Question. Who votes on these things? Some weird choices last night including Beck with the album of the year. I didn't know the guy was still even making music. Wasn't planning on watching any of it last night but when AC/DC opens the proceedings with two songs, including Highway To Hell, I settled in to see what it was all about. Besides, it's the first weekend in forever without any foosballz.
There were some killer performances, which is to be expected. This is like getting the Super Bowl halftime gig for a lot of these artists and they try to blow it out on every song. But the reality is that after AC/DC, the best two performances to me were Dwight Yoakam and Brandy Clark (Had no idea who she was) doing an acoustic song and later on, Beck and Chris Martin did a song together, mostly acoustic guitars. Never heard it before but it was awesome.
But...as you might imagine, when you get a bunch of stars like this together, they just can't help themselves. They've got to preach to us and let us know they're leading the way in the fight against the most pressing social issues of today. I know Chris Brown loved Obama's speech, railing against domestic violence, followed by some unnamed woman telling the world how she was a victim of the same, then Katy Perry singing some moving song about beating the hell out of a woman....or whatever.
And I'm sure Beyoncé endeared herself to our men in blue when she performed a song with about 50 back up singers doing the hands up, don't shoot move. It really hit home and we can only hope that this performance will help further the cause. We need to do something now about the police in this country systematically killing off defenseless black men. When will the madness ever stop?
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