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Post by Choco on Jan 20, 2018 14:25:26 GMT -5
I'm glad Rih is gonna perform but Wild Thoughts feels ancient at this point.
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Post by Caviar on Jan 22, 2018 10:07:46 GMT -5
So glad she's performing "Praying". There's no other song out right now that speak to the #MeToo movement than this. This performance will certainly be a Grammy moment.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2018 18:52:46 GMT -5
Circle jerk aside I'm just going to say Kelly Clarkson is the true bitch being robbed here. Lorde is so pressed vocally I'm okay with her not being able to make it. Sorry cold cup! Kelly has 1 nom that isn't even in a major category so she isn't being robbed of anything. Julia Michaels has 2 noms in the major categories and still hasn't been announced as a performer. Chris Stapleton has 3 noms in the country categories AND is an incredible live performer and as of yet is not getting a performance slot. Ledisi and Daniel Caesar each have multiple nominations in the R&B categories and likely won't get to perform. FWIW I think Coco's post is strictly speaking for vocal talent, not concerned with who has what nominations. And let's not act like there's ever any consistency or sense of priority as to how these performers are chosen wrt nominations...not when Miley Cyrus is gonna be there lol. It's pretty much a) what A+ lister wants in and b) who has the pushiest management team, in that order. I can't imagine Lorde not wanting to perform so I need her management team to work harder for her. FWIW, since 2005 there have only been five AOTY nominees who didn't perform: Justin Bieber (2017), Drake (2017), Lady Gaga (2012), Gwen Stefani (2006), and Ray Charles (2005). Bieber and Drake chose not to attend; Gaga was there that year but showed up in funeral couture and didn't walk the red carpet, which leads me to believe she also chose not to perform for some reason; Ray Charles was deceased. That leaves only Stefani as the oddball, as she was a presenter and I think favored to win at least one of her pop categories (Kelly pulled off the upset and managed to get a performance slot, making Gwen's exclusion even odder in retrospect.) The issue isn't not performing so much as it is the appearance that someone was not invited to perform, and that is the vibe that I'm getting with Lorde, unless she's announced at the last minute. Julia's exclusion is not quite as odd to me b/c it's more normal for a BNA and/or SOTY nominee to be left out each year.
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Post by 14887fan on Jan 22, 2018 20:42:05 GMT -5
For the 60th year, this show is shaping up to feel bland as hell.
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Post by jenglisbe on Jan 22, 2018 21:35:14 GMT -5
For the 60th year, this show is shaping up to feel bland as hell. Not to me. I am excited about at least 10 of the performances, if not more. To each his/her own. Also, an anniversary of 60 isn't usually as big of a deal as, say, 50 or 75.
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Post by 14887fan on Jan 23, 2018 12:57:06 GMT -5
Didn’t CRJ and Gwen Stefani both individually do one of those in the past? Pretty sure it’ll be a feature during a commercial break, if history repeats itself.
Either way, absolutely huge promo for Maren. Which is awesome because she’s super deserving.
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Post by DJ General on Jan 23, 2018 14:08:46 GMT -5
Yeah, every year Target teams up with an artist for a performance during a break. target buys the 4 minute advertisement block.
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Post by 14887fan on Jan 23, 2018 15:19:52 GMT -5
As per HITS’ sources, Jay-Z has chosen not to perform.
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Post by Kurt on Jan 23, 2018 17:27:17 GMT -5
Didn’t CRJ and Gwen Stefani both individually do one of those in the past? Pretty sure it’ll be a feature during a commercial break, if history repeats itself. And Imagine Dragons three years ago – they were the first.
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Post by Linnethia Monique on Jan 23, 2018 17:39:36 GMT -5
Didn’t CRJ and Gwen Stefani both individually do one of those in the past? Pretty sure it’ll be a feature during a commercial break, if history repeats itself. And Imagine Dragons three years ago – they were the first. That was the most confusing thing. They didn't even mention it was a Target ad, they just had Imagine Dragons playing and it took me a good 2 minutes to realize this wasn't a Grammy performance, but a whole ass commercial. I didn't even notice the stage and lighting were the logo until the end.
