I watched because I care about the future of music and right now it needs to be euthanized on ALL levels.
Watching the Grammy's and Lady Gaga looks like something that got caught up in a BP oil spill clean up net. I personally think she looked better as a unhatched alien egg.
With that said….I sat through this so-called awards show with the hope that a nuclear device would be dropped on the arena killing only Lady Gaga, Rihanna, Coldplay, Nicki Minaj and Maroon 5.
I did watch to see Adele perform because not since the song “Funkytown” by Lipps Inc I have been engulfed in one song or songs by an artist.
Adele is FUCKING AMAZING from her singing voice to her speaking voice to her overall beauty regardless of her above average size. At last check, a little meat on women’s bones is more attractive, just saying.
OK lets get down to it.
I guess I will break this down chronologically since that is the best way to remember.
The Red Carpet
I happened to flip by E! and when I did TWO things came to mind…..
1) Why is E! STILL not in HD?
2) Why is Nicki Minaj dressed up like Red Riding Hood and walking with the Pope?
The answer to question 1 is probably because the Kardashians would show flaws in HD and the answer to question 2 is because she is a moron and her performance of “Roman Holiday” proved it.
The SHOW
Bruce Springsteen opened ……NEXT
Well LL Cool J hosted and that is not so bad as he led off with a prayer to recognize the death of Whitney Houston.
“There is no way around this. We had a death in our family”, ”our sister Whitney.” said LL Cool J
First OFFICIAL performance was from Bruno Mars and all I can saw is WOW
Song is ”Runaway Baby” and it is ONE CHANNEL but worth the watch…
….dude was channeling his inner James Brown and it fucking rocked to put it simple. It was OLD SCHOOL.
And a damn good song to boot….I am not a big fan of his but he is definitely NOT like the other wannabe’s on the radio today….
Next Bonnie Raitt and Alicia Keys sing “Sunday Kind Of Love” by Etta James in a mini-tribute to her. I am still trying to figure out when Alicia Keys ate Etta James remains.
Adele wins FIRST of SIX.
Chris Brown performs and NO women were hurt during his performance…..thank God.
Next Fergie and some guy who was married to Jennifer Lopez’s ass give away an award for “Best Rap Performance” which is a misnomer being ALL rap is the same one tempo song with a fucking beeping noise in the background. But hey you kids like it….I weep for the youth.
Kanye and Jay-Z win but why show up since you are too good for an awards show. Or too busy making more stupid songs like “Niggas in Paris”….with the aforementioned beeping noise.
Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson sing and the world wonders when Kelly Clarkson ate Alicia Keys.
Jack Black intros Foo Fighters and the song is OK but it is not even close to being as good as “Times Like These” or “The Pretender” yet the crowd is jumping up and down like they all just won the lottery.
MEMO to Grammys: Can you please tone the crowd in the pit down as they are flipping morons swaying their arms back and forth and clapping off time to every song? TOO MUCH RED BULL to those kids.
The Adele Target commercial is KEY…the little girl can sing….and Adele TOO
NEXT is Rihanna and Coldplay….Rihanna plays a song that sounds like every other dance song with the repetitive club beat…..NEXT
Its 8:15 at this point and I am dying.
Foo Fighters win “Best Rock Performance” and Dave Grohl says the band made the album in the garage with a tape machine then made some remarks that were clearly directed at pop artists who opt to autotune rather than develop their musical talents.
“To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what’s most important,” he said, as members of the audience began to applaud. “Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do.
Dave Grohl is also wearing a Slayer T-shirt and for the record, Foo Fighters was the only real Rock group in that category anyway.
and in a TWIST OF HUGE IRONY Dave Grohl’s message about the simple essence of making music drowned out by an LMFAO segue and the lights going out on him as he screams “LONG LIVE ROCK”
Maroon 5 and Foster The People sing Beach Boys tunes in awful fashion then the Beach Boys come out and in awful fashion sing a Beach Boys tune, but they are so old everyone claps. Also, no one who is old enough to remember them never thought Brian Wilson and Mike Love would ever take the stage together AGAIN.
STEVIE WONDER comes out and NOW I am thinking we will have a jam but he just thanks Whitney and then Chris Brown wins an award for an R&B album entitled L.A.M.E. I mean F.A.M.E. but it was the best of the worst so go figure. He thanks no one in particular when he should have thanked his anger management coach.
