Broken Record

Delayed by the Omicron strain of COVID, the 2022 Grammys are finally being held tonight, and the list of the nominees for the major awards - Album of the Year, Song of the Year and the rest - are almost enough to make you wish a Pi strain had emerged to delay the whole thing again.  Almost.  (Jon Batiste is a saving grace.)

After the disastrous telecast of the Oscars that left everyone wondering if Will Smith was really the nice guy we thought he was, and given the overall lack of relevance between the Oscar winners and the movies people actually talked about and saw, the Grammys promise to be even more of a fiasco.  Not because the Grammys are out of step with today's trends in music, but because they're too much in sync with them - too many nominations for the latest pop sensations of the day with disregard to musical ability, too much attention focused on rappers, rock and roll being shut out of the major awards and left to its ghettoized category nominations, and yes, the threat of yet another tasteless performance in the style of a live sexual act or a mass wedding of couples with a slutty pop diva as a witness.

And after all that, the Grammy segments tonight are bound to be worse.

Especially when the ceremony is being held in Las Vegas.

It premises to be an even more colossal waste of time than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, but the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) has this much going for it . . . unlike the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, NARAS has acknowledged Jethro Tull. 😉   

Oh yeah, here's a list of all the Grammy nominees this year.  From Rolling Stone?  No, Teen Vogue.  Because . . . why not? 😛