Not Ready To Make Nice

[filkertom]

The Dixie Chicks won five Grammy™s last night, including Song, Record, and Country Album of the Year.

Any particular winners or losers you want to note?

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Lewis Black took Best Comedy Album. I'm good with that.

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed that Weird Al didn't get that award. His "White and Nerdy" parody is hysterical.

[gpeefalt.livejournal.com]

Pretty good for a few America-hating traitors....

:-) for the humor impaired

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

Jimmy Carter received a Grammy for Spoken Word. Go, JC!

(This while noting that I still feel the Grammys are the least respectable of the "major" media awards. Their nominees are often narrow and frequently they fail to include widely considered best artists or music.)

[markbernstein.livejournal.com]

The award for Traditional Folk Album went to Bruce Springsteen for "The Seeger Sessions", and the award for Contemporary Folk Album went to Bob Dylan for "Modern Times". Of course, once they were nominated, name recognition and sales alone guaranteed the win. But both albums did get excellent reviews. I really should pick them up.

[redaxe.livejournal.com]

"The Seeger Sessions" is terrific. And, though I am very much not a fan of Bob Dylan, "Modern Times" has a few numbers that have been in rotation on my primary station here (WFUV, Fordham U) and I've enjoyed them. So consider both recommended.

[crwilley.livejournal.com]

I tuned in just to watch The Police. I wasn't disappointed. I will be saving my pennies in case they turn up in Detroit this summer... :)

I'm not sure if this counts as a major award, but it just made my day that OK Go's "Here It Goes Again" won Best Short Form Video - this is the one with the treadmills. I saw the video first - repeatedly - and I must have been absolutely mesmerized by the treadmill dance, because I didn't recognize the song the first time I heard it on the radio. :)

[decadentdave.livejournal.com]

The Chicks beat out a Winnipeg based band, The Duhks, for "best song". The gang didn't expect to win and felt grand that they were even nominated. After playing outdoors at midnight on Saturday for our local winter Voyageur festival they flew down for the cerimonies. I am looking forward to the stories when next they are back home. Pretty good for a band from the frozen north. :)

I thought it interesting that the "best record" award (differs somehow from the "best song" and "best album" categories) the Chicks won for their song about carrying on after all the hassles they had over their anti-war comments. :)

[faxpaladin.livejournal.com]

Not 100% sure, but I think Best Song goes to the songwriters, Best Record to the performers, and Best Album to the producer.

[filkferengi]

The Duhks rock! I've just gotten all their cds & am enjoying them hugely.

[ericcoleman]

welll ... in the performances ... The Police were a little dull, but Stewart Copeland can still beat a drum set into submission

And Christina Aguleria (or however her last name is spelled, I'm too lazy to go look it up) was brilliant channelling James Brown ...

[denali1.livejournal.com]

She's been channeling a lot lately. The whole 50's pinup gal look is working for her. Better than the "WTF was that!" look she had after Moulin Rouge.

[ericcoleman]

She seems to have developed taste in her singing. And yeah to the the look ... More of a Jean Harlow thing though ... IMNSHO

[denali1.livejournal.com]

I dig yo rap. Many stars have started doing this lately, and I'm not sad about it. Personally, I like my celebs to look like they've had a meal. The ones that look like they're impersonating starving people in underdeveloped countries make me ill.

Dixie Chicks FTW

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

I didn't care about the Grammys till I heard the Dixie Chicks had not only won but swept. What a difference a few years (and a stupid unending war) makes.

[druidsfire.livejournal.com]

I was a bit sad that David Gilmour didn't win his minor category (Best Rock Instrumental Song), and of course that Weird Al didn't win his categories.

However, I'm pleased the 'Chicks won so much and I surprisingly enjoyed watching the show (I wasn't expecting to). Christina Aguilera kicked ass as James Brown, and I'm glad they remembered Syd Barrett during the 'in memoriam' montage. I actually liked the Shakira number (she had a classy costume on and just steamed the place up without getting all bawdy and gross), although I wasn't so fond of the guy singing with her - I kept wanting to offer him a belt to keep his pants up - Just a personal fashion pet peeve... I don't prefer to see a guy's tighty whities in public) ;)

Umm. I think they did the James Brown tribute /very/ tastefully, with the mic and the cape and the spotlight. And I can't believe that I was actually enjoying Justin Timberlake's numbers. Maybe because I had such a low opinion of him, he exceeded my expectations. ;) And I was pleased to see Al Gore up there presenting an award.

I'm very happy with the end result of the show other than David's loss... we were following it on his blog pretty intensely. Heh.

Now back to killing things in WoW. Hope to see you at MillenniCon, Tom.

[unclelumpy.livejournal.com]

LOSERS
Toby Keith
Bill O'Reilly
Nashville

[scs-11.livejournal.com]

Go Chicks. "I'm Not Ready to Make Nice" is a pretty searing indictment of the whole controversy.

And the rest of the album is pretty damned good, too.

[palenoue.livejournal.com]

It will be interesting to see how Clear radio handles this. Probably just ignore those categories altogether and focus on the prizes the Dixie Chicks didn't win, or launch a series of "reports" on how Al Queda hijacked the grammy's.

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

I'm a bit upset that Iron Maiden's A Matter of Life and Death wasn't even nominated in the metal category. One of the better albums, and very topical.

This proves that Hollywood != Nashville

[pickledcritter.livejournal.com]

This starkly illustrates the difference between Hollywood and Nashville. Take a look at this past year's CMAs, and the Chicks didn't even have one nomination even though they were eligible (Taking the Long Way was released May 2006, well inside the July 1, 2005 to June 30, 2006 window for the '06 CMAs).

I think that the Chicks' sweep was more a validation of the Chicks' political stance by the West Coast labels versus a recognition that they were any better (I would have put St. Elsewhere and Continuum above Taking The Long Way for Album of the Year, for instance) - as much as their non-appearance at the CMAs was a repudiation of their politics by the red-state-dominated Nashivlle musicians (even though many of the labels are just subsidiaries of the aforementioned West Coast labels - is your head spinning yet? :) ).

As much a pipe dream as I know this is, I would like to think that both awards(all entertainment awards, really) could be decided apolitically and the awards go to the best, not just the most politically relevant.

That being said, I loved it that Wolfmother won their Grammy for best Hard Rock performance (especially since now I can mentally think "Grammy-award winning performce" when I play it in Guitar Hero II :) :) ), but think that Lamb of God should have won for best Metal performance...

[connor-campbell.livejournal.com]

just wanna put in my two cents worth of support for the Chicks! i have supported them since the whole mess started. (in fact, i didn't buy an album until after the mess started, to show my support of their having an opinion of their own and being brave enough to stick to it openly.