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korme
02-10-2008, 08:50 PM
Once again, Kanye believes he is more important than the awards shows and asks twice for them to stop playing music while he's stopping, the second time it worked and they let him go on. It's great.
Calis
02-10-2008, 08:51 PM
Once again, Kanye believes he is more important than the awards shows and asks twice for them to stop playing music while he's stopping, the second time it worked and they let him go on. It's great.

Yeah, man he comes across as such a dick..at least he appears to realize it but just doesn't care.

I really dug his performance though, that was pretty cool actually.
JonInMiddleGA
02-10-2008, 08:53 PM
They still make that?
RendeR
02-10-2008, 08:54 PM
Ahahababajahajajajahahahahahahwaawahahahahahhahhahahah

Grammies....BAhahahahahahahahahah

I'm sorry, you were being serious shorty??
Mustang
02-10-2008, 08:59 PM
There should be more award shows. Probably one every day.

Entertainers don't get enough verbal masturbation from the media and each other.
Joe
02-10-2008, 08:59 PM
I think it was canceled because of the writer's strike. I turned it on and saw The Time performing Jungle Love, so I figured they were replaying a broadcast from the 80's.
Lathum
02-10-2008, 09:04 PM
MY wife and I attempted to watch a little but between that hack Amy Winehouse winning awards and us realizing it was the hip hop awards ( nothing against hip hop) we couldn't stand it.

Othert then the foo fighters I don't think they had one other performer we like.
korme
02-10-2008, 09:08 PM
West has a good message but he isn't the best about delivering it when in front of an audience unfortunately, and he comes off as a dick just when he runs out of time because he isn't as eloquent as the others who get up there.

Foo just won Best Rock award, which is cool.



Can someone help me understand what time period you have to release a CD to get considered? For instance, this is the 2008 Grammys, but they mentioned Ludacris as last year's winner, then showed a graphic that said 2006 Best Rap Album. So is this the 2007 Grammys just presented in 2008? Also, Jay-Z's Kingdom Come, released in 2006 is up for an award, even though he released American Gangster in 2007. Kanye West's album Graduation was released about a month before American Gangster, but it was indeed nominated (and won).

It's confusing it seems.
Young Drachma
02-10-2008, 09:14 PM
Damn east coast bias. I was wondering what the hell you all were talking about at first, but then realized that they're playing ahead in eastern time, with it being 10pm and all there.


I'll stop reading until they're over. But as far as I can see, they're not very good so far. A mish-mash of people they're throwing together and it gets worse and worse each year. But hey, so long as the stars are happy, I guess.
korme
02-10-2008, 09:15 PM
Alicia Keys is amazing and gorgeous.

I am a sucker for pianists.
Radii
02-10-2008, 09:21 PM
haha Vince Gill just totally owned Kanye West.

And yeah, I'm not a R&B fan at all, but Alicia Keys is just stunningly talented IMO.
Raiders Army
02-10-2008, 09:27 PM
Once again, Kanye believes he is more important than the awards shows and asks twice for them to stop playing music while he's stopping, the second time it worked and they let him go on. It's great.

Just me, but I didn't see anything wrong with him saying cut the music.

Also, Beyonce shouldn't wear a dress that short with legs that fat.
SackAttack
02-10-2008, 09:28 PM
I am a sucker for pianists.

Go say that out loud to one of your buddies, Shorty. Report back and let me know how many bruises you have. :D
JonInMiddleGA
02-10-2008, 09:37 PM
An egomaniacal nutjob & a junkie are the pinnacle of the profession ... but Congress wants to investigate baseball & wrestling.

Sheesh.
SackAttack
02-10-2008, 09:40 PM
An egomaniacal nutjob & a junkie are the pinnacle of the profession ... but Congress wants to investigate baseball & wrestling.

Sheesh.

Are we talking about the music industry or the White House here?

