2025 GRAMMY Awards Live

Litterick

The Awards coincided with Groundhog Day.

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

The Rolling Stones won best rock album and The Beatles won best rock performance.  You can't say the Grammys aren't up to the minute...

And a Grammy for the up and coming Bob Marley. 

lustycourtier

Sierra Ferrell won 4 Grammys. Shes probably my favourite artist of last few years, so to have seen her in a pub in Birkenhead 2 years ago to this, is incredible. 

axisus

I'm not interested in awards shows, but I did catch a bit on the news. Kanye West's wife wearing nothing (well, maybe something very small, they blurred her bits out). I think that's a bit crass but hey, if she wants to do it I don't care. I'm not a fan of a naked female body just 'standing there'. just makes me thing of a supermarket chicken. Not sexy or anything. The two other things I noticed were Will Smith's son looking like an idiot with a house on his head, plus I visibly cringed as Chappell Roan's statement: "Labels, we got you, but do you got us?"

Anyway, what do I care, I'm not their target audience.

Philly_Q

axisus said:

....plus I visibly cringed as Chappell Roan's statement: "Labels, we got you, but do you got us?"

I hope her lyrics are better than that.

Philly_Q

EricTheWeary said:

That's a mind bottling number of categories. They still have best comedy album which is a thing I didn't even know still existed. 

Did Bob Newhart win?

SRich

Did Bob Newhart win?

Yes....he was on the phone to Walt somebody.... 

thecolourbox

I don't tend to watch the slow itself though I'm sure I'll watch some videos of performances, they are often fun and interesting to see artists in a strange scenario different than their usual stages. 

I also quite like going through the nominations and winners to listen to the stuff I've not heard, it's quite a good way to hear new stuff at the commercial end of things then follow through the rabbit holes of related artists to find other stuff similar if i like it. 

Glad to see Chappel Roan got something, and Jacob Collier continued his grammy haul of being the first British artist to win a grammy for his first 3 then 4 and now 5 albums

EricTheWeary

Philly_Q said:

EricTheWeary said:

That's a mind bottling number of categories. They still have best comedy album which is a thing I didn't even know still existed. 

Did Bob Newhart win?

Blimey when did I write that? Dave Chappelle; Bob's work probably a bit too edgy for The Grammys, just being dead doesn't seem to be a barrier to winning.

Vintage65

Philly_Q said:

The Rolling Stones won best rock album and The Beatles won best rock performance.  You can't say the Grammys aren't up to the minute...

TBF, the Academy members who vote for the awards are a strange bunch.

darthed1981

Philly_Q said:

axisus said:

....plus I visibly cringed as Chappell Roan's statement: "Labels, we got you, but do you got us?"

I hope her lyrics are better than that.

Probably not your kind of thing, but I did find her album a surprisingly impressive bit of work.

stickyfiddle

darthed1981 said:

Philly_Q said:

axisus said:

....plus I visibly cringed as Chappell Roan's statement: "Labels, we got you, but do you got us?"

I hope her lyrics are better than that.

Probably not your kind of thing, but I did find her album a surprisingly impressive bit of work.

I wouldn’t call it surprising. It’s just a fantastic pop record

Philly_Q

darthed1981 said:

Philly_Q said:

axisus said:

....plus I visibly cringed as Chappell Roan's statement: "Labels, we got you, but do you got us?"

I hope her lyrics are better than that.

Probably not your kind of thing, but I did find her album a surprisingly impressive bit of work.

It's definitely not my kind of thing, and people can tell me how amazing Chappell Roan, Charli XCX etc are until they're blue in the face, but I'm still not going to listen to it.  I seemingly don't have the ability to appreciate "exquisite pop craftsmanship", or whatever... I either like music or I don't, and my tastes are not eclectic.

I do find it a bit weird that all of today's most popular artists apparently make the "best" records.  Either the general public have suddenly got miraculously good taste (they never did before) or the award-givers are not digging very deep.  But it's not for me to say.

By the way, this isn't a moan about them not awarding Grammys to artists I like, I really don't care who they give Grammys to.  I'm not trying to hold back that tide... or stick my finger in that dike.

thecolourbox

^^ i just looked up the list of every grammy winner for best album and I'd say that's always been the case, with only a very few exceptions where I've not really heard of them - in fact there are more in recent years that I've not heard of than there have been for ages - 2019 Kacey Musgraves, 2022 Jon Batiste for example. Last one before that where it wasn't somebody I'd consider a well known popular artist was 1981, Christopher Cross (I've no idea who that is, maybe he was massive at the time?)

https://www.popvortex.com/music/grammy-awards/album-of-the-year.php

lustycourtier

thecolourbox said:

^^ i just looked up the list of every grammy winner for best album and I'd say that's always been the case, with only a very few exceptions where I've not really heard of them - in fact there are more in recent years that I've not heard of than there have been for ages - 2019 Kacey Musgraves, 2022 Jon Batiste for example. Last one before that where it wasn't somebody I'd consider a well known popular artist was 1981, Christopher Cross (I've no idea who that is, maybe he was massive at the time?)

https://www.popvortex.com/music/grammy-awards/album-of-the-year.php

Thats a pretty damn incredible list. 

Philly_Q

thecolourbox said:

Last one before that where it wasn't somebody I'd consider a well known popular artist was 1981, Christopher Cross (I've no idea who that is, maybe he was massive at the time?)

He certainly was a very big name, for a while.  And I believe he's touring with Toto later this year.

He had two big hit singles (and maybe more that I don't remember), "Sailing" and "Ride Like the Wind".  It's kind of yacht rock (I hope Rick Beato isn't reading that, it'll give him apoplexy).

the_jaffa

He's going to make them Jump Jump.

Does he still wear all his clothes back to front?

Philly_Q

the_jaffa said:

He's going to make them Jump Jump.

Does he still wear all his clothes back to front?

Only if he has to get up really early and get dressed in the dark.  But I see what you did there.

EricTheWeary

https://www.boredpanda.com/red-carpet-disasters-from-2025-grammys-you-cant-unsee/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_term=BP_197870&utm_campaign=Bored+Panda&utm_content=image&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR04I8qzLp8DuPvZImiRAoxLiTr3PDRACDZrodDru5sdfR0PVT2IZGK5RMk_aem_VYgH53fUWwJS2Gj-i9y0BA

If you want some of the red carpet shots of people I’ve never heard of (probably NSFW). 

darthed1981

stickyfiddle said:

darthed1981 said:

Philly_Q said:

axisus said:

....plus I visibly cringed as Chappell Roan's statement: "Labels, we got you, but do you got us?"

I hope her lyrics are better than that.

Probably not your kind of thing, but I did find her album a surprisingly impressive bit of work.

I wouldn’t call it surprising. It’s just a fantastic pop record

OK, I'll re-phrase that.

It's a surprisingly consistently impressive bit of work.  Even where it droops a bit and the songs go to pop music's current default setting (sounding like TayTay), like on "my kink is karma" or "after midnight" for example, they are still nice bits of songwriting that for some artists would qualify as singles.

However the peaks... songs like "Red Wine Supernova", "Casual", "Pink Pony Club".. are genuinely excellent.

One of the main achievements of it is you can listen to it from beginning to end... and forget entirely that probably her best song isn't even on it.