Let's Watch the Grammys! (ca. 2010)

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(actually i can't watch them right now because there is a "yo gabba gabba" infestation in my living room. but i intend to reclaim the territory soon. in the meantime ... tell me what's going on.)

elton john and lady gaga duettin'

That Grammy whore.

"how wonderful life is with gaga in the world"

Haha this is completely unhinged

ok i turned the tv on and some girl was giving colbert the stinkeye, what did he say?

it's his daughter?

oh?

man "put a ring on it" feels five years old

esp compared to the rest of these joints

TERIUS

it's beyoncé's revenge.

song of the year already? didnt this just start

3 of the 5 choices are 10/10 songs though!

taylor swift is wearing the glitteriest dress

you cannot see any of terius's face ever

WHATUP DREAMER & TRICK

haha that jacket falls on the latter side of love/hate

wow jlos eye makeup wow

LOL @ "THANK YOU"

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oh man all of ilm just got butthurt irl when they cut off terius

who are these people singing

seriously tho :(

xp

yeah i don't understand what's happening right now

twitter is up in arms over terius getting played off

I remember the days when Taylor Dayne and Lenny Kravitz (together) would present awards.

I don't like to hate on stuff but isn't this green day song completely ripped off from ELO's "telephone line"?

That was one of the ladies from Passing Strange singing that, wasn't it?

GET IT TAYLOR

lol she is so weird

okay i love her but she can't possibly be surprised can she

lol! I was just about to post that.

woah. this Beyonce choreography is really something else

Look out WTO protesters!

if i were a boy? really

i kinda get it

crotch grab? what?

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when beyonce dies tomorrow it's def gonna be from natural causes and not because one of her back up dancers hit her with a night stick

Taylor Swift, whom I adore, is insufferable in these industry shindigs.

when beyonce dies tomorrow it's def gonna be from natural causes and not because one of her wind machines choked her when her hair got caught in the blades.

Pill4180 J-Lo looked more like Jello
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ICE COLD

Maria Carey!

harvilla kristen bell and some dude promote their romantic comedy by appearing onstage, having no chemistry whatsoever
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congrats al!

oh i don't know about this

lolllllll

Uh really?

smh bey

the audience is confused too

Beyonce is too "classy" to cover this eating-out anthem. Awful.

i like taylor, and i could 4give her for her singing badly b/c who cares she makes some tite songs, but i could not forgive her POOR POSTURE. she has the unslightly back hump of a septuagenarian stroke victim.

one day us ppl with bad posture are gonna take over the world and all you upright-standing motherfuckers are gonna be forced to slump in your chairs on penalty of death

i say that as a self-loathing slumper j diz :(

as i typed that, i reflexively corrected my posture

as a short dude I sometimes catch myself throwing my shoulders back so far that I hit my neck on the backs of my heels

r u pink? i think i saw u last nite

i sometimes slump when i'm sitting but consciously correcting my posture when standing up changed my life, everyone who stands up straight automatically improves how they look by approximately 500

Ha. I even avoid leaning back on a chair when I a wear a long-sleeved shirt and tie for fear of wrinkling the shirt.

just don't understand how this deep into the career taylor still can't catch a note

it's weird but doesnt really matter

unfortunately

because in a JUST WORLD taylor would be beheaded onstage for daring to not sing perfectly on command

So are there any must-see performances from last night i should seek out on youtube? I tried looking last night and all I got were promotional spots and fakes designed to get people hits..

because in a JUST WORLD taylor would be beheaded onstage for daring to not sing perfectly on command

pretty much, yes; if you are making money off of being a pop/country singer, you should be able to sing, kind of like every other person who was out onstage last night except for her

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yo capn save-a-swift i'm just asking for "tolerably." every time she tries to sing i think "why does no one help that poor girl."

it was funny a couple years back when she was doing her "look y'all i've got an acoustic guitar and i'm covering beyoncé" schtick but at this point a little goddamn respect for the audience wouldn't be too much to ask. she's got a team of professionals and someone needs to get on that.

