Poll: The Grammys Were Ass!

[AT God]

I was confused by the attempt at promoting equality. On one hand, televising gay marriage and straight marriage side by side presented a good image but I have always found television weddings as really cheap and during an awards show it will probably be spun as a publicity stunt crafted by shady lobbies to promote or sabotage the issue of equality. Hope it ends up being a positive but I can see people being more offended because pro-equality people might still get angry about marriage being a bullet point on a bad awards show as an attempt at free views and attention.

Other than that, Colbert won another Grammy which allowed him to make some funny jokes yesterday so its probably the most important Grammy ceremony I have paid attention to, given that it was the first.

 

[Hero of Lime]

Didn't watch them, I have as much knowledge about current pop music as a deaf 98 year old. My dad watched it just to see the Beatles perform, he thought the rest of the show was absolutely boring. Which makes sense, the Grammys were never made for 59 year olds anyway. XD

 

[ActionDan]

Reading the UK Metro newspaper, and it described Daft Punk turning up to the Grammy's in, and I quote "Dressed as Star Wars robots" I facepalmed through the newspaper.

 

[Lionsfan]

The pop/rap hating internet thinks the Grammys suck

I have never been more completely, utterly and totally surprised in my life.

Ever.

For srs, guise.

OT: I liked them. Lorde and Imagine Dragons/Kendrick Lamar were a lot of fun to watch, Daft Punk won some stuff (YES), and we got some interesting things happening this year (Macklemore apologizing to Kendrick Lamar for winning a Grammy? lolwut?)

Hey I love rap, but the Grammy's are still sucky.

I know part of it is a result from expanded categories and whatnot, but the fact that Macklemore has more Grammy's than LEd Zeppelin, Tupac, Biggie, the Beach Boys, the Who, and I could probably go on and on. That's ridiculous to me


Also Good Kid, MAAD City is infinite times better than Macklemore and his Stomp Clap Rap

 

[deathmothon]

The Slipknot guy scared everyone. That was cool.

 

[LetalisK]

*insert air masturbation pic* Isn't it common knowledge by now that these awards shows like the Grammys, Oscars, and Emmys are just their to give the people involved an excuse to dress up and pat each other on the back for being wildly, if often times unjustifiably, successful? As TheRightToArmBears succinctly puts it, "They've always been a crock of shite". At least the Golden Globes gets them drunk while they're patting each other on the back.

Yep. Anyone with any integrity or common sense should know to not give a rats arse about a popularity contest. But, as meh as this one was (as with every one before) my Daft boys came out on top, so best Grammys ever for me. Now to watch as everyone jumps on the D-Punk bandwagon and slowly gives up after they don't release an album this year.

Daft Punk winning actually contributes to why I think the Grammys are shite on multiple levels. <.<

 

[Loop Stricken]

Personally, I've hated Daft Punk ever since they killed the old man in Catching Fire.

Spoiler

 

[TakerFoxx]

The Grammy's were on Sunday. Huh. I was more enraged at the utter travesty that was the Royal Rumble finish.

Ah well. Apparently no matter what I would have watched, I would have been mad, so it all works out.

 

[Colour Scientist]

I'm disappointed that Pharrell Williams' hat didn't win an award of it's own.

 

[StriderShinryu]

I hope you weren't actually expecting the Grammys to treat rock and/or metal with actual respect, because that's basically never going to happen. I'm still shocked they let Jack White on the stage at all to do his thing years back. If you look past that, however, I don't think it was really terrible at all. Sure, it's an odd mixture of popularity contest and voting by crusty ancients but the actual winners this year were fairly respectable given the criteria everyone knows they're actually judged by.

 

[w9496]

The Grammy's were on Sunday. Huh. I was more enraged at the utter travesty that was the Royal Rumble finish.

Ah well. Apparently no matter what I would have watched, I would have been mad, so it all works out.

Thank god I'm not the only one. Botchtista should've taken a dive when quite literally the entire arena was cheering for reigns to win. But hey, at least the New Age Outlaws won something.

OT: I'm surprised that anybody gives a damn about the grammy awards anymore. Unless you're into pop and rap it doesn't really offer a lot, and the rock/metal acts they do nominate are usually sucky.

Same goes for the the winners for the metal grammys. Jethro Tull beat Metallica for the first one ever.

 

[TheEvilGenius]

Personally, I've hated Daft Punk ever since they killed the old man in Catching Fire.

ROFL XD That is the best thing I've seen all day!