8:45pm and a band called the CIVIL WARS come out and tear my head off in awe…..FUCKING GREAT GROUP and its only TWO PEOPLE…..and then Taylor Swift comes on and it looked like fucking Hee-Haw for a second and the Twitter world felt the same way.
Taylor Swift is talented but I don’t think as talented as people say and I think people are afraid to criticize her because she might break in half.
Adele wins AGAIN
Katy Perry sings…..NEXT…nothing to see here unless you like this…..
Lady Antebellum win…..and then Gwyneth Paltrow walks up and you hear a collective sigh of relief when they realize she is NOT going to be singing. She introduces Adele finally singing after vocal chord surgery….it is soulful and awe inspiring and after we get this 30 second standing ovation. I think everyone thought the show was over only to realize it still had an hour and a half left. I hit the DVR button so I could FF through the rest…..THANK GOD…so for sake of sanity I will do the same here.
Tony Bennett and Carrie Underwood perform.
Glen Campbell performs.
Adele wins AGAIN
Similar to this and no choreography could capture the emotion of Minaj’s perfectly put-on nasty face upon losing Best Rap Performance
Bon Iver wins “Best New Artist” and Nick Minaj’s face when she loses is PRICELESS.
Jennifer Hudson pays tribute to Whitney Houston.
The “DEAD MUSICIAN” montage and noticeably missing are Etta James and Don Cornelious even though they mentioned them during show but they mentioned Whitney Houston and SHE was part of montage….BE CONSISTENT
The overhyped “Dance” segment with David Guetta, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne, Foo Fighters and Deadmau5 (scratching head)
Why does EVERY techno radio song have that SAME tempo that eventually rises to a peak then levels off so everyone can jump around? its fucking ridculous and predictable but then again so is everything today.
OK BACK TO SHOW
Drake comes out and introduces Nicki Minaj and for the next 5 or so minutes we are treated to a copy of a Lady Gaga show which was copied from Madonna. Words can’t describe how I feel about Nicki Minaj because she is just horrible. Al l she can do is rap really fast but her music is predictable and lame and she looks possessed.
HERE IT IS….BEWARE as it’s HORRIBLE
And I am not the only one as EVERYONE everywhere is like “WHAT THE FUCK DID WE JUST WATCH?” She is leading the charge to END pop music as we know it. There is NOWHERE else to go….every song sounds the same and everyone copies one another….NO ORIGINALITY whatsoever and NO DEPTH….Dave Grohl said it BEST.
And Adele wins RECORD OF THE YEAR putting her at SIX and a CLEAN SWEEP…Congrats to a REAL TALENT.
Then to close out the show, Paul McCartney performs and like 4 other guitarists come out and in true ALL STAR jam style, they all try and play together…..it never works but the older musicians and Metallica with Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax , keep doing All Star JAMS.
OK I AM OUT…..thanks to Benda for making me write this…..CHEERS TO THE REST OF 2012 as the music can ONLY go UP at this point.
“That juke box in the corner holding memories…
This whiskey aint so lonely anymore…
turn it up a little louder.” - from the Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ song “I See Georgia”
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Today is rainy and shitty so I am just posting some tunes….some good some ok some from the early 90s when I was a DJ at KLSU……….some that I love but you might hate…..ENJOY….
Sticking with the ‘N’ theme from High ‘N’ Dry….here is Drivin ‘N’ Cryin with some classics
First I want to say that Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ are one of my all time favorite bands that never got huge. So maby songs that remind of just fucking great times. SO many classics…..
Now while MOST of you will not get this next photo….the LSU ones WILL….freaking Mignon spinning tunes while we downed many $1 CALLS…..yes I said CALLS…jack jack and more jack for ONE DOLLAR
Ok now I am back from college reminiscing to a degree…..OK A LOT…..
Murphy’s circa 1990…..It’s now apartments but the memories…..WOW
NOW BACK TO THE MUSIC…..most of these you will know but you might not remember some by name….and will be happy I reminded you of them……..THEY ALL ROCK IN THEIR OWN WAY…..and yes that Fall Out Boy ROCKS!!!….
