I actually figured out who she was (but not the dude, who turned out to be some alphabet soup rapper). Her act seems to consist of waving her fat ass at the audience and trying to look sultry. I thought her singing to be the typical warbling that singers do these days, running up and down the scale in search of a note.
I’m not sure why it matters. The “record” award goes to the recording of a particular song. It doesn’t really matter what album it’s on, or even if it’s on an album. The “song” award goes to the songwriters themselves for the song. “Albums” still exist, so the “album” award goes to best collection of songs released as an album.
Depp was featured in a couple of McCartney’s videos, which he uses as background for live performances.
“Same Love” was pretty cool, but Madonna sounds and looks like shit. I really liked the performances by John Legend and QOTSA/Buckingham/Reznor.
When they announced Album of the Year, Taylor Swift’s camp thought they had won for a split second. Good recovery though. I am so glad she didn’t win Best Country Album, because nothing about that album was country.
… How do people not know who Beyonce is these days (to say nothing of Jay Z, but I’ll let that slide)?!
You should never, ever watch the Grammys again. Or leave your house.
My prediction that they were going to perform “Hey Hey We’re The Monkees” was pretty offbase, in retrospect…
Should we get off your lawn now or should we already be off of it?
Jay-Z. Her husband. Together they are arguably today’s most powerful couple in the music industry. This is why you’re getting so much guff.
The easiest way I have found to describe the difference between Record of the Year and Song of the Year:
To choose “Record of the Year”, listen to every song, performed by whoever it was that performed it, and choose the winner; the performer gets the Grammy.
To choose “Song of the Year”, listed to every song, covered by the cast of Glee, and choose the winner; the songwriter gets the Grammy.
Might explain what The Onion calls the music industry’s, “slow but opulent crawl toward death”.
How so? Is it Beyonce’s “fat ass”, Jay-Z’s alphabet-like moniker, or something else?
Anybody know what it was that Stevie Wonder was playing?
Something else. Like that tuneless opening number.
Weird, cuz The Onion’s own entertainment offshoot loved the album it came from.
The AV Club aren’t the only ones who loved it as well. It’s got 86/100 from Metacritic.
Yeah, and Jay-Z is pretty fucking good. And that’s a hell of an understatement. Everybody seems to know Beyonce now, but Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint, The Black Album are all classics. Of course, if you just think rap is all a bunch of noise, you may disagree. Beyonce’s work is pretty damned good, too. Not necessarily my usual listening pleasure, but I just don’t see how you can deny her talent.
I wouldn’t recognize either if I walked past them on the sidewalk.
I know Beyonce from her pepsi (or is it coke?) ads. And I’m officially giving up on understanding pop music.
I never had any use for rap or hip-hop, but those are arguably different genres from rock and pop, so I wasn’t too worried about that. I thought there was hope for me when I liked Justin Timberlake’s hits last year.
But watching Lorde win everything, I give up. She looks and sounds to me like the weird girl at school who insists on entering the talent show and you can’t find a way in the rules to stop her.
Really? “Royals” was an awesome single. I don’t know if it’s my number one from 2013, but it’s up there in the top 5 (I like Daft Punk’s better, and was pretty happy to see it do well, too.) Why would you stop her from entering a talent show? She, like, actually has solid vocal chops.
I like Lorde’s “Royals” too. Hey, I can sing along to it! Cause, y’know, it’s a song with a tune. Not some warbling to a rhythm track like whatever that was that Beyonce opened the show with.