If the Grammy Awards were the Oscars, then U2 would be Brokeback Mountain – worthy, overlong and a little bit gay. And also because U2 won everything at the Grammy awards, obviously.
And while we’re on this whole Grammy Awards/Oscars tip, let’s call Mariah Carey the Crash of the Grammy Awards – she got plenty of nominations, but didn’t win as many as she probably thought she would. Whether or not she’s racist or not is a different story.
What’s our point? U2 won a bunch of Grammy Awards last night and Mariah Carey didn’t. We probably should have just said that in the first place.
There’s something about U2 (CDs) that must appeal to the judging panel of
the Grammy Awards. Maybe the voters see a lot of the Grammy Awards in U2:
they’re both probably not as good as they used to be even though they
seem to be exactly the same every single year, and they’re both as
boring as hell.
But, anyway, U2 managed to walk away with every single Grammy Award
they were nominated for last night: Best Album, Best Rock Album (How To
Dismantle An Atomic Bomb), Best Song and Best Rock Performance By A Duo
Or Group With Vocal (Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own) and Best
Rock Song (City Of Blinding Lights). And Bono was being as much of a tit as
you’d expect:
"You can’t ask me to be humble at a moment like this."
Mariah
Carey, on the other hand, had a right shitty night. She went into the
Grammy Awards brimming with confidence after receiving eight
nominations, only to scrape home with three – Best Female R&B Vocal
Performance and Best R&B Song (We Belong Together) and Best
Contemporary R&B Album (The Emancipation Of Mimi). Not a bad haul,
until you realise that all of her awards were handed out in the
non-televised portion of the awards ceremony. She didn’t even get the
chance to do her slow blinking and pretend sincerity in front of a global audience. Shame.
Kanye West and John Legend also had eight Grammy nominations and
both walked away with just three each. But Kanye, who had all but
threatened to torch the theatre if Late Registration didn’t win the
Best Album Grammy award, was humble in defeat. Well, humble for him, at
least:
"I understand the politics of it … I’m going to keep on delivering albums of the year that are so
undeniable to the point where you are finally going to let a rapper
come up and accept this award."
Other Grammy Awards losers included 50 Cent (six nominations, no
awards), Gwen Stefani and Alicia Keys (five nominations each, no
awards) and Paul McCartney (three nominations, no awards).
To be annoyed that U2 won everything at the Grammy Awards, or to be
happy that Mariah Carey didn’t really win as many Grammy Awards as she
wanted to. What a flipping quandary.
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Joy says
I watched the U2 performance of “one ” last night and was kind of dissappointed. Im a U2 fan and also a Mary J. Blige fan, but the they just dont go together. There’s no room for soul in that song. The lyrics are soulful enough by themselves.