:D
JonInMiddleGA
02-10-2008, 09:41 PM
Are we talking about the music industry or the White House here?:D

Harr.
Lathum
02-10-2008, 09:42 PM
I am so unimpressed with amy Winehouse
Subby
02-10-2008, 09:46 PM
I am so unimpressed with amy Winehouse
Rhapsody in Blue gave me chills, though...
korme
02-10-2008, 09:47 PM
Radii, I wouldn't call that owning him

RA- I am about the biggest KW fan you'll find, so I had nothing wrong with him saying that at all - especially because he was trying to get a sentimental message out, talking about his late mother. Gotta commend a guy that is the biggest hip-hop star on earth and comes to the Grammys and plays his little known song "Hey Mama" as a tribute, with MAMA inscribed in his haircut.

Beyonce in that second dress looked hot as balls. I'm thinking the first one was just an homage to old school style.
Calis
02-10-2008, 09:54 PM
I am so unimpressed with amy Winehouse

I'd actually never heard an Amy Winehouse song or had any idea what the hell kidna music she even made before tonight. The only thing I've heard about her is all the drug hoopla.

I fully expected to hate it, but after listening to a couple songs on youtube and the performance I was actually impressed. She does have a very good voice, and it was definitely not the music I expected by seeing her and hearing about her.

I can also say I prefer her singing to her talking after that acceptance. :)
korme
02-10-2008, 10:00 PM
Amy's got an ugly voice to me
Joe
02-10-2008, 10:02 PM
I thought Kanye West trying to actually sing was pretty bad... stick to rapping
Calis
02-10-2008, 10:05 PM
Josh Groban's voice always make me think I'm watching a Disney movie.
korme
02-10-2008, 10:05 PM
I thought Kanye West trying to actually sing was pretty bad... stick to rapping

When did he try to sing?
korme
02-10-2008, 10:05 PM
This dude needs to open his eyes
Joe
02-10-2008, 10:06 PM
When did he try to sing?

Wasn't that singing during "Mamma" or whatever song that was? If it wasn't singing, I don't know what to call it.
Calis
02-10-2008, 10:07 PM
This dude needs to open his eyes

I was wondering if he was blind or something, otherwise it's creeping me out.
korme
02-10-2008, 10:08 PM
Wasn't that singing during "Mamma" or whatever song that was? If it wasn't singing, I don't know what to call it.

You've obviously never listened to a Kanye West record, I would say he "sings' just about as often as he "raps", if you want to break it down like that.
Joe
02-10-2008, 10:09 PM
You've obviously never listened to a Kanye West record, I would say he "sings' just about as often as he "raps", if you want to break it down like that.

Nope, I've only seen him on award shows.
korme
02-10-2008, 10:17 PM
Just don't want you to mischaracterize him with most rappers, he doesn't rap about money cars and hoes.
General Mike
02-10-2008, 10:20 PM
Can someone help me understand what time period you have to release a CD to get considered? For instance, this is the 2008 Grammys, but they mentioned Ludacris as last year's winner, then showed a graphic that said 2006 Best Rap Album. So is this the 2007 Grammys just presented in 2008? Also, Jay-Z's Kingdom Come, released in 2006 is up for an award, even though he released American Gangster in 2007. Kanye West's album Graduation was released about a month before American Gangster, but it was indeed nominated (and won).

It's confusing it seems.

From Wikipedia:

The show will honor musical achievement of the 2007 recording year in which recordings were released between October 1, 2006 through September 30, 2007.

