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So the Grammys happened last night. Or as I would like to rename them, "Neverending Story, Part A Million: The Suckfest Continues." That BS was 3.5 hours, fools! Not to say there weren't some genuinely stellar moments, but 3.5 hours is too long for anything, even a kitten party catered with an all-you can eat pizza buffet (i.e. heaven). So in the likely event that you found a more useful way to spend your Sunday night, I did the dirty work and chronicled the best and worst moments for you. You can thank me later.1) RadioheadRadioheadRadioheadRadiohead.
2) Original Diva Whitney Houston woozily delivering the award for Best Female R&B Vocal to Jennifer Hudson. Good to see someone's carrying the Anna Nicole torch.
3) Hova's enthusiastic clapping after The Neil's cheesetastic performance of "Sweet Caroline." See, the Grammys ARE genre-defying!
4) Chris Martin copping to being "more limestone than rock" during his acceptance speech. Couldn't have said it better myself!
5) Morgan Freeman (?!) slipping up when introducing his "friend" Kenny Chesney, calling him a "private pirate." Insert closeted homo joke here.
6) Jay Mohr (Cox) trying super hard to be street and failing miserably by name-checking LL's song "Farmers Boulevard."
7) M.I.A. practically giving birth onstage during the "Rap Pack" medley "Swagger Like Us" with T.I., Lil Wayne, Hova and Kanye.
8) RadioheadRadioheadRadioheadRadiohead.
9) The surprisingly not-awful Justin Timberlake/T.I. collabo. (And T.I.'s uber-hotness, duh).
10) Will.I.AM and T Pain's hat-off.
WORST
1) The crappy breaking news that hung like a pall over the awards telecast that Rihanna had to cancel last minute due to an alleged physical altercation with on-again-off-again boyfriend Chris Brown. And the subsequent travesty that was the last-minute Boys II Men/Al Green/Justin Timberlake/Keith Urban bloodbath cover of "Let's Stay Together."
2) Bono's bizarre platform shoes.
3) Coldplay's Hobo Army costumes and their terrible collabo with Hova, who grunted from out of the darkness like a lethargic Sasquatch.
4) Miley Cyrus trying to upstage her "best friend" Taylor Swift on the otherwise lovely duet "Fifteen." She needs to quit it, stat.
5) Katy Perry's tired Kewpie Doll pinup schtick. She's shrill, awkward and annoying. Points for arriving onstage in a large banana though.
6) Jonas Brothers with Stevie Wonder, i.e. the harbinger of the apocalypse.
7) Adele chewing gum like a two-bit Britney while accepting her award for Best Female Pop Vocal. But her Lee Press-On talons almost made up for it, as did her duet with Sugarland. Almost.
8) I know he's Macca and a Beatle but there's something a trifle disturbing about a 66-year-old man singing about how he has the hots for a 17-year-old.
9) Kid Rock attempting to sing.
10) A 4-years late tribute to New Orleans/Hurricane Katrina. Timely much?
See how everyone fared on the fashion front and let us know what you thought the highlights of the night were below.
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It's never too late to celebrate New Orleans from a native son!
I thought Sugarland had the best performance of the night. That song was outstanding and was sung beautifully and with soul.
thats it? no Liveblog of the thing? God TWOP are fucking cunts
also Jacob is an over pretentious cocksucker
There must be a mistake in the lists - you have Radiohead's godawful mess on the BEST list. What was that?
First, only half the band was there. Second, Radiohead needs three tubas now?
The vision of Thom Yorke attempting to dance or live through whatever siezure he was having was enough to get me to turn the channel. Bring back real rock on the Grammys!
I liked Kid Rock's performance.
Gwyneth Paltrow has never been more attractive than when she was geeking out over Radiohead.
Radiohead's performance was not that amazing. It started out cool but it didn't build to anything. And where was the rest of the band? That's pretty lame.
And that was Jay-Z rapping with Coldplay, not "Hova"
I must literally be the only person, but... I really enjoyed Katy Perry's performance. It was a lot of fun in a show that was otherwise mostly monotonous...
Hova IS Jay-Z. You know, H to the izzo...
Not sure why this post only referred to him as Hova, but that is who rapped with Coldplay...and T.I./Lil Wayne/Kanye, of course.
Thom Yorke's been doing that for years, and besides, if you saw no artistic merit in "15step" then your vision of real rock probably includes Nickelback and Creed. Congratulations.
I will say this list is pretty dead on.
"Real rock"? I cannot wait until all the people in the world who believe in such essentialist nonsense as "real rock" just stop talking.
Radiohead were fantastic, the arrangement was fantastic, and they livened up an otherwise completely unremarkable Grammys ceremony by trying something new.
I agree completely! Radiohead were amazing.
Katie Perry would be nothing if she hadn't sung about kissing a girl.
Is it just me or is the term 'collabo' extremely irritating?
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Grammys best and worst moments.. Smashing :)