Does anyone really care anymore about company manufactured singers?

How I wish Ricky Gervais was MCing tonight. I am sure he would come up with something tasteful and heartfelt to say about Whitney.

Probably not make it out the building alive

Pointy Tail of Satan: Does anyone really care anymore about company manufactured singers?

Pontious Pilates: JasonOfOrillia: So I was on another site and I saw some red-carpet photos from tonight's Grammys and Rebecca Black was in there. I'm sure she is a lovely person but the fact that she got invited tells me all I need to know about the Grammys and the record industry.

While I agree with you in spirit, it's actually a pretty deep invite list to the Grammys. I had a music teacher in high school whose group recorded a jazz album. It got onto some Grammy ballot, but it was in the earliest round of the pre-nomination process when there are literally dozens of candidates, IIRC.

He got nowhere near actually being nominated or winning anything, but I do remember him saying that it meant he could go to the ceremony if he wanted. On his own dime, of course.

So, it should come as no surprise that some trust fund act from LA got a ride from her publicist/mother.

Excuse me? The marketing writes itself. Like it or not, she was a pop culture phenomenon. She had her song covered by pop musicians and television personalities. She generated ratings.

AliceBToklasLives: IlGreven: Hey, look, it's the "I'm so cool about not caring about awards shows I shout my uncaringness in every awards show thread I can find" thread.

/Someone get the bikini babe in a handstand pic...there's some serious attention whorin' 'round here...

Like the attention whoring of bringing up the fact that everyone is attention whoring?

/or the attention whoring of pointing out that you are attention whoring by bringing up the fact that everyone is attention whoring?

I guess we'll need to drag out Xzibit, too.

/Yo, dawg, I heard you like attention whorin'...

Haha Bruce, "are you alive out there??"

1980... Christopher Cross and his epic piece of shiat beats out Pink Floyd's The Wall for Album of the Year, and that was when I turned off the TV and never watched another minute of any Grammy.

Woo hoo!! It's Silvio "Soprano" in the house!!

I hope Bon Iver wins tonight so hipsters will stop telling me to listen to him

The Angry Hand of God: Do people really get excited for awards shows? I don't get it. Look at all the rich people!!!

I'd get excited at a comedy awards show. Is there such a creature?

Looks like there was one last year around this time - I remember that being advertised, now that I mention it (:. I think I figured it would be way too over-the-top vulgar:

Comedy Central announces its first annual Comedy Awards

February 15, 2011 | 11:47 am 400 Finally, a golden statuette you can earn just for being a wise guy: On Tuesday, Comedy Central and MTV Networks announced the inaugural presentation of the Comedy Awards, described as "the first-ever multi-network, multi-platform, annual event dedicated to honoring and celebrating the world of comedy." Scheduled to air on Sunday, April 10, the Comedy Awards will recognize achievement in categories such as "late-night comedy series" and "stand-up special," as well as more traditional nods for films and television shows

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texdent: And I'm sure everyone who didn't grow up in the 80s is wondering who this guy is

Yeah, I could imagine some teen saying, "Why is Lindsay Lohan's dad singing?"

A Dell:



Rolling in the deep.

I miss seeing Max Weinberg on Conan.

DEEP BLUE SEA

oh good, ups to jesus. let's pray.

Rick Santorum approves of this.

Let us pray

oh good, gaga the attention whore has a staff

Get that man some chapstick.

LL-

Don't bring me into this.

-Jesus

I love the audience shot during the prayer.

Fashionably late but I made it dammit.

Springsteen should have been booted as the opener, and props to LLcoolJ for making up for it.

Whitney Houston died? Someone should submit a newsflash to Fark

Did something happen to Whitney Houston? What's going on, is she ill?

texdent: How successful was The Bodyguard?


He wasn't; she died.

thelordofcheese: Pontious Pilates: JasonOfOrillia: So I was on another site and I saw some red-carpet photos from tonight's Grammys and Rebecca Black was in there. I'm sure she is a lovely person but the fact that she got invited tells me all I need to know about the Grammys and the record industry.

While I agree with you in spirit, it's actually a pretty deep invite list to the Grammys. I had a music teacher in high school whose group recorded a jazz album. It got onto some Grammy ballot, but it was in the earliest round of the pre-nomination process when there are literally dozens of candidates, IIRC.

He got nowhere near actually being nominated or winning anything, but I do remember him saying that it meant he could go to the ceremony if he wanted. On his own dime, of course.

So, it should come as no surprise that some trust fund act from LA got a ride from her publicist/mother.

Excuse me? The marketing writes itself. Like it or not, she was a pop culture phenomenon. She had her song covered by pop musicians and television personalities. She generated ratings.

Sure, whatever. My point is, industry representation is not limited to some exclusive, elite class of artists deemed Righteous and Good.

To the tune of "Frère Jacques"

Bread and circus,
Bread and circus,
Yes we do!
Yes we do!
Mindless drooling sheeple,
Mooing bleeting people,
Revenue,
Revenue.


Go ahead and watch. Raise those ratings! It's so much fun being a statistic, isn't it?

She sure was hot and could sing in her day

/bb

Whitney Houston. Inventor of the "urban yodel."

drewogatory: elchip: FriarReb98: JasonOfOrillia: So I was on another site and I saw some red-carpet photos from tonight's Grammys and Rebecca Black was in there. I'm sure she is a lovely person but the fact that she got invited tells me all I need to know about the Grammys and the record industry.

Pretty much. Though there's a red carpet interview up with Dream Theater, who are nominated for...something, on their Facebook page. Who knows, it's the Grammys, they're probably going up against Adele in one of the more obscure multi-genre covering categories....

\the new album is good though

I really dislike their new albums. FTFY. And i like me some proggy metal. But much like Phish, Dream Theater can't write a decent song to save their lives. At some point instrumental mastery becomes meaningless when your material is ass. See Jeff Beck, Satriani and Yngwie for further examples.

I don't like them as much as I used to, for sure.

I used to think LaBrie was a great singer until I heard him cover Iron Maiden and Rainbow, and realized he doesn't hold a candle to Dickinson or Dio.

I find that some of their music I once loved sounds wanky and cheesy, particularly the keyboards, particularly Rudess' keyboards. Consider "The Dance of Eternity," which many people in a recent thread on Reddit said was their favorite Dream Theater song and raved about the 120 time signature changes over its length... I can't stand it.

Their lyrics have never been poetry, but Moore was better than Portniy, who was better than Petrucci. Compare "Pull Me Under" to "A Change of Seasons" to "The Count of Tuscany."

And if their new album is any indication, Portnoy was instrumental in keeping their songs relatively tight. Their new crap is all over the place, with many abrupt transitions that just don't flow.

Hey, who was that black chick singing like Christina Aguilera?

WHOA!!! That's Adele? Forget Whitney, get this girl on the stage.

it the Adele show?

did Kelly Clarkson eat her yet?

I think Nicky Manaj exploded