But there are other loopholes. For example, even if a CD came out before October 1, 2006, if you released a single after that time, you could still be eligible for an award this year.
Groundhog
02-10-2008, 10:39 PM
Flashback time. Just out of interest, the winners of the major awards in 1997:

Album of the Year: Celine Dion's 'Falling in to You'
Record of the Year: Eric Clapton's 'Change the World'
Song of the Year: Change the World
Best New Artist: LeAnn Rimes
Best Alternative Music Performance: Beck's 'Odelay'
Best Female Pop Vocal Performance: Toni Braxton 'Unbreak my Heart'
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance: Eric Clapton 'Change the World'
Best Pop Performance by Duo or Group: Beatles 'Free As a Bird'
Best Female Rock Vocal Performance: Sheryl Crow "If it makes you happy"
Best Male Rock Vocal Performance: Beck "Where it's at"
Best Spoken Word or Non-musical Album: Hillary Clinton (!!!!) 'It Takes a Village'

'Change the World', sure won a fair amount of awards for a song that I don't think I've ever heard (and judging by the title I don't think I really want to).

Beck was in fashion, a new Beatles track got it's inevitable awards, and Celine Dion somehow won the biggie.

No wonder 1997/98 was the time when I started branching away from pop music.
Joe
02-10-2008, 10:42 PM
I love Celine
Radii
02-10-2008, 10:43 PM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fHPWoDsyE6M <-- clapton, decent song, certainly not one of the 10 best songs hes done ;)
Lathum
02-10-2008, 10:47 PM
I guess Usher and Kanye don't get along
Groundhog
02-10-2008, 10:48 PM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fHPWoDsyE6M <-- clapton, decent song, certainly not one of the 10 best songs hes done ;)

OK, I have heard this song actually. Cheesy, but no where near as cheesy as I expected.

I keep expecting it to turn in to Tears In Heaven though, especially near the beginning.
sterlingice
02-11-2008, 12:52 AM
Are we talking about the music industry or the White House here?

:D

Nicely done :)

SI
ShaqFu
02-11-2008, 01:05 AM
I was wondering if he was blind or something, otherwise it's creeping me out.

Yeah, Andrea Bocelli is very much blind, but also extremely talented. Great performance by him and Josh Groban. I missed an opportunity once to see The Three Tenors, something I regret missing, since I'll never have that chance again.

Pretty good show tonight. Shocked that Daughtry did not win, given this show's bias to American Idols the past two years. Was hoping Beyonce would win -- she is such a babe. Some good performances all around, though it's too bad Prince did not perform. It also would have been nice, given the 50th Anniversary, to see Michael Jackson.

Album of the year was a huge surprise. First jazz win since 1963 and only the second ever.

Oh, and Barack Obama won a Grammy. Cool!!!
Willy Wonka
02-11-2008, 12:57 PM
Also, Beyonce shouldn't wear a dress that short with legs that fat.

Blasphemer!!!!!!!


I thought the version of Let It Be was amazing, until my cable went out for an hour - just in time to watch Kanye make a fool of himself.
rkmsuf
02-11-2008, 01:02 PM
They should have kept turning the music up and down on him. Now that would have been funny.
Dr. Sak
02-11-2008, 01:06 PM
They should have kept turning the music up and down on him. Now that would have been funny.

Or played O' Canada
rkmsuf
02-11-2008, 01:09 PM
How lucky was Carrie Underwood to be on Idol. That was a very uninspiring performance.

Please don't attempt dancing either.

Good song but man that wasn't very good. Stick to the radio.
Raiders Army
02-11-2008, 04:57 PM
Blasphemer!!!!!!!


I thought the version of Let It Be was amazing, until my cable went out for an hour - just in time to watch Kanye make a fool of himself.

Sorry, I am in a motel with a widescreen TV and I can't tell if her legs were really fat or if it was the "formatted" picture which made them appear that way.
Young Drachma
02-11-2008, 05:57 PM
How lucky was Carrie Underwood to be on Idol. That was a very uninspiring performance.

Please don't attempt dancing either.

Good song but man that wasn't very good. Stick to the radio.

After hearing her first two albums, I've decided that a good songwriter can take a country artist far. Because man, ANYONE could sing those songs. She has no pipes and she's decent looking and all. But meh all in all. American Idol took her from Main Street to Rodeo.