Oh right, the Grammys thing

On 01/27/2014 at 10:58 PM by Super Step

Sorry, I had a weird day. Not necessarily a rough one, but a long one.

I was trying to wake up early to eat breakfast and work out, but no go. Got to work around 9:30am, and wound up staying until my class at 4pm, because I found out we were missing three weeks works of music usually sent to my mail box, but that I had to get online instead, so most of my office hours were dedicated to that, among other things. When I got out of class at 6:30pm, I went and had dinner, and tried my best to eat at least 2,000 calories and 150g of protein before my work out. The calories are not hard to get in the school cafeteria. the protein on the other hand ...

Anyway, now we're here, and I've cut myself shaving after doing some bicycle crunches and taking a shower, and as promised, here's what I remember from the Grammys. Bold text means an artists played on KSAU (ksauradio.com, @ksauradio) was involved.

Beyonce talking about riding Jay-Z in a bathtub was sexy, until I realized Jay-Z was involved.

Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons had by far the best live performance. Live music is all about energy in my opinion, and they blew everyone else out of the water.

I wish Metallica had been there with an orchestra like on S&M, instead of just with Lang Lang. I honestly thought the piano was asynchronous and distracting. I get what he was going for with that dark feel, but it didn't work for me, and the guitars drowned him out half the time anyway. Despite that however, seeing "One" performed at the Grammys was great.

I've always respected Macklemore and Ryan Lewis since I heard of their success without a record label (lol at the music playing right after Macklemore mentioned that), and I have even more respect after that "Same Love" performance where a bunch of gay couples were married. Wasn't expecting Trombone Shorty to be there too. Nice!

Pink doing wire gymnastics was cool.

I thought Ringo Starr was a bit dull, honestly. The song he did with Paul McCartney was ok, though.

Pherell Williams and Daft Punk were groovy, and I loved Pherell's acceptance speeches. He seems like a real cool guy.

Lorde's winning song of 2013 makes sense, given that my 2013 was a love/hate thing, and I have a love/hate relationship with her song. For example, I dug the clip of the recorded version played when she accepted, but her live performance was kind of weird. She had Marilyn Manson lipstick and slowed it down a bit too much. Oh well.

Nothing else is really coming to me right now, but I did watch all of it, so if you want my opinion on something (and given the aversion to most things pop culture outside of video games I sometimes tended to experience on 1up and this site, I somewhat doubt there will be many requests for this), feel free to ask.

Commenting then saying good night.

avidacridjam

01/28/2014 at 05:33 AM

Led Zeppelin winning for Best Rock Album is the most baffling choice since Jethro Tull beat Metallica's Black Album back in '91.

mothman

01/28/2014 at 08:48 AM

I would have liked to see QotSA win that one. Don't get me wrong I love me some Led Zep. it just seems silly to award it to a live album of 70's hard rock rather than something current.

IMO the Tull thing was much much sillier. Ian Anderson and company don't qualify as hard rock and are about as close to Metal as the Earth is to Neptune. Anderson himself couldn't figure out why they won that one. that's why he stayed home.

Super Step Contributing Writer

01/28/2014 at 10:32 AM

Oh yeah, the Metallica vs. Jethro Tull thing is still far worse in my opinion, at least Led Zep is a rock band.

Whoe were the nominees? The grammys.com/nominees page only wants to tell me Zep won.

01/28/2014 at 10:26 AM

I didn't even know that happened. I grew up on pop culture like The Simpsons and Eminem that really never had much respect for Grammys, and I tend not to either really, so I don't pay too much attention to who wins unless it airs on the show.

On the face of it, I have no problem with Zep getting Best Rock album, but if mothman is saying it was for 70s stuff, I also wish it were more current. I don't know how many Grammys they've won, so maybe it's a make up, like when Scorsese won the Oscar for The Departed.

Alex-C25

01/28/2014 at 08:58 AM

Who won the main award (that is, Album of the Year)?

01/28/2014 at 10:27 AM

Daft Punk. Pherell Rogers gave the acceptance speech along with Nile Rogers on stage with the robots. They won a few awards where they had the same on-stage set-up when accepting.

goaztecs

01/28/2014 at 11:28 AM

I have a love/hate relationship with Royals. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I don't. Her live version fell into the I don't category. My favorite moment was when Kendrick and Imagine Dragons were performing and Taylor Swift was dancing. Twitter was comedy during this time.

I'm becoming a fan of Trombone Shorty. My friends love him, and I enjoyed his last album. I might pick it up in the near future.

01/28/2014 at 08:46 PM

Taylor Swift's dancing was hilarious. I think she was hankering for some dark meat that night, was the impression I got. I was too after that Beyonce performance. I'll stop.

I agree about Lorde. I thought Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons blew everyone else out of the water, though. I love Macklemore, but I do agree Lamar should have gotten more recognition for rap. Macklemore is kind of a pop/rap hybrid with his newest album, though his old stuff is definitely more towards rap, and arguably even better.

I have Trombone Shorty's CD in my office. at least the one w/"Fire and Brimstone" on it.

C.S.3590SquadLeader

01/28/2014 at 12:24 PM

I didn't watch the Grammys this year because I was watching other stuff, but I did read about how the last performance was cut off to show a commercial. What an awful way to end a show that's to showcase music.

01/28/2014 at 08:50 PM

To be fair, I could have sworn they did the same thing when LL Cool J performed with RATM last year, and they were already 15 minutes over, but if they let it run last year, then I'll be on Reznor's side. Right now though, I'm not quite as outraged as everyone else, I honestly ... kinda preferred last year's ending performance anyway.

Don't get me wrong, I love Dave Grohl, QotSA, Reznor and everyone else better than most at the Grammys, but I didn't personally think it was as awesome a performance as it was hyped or as a lot of other people thought it was ... from what I saw of it, so maybe you have a point. lol

NSonic79

01/28/2014 at 01:09 PM

I'm actually glad I missed EVERYTHING that was involved with the grammy's. Don't care for much of the songs. Most of the performances I probably wounldn't have liked given that I've sadly heard most of the current singers on CONSTANT rotation on all my area radio stations. making social comentary during a music awards show doesn't do it for me either.

I'll go back to my music that sounds good as I gun down bad guys....

01/28/2014 at 08:51 PM

That was about the response I was expecting from you. lol

PixlBit