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Post by spaceykSVP1999 on Jan 24, 2018 0:08:10 GMT -5
Lorde just made herself a serious AOTY contender, didn't she. No. She did! Bruno will win.
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Post by Caviar on Jan 24, 2018 9:44:15 GMT -5
No flop Paul Grein predictions yet?
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Post by kanimal on Jan 24, 2018 9:53:45 GMT -5
Chris Stapleton with Emmylou Harris Zuleyka Rivera added to the Fonsi-Yankee performance Sting Jon Batiste and Gary Clark Jr are tributing Chuck Berry & Fats Domino (they were announced on a commercial but never formally confirmed in a press release)
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Post by jenglisbe on Jan 24, 2018 10:20:31 GMT -5
Chris Stapleton with Emmylou Harris I already know this will be a highlight for me, though his wife already provides such incredible harmony vocals so i hope it's more of a trio performance. Why? This sounds promising!
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Post by Troublemaker on Jan 24, 2018 12:15:13 GMT -5
No flop Paul Grein predictions yet? THE GRAMMY WHISPERER PICKS MORE KEY WINNERS
by Paul Grein Last month, I fearlessly predicted Grammy winners in the Big Four categories and for Best Pop Vocal Album. If you missed my prognostications, here’s a link. Today, I take my best shot at predicting 14 other “genre album” winners, as well as Producer of the Year, Non-Classical. Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: This is the third year in a row that Bob Dylan has been nominated in this category, so Triplicate is a contender. Dylan’s unlikely traditional pop exploration wasn’t just a lark for him; he is committed to it. But I think this comes down to Michael Bublé’s Nobody but Me (Deluxe Version) and the all-star Tony Bennett Celebrates 90. Bublé is a four-time winner in this category. Bennett is a 13-time winner here. (Bennett won’t win if this album does. It’s listed as a Various Artists album, so the award would go to his producer, Dae Bennett—who is also his son.) Bublé took a year off to be with his son, Noah, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2016. This will be the voters’ first chance since Bublé got that dreaded news to give him a warm hug. My prediction: Michael Bublé. Best Dance/Electronic Album: Kraftwerk, nominated here for 3-D The Catalogue, helped to create the electronic music genre more than four decades ago. Kraftwerk has yet to win a Grammy in competition, though they received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy in 2014. This is their first nomination since their lifetime honor. Kraftwerk’s album is also nominated for Best Surround Sound Album, which shows awareness of it across various Grammy committees. My prediction: Kraftwerk. Best Rock Album: Metallica has never won Best Rock Album, despite being a multiplatinum act since before this category was introduced in 1994. That should enable Hardwired…to Self-Destruct to beat such strong contenders as Queens of the Stone Age’s Villains and The War on Drugs’ A Deeper Understanding. My prediction: Metallica. Best Alternative Music Album: This is the fifth nomination in this category for Arcade Fire (nominated for Everything Now), but they have yet to win the award. They even lost here in the year The Suburbs won Album of the Year. (Try to figure that one out.) LCD Soundsystem’s American Dream debuted at #1 and ranks No. 5 on Rolling Stone’s year-end critics’ poll—higher than two other finalists here, The National’s Sleep Well Beast and Father John Misty’s Pure Comedy. My prediction: LCD Soundsystem. Best R&B Album: This is the fourth nom in this category for Ledisi (Let Love Rule). She has yet to win a Grammy, despite 12 noms. So she’s overdue for a win. But, with noms in each of the Big Three categories, Bruno Mars (24K Magic) will be hard to beat here. Mars is vying to become the first artist who isn’t African American to win in this category. Mars has been warmly embraced by African American fans and organizations. He won two awards (Best Male R&B/Pop Artist and Video of the Year) at the BET Awards in June. He won three awards (Outstanding Male Artist, Outstanding Music Video/Visual Album and Outstanding Song—Traditional) at the NAACP Image Awards over the weekend. My prediction: Bruno Mars. Best Urban Contemporary Album: The Weeknd’s Starboy and Khalid’s American Teen are strong nominees. But I think this comes down to Childish Gambino’s “Awaken, My Love!” and SZA’s Ctrl. Critics are doing backflips over SZA. The Nominations Review Committee preferred Childish Gambino, nominating him (and not her) for both Record and Album of the Year. That doesn’t mean SZA is out of the running here. Sometimes the voters go their own way and ignore the signals sent by the Nominations