Posted on 03/15/2021 7:36:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Likely a fractional audience watched this, because it is so deliberately in yo' face, and covered with pustules of profanity barely bodiced. But overall, vulgarity of a high order goes out to the participants, who, of course, don't give a farthing for either propriety or civility — one bedecked glittery adiposity slipped and let out a four-letter slur, and feigned embarrassment any number of pretend times.
Production values, as they say in the biz, were as glitzy as were the frou-frowsy skin-tight dresses of most of the female awardees. Lights, backgrounds, highlights, settings to try to out-blind the gyrations and vulgar preenings of the backup "singers" almost dressed to provoke the Good Housekeeping Seal of Disapproval.
Cancel Disney, Dr. Seuss, and Pepé, but let these torrid pretend seducers writhe suggestively all over the stage?
My tweet:
"El 63rd #Grammy profanity is a gaudy,tawdry,mostly black-artist overfed feast of vulgarity, helmed by non-funny,frenetic TrevorNoah, w/all the crude lyrix+personae U cd wish4 if U don't have impressionable kids. Inarticulate artists in speech, lavishly vernacular in pre-arrest bling; rank it low on substance."
A exception to the rhyming nonsense of most of the artists, in both lyricism and apparel — a medieval dress with glistening gold and colorful pastiche, to the ground — performing in a pergola hut of sorts set in a bucolic, forested glen of some misty sort, Taylor Swift, who comes by her many awards, at least, honestly.
Harry Stiles was more than tolerable. Billie Eilish was also melodic. Bad Bunny, most downloaded of all artists last year, we are told, was appropriately oafish and entirely en español, running through a series of giant-sized metallic rib-struts. And memorials to the famed departed.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
As Falls Wichita... is one of the greatest albums ever.
Of course, omitting Lyle is par for the course these days from The Grammys.
I am saddened that in my opinion the in memoriam portion of the Grammy's is the only place they actually honor real musicians.
They’ll probably ignore Chick Corea next year.
I was busy sorting and arranging my sock drawer.
He’s white and presumed to play jazz! :(
I turned on the TV and it was already tuned to the Grammy show. Saw an overweight black woman gyrating up or down some stairs. Quickly changed the channel to a a local PBS station that was ironically enough was showing a Lucy Worsley documentary on Queen Elizabeth I influence on English Choral Music. The singing, music and setting were, dare I say, actually beautiful in stark contrast to ugliness I saw on CBS.
Me too. We watched reruns of Murder, She Wrote on Peacock.
Did the unknown guy who sings at his restaurant or wherever get an award?
Even four decades ago, it was a schmaltzy-affair mobbed with the predictably sleazy-looking record executives in their tuxedoes and the "stars of the moment" clacking to the stage in their nine-inch heels. Of which Debbie Boone was one. But I think her heels might have been a conservative 6 inches.
For comparison, here are winners etc. from 1971:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Annual_Grammy_Awards
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