Grammy Awards 2012

In the award show circuit music award shows are more about putting on a show than giving away any actual awards. The Grammy’s are no exception to this rule. Every year the Grammy’s give out multiple awards, close to 50 I believe. Yet, this year’s broadcast featured less than 10 awards actually dispersed. The night was instead full of musical performances from the nominees.

For a long time I never really watched the Grammy’s because I was never that into music. Only recently have I started to listen more and more to what is considered popular music. Knowing that the Grammy’s are mostly about performances I was excited. I thought the American Music Awards late last year did a great job with the performances and it had everyone performing some of the songs that they had been nominated for. Apparently the Grammy’s don’t really care about what was actually nominated in most cases instead having the performers do (with a few exceptions) their newest song or a song that they plan on releasing in a few months.

Performances that stood out were Adele’s performance of “Rolling in the Deep,” Bruno Mars’ opening number, the Foo Fighters performing “Walk”, Taylor Swift performing “Mean” the jam session at the end with Paul McCartney and of course the Jennifer Hudson performance for Whitney. While the more disappointing performances came from Nikki Minaj who apparently wanted to perform an exorcism on stage, David Guetta and Dead Mau55 performing something that resembled music and Chris Brown playing Q-Bert.

The few awards handed out were not to surprising. The awards committee has always loved the Foo Fighters, which is why they had Dave Grohl perform 3 times, and Adele was just to awesome to defeat. Kanye was bound to win for something to placate his ego and of course the new artist award has to go to the indie guy Bon Iver because otherwise they would not have given out any awards to people no one has heard of.

Overall the Grammy’s concert gets 3 out of 5 awards, which is almost as many awards as handed out during the actual telecast.