53rd Grammy Awards: My Thoughts

Well, like most people last night I was...upstairs in my room not caring about the Grammy Awards, the Oscars for music if you will. But not that I've had a chance to look over the results, let me just go over what I though of who won, and such.

First off, a song that I never really liked(too much) won both Song and Record of the Year. Need You Now is just a decent song, but there really wasn't anything it was up against except maybe Fuck You(or F**k You to my younger audience), so congrats to the country trio.

Secondly, Lady Gaga won 3 Awards, Best Female Pop Vocals, Pop Vocal Album and Best Short form Music Video. Be patient as soon, her time will come.

Third, the one with the most to win only won Best Rap Album and Best Rap Solo performance for Not Afraid. Well done Eminem.

Next on the list, The Black Keys, whom I only recently got into, won two Awards, which I'm too lazy to write down, for their album Brothers and the single Tighten Up.

But who am I kidding. The only thing I was interested in was Album of the Year. I had listened to all the albums, and this was my thought on the subject:

1. Katy Perry had an album that really didn't warrant a nomination, it was just a pop album, nothing more.

2. Lady Antebellum had a country album that might sneak by, as the Grammys' do like country albums(see Taylor Swifts' Fearless, which won last year), but it didn't seem likely.

3. Lady Gaga was still too new to the business to win, even though it is a really good collection of songs. She seemed to be the black horse in the race this year.

4. Eminem made a good album. Good, that's all. He's made far better albums in his early days and I thought this was just going to be a pity award.

5. Arcade Fire made a fantastic album, but only people who listen to indie music/still buy vinyl albums would understand the true meaning of this album.

So in order, this is who I though and wanted to win.

5. Katy Perry; Teenage Dream

4. Lady Antebellum; Need You Now

3. Eminem; Recovery

2. Lady Gaga; The Fame Monster

1. Arcade Fire; The Suburbs

For those of you who read this blog, you know how highly I praised The Suburbs. I called it the Best Album of 2010(striking when you consider I named Teenage Dream Best Song of 2010). I hoped and hoped that they would pull through, and win the credit they deserved to the great album they put out.

You can imagine my happiness when I found out the actually had won Album of the Year!!! I couldn't believe it, and I'm amazed that so many people think that this really is Album of the Year. I'm so tired of writing that praise out, but for a true rock band like Arcade Fire, Album of the Year is what they deserve. In a way, they are like another of my favorite bands, The Clash. Excellent debut, great follow-up and crowning achievement. Now all they have to do is go crazy and make a triple album(!!!).

So that's what I thought of the Grammys, at least that's all that mattered to me anyway. It's good to see good music be acknowledged and rewarded, and even though they do fuck up sometimes, they usually do get it right. Congrats to most of the winners, and to the losers, either give up or try harder next time.