The Grammys

[stlouie_lipp]

Wow. If this is representative of the state of pop music today...
well...
I guess I'm glad i don't listen to any of it.

Which begs the question, why am I watching? I think I'll look for a Maury rerun to watch.

[clement]

i'm not one to defend the Grammys, that's for sure, and i can't remember the last time I watched the show.... But I just turned the channel to see the last 5 ten minutes of the show, and i'm pretty pleasantly shocked to see someone as talented and unpopular as T-Bone Burnett on the stage speaking during the album of the year acceptance speeches.

Unfortunately now the guy who kidnapped Stevie Wonder and is going around pretending to be him is closing out the show...

[ghostrunner]

I don't see how the Grammy's or other music awards can continue for much longer. The business is so different now. The biggest albums are selling less and less, and people are increasingly able and more likely to do their own thing and find music in other ways that can't be so easily tracked. I saw a chart showing the top selling albums for the past 20 years and the decline in numbers is amazing. I'll have to see if I can dig it up.

So it seems like they'll at some point have to either decide to stick to the "popular" stuff and see their ratings decline, or begin awarding based on some concept of merit, which seems next to impossible given how much is available now. And ratings for the show will still decline. Without the ratings, I'm not sure any of the artists will even consider it much of an honor, and they're record companies won't try to campaign for them.

[tscards]

How could the Jonas Brothers not win new group?? They'll eventually sell about a billion or more records in their career and were one of the hottest groups in all of music the past year.

(Yes, my 8 yr old daugher loves them, so I have heard a lot of them)

[Spider John]

I guess it happens with age, but I am becoming more and more out of touch with today's pop scene. There was very little in last night's performances that I could connect with. I guess I just don't get rap music, and even the songs that had actual singing had a rap piece in the song.