What Billboard have that other people don’t is the numbers to back up their awards, so the multi-platinum 1989 is a no brainer winner for this years awards. Billboard is all about the charts and as all about the charts go, it is where it is at. Which means the only award they didn’t hand to Taylor was Top New Artist (they gave it to Sam Smith instead).
Madonna fell off the stage last night in London so in our ongoing efforts to be entirely irrelevant in the world of music journalism, here is the list of winners, available only everywhere and some priceless moments… especially Madonna falling off stage.
Billboard doesn’t lie or at least money doesn’t lie and so even if your taste doesn’t coincide with the members of the zeitgeists, well here you have what the zeitgist is really like. Or was in 2013. I admire a lot of these names. And am happy to concede Timberlake as the artist of the year if not Katy Perry as best female artist.
I’m not trying to start a war or anything, but if Austria thinks I’ve forgotten how they rolled over and played dead when the Germans started to huff and puff they are greatly mistaken. And the latest member of the Von Trapp family, Conchita Wurst just adds insult to injury.
Pharrell’s joyous all dancing all smiling, all aboard performance was the best and Idina Menzel’s “Let It Go”, tailor made for the Oscars, a big bland musical theatre pastiche that, not unlike self evident influence “Wicked”, is simply not good enough musically to matter
Wenner should sell it and go back to doing what he does best: putting Bruce Springsteen at the top of lists
That being said, Who the hell did the picking and choosing this year? I won’t list the entire list but just a few categories to help you utter “WTF?” repeatedly as you read.
I don’t suppose anyone ever thought hard rockers such as Led Zeppelin would be involved with this type of thing back when they were starting out.
Also to be honored will be Diana Ross, Gil Scott-Heron, The Allman Brothers Band, Glen Campbell, Antonio Carlos Jobim and the Memphis Horns and who can deny any single name on that list?
‘It’s always been easy for me to pooh-pooh these awards — the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame too. But I inducted Metallica a couple of years ago, and it was really a beautiful thing to see as all these people were being inducted”
The 2012 inductees into the Grammy Hall of Fame are here, and to be honest, it is a little difficult to argue with them though quite why Cole Porter’s “Anything Goes” is only showing up now I don’t know
Though based upon the votes of record buyers, it seems to be a referendum on youth. Honestly, Speak Now was the best country album. Best pop album, OK I can see that. But country???
They got stuck in a moment and they haven’t gotten out of it
Speak Now has sold 5 Million copies
“I want to thank all the other nominees … for losing,”
Give AF a kick in the pants
I’d be happy to hear her sing variants on “Low Snake Moan” for the rest of her career.
congrats to Harvey for winning England’s prestigious Mercury Prize
She makes a rotten and creepy man, but then again, so does Jimmy Page.
Beyonce looked overwrought
And so the noun award marries the adjective meaningless
the painfully out of touch people responsible for doling out the culturally irrelevant Grammy awards
