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(C|Net)   Will ABBA finally get a Grammy and make everyone feel outrage like Jethro Tull did in 1989? Will Lizzo dominate? Will we find out what a Bad Bunny is? Why can't U2 just win everything? The 65th Grammy Awards, 8PM ET on CBS   (cnet.com) divider line
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bluorangefyre [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 10:01:10 AM  
It took Led Zeppelin until 2014 to finally get a competitive Grammy.  I'm still miffed that 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons was considered a better rock song than the definitive performance of the song that Robert Plant himself called the definitive Led Zeppelin song.
 
downstairs [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 10:15:16 AM  

bluorangefyre: It took Led Zeppelin until 2014 to finally get a competitive Grammy.  I'm still miffed that 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons was considered a better rock song than the definitive performance of the song that Robert Plant himself called the definitive Led Zeppelin song.


The Beatles' Grammy showing is always funny to look at.
 
baka-san [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 12:15:45 PM  
The Jethro Tull Grammy was 1989 subby
 
Stephen_Falken [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 12:32:54 PM  
You DO realize that ABBA's top-40 company-manufactured hits occurred like half a f*cking century ago, right?
 
Some Bass Playing Guy [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 1:24:44 PM  

Stephen_Falken: You DO realize that ABBA's top-40 company-manufactured hits occurred like half a f*cking century ago, right?


I have no idea what company manufactured means. They weren't put together like some boy band. They were already stars in Sweden and decided on their own to form the group. The songs weren't written by a team of writers, either. They released Voyage in 2021 which sold 2.5m copies with some legitimate hits. It was got a Grammy nomination for Album of the year in 2022 and at least one single is up for record of the year in 2023.
 
markie_farkie [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 1:56:48 PM  

bluorangefyre: I 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons


Is shiat word salad, and nothing more.
 
lindalouwho [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 6:26:33 PM  
Quite a list of presenters and preformers.
I'm all about Grand Master Flash, hell to the yes!
 
lindalouwho [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 6:28:09 PM  
*Grandmaster is one word, damnit, you way behind the times autocorrect you.
 
This Honkey Grandma Be Trippin'
2023-02-05 7:35:08 PM  
Beyonce: You won't break my soul.

Grammys giving Album of the Year to Adele again: Watch me.
 
Tyrosine
2023-02-05 7:54:53 PM  

baka-san: The Jethro Tull Grammy was 1989 subby


It was and Metallica should have won, or even Jane's Addiction but not Jethro Tull.

I'm not knocking Tull by any means but Crest of a Knave was at best a mediocre album. Tull certainly deserved awards - for Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Too Old to Rock and Roll, etc. but not for Knave. I don't know whether it was just a bunch of stodgy old people voting for whatever album they best understood (because I'm sure anyone over 35 would have been freaked out by most of the other choices), or whether they felt Tull was overdue for an award and they didn't know how many more chances they'd have to get one (like when Henry Fonda won the Oscar for On Golden Pond) but there's no way in hell Crest of a Knave deserved a Grammy.

As for this year's award I'm not an ABBA fan, but I can understand the appeal, and I'm 100% fine if they win as long as it's actually about the music they released last year and not about making up for past snubs.
 
stevenvictx
2023-02-05 8:03:57 PM  

bluorangefyre: It took Led Zeppelin until 2014 to finally get a competitive Grammy.  I'm still miffed that 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons was considered a better rock song than the definitive performance of the song that Robert Plant himself called the definitive Led Zeppelin song.


Jimmy page did it first
The Firm-Radioactive
Youtube 3973tfsllqw
 
Marshmallow Jones
2023-02-05 8:05:08 PM  
They should really just award the software that wrote the best-selling pseudo-music.  Pull it down to 15 minutes.
 
drewogatory
2023-02-05 8:05:57 PM  
FFS, yes, Tull won a makeup Grammy. But fark Metallica, plus they won like 8 more later.
 
lindalouwho [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 8:07:01 PM  

baka-san: The Jethro Tull Grammy was 1989 subby


I sent a message awhile ago, fixed.

