I'm joining late. Who is Hunter Hayes? And why is LL telling me I have to listen to him? Honestly, this is dreadful. It's another over-wrought, over-vibratoed voice singing something that would have been at home on AM radio in the 1970s. Next!
8:29
Best pop duo or group performance.
It's got to be between "Get Lucky" and "Blurred Lines"... wasn't that the whole point of last year?
8:30
"Get Lucky" wins. Of course it does. It was clearly THE song of last year. And I love the helmets!!!
Pharrell has the old school Adidas top and the Daft Punk boys are in tuxes with robot masks.
8:32
Steve Coogan is fantastic. He played Tony Wilson in 24 Hour Party People, one of the best music movies ever. And he's introducing the guy who did "Hard Out There for a Pimp" -- he may be the only one who remembers him. Oh... I'm wrong. It's Katy Perry.
8:37
Question: What exactly is an "intimate performance" by Taylor Swift?
8:40
Robin Thicke takes the stage with Chicago? How about Alan Thicke takes the stage with the Everly Brothers?
8:44
I'm sure there's someone out there who would pay good money to see Chicago trombonist James Pankow twerk Robin Thicke...
8:48
It's pretty clear that the producers of the Grammys have that cutaway shot of Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on constant standby...
Speaking of which, Steve Coogan had the line of the night about reuniting two of the Beatles versus all of the Jonas Brothers...
9:02
The best Rock Song. Wow... the Rolling Stones look like they came from a zombie movie.
But of course, anything with Sir Paul is going to win tonight.
9:04
What's better? 1/2 of the Beatles or 2/3 of Nirvana?
9:08
Taylor Swift may be the biggest musical star from Pennsylvania in history. Check me on that, but I don't see a lot of competition. Hall and Oates? Teddy Pendergrass? Live?
9:12
And the Blazers - Warriors game just started. That said, I do want to see Macklemore and Daft Punk perform...
9:17
Pink and the guy from Fun! First, it's two Pennsylvanians in a row -- first Taylor Swift and now Pink. And second, there is zero chance Pink is actually singing when she's swinging upside down. Sorry.
9:23
Best Pop Solo Performance -- Is Lordes going to win?
I've got to say, I'm more interested in her New Zealand accent than her music.
Yoplait commercial: "Just Can't Get Enough" is the only old song -- from the Vince Clark era -- that Depeche Mode still play live.
9:30
Were Black Sabbath just mistakenly identified as the winner of Best Rock Song? That's a diss to Sir Paul!!!
9:32
Ringo was never a frontman. Never meant to be a singer. Why is everyone going ape over this performance? It belongs in a casino at best... or better yet a cruise ship. I'll bring the dysentery.
9:47
Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons? Was the world clamoring for this collaboration?
I love how the Grammys resorts to the polarization digital effect. Looks cool, guys... like 1989 cool.
9:51
Light up boots on Casey Musgrave!!!
10:01
Oh, Paul and Ringo are the Beatles they were talking about? Half the Beatles and none of the fun...
10:04
Fifty years ago, the Beatles changed music. Fifty years later, the world changed channels.
10:15
Kraftwerk with a lifetime achievement award!!!
10:16
Is it wrong that every time I see Willie Nelson I think of an old David Letterman Top Ten list of headlines that would cause panic? One of them was "Willie Nelson caught washing hair in city water supply".
That said, that was a good thirty seconds of music. Until Uncle Merle and Blake showed up.
Damn... we're going on a third country song? It's like the CMA's have taken over the Grammys.
10:22
This is great -- the Huffington Post points out the eerie similarities between Madonna at the Grammys and a certain breakfast character...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/26/madonna-quaker-oats-guy-photos_n_4671114.html
10:25
Daft Punk and Pharrell with Nile Rogers should be fantastic. I'm honestly excited.
Nile Rogers is responsible for some of the greatest funk and hip hop riffs of all time. And he's still got it. Effortlessly cool.
Yoko gave that peace sign like she's getting lucky tonight...
I know my fellow Discordant isn't a fan of that song... but that truly was very cool.
10:37
Cyndi Lauper hasn't changed in 30 years.
And is it bad that every time I see Carole King I think that I nearly bought a car from her son-in-law?
And is it bad that every time I hear this song, I want to break a Windows operated machine?
10:41
The list of nominees for Song of the Year reads like a commercial break. Except for "Same Love."
Not sure I agree with "Royal" as song of the year. Unless we're grading on a curve.
"Locked Out of Heaven" is a good pop song, and "Same Love" marks a major milepost in music. The rest of the schlock on this list is material from ads -- like that awful Katy Perry song.
10:43
Steven Tyler and Smokey Robinson? "Walk This Way" needs a cane.
10:53
Metallica were old when I was old.
Why not Metallica with special guest Mick Fleetwood?
10:57
I like the wide cutaway shot of the crowd and there's one of the Daft Punk guys still in his helmet.
10:59
Good call on Record of the Year. Daft Punk wins again. But will Pharrell do the talking for them?
11:07
Tell me if "Same Love" doesn't move you. Fantastic songcraft -- right song, right moment.
And Mary Lambert is there to sing it, too. I was worried they'd have Madonna or someone filling in.
OK, officially ruined by Madonna's "Open Your Heart". Even Yoko doesn't have a cane.
Not that I'm surprised, but Mary Lambert can sing rings around Madonna.
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