen them when they performed on the Grammys and European MTV awards. ‘Cos honestly, they were kinda boring. But Madonna had a bit of energy…er no, I like her hair…eh watevs. But if the first part was recorded then that would explain how her whole outfit changed in like 2 seconds…
oh and i forgot, duuuuuuudes during the Paul McCartney performance–the second, awesome, rockin one–was that BOWIE playing guitar and singing back-up?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
in regards to the above: no
Ok, why is nobody mentioning the crapfest that was the U2-Mary J. Blidge Duet on One?? too cool for that? becuase for me, that was just the end of that song
Hahaha, yeah I thought Kanye with gloves on looked so weird, and I was thinking MJ too. I thought Mariah singing with a gospel choir with so much bling on her finger and mic looked even weirder. Did Kelly even thank American Idol? Haha!
Is it just me, or did Sly Stone remind you of the bad guy from gremlens. I can’t think of his name, stripe?
Sorry, the movie is spelled Gremlins. A forgotten classic.
Yeah, Herbie’s the man. That was great pinao playing. For some reason, I was wishing that the piano top would close on Christina’s hands…
So pissed. These things are racist. No mention of Jennifer. No mention of Robot. I?m writing the ACLU: http://www.jenniferlovestherobot.com/index.html
I promise Kanye West is nothing like me…
Was that Gremlins II?
I love this new tangent.
I can go on and on about Gremlins II. Wasn’t there one of ‘em where his deformity was his space sprouted vegetables?
And we all love Electric Gremlin, obvs.
Is ANYONE going to explain to me why Jon Stewart didn’t host the Grammys like he was supposed to?
He’s hosting the Oscars…not the Grammys.
wat song’did colplay perform??
First off: Madonna nor the Gorilazz are a hologram in the beginning, they are a projection. Holograms are only to be found in start trek and such.
Second: Her album is amazing, but she had nothing to do with that. Go producers!
Not bad for a woman who has yet to hit a note.
And my last thought is this one: Why are we paying for these arrogant (mostely Mariah, Britney, Kanye and that guy with the sappy piano song which I could have written myself) people’s lifestlye. I own Christina’s gown, I paid for Britney’s nosejob and Madonna’s mansions. And why should I? For the hour of music I enjoy for a week and then get bored with it because they use the same chords over and over again? Nope, these days I download. Celebs are the most fake, arrogant, selfloving, mediahorney, desperately attention seeking people in the world. Otherwise they wouldn’t be famous would they. Get a shrink like the rest of us!
Oops forgot a little note on the Madonna thing, in case no one noticed, projecty madonna walks off rightstage and eds up leftstage…well we always knew she was bendy…
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