Monday, February 09, 2004
Grammy: Miffed
The winners of this years Grammys, officially the worlds dullest music awards, have been announced, and excitement, interest or any event of any note whatsoever is very hard to come by. Somehow Clocks by Coldplay managed to beat Beyonce's Crazy in Love for record of the year, though she did win some prizes for said tune in the R&B category. She also managed to win best R&B album for Dangerously in Love despite the fact that it only has one good song on it, which doesn't say a great deal for the state of modern R&B. Thankfully though, Coldplay managed to avoid winning any other prizes, though with the ultra-literal award categories that the audience have to endure, we felt that they'd have been a shoe-in for Dullest Band (Group or Duo) To Achieve Worldwide Fame, Despite Their Unquestionable Rubbishness. As it turned out though, they were beaten by The White Stripes. Actually, no. That's wrong. Thinking about it, it was The Von Bondies that they beat.
Other awards on the night went to Sting and The Dave Matthews Band. Probably. We can't really be bothered going to check to be honest, but that'd probably be about right. We did notice that Justin Timberlake was there, this time resisting the temptation to free pop-ladies from their restrictive brassieres. Clearly the shame of being known as a man that has touched Janet Jackson's breast is going to be hard to live down. But other than that it was all rather dull really. Still, The Brits are coming up soon, won't they be exciting?! Oh, right. Never mind.
EDIT: Apparantly Prince performed as well. This would probably have been quite exciting, though we must bear in mind that Prince is now religious and has removed all inappropriatly sexual songs from his live set, which is a move similar in wiseness to EMF reforming and not playing Unbelievable, so we'll remain somewhat sceptical about just how good it was.
Other awards on the night went to Sting and The Dave Matthews Band. Probably. We can't really be bothered going to check to be honest, but that'd probably be about right. We did notice that Justin Timberlake was there, this time resisting the temptation to free pop-ladies from their restrictive brassieres. Clearly the shame of being known as a man that has touched Janet Jackson's breast is going to be hard to live down. But other than that it was all rather dull really. Still, The Brits are coming up soon, won't they be exciting?! Oh, right. Never mind.
EDIT: Apparantly Prince performed as well. This would probably have been quite exciting, though we must bear in mind that Prince is now religious and has removed all inappropriatly sexual songs from his live set, which is a move similar in wiseness to EMF reforming and not playing Unbelievable, so we'll remain somewhat sceptical about just how good it was.
