So That Was The Grammys Then??
This was the first year I have taken an interest in the annual celebration of American celebrations in music. It was more curiosity than anything. This stemmed from Pharrell Williams' hat more than anything.
Over in the UK we were only given the 'highlights' of the awards. For those who did not see it I shall give you a brief run down now:
1) Beyonce and Jay-Z sung together
2) Jay-Z got an award from Jamie Foxx who gave the most toe-curling introduction ever about how he had been ogling Beyonce backstage. This man won a much deserved OSCAR for his portrail of Ray Charles, yet I felt he only won the shaking of heads from his peers for this abomination of a speech - thankfully upon receiving his award Jay-Z was the better man and didn't punch Jamie's face round the back of his head.
3) Daft Punk got Pharrell Williams, Stevie Wonder, Nile Rogers and a guy who looked like Shaun Wallace from the Chase together. A great performance, but I was once again distracted by the hat!! The artists interpretation above is how I perceived the event and is no way meant to be racist or upsetting in any way, that's just how my mind sees things!
4) Pink appeared to mime while doing some pretty mad arial acrobatics.
5) Daft Punk won an award* (Pharrell spoke on the 'robots' behalf).
6) Macklemore sung a song which lead onto a mass wedding but was ruined by ...
7) Madonna murdering "Open Your Heart". Our cats ran for cover during this awful couple of minutes. Her face was too smooth and she appeared to be walking with a cane (maybe that was for theatrical effect, I for one think that like Goldie Hawn in "Death Becomes Her" she was actually falling to bits beneath her 'perfect' exterior).
8) Metallica and Lang Lang performed "One". Piano and Metal meet at last and it wasn't worth waiting for.
9) Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age came together to play a couple of tracks but were cut off in their prime by the closing credits and adverts of proud sponsors. I can feel a lawsuit coming up here!!
*So I can reveal what I suspected for a while. The artists known as Daft Punk have always readily given their names but their facial identity has been a closely guarded secret with the helmets they have worn over their career. If you were able to tap into the audio on show as I did, you would have got a shock. The 'robots' upon hearing they had won Album Of The Year got up and hugged each other (#robothug trended for a while on that twittery thing). However, their visors were linked into a complex sound loop and it could be clearly heard that one said to the other "To Me" followed by the mating call response "To You". Thus proving that Daft Punk aren't Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, but Paul and Barry Elliott aka The Chuckle Brothers.
Thus ending this rather boring blog. Sorry to have taken your time!!
