February 1, 2010

Grammys Get It All Wrong Again in 2010

Other than the amusement of watching Taylor Swift embarrass herself with Stevie Nicks by her side, I didn’t enjoy the Grammys too much. I mean, they paid tribute to a pervy dude who slept in a hyperbaric chamber with a half dozen superstars, but they tacked on a no-name rockabilly chick and a second-tier (but still good) guitarist for the guy who invented everything that made the last 60 years of popular music possible. For shame, Grammys. For shame.

But I had to watch every groan-inducing moment for work, so I’m going to at least put you through the pain of having to read every winner. So get to it!

2010 Grammy winners
  • Album of the year: Taylor Swift, Fearless
  • Female pop performance: Beyoncé, Halo
  • Rap/sung collaboration: Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West, Run This Town
  • Rock album: Green Day, 21st Century Breakdown
  • Record of the year: Kings of Leon, Use Somebody
  • Comedy album: Stephen Colbert, A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All!
  • New artist: Zac Brown Band
  • Country album: Taylor Swift, Fearless
  • Song of the year: Beyoncé, Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
  • Pop vocal album: The Black Eyed Peas, The E.N.D.
  • Male pop vocal performance: Jason Mraz, Make It Mine
  • Rock song: Kings of Leon, Use Somebody
  • R&B album: Maxwell, BLACKsummers’night
  • R&B song: Beyoncé, Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
  • Rap album: Eminem, Relapse
  • Rap song: Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West, Run This Town
  • Americana album: Levon Helm, Electric Dirt
  • Female country vocal performance: Taylor Swift, White Horse
  • Male country vocal performance: Keith Urban, Sweet Thing
  • Latin pop album: La Quinta Estacion, Sin Frenos
  • Contemporary jazz album: Joe Zawinul & The Zawinul Syndicate, 75
  • Classical album: Mahler: Symphony No. 8; Adagio from Symphony No. 10
  • Traditional gospel album: Various artists, Oh Happy Day
  • Dance recording: Lady Gaga, Poker Face
  • Electronic dance album: Lady Gaga, The Fame
  • Alternative music album: Phoenix, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
  • Spoken word album: Michael J. Fox, Always Looking Up
  • Remixed recording: DJ David Guetta, When Love Takes Over

9 Responses to “Grammys Get It All Wrong Again in 2010”

  1. On 02/1/10 8:39 AM, Grammy Winners 2010 List said:

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  3. On 02/1/10 8:49 AM, Jay DiNitto said:

    I dunno Sean…I wouldn’t say the Grammies are exactly fingering the pulse of creative genius, but look at every Top 10 list that music blogs put out. They share some selections but they can be very very different. It can be no different than the Grammies but within our own subgenres and using our own metrics. The determining the “best” of anything for the preceding year is an arbitrary task once you plateau past the cruft. Record sales might be the only way for the judges to determine who gets a nose past everyone else, especially with something as high-profile as the Grammies.

    The NARAS uses numbers and industry politics to determine the winners, but I don’t think it’s unfair to say that sites like ours use similar methods.

    LETS FIGHT

  5. On 02/1/10 9:00 AM, Sean Cannon said:

    you’re right, jay. my problem is that NARAS is full of self-important idiots, not necessarily that they nominate the wrong people. they have their criteria, and it is what it is. sure, most of their decisions are based on sales numbers, but it’s they’re industry awards, not critics awards. so what’re you gonna do? it is what it is.

    but, as i said on twitter last night, there’s something inherently wrong with an industry/organization that glosses over a lifetime achievement award to leonard cohen so that pink can lip-sync and swing around in a towel.

    plus there’s the issue of the tribute to les paul vs. the tribute to michael jackson that i mentioned.

  7. On 02/1/10 9:19 AM, Kada said:

    They should just rename the Grammy’s: Taylor Swift and Beyonce Appreciation Night. I felt like Lady Gaga did not get enough awards, jus sayin’.

  9. On 02/1/10 10:33 AM, sammy said:

    I am usually sickened by Grammy nominations, but not necessarily by winners. I am quite OK with Taylor Swift and Beyoncé’s winnings (especially since I bought that Beyoncé album on Amazon yesterday). “Indie rock” folks are becoming more snobbish than punks towards pop music, whereas I see more creativity on mainstream pop nowadays than in a lot of indie music. Radiohead, Animal Collective, and Guided by Voices are becoming the Creed and Nickleback or indie rock.

  11. On 02/1/10 12:16 PM, Jay DiNitto said:

    “but, as i said on twitter last night, there’s something inherently wrong with an industry/organization that glosses over a lifetime achievement award to leonard cohen so that pink can lip-sync and swing around in a towel.”

    I can understand this, for sure. I think this is because they are probably beholden to CBS to deliver the goods (ratings). No one really wants to see Cohen or anyone not on Billboard. It sucks but that’s the way mass communication rolls. I don’t expect a major network to cater to a niche audience, but I would expect blogs like us to do that.

  13. On 02/1/10 12:22 PM, Sean Cannon said:

    no, i get that part, too. but they can do a little more than just giving 45 seconds of lip service to a lifetime achievement award winner. and i come back to the les paul tribute. they did a whole musical number for it, but you can tell they put about 2 minutes of thought into that.

    i know it’ll never change, and i’m fine with the way they nominated and pick the winners (because it is what it is, like i said before), but it’s those little things that hurt my heart.

  15. On 02/1/10 4:39 PM, Sergio Hernandez said:

    Honestly, did you really expect for them to get it right?

  17. On 02/1/10 6:43 PM, cool said:

    I can only agree with best comedy album and alternative album. The rest of them, really? Did Dave Matthew’s Band or U2 win anything? I think the hip hop and pop genres kind of dominated this year.

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