I never was a big fan of the excessive vocoder/autotune treatment. It sounds robotic and manufactured and feels lazy. I also believe the lines between being a singer and being a stage performer have always been blurred. Just because someone is a great performer and can put on an onstage circus spectacle doesn't make them talented musicians or great singers. This is nothing new, and it's kind of always been this way as long as I can remember (but it was lip syncing or 'borrowing vocals' instead of autotuning stuff to death). Also, I'm full up on opinions on what I think is crap and what's good but it's not worth complaining about how music today going down the shitter. Going by that logic and opinion, music has been going down the shitter since Elvis started thrusting his hips on the Ed Sullivan show. I'm not a huge fan of what's mega hot in music right now, and I don't love love love Lady Gaga and she's not popular amongst these parts so it's not worth arguing the merits of her musical career - but just because collectively we aren't her biggest fans and I'm not sweet on her music doesn't mean she (or any other mainstream pop artist) shouldn't have at least some place in the music industry. Pop music and performer music has as much a place as electronic music, country music, rock, jazz etc etc and every kind of music out there.

Anyway, I'm a little bummed the Chems didn't win. I sure was happy when they've won in the past and it makes me proud when they are nominated for awards and stuff. Because to me that means people outside of our little realms are listening and appreciating what they do. This year something else caught the ear of the judges. And that's cool and I'm OK with that.

Anyway. I saw about 40 seconds of the SuperBowl Halftime show on youtube and that was 40 seconds of my life I'll never get back.

I don't give a fuck, the Chems don't need awards to be awesome. By the way, La Roux is not even an electronic music band ! It's basically pop music, it's not that they don't deserve to win, it's just that they shouldn't even be in the electronic/dance category.

About superbowl half-time show...well I didn't watch it cause I don't care about american football (honestly why would I ?) but the words "black eyed peas" are sufficient to describe how awfully cheesy and ridiculous it was.
(I saw like 5 minutes of their show while eating my hamburger at main square festival last year and...well I'll never do it again !)

The bloke off the internet, on 14 February 2011 - 08:33 PM, said:

The bloke off the internet, on 15 February 2011 - 05:33 AM, said:

chems once were winning "best rock instrumental" with block rockin' beats...

anyway, awards are always a big commercial thing and the last chemical brothers record was not, so I'd say it's a massive success they were nominated at least.

Outside of the regular boo La Roux....

I am happy that Beiber lost in the New Artists to Esperanza Spalding. Jazz For the mother f*cking win!


Sure I am late on it, but at least I heard about it through Gilles Peterson and not some crap radio program or TMZ style website. Mind you, I think his Worldwide awards should be the standard for music. There I am usually complaining that they didn't include stuff against already powerful tunes from the past year. and speaking of other music awards. Is breakspoll still rolling?

The bloke off the internet, on 15 February 2011 - 05:33 AM, said:

really, all said

The bloke off the internet, on 15 February 2011 - 05:33 AM, said:

Have a read
http://en.wikipedia....lectronic_music

grammy's lost touch with pop (link)

That BBC article doesn't make sense. First, it is saying "the set of performers and the set of winners is almost mutually exclusive" and then at the end it says "it is suspicious that Arcade Fire was a performer and winner."

What is this guy complaining about? Also, the Grammys are about musical quality voted in popular election from some 10,000+ voting board. Just because a nominee is popular doesn't mean they should win.
Does Rynostar's article make sense to anyone else?

Not me, but I couldn't put into words the way it confused me like you did. It just seems like come guy complaining because his client didn't win.

Yeah I agree with Champiness, he's just whining cause his clients didn't win.

Kermit, on 22 February 2011 - 07:11 PM, said:

Rock is elecronic music then...why didn't they just give the best dance music award to AC/DC ?