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【2010 Grammy Awards live！】
January 31, 2010 | 5:01 pm
Pop & Hiss is live-blogging the 2010 Grammy Awards -- typos and all!
No.01
5:31 p.m. What Beyoncé may as well have been saying to Taylor Swift: 'So you think you're a crossover artist? You ain't seeing nothing, kid.' Queen B rocks it out with "If I Were a Boy," complete with a crotch-grab and all, and then jumps into "You Oughta Know." Yes, the Alanis Morissette song. Beyoncé has done what every artist should do, and that's use this platform to take some chances, and try out something the prime-time audience isn't expecting. She was crawling on all fours, and belting out the lyrics with greater ferocity than Billie Joe Armstrong (see what the theater does, Billie?), even if it was a bit of an obvious attempt to prove that she can do it all.
5:27 p.m. BEST COUNTRY ALBUM: Taylor Swift's "Fearless." This gives Swift three wins for the night. She noted it was the first time she walked up the Staples Center stairs to "accept a Grammy on national television," Swift said. First time for everything. I guess when you've won nearly every award known to man you have to find new angles. "I just believe I'm standing here accepting an impossible dream."
5:15 p.m. Dear Green Day: The world loved "American Idiot." Its political anthems shot you back to relevancy, and the album’s flashes of theatricality added a welcome bit of bombast to your sound. When the album was turned into a Broadway-bound musical, that was all a bit unexpected, and even deserved we would say. But -- and don't be offended Green Day -- bigger isn't always better. The choir on "21 Guns" was overkill, and there's Never (we capitalized the “N” on “never” for added emphasis) a reason to duet with multiple Broadway singers on the Grammys. Just because people seem to like "Glee," it doesn't mean we want giant choirs with all our punk rock songs. Then again, we appreciate the fact that there was no Elton John. Cheers.
5:13 p.m. SONG OF THE YEAR: Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)." This gives Beyoncé five total awards.
5:12 p.m. Stephen Colbert gave a pretty sharp opening monologue, joking that the music biz was saved by a "48-year-old Scottish cat lady with sensible shoes," alluding to Susan Boyle. Will she be at the Grammys in 2011? Let us hope not.
5:06 p.m. Gaga started pretty electric, her "Poker Face" getting a slight reworking for the big stage. The Broadway (or maybe Vegas?) production had her kidnapped onstage, and materializing with Elton John. And the two traded off on "Speechless" and Elton's "Your Song." It showed off Gaga's vocal chops, but it was another over-the-top Grammy attempt to connect a legend with a current artist. If Grammy producers had wanted to do something truly inspired, they would have put Gaga onstage with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and drawn the connection between the mainstream and the underground. There's 109 categories. The Grammys should use them all when plotting their performances.
5:04 p.m. You know it's winter when Elton John migrates west for award season.
5:01 p.m. Lady Gaga, in a glittery butterfly outfit, starts with "Poker Face" -- the first few notes a bit theatrical. A tease to the Elton John pairing happening in moments. Gaga is opening the medley with an oldie, but it's the song that put her on the map.
4:59 p.m. We are live! Stay tuned.
4:01 p.m. Pop vocal album: The Black Eyed Peas' "The E.N.D."
With the win, the pre-tel comes to an end. Beyoncé will head into the telecast with four Grammys, Lady Gaga has two and Taylor Swift also has two. Only nine categories will be given out on the air, as the Grammys will again go with a performance-heavy telecast, including a 3-D tribute to Michael Jackson. The awards will open with Lady Gaga.
Some of the major pre-tel winners include Eminem's "Relapse" for best rap album, Beyoncé's "I Am ... Sasha Fierce" for best contemporary R&B album and Phoenix's "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix" for best alternative album. The band's "1901" has been inescapable of late, having been featured in a car commercial, but it also likely raised the band's profile for Grammy voters.
Pop & Hiss will take a slight break, and be back at 5 p.m. for the start of the show. Stay tuned to this post.
3:57 p.m. Kings of Leon has quickly tallied two wins for its cellphone-in-the-air ballad "Use Somebody" -- best rock performance of a duo or group with vocals and best rock song. The latter bested titles from U2 and Pearl Jam. Kings of Leon lost best rock album in 2009 to Coldplay.
3:55 p.m. Bruce Springsteen's "Working on a Dream" wins best solo rock vocal performance. The win means Young misses his chance to move ahead of Britney Spears in the Grammy win total, and has to hold at one.
3:49 p.m. Best alternative music album: Phoenix wins for "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix." Well deserved for the Parisians. Two of the alt album contenders -- Phoenix and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "It's Blitz!" were titles that should have been legit album of the year contenders. Of late, Grammy voters have been using the "alternative" term as a catch-all for more adventurous rock.
