Was Iraq 'n' roll out at Grammys?

New York Daily News ^ | 2/25/03 | Rush & Molloy

[kattracks]

Full-throated singer Sheryl Crow is charging that organizers of Sunday's Grammy Awards tried to muzzle her antiwar protest.

Crow had been planning to broadcast her opposition to an invasion of Iraq.

"The Grammy committee called up my manager [and] said they wanted to keep it all neutral," she told one reporter.

"I got calls from the Grammy committee making sure I was not going to show up in an obnoxious [antiwar] T-shirt like I usually do," she told another reporter.

"I've really been loud and proud about how I feel about the war," added Crow, who came with her friend, actor Josh Charles. "[But] tonight, I'm keeping it subtle."

Though she'd told us last week she planned to hand out 300 "No War" buttons, she confined her message to a leather bracelet with "Peace" emblazoned in diamonds and a guitar strap proclaiming "No War."

Flaming Lips rocker Wayne Coyne also contended, "We're not supposed to talk about the war and peace."

But Recording Academy President Neil Portnow maintained that "no one contacted any artist to talk about content."

[snip]

[ewing]

Exactly in tune with what Drudge had been saying on his radio show..

[fightinJAG]

a leather bracelet with DIAMONDS?

Oh, puh-leeze.

[WomanofStandard]

hmmmmmm....thinking along typical liberal lines, I wonder exactly how many Iraqis her diamond bracelet could feed? After all, 60% of the Iraqis only food source is food obtained through the "Oil for Food" agreement. Oh, that's right, liberals can only claim the riches of conservatives to go to the poor and suffering, never the riches of their own ranks!

[gaspar]

Help me out here. Aside from King David, can you think of a musician who amounted to anything worldshaking, or who said anything useful in his/her career? Don't most American musicians follow in the tradition of the despicable Nero? Weren't the minnesingers a pain in the arse? Didn't Henry VIII have a tin ear? Weren't minstrel shows degrading. Didn't Aztec priests hum a tune befoe they cut out their victim's heart? Aren't Gregorian chants soporific? Could Tony Bennet carry a tune? Isn't it true that by definition half of all Americans (the musician half) have below average intelligence?