The 55th Grammy Awards just ended and I realized I cared much less this year that I didn’t have someone like my beloved Adele contending in so many categories like she was last year.
Nonetheless, the show was entertaining and moved along nicely. While I didn’t like Taylor Swift’s opening number, which was way over-produced and, in my opinion, didn’t work for her style, I found that other performances were fantastic like those by Justin Timberlake, Adam Levine of Maroon 5 & Alicia Keys, fun, and Bruno Mars & Sting.
Adele ultimately still took home the only major award she was nominated for, Best Pop Solo Performance for Set Fire To The Rain, one of my favorite tracks from her album 21, and I was happy to see Frank Ocean beat that a**hole of Chris Brown for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
The top prizes went to Gotye for Somebody That I Used To Know (Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance), fun (Best New Artist) for We Are Young (Song of the Year), Mumford & Sons for Babel (Album of the Year), and Kelly Clarkson for Stronger (Best Pop Vocal Album).
A final observation. At some point it was mentioned that Rihanna has 7 Grammys, which was shocking considering how cheap her work is. But then at the end came the real shocker when the great Prince was introduced to present one of the major awards and it was mentioned that he also has 7 Grammys. How can one of the greatest musicians of all time have the same number of Grammys as fraking Rihanna??!!?
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