I personally don't care much for these awards but it still provides some entertainment value and hey, I can still make my own predictions.
This year, the some nominees were quite expected and while people consider some major snubs, I didn't really care about them. But I did wish that they had nominated more deserving artists.
So let's see. Here are some of my thoughts on the show.
*Lorde. This young lady seems to be the it-girl of the moment. She had a very successful hit song last year with Royals which she performed on the show with such awkward movements. The song was nominated for a couple of awards and she won at least 2 of them but failed to win one of the biggest award, can't remember if it was for Record or Song of the Year and she was also not nominated for Best New Artist or Album of the Year though I don't know if it was only because of eligibility requirements but I digress. I am not a fan of her music and yes, it's nice to see when artists win awards but I am so happy that she did not sweep all of them when there are much better deserving acts in the categories she was nominated in.
*Prior to the show, I had no idea who was the opening act but it was soon to be revealed as none other than Beyonce. She gave a sexy performance of her song Drunk In Love from her latest self-titled album. As much as I like her, the performance was extremely boring. It was a good performance but as a show opener, it was lackluster and it somehow carried on with the rest of the show as other performers were also quite boring.
*Speaking of performances, there were too many of them! I felt like I was watching the AMA's which is more known for having too many performances. If you think I'm exaggerating, the show only gave away 10 awards or even less and the show lasted for around 3 hours and 45 minutes. I'd rather have them televise more awards than have plenty of mediocre performances.
*Now here are the performances I like the most, or at least those that I can remember (in random order):
-Queens of the Stone Age. I'm not really a fan of them but they were great on stage but minus points for the Grammys for cutting their performances when they were closing the show!
-Paul McCartney and Ringo Star. Two legends performing on the stage once again and they absolutely delivered! Playing with a bright and colorful piano, Paul just had fun on stage and the song was so good that even people in the audience such as Steven Tyler was singing along.
-Taylor Swift just shown how good she is by performing the best song on Red, All Too Well. She didn't need to have any fancy props or dancers on stage but she created magic with only her piano like she has done before. Though her head banging may be a little distracting and out of place, the sincerity and power of the song is strongly felt. I just think she performed way early in the show.
-Pink. She amazed the whole world when she performed a few years ago in the Grammys while doing acrobatics in the air and this year, she did it again, and I mean that literally. She started her performance with her song Try while performing aerial stunts in the air through ropes before coming down to the stage to recreate the dancing/fighting movements in the video. Both sequences in the air and on stage were absolutely stunning but she has done it before and I'm pretty sure she'll do it again. Not that it's bad but I hope she's not just going to be a one act pony. However, the performance is not yet done with that as she was joined on stage by Nate Ruess (from fun.) and they sang their worldwide hit single, Just Give Me A Reason. Many people complained about Nate shouting the song but I didn't have any problems with their performance.
-Imagine Dragons and Kendrick Lamar. These two acts just blew me away. Radioactive was already epic on its own but some additional support from Lamar was unexpectedly great! The energy was so high and everyone was praising it. Everyone wanted to have a copy of the song and what do you expect, it was out on iTunes right after!
-Carole King and Sara Bareilles are great artists in their own right and they have shared their skills to the world when they performed together with the songs Beautiful and Brave.
Here are some that were alright but could be improved.
-Katy Perry is not really known for great vocals or dancing but she still had an interesting stage presence as she performed her song Dark Horse with rapper Juicy J. I'm not a big fan of the song but a lot of people seem to love it which is the reason it is her next single and why she performed it of course! It seems like a good choice than Roar which is just pop music at its generic level.
-Hunter Hayes. I like his music and he actually premiered a new song on the show which is a self-empowering song. It is commendable but his vocals wasn't the best that night but it's most likely due to Grammy jitters.
-Kacey Musgraves. Don't know if I spelled her name correctly and I'm not really a fan of her music but gotta give credit to her especially performing right after an epic performance from Imagine Dragons with a mellow country song. This is her first time t perform and she held her own. She even won Best Country Album!
I won't list down the other performances anymore since I could have done without them but those include performances from Daft Punk, Robin Thicke, Metallica,John Legend, a Miranda Lambert and Billie Joe Armstrong tribute to The Everly Brothers, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis with Madonna and Queen Latifah and others.
*During Macklemore & Ryan Lewis' performance of Same Love which promoted gender equality, 34 couples exchanged rings as part of the performance to deliver the message of the song and that all people no matter what gender should be loved. It is a sincere message but I feel that gimmick was over the top. But congrats on the newlyweds!
*How the heck is Ed Sheeran nominated for Best New Artist when he was nominated for a major award last year?
*Macklemore is so overrated. I need Eminem to show the world who really is the best once again.
*What's up with the show using Youtube covers during the presentation of nominees?
*Pharell needs a real stylist
*What an awful winner for AOTY! Get Lucky was already an awful song to begin with and they reward the album with the top honor! Even some musicians disagreed too on my Twitter timeline. But then again, the nominees for that category wasn't that great even if Red was nominated which is not exactly Taylor's best piece of work. It was funny to see Taylor and Katy act surprised when they thought they were announced as winners in their respective categories.
I don't want to make this any longer anymore but overall, the show was quite disappointing but it did have it bright spots.
No comments:
Post a Comment