Music Awards 2013

“Pink has almost been in a class by herself among women in music this year, and we’re thrilled to recognize her successes by honoring her with the Billboard Woman of the Year Award.”

I hope that the shock factor was worth it, because now I simply cannot respect her at all. The Hannah Montana days are long gone, and soon, Cyrus is going to hit bottom. I wonder if Amanda Bynes has a spare room for her…

This isn’t the Grammys. It isn’t the state of the art, it is the state of modern pop music. A snapshot of the charts and the charts are in spectacular shape

Is this all a little pathetic? Do I judge you, you ponce? Why be a fan if you can’t be starstruck?

This is about as big as it gets for Stephani, if it dogs (it won’t but IF it dogs…) it will be a major disaster for Lady Gaga

“They have either incredible good taste or they have no idea what I’m going on about.”

Sure, Carly Rae Jepsen had the novelty single of 2012 with “Call Me Maybe” but the album The Kiss, was a not all that: a very ordinary modern pop move

Over here at rock nyc HQ we are always fighting and shouting and worrying about the same thing: “what do the kids want, what do the kids want?” and once we’ve convinced Steve Crawford the kids don’t want all wrestling all the time and Mary Magpie no, we are not going to turn into an all theater blog, we are left with the same question: what do the kids want?

Jack Phillips can’t catch a break and this useless twit is doing song and dance with two guys and only one of the three have the slightest idea what they are doing? At the Oscars??? You wanna talk about the dumbing down of America? This is the stage that once had Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, now we have this joke?

I know I never have a good word for Adele, but really it’s too late to stop now and the horrendous “Skyfall” is big feelings for people who have forgotten how to feel and need constant prompts to remind them how.

Honestly, how can you compare The Black Keys’ ‘Lonely Boy’, to Kelly Clarkson’s ‘Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)’, to Fun.’s ‘We Are Young’, to Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’, to Frank Ocean’s ‘Thinkin Bout You’, to Taylor Swift’s ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’…. already my head is aching

Rock music is not movies and a Grammy is not an Oscar. It is an irrelevance when your job is changing lives a generation at a time (at least in theory). If I was a teenager in 2013 I would consider rock and roll to almost beyond redemption

I tried to listen to them, and it was painful. The Norah Jones’ track is a classic old-fashioned jazzy Hollywood-feel-good one, some extremely groundbreaking stuff that old white people love to death, whereas the Scarlett Johansson-sung track is one slow icy-bore

nce a good boy of pop, his album is a drag, his live show monstrous, his love life a joke (OK, Selena isn’t but the rest of it…) and to end the year he got blown off stage by Taylor Swift at Jingle Ball.

But here is a question pop pickers, what do you think will happen if the follow up is more of the same? It won’t be pretty.

I am personally boycotting the entire affair until Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds get their just due. Don’t pull your love out on me, RRHOF.