3:38 p.m. Is Beyoncé in line for a sweep of the major categories? Her "I Am ... Sasha Fierce" wins best contemporary R&B album. Note that best country album was not given out in the pre-tel, so Swift still has some potentially big awards on the horizon. Swift versus Beyoncé: This is what passes for tension at the 2010 Grammy Awards.
3:36 p.m. Maxwell's "Blacksummers' Night" wins best R&B album.
3:34 p.m. Beyoncé's "Single Ladies" takes best R&B song, besting Maxwell's "Pretty Wings." The two will face off in song of the year tonight.
3:32 p.m. Beyoncé has now tied Swift and Lady Gaga with two awards. Her "At Last" won best traditional R&B vocal performance.
3:29 p.m. The pre-tel is flying through the genre categories. Beyoncé gets her first award. She's up for 10. Her "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" took best female R&B vocal solo, and Maxwell won for best male R&B vocal solo for "Pretty Wings." This is Maxwell's first Grammy win.
3:27 p.m. And the popularity contest begins. Eminem's "Relapse" wins best rap album, besting titles from Mos Def and Q-Tip.
3:24 p.m. Jay-Z's "D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)" wins best rap solo performance. One of the weaker tracks on "The Blueprint 3," this award should have gone to the psychedelic rap of Kid Cudi.
3:22 p.m. Ramblin' Jack Elliott wins best traditional blues album for "A Stranger Here," released on Silver Lake's Anti- Records. "I don't know what they're anti, but I'm for it."
3:14 p.m.Charlie Wilson -- "Uncle Charlie" -- performs a few seconds of his recent "There Goes My Baby," later offers what will likely be the best mid-song ad-libs one hears on this Grammy Day, telling the crowd he was addicted to crack for 25 years and beat prostate cancer. "How do I look?" he then repeatedly shouts.
3:09 p.m. Recording Academy chief Neil Portnow takes the stage. The Neil Young benefit on Friday night "raised more than $4 million."
3:08 p..m. Team Beyoncé, the R&B awards are coming up in an estimated 15 minutes or so.
3:01 p.m. Prefer red carpet coverage to what we're doing here? Head over to sister blog Ministry of Gossip, which has observations and interviews from outside Staples Center. "I'm so excited to be here but also overwhelmed," alt-country hero Neko Case told the Ministry. "I'm so country mouse! I'm pretty excited by the outfits too. There are some amazing looking ladies."
2:57 p.m. Coming up soon in the pre-tel will be a performance from Beast, which is nominated for best short form music video for "Mr. Hurricane." Come on, Grammy, if there's time for yet another award show performance from Jamie Foxx tonight, you can put Beast on CBS.
2:50 p.m. The Grammy Awards aren't worth breaking some appointments for. In accepting the best bluegrass album trophy for Steve Martin, his producer, John McEuen, noted that the comedian-banjo player wanted to keep "his massage appointment."
2:47 p.m. Swift's "White Horse" wins best country song. She accepts with her co-writer Liz Rose. "We just won a Grammy," Swift said to her partner, adding, "She started writing songs with me when she had absolutely no reason to do so. I didn't have a record label. I didn't have anything to offer her."
2:45 p.m. Swift wins her second Grammy.
2:42 p.m. "I live in awe of the people I was nominated against in this category," Swift said as she accepted her trophy for best female country vocal solo. Her "White Horse" beat out Miranda Lambert's "Dead Flowers" and Carrie Underwood's "Just a Dream," among others. While Miranda is certainly a better pure singer than Taylor, give Swift credit for sticking around in the pre-tel to hear her categories, opting to forgo a few extra minutes on the red carpet.
2:40 p.m. Taylor Swift wins her first Grammy.
2:39 p.m. Best contemporary folk album: Steve Earle's "Townes."
2:35 p.m. Levon Helms' "Electric Dirt" wins best Americana album, besting titles from Bob Dylan and Wilco. The latter's "Wilco (The Album)" didn't really fit in this category, but that's a quirk of having 109 categories. Here's a fun fact: Wilco did not submit its title for album of the year contention.
2:29 p.m. Here's a long overdue award. One of the trophies given out in the pre-tel was best boxed or special limited edition package. This hotly contested little nugget of an award went to Neil Young for his "Neil Young Archives Vol. I (1963-1972)." It brings Young's Grammy total to one. He is now tied with Britney Spears.
2:24 p.m. Speaking of Gaga, word, according to E! Online, is she'll be opening the Grammy telecast tonight, performing with Sir Elton John. The pianist, of course, famously performed with Eminem at the Grammys in 2001, but there are fewer social undertones to this pairing, and more a meeting of theatrical minds. This likely means our hope here at the P&H HQ of seeing Gaga and Kanye West perform will go unrealized.