Review Committee. I think this may be one of those years. My prediction: SZA. Best Rap Album: This is a two-way race between Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN. and Jay-Z’s 4:44. Both rappers have won before in this category—Lamar with his last studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly; Jay-Z 19 years ago for Vol. 2…Hard Knock Life. If Jay-Z wins, he’ll have the longest span of wins in the history of this category, topping Eminem’s 15-year span. Jay-Z received one more nom this year than his rival. But Lamar is at the peak of his career. He’s as dominant in the field as Eminem and Kanye West were when they each won here with three consecutive studio albums. Even a potent challenge from Jay-Z won’t bust up Lamar’s winning streak. My prediction: Kendrick Lamar. Best Country Album: This is the (long-overdue) first nom in this category for Kenny Chesney, nominated for Cosmic Hallelujah. But he was passed over for a CMA nom for Album of the Year. Thomas Rhett’s Life Changes, Little Big Town’s The Breaker and Lady Antebellum’s Heart Break all have a chance. Lady A won back-to-back awards in this category in 2010-11. But Chris Stapleton, who won two years ago for Traveller, is probably going to win again for From A Room: Volume 1. The album took the CMA award for Album of the Year in November in a mild upset over Miranda Lambert’s The Weight of These Wings (which was inexplicably snubbed here). A Grammy win would make Stapleton the first male solo artist to win twice in this category since the late Roger Miller more than 50 years ago. My prediction: Chris Stapleton. Best Roots Gospel Album: Reba McEntire is out front with Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope. Last year’s winner, Joey + Rory’s Hymns That Are Important to Us, was also a country crossover hit. My prediction: Reba McEntire. Best Americana Album: This will likely come down to the last album by Gregg Allman (Southern Blood), who died in May, and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s The Nashville Sound. Isbell won two years ago with his previous album, Something More Than Free. If he wins again, he’ll tie Levon Helm as the only two-time winner in the category’s history. My prediction: Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. Best Traditional Blues Album: The Rolling Stones are likely to win for Blue & Lonesome. The Stones were, appropriately, the first winners of Best Rock Album when that category was introduced in 1994. (They won for Voodoo Lounge.) They’re vying to become the first act to win in both disparate categories. My prediction: The Rolling Stones. Best Folk Album: Yusuf/Cat Stevens is nominated for The Laughing Apple. This is, amazingly, his first-ever Grammy nomination. His ’70s recordings were in the same soft-rock, singer/songwriter vein as Carole King and James Taylor. Why were they big Grammy winners while Stevens was repeatedly ignored? Discuss amongst yourselves. My prediction: Yusuf/Cat Stevens. Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books & Storytelling): I’ll go with Sen. Bernie Sanders (and actor Mark Ruffalo) for Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, edging out Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run and the late Carrie Fisher’s The Princess Diarist. Most Grammy voters are staunch Democrats. Past winners in this category include Jimmy Carter (twice), Barack Obama (twice), Bill Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Al Franken and Jesse Jackson, plus albums that paid tribute to Harry Truman, JFK and FDR. My prediction: Bernie Sanders and Mark Ruffalo. Best Musical Theater Album: Dear Evan Hansen will beat the Bette Midler revival of Hello, Dolly! This will be the third time Dolly has lost in this category. The cast album from the original 1964 production starring Carol Channing lost to Funny Girl. A 1995 revival, also starring Channing, lost to Smokey Joe’s Café: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller. My prediction: Dear Evan Hansen. Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: This was the first nom in this category for Calvin Harris, but this wasn’t an especially big year for him. It’s the second nom in this category for Blake Mills, who produced five albums during the eligibility year (I like his work ethic!). It’s the fourth nom in this category for Greg Kurstin, whose top credit was Foo Fighters’ Concrete and Gold. It’s the first for both No I.D., who co-produced Jay-Z’s album, and The Stereotypes, who worked on tracks on Mars’ album. Kurstin won last year. He is vying to become the only the second producer to win back-to-back awards in the history of this category (which dates to 1974). The first was Babyface, who won three in a row from 1995 through 1997. But I.D. is also a strong contender. My prediction: No I.D.
