Surprise, The Grammys Are Worth Watching This Year!

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Just when I was ready to write off the historically out-of-touch and one-step-behind awards show, the Grammys have pulled me back in. And we can thank social media, mobile and several timely musical nominations for making the usually irrelevant, retrogressive and disconnected TV event more interactive, relevant and interesting than it’s ever been for fans. [...]

Pleasure Tweeting the Grammys

For yet another year, I foolishly believed that the Grammys might be more than just a shammy awards night were the real winners don’t get awards. I guess you could diagnose me as naively brainwashed or completely insane for believing that the deserving bands would walk away with their share of golden gramophones. Yes, some [...]

2009 Grammys: Giving Birth To Firsts

Now this could be really something special…or really odd…or really beautiful… Either way, as mentioned in this Pitchfork article, this year’s Grammys might actually be worth watching and not just because Radiohead will be performing for the first time, but M.I.A. is scheduled to perform on Sunday which also happens to be her due date [...]

The Grammys: Fifty Years of What Exactly

I had to settle down a bit and let some of the steam off so I apologize for un-blogger like nature of this unprompt post. I have a good reason, though. It’s taken nearly a week to let what I saw happen (or didn’t in this case) during the Grammys settle in my head so [...]