/ not subby
 
RminusQ
2023-02-05 8:08:38 PM  
If you're literally standing right behind Harry Styles, Lizzo, and Adele, and your first choice for "the biggest names in music are here" is LL Cool J, you might be a stooge.
 
lindalouwho [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 8:10:07 PM  
Bad b*tch o'clock lol
 
undernova
2023-02-05 8:14:32 PM  
Fingers were crossed that our band would be on the Grammy list again for this year - we thought we might even have a shot at the win (3rd time's a charm?), which of course meant we got passed over entirely. Band may not survive this year, so my gravy train to L.A. might be gone for good. Just in time to start cutting back in my middle age.
 
optikeye [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 8:19:28 PM  
I like that screen saver thingy behind Trevor Noah
 
lindalouwho [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 8:21:29 PM  
Huh that's a surprise...
 
Spectrum
2023-02-05 8:22:51 PM  
I'm going to open a barber shop and call it HAIRY STYLES.
 
foo monkey
2023-02-05 8:22:57 PM  
The NASCAR and NFL flag football threads have more posts than this.  Pick it up y'all.
 
foo monkey
2023-02-05 8:23:38 PM  

Spectrum: I'm going to open a barber shop and call it HAIRY STYLES.


I'm going to franchise it for Spanish-speaking people and call it Hair Y Styles.
 
drewogatory
2023-02-05 8:26:10 PM  

foo monkey: The NASCAR and NFL flag football threads have more posts than this.  Pick it up y'all.


I mean, you couldn't pay me to watch, so I need comments to comment on.
 
foo monkey
2023-02-05 8:31:34 PM  
I don't know much about Bad Bunny the musician, but he left nothing on the table at WrestleMania and I respect him for that.

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REO-Weedwagon
2023-02-05 8:34:39 PM  
What a charmed life Trevor Noah has led. He's successful in the entertainment industry despite having all the charm of a washed-ashore jellyfish.
 
senor peacock
2023-02-05 8:46:29 PM  
Awesome a Stevie wonder performance!!!
 
natazha [BareFark]
2023-02-05 8:46:32 PM  

Some Bass Playing Guy: Stephen_Falken: You DO realize that ABBA's top-40 company-manufactured hits occurred like half a f*cking century ago, right?

I have no idea what company manufactured means. They weren't put together like some boy band. They were already stars in Sweden and decided on their own to form the group. The songs weren't written by a team of writers, either. They released Voyage in 2021 which sold 2.5m copies with some legitimate hits. It was got a Grammy nomination for Album of the year in 2022 and at least one single is up for record of the year in 2023.


I had a civic science poll last week about the gimmes. "None" was not an option, so I picked ABBA's Voyage, they being one of the few names I recognized. They got 30% of the votes.
 
senor peacock
2023-02-05 8:49:16 PM  
Willie Nelson sends his regrets for not being there to accept his award for best country album
 
lindalouwho [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 8:53:55 PM  
Flavor Flav! Rockin' out for all he's worth.
 
This Honkey Grandma Be Trippin'
2023-02-05 8:59:22 PM  
Must of been a weak year for pop collabs if Unholy won this thing.
 
Mikey1969 [OhFark]
2023-02-05 9:02:50 PM  

baka-san: The Jethro Tull Grammy was 1989 subby


Yeah, and there's a very valid reason that people were pissed. Subby is an idiot.
 
Mikey1969 [OhFark]
2023-02-05 9:08:43 PM  

Tyrosine: baka-san: The Jethro Tull Grammy was 1989 subby

It was and Metallica should have won, or even Jane's Addiction but not Jethro Tull.

I'm not knocking Tull by any means but Crest of a Knave was at best a mediocre album. Tull certainly deserved awards - for Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Too Old to Rock and Roll, etc. but not for Knave. I don't know whether it was just a bunch of stodgy old people voting for whatever album they best understood (because I'm sure anyone over 35 would have been freaked out by most of the other choices), or whether they felt Tull was overdue for an award and they didn't know how many more chances they'd have to get one (like when Henry Fonda won the Oscar for On Golden Pond) but there's no way in hell Crest of a Knave deserved a Grammy.

As for this year's award I'm not an ABBA fan, but I can understand the appeal, and I'm 100% fine if they win as long as it's actually about the music they released last year and not about making up for past snubs.


Not only that, it didn't even come close to fitting the genre.
 
MacWizard
2023-02-05 9:09:39 PM  

Tyrosine: baka-san: The Jethro Tull Grammy was 1989 subby

It was and Metallica should have won, or even Jane's Addiction but not Jethro Tull.

