It's that time again.

What do you think of the nominations? Who do you think will win?

-- Anonymous, January 06, 2002

Answers

Come on, y'all. Nothing? What about the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack up against OutKast for Best Album?

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

I think Alicia Keyes should have received a nom for Best Album.

I do not understand the rules of the Grammy Awards, and it's impossible to figure out why something is or is not eligible. U2? Should have been nominated for all of their ATYCLB album last year, not this year, if I was running the show.

It's much easier for me to figure out the Oscars.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

I haven't been following the Grammys, but Partner told me today that India.Arie was nominated a lot, which makes me super happy.

I assumed that Alicia Keyes was nominated a lot, too.

-- Anonymous, January 07, 2002

Y'all, my Grammy thread is sad. Alicia Keys was nominated a lot, like 6 times, but she wasn't nominated for Best Album which a lot of people were upset about.

And bluegrass and OutKast up for the same award? I love that. Can you imagine Big Boi thanking Gillian Welch and Allison Krause?

And I too do not understand how U2 could win 3 Grammys last year and then be up for them AGAIN for the same material. I guess its just like how Macy Gray could win last year for the SAME (bad) song she had nominated the year before. The Grammys are stupid.

-- Anonymous, January 08, 2002

The Grammy's are screwy only because the music industry is screwy. If a single is released or put on a soundtrack before the Grammy deadline, but the album the song is actually on is released after the deadline, it is possible for the same song to get nominated two years in a row.

I'm sorry, but I'm just not down with Alicia Keys. I'm just not finding what see is doing as a whole lot different from all the other R&B out there.

And the Grammy's suck anyway. It is a flawed award from start to finish. If the majority of the CD buying public is under 30, why are there so maybe people over 30 voting on who should win a Grammy? And it's not like these people are music professors or anything.

Not to mention the fact that if the people voting/nominating for the Grammy's are such experts on music, why do they hardly ever pick and album that isn't on a major label or was on the Billboard Top 100? Anyone who has even a passing interest in music knows that there is music that is just as good, if not better, that never makes it on to the radio or the charts.

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2002

This article pretty accurately sums up why I think the Grammy awards are a crock of shit.

-- Anonymous, February 25, 2002

But why'd the writer have to keep picking on "Afternoon Delight"? The song's not that bad.

-- Anonymous, February 25, 2002

Since we all seem to agree that the Grammys are essentially meaningless, can we open this thread up to include witty, yet harsh commentary on the fashion blunders of the evening? Joan Rivers's red carpet commentary starts on the East Coast in about 30 minutes. Just a thought.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002

I didn't watch much of it, just enough to see that U2 cleaned up. And that the final two performances were country and gospel. Not that I'm complaining, no sir, it's just odd.

And now that I know the presenters got gift baskets worth $17,000 I have to hate Britney even more.

-- Anonymous, February 27, 2002

I just read that Lucinda won for best female ROCK performance for "Get Right With God." Also, I'm quite happy that O'Brother did so well.

And someone told me that Christina thanked "the academy." I think it MIGHT be the Academy of Recording Artists, but even still. "The Academy"?

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

Yes! She DID thank "The Academy." It was hilarious.

Poor Christina. She's clearly insane. And I mean that in the nicest of ways.

And also, I love Alicia Keys, but did she have to smoke the crack before she accepted her awards? Seriously. If she said, "Uuuuunh.." one more time, I thought I'd go into convulsions.

My girl India.Arie did great, I thought.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

The presenters packages included iPods and custom made leather trousers.

Now, who deserves free iPods and custom leather pants more- me, the starving student, or MILLIONAIRE RECORDING ARTISTS?

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

You, of course Naked Hannah.

Christina sure has been spending a lot of time with the self-tanning lotion or the tanning bed. I hardly recognized her.

Alicia Keys' glitter eye shadow was scary. I started channeling my mother: "You have such pretty eyes, why do you want to hide them?" Same thing with Pink. Eeek!

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

Pink is hideous. Nasty.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

I love Stevie Wonder. But how sad was it that they forced Bonnie Raitt and Celine Dion to kiss him on stage? I'd be like, "Hey, I may be blind, bitches, but why you gotta get a 85 year old singer and the Scourge of Canada on my jock? What, is Mya too busy getting into her thong? Shit. Give me a break! My ex-wife just stole all my furniture and I had to replace it with new shit and now my shins look like Tonya Harding sent some thugs after me."

Poor Stevie. Nobody ever treats him right.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

Now HOLD ON. I KNOW you did NOT just dis Bonnie Raitt, who is not only the coolest but the is CONFIRMED as one of the greatest blues guitartists in, male or female, black or white, ever.

That being said - what were ANY of the three of them doing there? None of them have albums out right now, do they?

Also, I adore Stevie myself.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

Damn, why can't I write? Remove the word "in" from my first sentence. And could I MAKE any MORE words all CAPS? I'm like the Chandler Bing of the written word.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

I'm not dissing Bonnie. I love Bonnie. But the woman is 132 years old. I mean, shit, give her a guitar, but don't make her have to kiss Stevie. Her teeth might fall out.

I'm just looking out for Stevie. Somebody has to.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

Shit, y'all. Now I'm all singing "hard time Mississippi...her clothes are old, but they are never diiiiiiiirteeeeeee..." and such. Damn.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

Now I ask you, how in the hell did my sweet India get nominated for 7 awards and not win a gotdamn one? Sick and wrong. No more love for "The Academy".

All U2 has to do is fart audibly and they win an award. I know talent, I know longevity, I know I know...but I'm sorry. I just don't think that they are that great and you can NOT convince me that Bono isn't buying the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on an installment plan. The Joshua Tree was brilliant, now quit hogging the spotlight.

-- Anonymous, February 28, 2002

Say what you will about Bono, but he is one of the few rock stars who understands that being a rock star means giving something back AND that fame by itself is a worthless ego trip if you let yourself get wrapped up in it.

Twenty some years down the road and it is still about four guys who enjoy making music with each other.

-- Anonymous, March 01, 2002

I really thought I'd given up this discussion board verbal tic, but Word, Chris.

-- Anonymous, March 01, 2002

I just loved that Britney and Celine had the same hair.

-- Anonymous, March 01, 2002

Omar, why do you have to make me beat you? I don't want to, but next time I see you, there will be no avoiding it.

-- Anonymous, March 01, 2002

Maybe I WANT to get beat up. Maybe THAT'S why I provoke you. A beating from Al is like a hug from God.

-- Anonymous, March 01, 2002

Uuuuuunh...

-- Anonymous, September 13, 2002