OT:
Oscars, Golden Globes, VGAs whatever they all mean diddly to me. I don't watch them. Though, since the Grammys pissed off a lot of bible thumpers here in the states, I kinda wish I'd watched the grammys.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I didn't follow them, as alas, I live in Ol' Blighty, but I heard that they snubbed some really good artists, and that there was a thing with Paul & Ringo that didn't go down that well.

I was just lurking here, I didn't actually watch the Grammy's except to see Paul and Ringo play together, so what "thing" are you talking about?

 

[Caostotale]

Knowing tons of musicians, mostly of the local/independent sort, the most disappointing thing about the Grammys (a ceremony I tend to forget exists until it happens every year) was the embarrassing social media play-by-play that nearly all of them contributed to for the duration of the show. It essentially ranged between Stockholm Syndrome acceptance and a Gawker-esque outrage masturbathon, but few of these people paid heed to the fact that, in watching the fucking Grammys at all, you're supporting the continuation of everything that you suspect is shitty about the pop music establishment. Most of the posts also came from a viewpoint that seemed to suggest that the awards ceremony was, at some point, legitimate and just in terms of some vague guidelines of 'artistic integrity' (hint: such ideals cannot and do not exist). To my recollection, it's always been little more than yet another highly-publicized circle-jerk for rich and famous-for-being-famous jerkoffs whose musical importance has already been artificially-inflated at most points in their careers by a top-heavy commercial industry that has long operated in the fashion of a totalitarian Soviet culture committee. Even now, it's irritating to read about people's relieved satisfaction that Daft Punk won the 'best album' award, as if that silly merit badge did anything to augment the fact that they'd already nailed down top sales marks for the year (for fuck's sake, they probably had top sales marks nailed down during the pre-release period, thanks to stupid geeks' relentless shilling in the name of pathetic brand-name loyalty).

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I didn't follow them, as alas, I live in Ol' Blighty, but I heard that they snubbed some really good artists, and that there was a thing with Paul & Ringo that didn't go down that well.

I was just lurking here, I didn't actually watch the Grammy's except to see Paul and Ringo play together, so what "thing" are you talking about?

I heard from quasi-unreliable sources that they got snubbed or something? Or that their performance was really underplayed.

Either way, those damn whippersnappers, ruining good music! *shakes cane at Taylor Swift*

 

[cdemares]

Personally, I've hated Daft Punk ever since they killed the old man in Catching Fire.

Spoiler

You win a whole internet, sir.

 

[LetalisK]

The Grammy's were on Sunday. Huh. I was more enraged at the utter travesty that was the Royal Rumble finish.

Ah well. Apparently no matter what I would have watched, I would have been mad, so it all works out.

Thank god I'm not the only one. Botchtista should've taken a dive when quite literally the entire arena was cheering for reigns to win. But hey, at least the New Age Outlaws won something.

OT: I'm surprised that anybody gives a damn about the grammy awards anymore. Unless you're into pop and rap it doesn't really offer a lot, and the rock/metal acts they do nominate are usually sucky.

Same goes for the the winners for the metal grammys. Jethro Tull beat Metallica for the first one ever.

Oh, so the WWE is still employing monkeys and 2nd graders to write for them? I had to stop watching around November 2012 because it just got so shallow and dumb, even by the already low standards I expect from my wrestling. Which is sad, because their wrestlers can sell the shit out of it. Imagine if they had good stuff to work with!

 

[sXeth]

As always, one can easily sum up the Grammys overall credibility by simply examining the Best New Artist category.

This year's example, Macklemore, is a 14 year veteran of the industry who released his first full length LP 9 years ago in 2005. Although the current Macklemore x Ryan Lewis group (which also includes a third dude, seen prominently playing the horns in the 'Can't Hold Us' video.) is newer, they debuted with the "Versus" EP in 2009. Aforementioned 'Can't Hold Us' single is actually a re-release, having originally been put out in 2011 before 'The Heist' dropped in 2012.

I mean, sure, we can't expect the ...... whoever votes on these things to keep up with every random indie band just starting touring, but picking Best New Artists who are on their 3rd, 4th, 9th major release is pretty lackluster. It shows a definite lack of knowledge, or willful ignorance of the artform they profess to be the ultimate judges of. As well as the obvious bias towards sales charts (if you hadn't already noticed how many of the nominees are never deep cuts (for songs), or came off the Billboard charts for their genre).

And the Royal Rumble was terrible. A good match, a segment that should've been a feud start on Raw, not a conclusion at a PPV, a rerun match with no storyline psychology at all, and a foregone conclusion to the Rumble itself.