brief grammy roundup

I'm a bit out of it, so I'll just elaborate on the Grammy email I sent Ms. Brownlow. And add a video or two and call it a night.

While I'm happy for Adele's wins, I'm tired of these things where someone Sweeps the Grammies. It becomes so predictable, you know who's gonna win each award. And feels like lazy voting by the academy.

Maybe that's just sour grapes because Rolling in the Deep beat out Kanye's All of the Lights. Rolling's a good song, but Lights blew me away the first time I heard it.

I thought Katy Perry looked awkward doing that bad girl style, like it didn't sit naturally on her.

I loved Bruno Mars performance, my fave of the night. Not my fave song on the album, but great moves, great look. (He's the guy who co-wrote songs like "Wavin' Flag" and "Fuck You.")

And then of course I enjoyed my Nikki Minaj, except I was distracted by some family drama going on. My husband's sister had to put one of her beloved cats down--kitties she's been through a lot with.

I thought the script writing was the worst part of the whole night. Trying too hard to be clever.

There were some sweet moments. Adele at the end, but also Lady Antebellum when they said thankyou again for all their wins last year. And then Bon Iver who I'd never seen before. He was absolutely adorable in his stammering acceptance speech.

Here's Bon Iver's beautiful song "Woods"


He redid the song for Kanye West's "Lost in the World", one of my favorite songs from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (which won Best Rap album)

...which on the album is finished off with Gil Scot-Heron, who died in 2011.