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Post by DJ General on Jan 24, 2018 16:19:21 GMT -5
This is overall the worst show in years I’d say, just based off hype around it. There are solid performers, yes, but it’s a lot of the same artists who performed in the last couple years. And the shut out of big names like Jay Z and even Lorde is baffling.
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Post by jenglisbe on Jan 24, 2018 16:21:27 GMT -5
This is overall the worst show in years I’d say, just based off hype around it. There are solid performers, yes, but it’s a lot of the same artists who performed in the last couple years. And the shut out of big names like Jay Z and even Lorde is baffling. Jay-Z declined to perform, as did Ed and Taylor. I don't think more than a few thousand people are checking for Lorde so I don't see how her exclusion makes a difference in an impact sense.
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Post by 14887fan on Jan 24, 2018 16:55:00 GMT -5
Pop music fans are going to be tuning in whether Ed/Lorde/etc. perform or not. But it’s still really, really weird that Lorde was never offered a performance spot.
But yeah, even before knowing the nominees, it was plain to see that this year was never going to measure up to last year’s show.
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Post by DJ General on Jan 24, 2018 16:55:51 GMT -5
This is overall the worst show in years I’d say, just based off hype around it. There are solid performers, yes, but it’s a lot of the same artists who performed in the last couple years. And the shut out of big names like Jay Z and even Lorde is baffling. Jay-Z declined to perform, as did Ed and Taylor. I don't think more than a few thousand people are checking for Lorde so I don't see how her exclusion makes a difference in an impact sense. Whether or not they declined to perform doesn’t change the fact the show is flat to me lol. And same for Lorde, it is a personal preference. She had some of the best work of the year and I’d like to see her pe form it
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Post by jenglisbe on Jan 24, 2018 19:17:49 GMT -5
Jay-Z declined to perform, as did Ed and Taylor. I don't think more than a few thousand people are checking for Lorde so I don't see how her exclusion makes a difference in an impact sense. Whether or not they declined to perform doesn’t change the fact the show is flat to me lol. And same for Lorde, it is a personal preference. She had some of the best work of the year and I’d like to see her pe form it I replied with that info because you said their shut out was "baffling." I thought perhaps you didn't realize they were left out because otherwise there should be no reason you were baffled as to why they weren't performing.
