I've been watching the Grammys since I was a teen until about five years ago. I did see some of the performances on YouTube. The "awards" are severely canted towards sales and something the conservative voting body considers "safe". Remember the 70s, when you would have thought Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder must have been the top artists in the world based on their stacks of awards while most rock acts never got nominated.
Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith, and Lady Gaga are blessed with actual decent voices. Based on her dance pop I had little idea what kind of voice Gaga had but she freaking nails those standards with Tony Bennett. Sia's got some pipes as well. And after that, the talent drop off was pretty severe. Nice to have AC/DC to open the show. Would have been even better if it had been 1978 and the audience would have got a full dose of Bon walking the boards. Paul McCartney slumming in something barely approaching a song. Madonna is over and no one bothered to tell her. Yeah, your fifty plus ass looks good but you haven't mattered in music for a decade. Stay home.
As I understand it from those who know these things, as hip-hop artists go Kanye is fairly innovative and experimental in his approach to music, never just phoning it in. But he is also an inflated fame whore who is married to an even bigger one with absolutely no discernible talent but a propensity for posing for nude photos. Seen the latest one, there's that vulva for everyone to see? It's just so pathetic.
In short, you kids get off my lawn.
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