Winner – Lou Reed – Sure he died and that sucks and it was a little too young, I mean, he might have made it do 86, why not, right? BUT the outpouring of love and affectionate, the willful misreading of the man, the canonization of Lou… I bet Lester Bangs is scratching his head somewhere wondering how the hell that happened. It’s just so strange and yet so significant that his music jumped through itself and became something different. It’s like mourning Scrooge before he was visited by the ghosts.
Loser: Drake – Look, what is the point of having the best stage set on the planet, and, come on, it really was awesome, not matter because you suck on stage? At this exact moment when Drake can’t get past the fact that his songs are not suitable for a live setting unless of course he is covering A$AP Rocky or Future.