It's Ok To Like... The Grammys
Every week, we encourage you to let your guard down, crawl out of the indie rock bunker, and embrace your guilty pleasures. You're welcome...
The Grammys: Five reasons to skip The Simpsons this weekend:
1. The Best New Artist Category
Yes, we know they fuck this up every year, and yes, we know that no legitimate indie artist will ever get within sniffing distance of a nomination (unless we count Tone Loc), but how can you not love the sheer ridiculousness of a “category” in which Billy Ray Cyrus can go head-to-head with Kriss Kross, Sophie B. Hawkins, and Jon Secada – and still get whupped by Arrested Development?
2. The Gramophone
You can keep your androgynous swordsman, your Christmas-tree-ornament angel, and your crystal football. We’ll take the cool retro turntable every time. If only we'd been a little quicker, we could have had Peabo Bryson's.
3. The Latin Grammys
Like the regular Grammys, with Shakira.
4. The Synthesizer Medley
We liked Elton and Eminem, and we’re looking forward to the Police, but for pure live Grammy awesomeness, nothing can touch this multi-national, multi-hairstyle, machine-man mashup from 1985. Thomas Dolby…accepted!
5. Because Hating The Grammys Is Way Too Easy
Seriously, what did James Blunt ever do to you? Okay, bad question.
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Posted at 1:39 PM
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how would you have liked to have to vote on best new artists in 1996? ill assert my 5th amendment privilege.
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I don't wanna split hairs here, but the crystal football is for the college national championship not the super bowl. Continue on with your day.
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Milla Vanilli's 1990 Best New Artist Grammy was Revoked?!? No fair!
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Um...reason #6: The fucking POLICE are playing it!
Gees 'tards...Don't act like you're too cool for school. Everyone knows they wanna see The Police in action again.
D.Vader
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How the fucking hell did you leave off The Police? Good grief.
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hey, aren't the police performing at the grammys?
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This was actually 1984. I remember it well. I moved to LA in Feb. 1984, and watched this Grammy show from my motel room...
4. The Synthesizer Medley
We liked Elton and Eminem, and we’re looking forward to the Police, but for pure live Grammy awesomeness, nothing can touch this multi-national, multi-hairstyle, machine-man mashup from 1985. Thomas Dolby…accepted!
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As Nick Cave once said in a letter to MTV,
"[I] REQUEST THAT MY NOMINATION FOR BEST MALE ARTIST BE WITHDRAWN AND FURTHERMORE ANY AWARDS OR NOMINATIONS FOR SUCH AWARDS THAT MAY ARISE IN LATER YEARS BE PRESENTED TO THOSE WHO FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE WITH THE COMPETITIVE NATURE OF THESE AWARD CEREMONIES. I MYSELF, DO NOT. I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN OF THE OPINION THAT MY MUSIC IS UNIQUE AND INDIVIDUAL AND EXISTS BEYOND THE REALMS INHABITED BY THOSE WHO WOULD REDUCE THINGS TO MERE MEASURING. I AM IN COMPETITION WITH NO-ONE."
That's what everyone should be saying about these kind of awards that are really just there to help the industry gain more attention and more sales.
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Of course, the Police are the draw! Last year's Grammys show got about 15 million viewers - I bet this year's show nearly doubles that.
Note to Stewart & Sting, please don't play "Roxanne' or "Message in a Bottle" or "Da doo doo da" - play something cool like "No Time this Time" or "So Lonely"....
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Dfactor, I wouldn't bet money on "Roxanne" not being played -- it's going to happen.
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i reeeeallly want them to sing synchronicity!! will they be touring? i havent watched the grammys since like...
...ever? wow. but i'm actually looking forward to this one. call me a douchebag but i really like rhcp's album.
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The Grammys are such a joke. Its not ok to like the grammys fuck you stereogum.
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What a fucking bad joke this website has become. The Grammys encapsulate pretty much everything that's evil about America.
Do you all even like music any more?
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The Grammys? More like the Grannys.
Snooze-arama! But for the Police, I guess I'll tune in.
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i'll tell you what's okay to like. it's okay to like gogol bordello, even though i've heard every downright gay opinion (including them being gay....come on!?), they sound goddamn authentic, and i also have a lot of other valid musical arguments which i'mnot going to shed light on...
[please, by all means, correct me if i'm wrong].
so they get me all mooshy and shit sometimes. so they get me all i'm-gonna-fuck-you-up (how profound, aren't i?) some other times. or maybe that's what's it about. i'm amazingly off topic.end of rant.
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