I think these videos ALL speak for themselves. The evolution of MUSIC especially soul, hip-hop, rap and pop ALL should thank Soul Train which paved the way for MTV, BET and so on…..this is where you FIRST saw your favorite songs being performed along with the hottest dancing & clothing trends. Every Saturday morning after cartoons and when I got older working at Jack’s Grill in Baton Rouge, LA we watched as we came in out of the kitchen waiting tables and jammed with the cooks.
When I was in radio in New Orleans, I worked for Old School 102.9 fm and every song we played is listed down below. The music is timeless and without Soul Train we would be only hearing of Elton John and The Eagles (THANK GOD FOR THAT)
I guarantee NO ONE like Nicki Minaj or Lil Wayne would have made it to Soul Train.
I posted the many looks of Don throughout the years…..and always ahead of the musical curve….
CLASSICS ONLY!!!!
and while some of these songs by Teena Marie and Young MC are not SOUL classics, they are classics in pop culture and that is what the Soul Train was all about.
CLICK SONG TITLES TO LISTEN AND WATCH
The SOUL TRAIN TIME MACHINE…….check it out
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Of course I had to start with the LINE….and that ONE Chinese girl who was always on the show
Just to appreciate the sheer brilliance of James Brown is fun to watch
Song List:
Hot Pants
Get Up (I Feel Like A) Sex Machine
Cold Sweat
Try Me
Get On The Good Foot
Soul Power
Make It Funky
Please Please, Please
Say It Loud I’m Black and I’m Proud
Super Bad
Papa Don’t Take No Mess
My Thang
Hell
The Payback
If eyes or ears start to bleed while reading and listening to this,
PLEASE head to the nearest stereo and put on
Van Halen’s “Fair Warning” album.
The effects should wear off soon
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Just when I thought Lil Wayne was handed the WORST SONG EVER crown for “How To Love,” I get blindsided like a Michael Oher block downfield in full steam stride.
This list is not to be confused with WORST of 2011 as this is ALL TIME.
WELL, the new song by Nicki Minaj “Stupid Hoe” TAKES it and KEEPS it FOREVER….this song makes the ABOVE and BELOW videos seem like “Stairway to Fucking Heaven”
and yes she is the female WEEZY which means she is the female version of Lil Wayne….no explanation necessary
BET banned this not because of being controversial but hopefully because it sucks dirty ass.
and insult to injury is having to sit through a VEVO ad to wait to see this fucking shit.
I guess my MAIN QUESTION is this. When did music become so simple that THIS IS A HIT?
Music has been going downhill for a while and RAP used to be genuine and original, but as soon as Master P came up with simple that made money, every rapper just talks over a simple drum machine and morons buy it.
One of them is Lil Wayne
Does anyone ever think to themselves “Can I dance to it?” “Can you sing along to this?” I mean the first time I see people in their cars singing “Stupid Hoe” I will run them off the road.
I just don’t get where a bass drum and clapping is music. And those repetitive lyrics that go nowhere. Now I get that music trends have gone here, but do people really like this and if so, well I really don’t want to see them. The fact that they like this explains A LOT.
This song PROVES beyond the shadow of a doubt that MUSIC as we know it is DEAD….at least hiphop is…
Next Fergie and some guy who was married to Jennifer Lopez’s ass give away an award for “Best Rap Performance” which is a misnomer being ALL rap is the same one tempo song with a fucking beeping noise in the background. But hey you kids like it….I weep for the youth.
Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson sing and the world wonders when Kelly Clarkson ate Alicia Keys.
MEMO to Grammys: Can you please tone the crowd in the pit down as they are flipping morons swaying their arms back and forth and clapping off time to every song? TOO MUCH RED BULL to those kids.
“To me this award means a lot because it shows that the human element of music is what’s most important,” he said, as members of the audience began to applaud. “Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that’s the most important thing for people to do.
8:45pm and a band called the CIVIL WARS come out and tear my head off in awe…..FUCKING GREAT GROUP and its only TWO PEOPLE…..and then Taylor Swift comes on and it looked like fucking Hee-Haw for a second and the Twitter world felt the same way.
And I am not the only one as EVERYONE everywhere is like “WHAT THE FUCK DID WE JUST WATCH?” She is leading the charge to END pop music as we know it. There is NOWHERE else to go….every song sounds the same and everyone copies one another….NO ORIGINALITY whatsoever and NO DEPTH….Dave Grohl said it BEST.