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Post by DJ General on Jan 24, 2018 19:35:37 GMT -5
Reported from HDD. Yikes, this show just sounds like a giant mess. COLD SNAP: Though the weather may be milder than many feared, rain is in the Manhattan forecast for this weekend, and biz folk who aren’t already there don’t want to travel to NYC for the Grammys. People are going who have to go, and several Grammy-week events, such as Fleetwood Mac at MusiCares and Jay-Z at Clive’s party, are additional enticements, as is Sir Lucian Grainge’s Saturday luncheon—which, with its limited guest list of the most powerful movers and shakers, has turned out to be the place to be on the day before the Grammys, as artists mingle with the most essential gatekeepers. But the shitty climate and its attendant travel headaches only add to a prevailing mood of crankiness. Let’s face it: The Secret Committee has demonstrated that it’s way out of touch—and has alienated the labels and much of the rest of the business. The committee’s approval rating, already on the decline since the snubbing of Justin Timberlake several years back, has taken a nosedive with the exclusion of Ed Sheeran from the top categories. “Sheeran-gate,” as it’s come to be called, not only marks a clueless snubbing of the moment’s biggest star (2.6m sold on his most recent album) but also inflicts a stunning blow to the 1/28 telecast. Ed won’t be performing on Music’s Biggest Night. Neither will his pal Taylor Swift (2.2m). Or Timberlake (2.7m on 20/20 Complete; he’ll get a gigantic look with a Super Bowl halftime set on NBC instead). So producer Ken Ehrlich, CBS exec Jack Sussman and teams will have to soldier on without music’s biggest pop stars, who are pretty essential for Grammy’s biggest ratings. hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=310197
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Jan 24, 2018 19:49:46 GMT -5
No one gives a fuck about overrated albums by white dudes being snubbed. They weren’t great albums. Hence, why they aren’t nomination leaders. Is it not supposed to reward artistic achievement and critical acclaim? Or is this just the BBMA, since we talking sales?
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Post by Caviar on Jan 24, 2018 20:39:11 GMT -5
Justin being snubbed a few years back was completely justified. The album was weak and uninspired.
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Post by Kurt on Jan 24, 2018 20:49:20 GMT -5
I can't wait for the 90th GRAMMYs when HITS is still going on about the utter tragedy that was a lack of nominations for The 20/20 Experience. Good grief, get over it.
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Post by Troublemaker on Jan 24, 2018 20:57:55 GMT -5
“Sheeran-gate,” as it’s come to be called This guy never ceases to amaze me
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Post by jenglisbe on Jan 24, 2018 20:59:38 GMT -5
Reported from HDD. Yikes, this show just sounds like a giant mess. COLD SNAP: Though the weather may be milder than many feared, rain is in the Manhattan forecast for this weekend, and biz folk who aren’t already there don’t want to travel to NYC for the Grammys. People are going who have to go, and several Grammy-week events, such as Fleetwood Mac at MusiCares and Jay-Z at Clive’s party, are additional enticements, as is Sir Lucian Grainge’s Saturday luncheon—which, with its limited guest list of the most powerful movers and shakers, has turned out to be the place to be on the day before the Grammys, as artists mingle with the most essential gatekeepers. But the s**tty climate and its attendant travel headaches only add to a prevailing mood of crankiness. Let’s face it: The Secret Committee has demonstrated that it’s way out of touch—and has alienated the labels and much of the rest of the business. The committee’s approval rating, already on the decline since the snubbing of Justin Timberlake several years back, has taken a nosedive with the exclusion of Ed Sheeran from the top categories. “Sheeran-gate,” as it’s come to be called, not only marks a clueless snubbing of the moment’s biggest star (2.6m sold on his most recent album) but also inflicts a stunning blow to the 1/28 telecast. Ed won’t be performing on Music’s Biggest Night. Neither will his pal Taylor Swift (2.2m). Or Timberlake (2.7m on 20/20 Complete; he’ll get a gigantic look with a Super Bowl halftime set on NBC instead). So producer Ken Ehrlich, CBS exec Jack Sussman and teams will have to soldier on without music’s biggest pop stars, who are pretty essential for Grammy’s biggest ratings. hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=310197Most of this is ridiculous, BUT I do think New York brings complications other locations do not. Still, it's crazy they go on about JT and Ed being snubbed because when popular acts get nominated and win, then the complaint is the Grammys reward popularity over quality. They can't win. No one gives a f**k about overrated albums by white dudes being snubbed. They weren’t great albums. Hence, why they aren’t nomination leaders. Is it not supposed to reward artistic achievement and critical acclaim? Or is this just the BBMA, since we talking sales? Thank you.
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Post by DJ General on Jan 24, 2018 21:22:56 GMT -5
“Sheeran-gate,” as it’s come to be called This guy never ceases to amaze me Who is he?
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