Last night CBS aired a one hour special Grammy Nomination Concert where musical acts played between the announcement of the nominations. At one point John Mayer did a duet with B.B. King and I couldn't help but think "Hey this would have been great for the actual Grammy show." The buzz around the Grammys should be in the performances, because with 110 categories, its kind of hard not to get nominated for something. I have actively pursued trying to find out the difference between "Record of the Year","Song of the Year" and "Album of the Year" and have gotten nowhere. What confuses me even more is usually two or three different artists win those awards. I assume if voters have more than one song they like, they vote for one in each category. In my opinion, the Grammys are the least credible awards in the entertainment business. Music is so subjective that they should just do like the Peabody's do and give awards out to the artist who have produced exceptional work. When you watch the Grammys, it seems like the awards just get the way of the big musical acts. Everyone watches for the performances, but with big stars on last night, the actual show will lack luster.
Not only did CBS blow their load with this special, they picked the absolute worst person to host. Taylor Swift looked as frightened as she did skinny, and as she was reading the tele-prompter, you would have thought she never saw those words before in her life. The biggest stars from the music world were all on hand to see if they got nominated. When your a nominee at an award show, you celebrate the achievement of being nominated, and go in case you win. When you go to the nomination ceremony, you say "hey I think I'm getting nominated" and look like an ass when you don't.
In case you care, here is a link to the nominations. Maybe I'm out of touch with music, but I said "who??" about 10 times in after reading the first three categories.
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