Pink, “Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken”: A lovely song sung well, with Pink’s voice strong and on point, it was the most pure performance of the night. That’s one more than even the proverbial stopped clock being right twice a day, but didn’t make up for how bad the awards were.Įven the performances were sub-par. Ironically, by choosing Mars over Jay Z (who won zero awards Sunday) and Kendrick Lamar, who actually won five awards, all in rap categories except for Best Video, the Grammys again chose a proverbial Jethro Tull - the most palatable choice rather than the most deserving.Ĭhris Stapleton rightly got Country Album of the Year for “From A Room: Vol 1” over what would have been some easier names to choose – Kenny Chesney, Lady Antebellum and Little Big Town. Yet, even for as much as the Grammys had skewed and loaded nominations toward hip-hop – apparently more concerned about its image than about giving the awards to the acts most deserving them – the Grammys failed miserably at even that.Īwarding Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year – among seven awards total – to Bruno Mars was the most embarrassingly Grammy things it’s ever done, beating out its laughable presentation of Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Recording to Jethro Tull over Metallica in 1989.
Everything about Sunday’s Grammy Awards pointed to how desperately it was seeking – what, exactly, approval? Validation? – from the hip-hop community, including the early mention from host James Corden that this year had the “most diverse nominees in Grammy history.”
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