Music industry primps for a hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues Grammys

Yahoo ^ | 8 Feb 2004 | AFP

[hattend]

Outkast is this year's Nora Jones?...LOL!!

Bill Clinton is nominated along with former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and actress Sophia Loren for a recording of "Peter and the Wolf," which was recorded to honor the 50th anniversary of Sergei Prokoviev.

In a separate category Hillary Clinton was nominated for a Grammy for her autobiography "Living History."

Any bets these two boils on the rear of society win?

Okay, who is starting the FR Live Thread tonight? anyone? I'm not going to watch and I like the FR comments much better anyway.

The Grammy winners are chosen by the 18,000-odd members of the Recording Academy.

"odd" is an understatement.

[thoughtomator]

In other words, yet another Grammys event with a sum total of zero musical talent.

[EggsAckley]

***YAWN***

[Wilhelm Tell]

For a second, I thought the article was titled: "Music Industry Pimps..."

[reagan_fanatic]

Why ANYONE watches this garbage is beyond me. I haven't watched a Grammy show in 20 years, and I don't plan on starting anytime soon.

P.S. - Rap should NOT be classified as music. Long Live Rock N Roll!!

[hattend]

When I first saw it at Yahoo, me too! LOL

[sharktrager]

Music industry primps for a hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues Grammys

Music industry pimps for a hip-hop and rhythm-and-blues Grammys

Yo! I'm straight pimpin' G.

[Afro_conservative]

Wow good thing the music industry goes right to you for its much needed approval of what is good and what isn't.

[thoughtomator]

Pfft... if the music industry came to me, you'd be hearing virtuoso performances in innovative genres instead of recycled 1970's bass lines produced by a machine... and you'd be seeing remarkable musicians performing their craft rather than having barely-clothed harlots jiggle their bodies across the stage. It would be a celebration of music, and not a wispy veil covering a deluge of pornography.

[NYCVirago]

Whoever wins in the top Grammys categories -- there are 105 in total -- chances are that it will be music's youth that will dominate the evening as the Grammys try to shed their image of being the "grannies."

Norah Jones, last year's big winner, and Alicia Keyes, who won big the year before, aren't exactly geezers. But unlike most of the people in their early-20s age group, they actually have talent, and are considered old-fashioned because they don't appeal to the MTV audience. I suppose if they did a lesbian kiss together, or took off their clothes, they could be considered "young" artists.

[Hildy]

I'm so glad I read this. I usually like the Grammy's because they present an eclectic sampling of all music. Sounds pretty one sided this year, and it's a side I don't want a part of.

[Ciexyz]

ohmygawd--Bill Clinton is a nominee? And if he wins, will he accept on stage?!

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I won't be watching that crap.

[Ciexyz]

You'd think they'd push artists that would appeal to a broad based section of America -- like Norah Jones last year. Her duet with Willy Nelson has received lots of airplay on Country Music Television.

How do we know what's out there -- if they don't show it to us? Me, I'm not going to buy rap and hip hop. It's not going to happen.

[hattend]

BTTT what you said

[international american]

""Peter and the Wolf," which was recorded to honor the 50th anniversary of Sergei Prokoviev.

Prokoviev....the avowed commie...
PUKEMAO!!

[handk]

Any credibility "the Grammy's" had for me ended when Gladys Knight and the Pips won Album of the Year over Paul McCartney's "Band on the Run". It may have even been for "Rock Album of the Year", which is much worse.

[cyborg]

yup

[dasboot]

Zero Talent is right.

Next year might be different.

I'm predicting that Tommy Emmanuel's new release "Endless Road" will be nominated, or win, Best Album, Best Recording, Best Composition, and Best Performance....if it gets US distribution. He's the greatest guitarist and composer who's ever lived, and he's catching on fast. I think you'll be hearing him on the AT40 soon.

I think Hip Hop and Rap is gasping its last....there's a change in the air.

[Dallas59]