By Scott Jeffrey
So another year of the Grammys has gone and past. Where last year we were singing the praises of Lady Antebellum, this year’s awards were swept by Adele.
Where some of our office predictions favoured what we thought would be the popular choice via radio popularity, perhaps we should have gone with our first gut feeling. I was pleasantly surprised by some of this year’s picks. It is hard to be angry when the Foo Fighters and Adele walked home with as many awards as they did.
I have to tip my hat to Bon Iver for winning best new artist, and best alternative album. We thought this was a hopeless category choosing Skrillex and Nicki Minaj as the shoe in’s.
I have to say as well, what in the sweet holy hell was Nicki Minaj’s performance about? The greatest entertainment lie in watching the altar boys look uncomfortable as the scantily clad dancers writhed about on their altars and the booty genies slithered across the floor. It was an exorcism indeed, of all entertainment value.
In a second strange performance we also got to witness Chris Brown fans waving a sea of angry glow in the dark dildos at the Stargate. That’s entertainment!
Kanye West cleaned up for his masterpiece My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Taking home best rap colab, album and song. Jay Z got in on the action as well winning best rap performance for their song Otis from Watch the Throne.
I can say the only real award that really surprised me was when the Tron:Legacy Soundtrack didn’t win anything. Bested by The Kings Speech OST, Daft Punk should have walked away with this one in my opinion. Just for how pumped up the song Derezzed made an audience feel watching the trailer for Tron:Legacy, before the subtle disappointment that was the feature film.
With 2012 still young we have just got to hope for the same caliber of music and performance as we had in 2011, to make the Grammy awards as entertaining as they were this evening.
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