I'm not knocking Tull by any means but Crest of a Knave was at best a mediocre album. Tull certainly deserved awards - for Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Too Old to Rock and Roll, etc. but not for Knave. I don't know whether it was just a bunch of stodgy old people voting for whatever album they best understood (because I'm sure anyone over 35 would have been freaked out by most of the other choices), or whether they felt Tull was overdue for an award and they didn't know how many more chances they'd have to get one (like when Henry Fonda won the Oscar for On Golden Pond) but there's no way in hell Crest of a Knave deserved a Grammy.

As for this year's award I'm not an ABBA fan, but I can understand the appeal, and I'm 100% fine if they win as long as it's actually about the music they released last year and not about making up for past snubs.


Personally, I thought the greatest failure of the 1989 Grammy's was not so much that they gave one to Jethro Tull for a mediocre album, but the simple fact that 1989 was the first year to recognize Heavy Metal as a category and gave the award to Jethro Tull, which was never heavy metal by any stretch of the imagination, even when the band was at its best. I always attributed this to the fact that NARAS voting roster at the time was packed with older folks who probably weren't even sure what heavy metal was and Jethro Tull was the only name they recognized..
 
Hendawg
2023-02-05 9:10:51 PM  
Sarah Brand isn't up for Best New Artist?  This is more scripted than the NFL
 
drewogatory
2023-02-05 9:13:30 PM  
Goddamn, I can't believe how farking salty people still are about the Tull/Metallica thing from 24 farking years ago. And it was hard rock/ heavy metal. And Tull was 100% considered a hard rock band and was played on the hard rock stations. And had outsold Metallica at that point by 50+ million albums. And Metallica are a bunch of whiny little biatches anyway.
 
Hendawg
2023-02-05 9:15:10 PM  

drewogatory: Goddamn, I can't believe how farking salty people still are about the Tull/Metallica thing from 24 farking years ago. And it was hard rock/ heavy metal. And Tull was 100% considered a hard rock band and was played on the hard rock stations. And had outsold Metallica at that point by 50+ million albums. And Metallica are a bunch of whiny little biatches anyway.


Not to make it worse, or to make you feel old, but it's much closer to 34 years
 
drewogatory
2023-02-05 9:15:18 PM  
FFS, 34 farking years ago even.
 
yakmans_dad
2023-02-05 9:15:38 PM  
When did music become 100% sanctimony?
 
pterri
2023-02-05 9:16:22 PM  
Lizzos choir robes looking like they came from Bed Bathe & Beyonce
 
lindalouwho [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 9:18:58 PM  
Every person there, and then some, knows the traffic thing is a lie.
 
drewogatory
2023-02-05 9:21:40 PM  
Plus, Justice was like the tenth best metal album of 88 anyway, so I'm still baffled as to why metalheads would care.
 
yakmans_dad
2023-02-05 9:25:54 PM  

Spectrum: I'm going to open a barber shop and call it HAIRY STYLES.


There needs to be a Kentucky barber shop called Right Hair.
 
iron_city_ap
2023-02-05 9:27:54 PM  
The Grammy's are as legit as the Hollywood Walk of 'Fame'
 
ZMugg [TotalFark]
2023-02-05 9:31:02 PM  
media1.tenor.comView Full Size

What a 'bad bunny' may look like.
 
baltimoreblonde
2023-02-05 9:31:13 PM  
Beyonce will get everything. They don't want to see the Beyhive burn it all down. Unless the Swifties get there first...

And how much will Cardi B let hang out tonight?

/not watching
 
pterri
2023-02-05 9:35:03 PM  
Cardi B is wearing some radar reflective dress. She must be worried about getting a missile lock or something.
 
lindalouwho [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 9:37:03 PM  
They posted Jeff Beck twice because he's twice as good as the rest.
 
lindalouwho [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 9:37:53 PM  

baltimoreblonde: Beyonce will get everything. They don't want to see the Beyhive burn it all down. Unless the Swifties get there first...

And how much will Cardi B let hang out tonight?

/not watching


I think Cardi looked great!
 
RminusQ
2023-02-05 9:41:03 PM  

lindalouwho: They posted Jeff Beck twice because he's twice as good as the rest.


They seem to be doing that with each segment, putting the same person at the start and end (Loretta Lynn, Takeoff, and now Crosby got the same treatment)
 
JerseyTim [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-05 9:41:23 PM  
I love the way the Grammy's leans into the death montage. They know this is the biggest thing people want to see.
 
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