2:21 p.m. Lady Gaga wins her second award. She has a total of five nominations tonight. Her debut, "The Fame," won best dance/electronic album, but don't necessarily think this means she's in line for a top album of the year nod tonight. It was expected that Gaga would take the dance fields. She, of course, wasn't in the pre-tel to accept the award, as most of the major artists are either on the red carpet, or plotting their late arrival.
2:20 p.m. Lady Gaga wins her first award, with "Poker Face" taking best dance recording. She beat out her fellow album of the year nominees the Black Eyed Peas.
2:16 p.m. We're coming up on Taylor Swift territory. First country awards to be given out within the next 20 to 30 minutes. Swift has eight nominations, second only to Beyoncé's 10.
1:58 p.m. To backtrack a little bit, the Grammys had technical difficulties when the first few awards were handed out, meaning we missed the film awards. "Slumdog Millionaire," a blast from last year's award season, unsurprisingly, won best compilation soundtrack album. In the best score field, composer Michael Giacchino had two noms -- "Up" and "Star Trek" -- and won for the right film. His score for "Up" is a lovely, jazzy addition to the film, encompassing a lifetime of adventure and heartache with understatement and grace.
1:55 p.m. Béla Fleck wins best contemporary world music album for "Throw Down Your Heart: Tales From the Acoustic Planet, Vol. 3 -- Africa Sessions," beating out Amadou & Mariam's "Welcome to Mali."
1:46 p.m. Los Tigres del Norte win best norteño album. The pre-tel is in the midst of the Latin and world categories. Pop & Hiss has already covered the Latin Grammys here, but the Recording Academy hasn't shown much desire to trim its 109 categories.On to best Hawaiian music album, won by "Masters of Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar, Volume 2."
1:38 p.m. Buck Howdy, accepting his best spoken word album for children, noted that it cost less to produce his album than it did to valet his car at the Grammy nominee dinner.
1:34 p.m. Grammy.com has a fun little widget and we're going to see how it looks embedded in this blog. Below is something the Grammy site is calling a "fanbuzz visualizer," which is supposed to tell us which artists are generating the most discussion on social network sites. Take a look:
1:31 p.m. Thanks for the comment, Rebecca. She's not too pleased with the topics discussed by the Grammy.com red carpet reporters. Rebecca writes, "Well that was a massive fail. I hoped to actually have my kids watch their dad win/lose and instead they got to listen to numb-nuts talking about peeing next to famous people. Aaargh."
1:25 p..m. Producer/DJ David Guetta wins his first award of the night for best remixed recording, non-classical. He's up for five tonight, including record of the year with the Black Eyed Peas for "I Gotta Feeling." He gives a brief non-scripted speech, one that champions the dance community. "Finally, the DJ culture, and the dance culture, is growing in America ... I'm not a real musician trained, and I cannot write music, but I first started to remix and then create my own music."
1:22 p.m. We're back in the pre-tel, picking up with best engineered album, non-classical. Former best new artist nominee Imogen Heap won this for her "Ellipse." She appears to be wearing part of a drum kit around her neck.
1:13 p.m. "We lost the pre-tel tape." That's what we're overhearing on the Grammy.com broadcast right now, as the cameras are affixed on the red carpet. This is actually more fascinating, as we're getting a full live broadcast, including off-camera asides, and glimpses of red carpet journalists trying to improvise their way through awkward interviews. Right now, for instance, the Grammy.com reporters are discussing which artists they have "peed" next to. Cuz that's what the kids talk about? And how do you know when you're dealing with a powerful artist? "If you can clean out an entire potty" and have the whole restroom to yourself.
1:09 p.m. Not tuned into the pre-tel? No worries. We're told this will be on-demand for a full 30 days. This makes an excellent alternative to the Super Bowl, for those who want to avoid Grammy spoilers for the upcoming week.
12:57 p.m. Will the Grammys go young? This year's album of the year features a pair of superstars who had breakout years in 2009 -- Taylor Swift with her sophomore effort, "Fearless," and Lady Gaga with her debut, "The Fame." The two won't have to best any long overdue heritage acts to win the top prize, yet both Beyoncé and the Dave Matthews Band are overdue for trophies in the major categories.
The final prize won't be given out till about eight hours from now, but Pop & Hiss will be with you the whole way. The pre-telecast starts at 1 p.m., and can be watched live at Grammy.com. We'll let you know major winners, as about 99 of the 109 categories are awarded before the broadcast -- tape delayed for those on the West Coast -- starts at 5 p.m. EST.
Want more Grammy coverage in the meantime? Here's our take on the MusiCares tribute to Neil Young, a peek at rehearsals and some final predictions.
--Todd Martens
Photo: Taylor Swift reacts to her Grammy win. Credit: Richard Gauthier / Los Angeles Times
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