(btw i agree it doesn't really matter. just weird)

Am I the only one who thinks it's sort of pathetic that it's apparently okay for singers in singing-reliant genres to not be able to sing these days? I mean, I kind of lolled when industry dude was all "pay artists otherwise you will see the overall level of talent drop massively" followed up by Taylor Swift winning album of the year; didn't anyone else?

i can't really tell what taylor's deal is, tbh. i mean, obviously in the studio she's autotuned up the wazoo (true: her wazoo is actually autotuned), but if you read her bio it's all, she went this place that place and another place to sing for people. she was supposedly some local karaoke star. so yeah, how can she not get at least on key?

tbh i find the autotune on average taylor swift track a lot harder to listen to than anything on the urban side of the dial

hahaha just had a mental image of Taylor singing "Tardy For The Party"

xpost like physically harder to listen to, not an aesthetic judgement even

and yeah tipsy mothra otm i remember reading that "karaoke star" thing and just being o_0

she used to play at the bluebird café, which is a by reputation a really tough room.

just don't understand how this deep into the career taylor still can't catch a note

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not sure if you were paying attention to her special guest, but talk about not being able to catch a note... taylor is like yma sumac compared to stevie.

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not sure if you were paying attention to her special guest, but talk about not being able to catch a note... taylor is like yma sumac compared to stevie.

profound sadface. but stevie has come by her croak honestly.

looking forward to taylor's coke years

I would guess that Swift's problem has more to do with singing before an audience. I haven't heard her records & so can't vouch for whether they're Melodyning her on every note but presumably one tries to avoid signing people who won't be able to deliver the goods live, like, ever.

The idea that people are being nitpicking perfectionists about Swift's singing is lol central, it's hardly muso posturing to say "hey, that was the wrong note...that one too, immediately after it...hey wait that was a whole verse of the wrong notes"

Am I the only one who thinks it's sort of pathetic that it's apparently okay for singers in singing-reliant genres to not be able to sing these days?

I dunno, isn't this kind of like the movie-stars-who-can't-act thing? having the total package minus actual talent is a show biz cliche.

looks + charisma + a story + easily digestible pablum = success

also thanks to whichever of you wags who came up with "ratface taylor swift" cuz I can't look at her w/o thinking of that now

was a character in a damon runyon story iirc

i wish she sang better live too, not arguing there. but dan to say she doesn't deserve album of the year (lol like anyone 'deserves' this humor me here) because she can't sing live is retarded - i've got issues with her singing voice too, even on record a little, but it's def not a minus and her songwriting and personality and the production have always been the major (at least critical) selling points. it's an award for album of the year, and since it's not a live album it has nothing to do with her singing live

it's an award for album of the year, and since it's not a live album it has nothing to do with her singing live

otm. this is also why i still think milli vanilli should get their grammy back.

he didn't say she doesn't deserve to win -- just that her win came off hypocritical after the RIAA guy's speech and that she maybe should be beheaded (xpost)

really they should've just given MV's grammy to the real singer(s)

and then maybe they should have beheaded rob and fab.

and let the real singers carry their heads on sticks during the acceptance speech, a grammy night to remember

would totally support that

(some dude is OTM re: my position here btw)

http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/477789/snooki-meets-phoenix.jhtml#id=1630972

That Bob Lefsetz guy keeps carrying on over the last day or so that Taylor's reputation is now forever shot because of her inability to sing live. I think he's being a little too dramatic.

I also wonder if he's never actually seen her perform on television before...??

I mean, if that was going to do her in, she would have been toast long before now.

since it's not a live album it has nothing to do with her singing live

Ha ha, lots of good live albums probably have nothing to do with singing live either, tbh. (But yeah -- that Swift sang off-key a the Grammys etc. obviously in no way dimishes the worth of her album.)

bob lefsetz is desperate for one of his challops to come true imo

Taking advice from Bob Lefsetz is like taking advice from the Bruno Kirby character in Spinal Tap.

bob lefsetz is a moron

looool @ that snooki/phoenix thing btw

Lefsetz carries on about Taylor's live singing all the time. He just wants an opportunity to be all "back in 1967 you really had to have skills. These damn kids blah blah blah". Although he says he likes her album.

When you have loved and lost as Bob has...