Grammy evening is my Superbowl, and I could hardly wait for this year's Grammy Awards. Before I get into a few of my favorite highlights on Sunday night, I want talk about music's history and popular opinion about it. The history of music and how it must have moved the first person writing it and transfering that emotion to the first person that heard it is one of the most interesting subject to people around the globe.
Some say that Adam's poem to his wife Eve was an ode and the first song written. Others quibble about that statement with their opinion that Solomon's Song Of Solomon was the first and the most beautifulest ever written. (his undying admiration for a girl whose heart was promised to a lowly shepherd boy. Solomon continued in pursuit, thinking his riches could give him the advantage. Solomon lost and true love won out) Some people say that David's arias were so exquisite that God himself allowed for them all to be recorded as the Psalms. Whatever the opinion about music, one thing that can be stated: music moves the entire world.
We live in an age where each of us can fill our entire days with only the songs we love. I see the Grammys as THE platform that sheds light on music we know and love, and shedding light on the songs we haven't heard. The Grammys is like a big brother defending a waif, like an attorney defending the little guy with no monetary means to have a fair trial. Grammys boasts not just to be a platform for Hip Hop, or for R&B, or for Rock, or for Pop...etc. And many people annually voice their disgust or exhilaration about some of the Grammy winners but allot of this I think is due to personal taste and not in lieu of the musical ability. I think that when people say "I'm not watching Grammys" is mostly because they know of other kinds of music that shouls have been heard, or they just want only the music they love nominated.
Grammys is the defender of music or should be. I also liken the Grammys to that of a city of refuge: a place where criminals, outlaws and other types of lawbreakers could run to for shelter when after paying their time for their crime to society but when released they still had to flee because some people did not think the time they served was long enough to met justice. My reason for saying this is that some music and musicians are treated this way in the music business and the heart of the reason why is how music moves people to feel. It can be so emotional. A few winners last made Grammys, in my opinion a true music-lover's dream at witnessing musicians awarded for the MUSIC ability. Why do I say this?
Sunday night, the Best New Artist favorite front-runner was Justin Bieber, but children and teens do not make up the entire world that listens to music. Heck, even I was re-thinking my prediction of that category and was almost about to change it until I decided to distant myself emotionally and go with the musician I thought exuded raw music talent.
Big Winners I chose: Lady Antebellum, Lady Gaga and Esperanza Spalding Miranda Lambert and Eminem
The winner of Best New Artist was the person I chose, Esperanza Spalding. When her name was read, I cheered out loud. Now, many people do not know who she is, and most of those are young people. Esperanza Spalding is such a talent of music and just a popular good-looking female. She is like Alicia Keys but of the bass guitar. Still not convinced she should have won the award? Please just give her a fair listen.
A Grammy Award (originally called Gramophone Award) — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The annual awards ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely viewed televised ceremony. It is the music equivalent to the Emmy Awards for television, the Tony Awards for stage, and the Academy Awards for film.
For the complete list of the nominees and winners click here. Don't look if you have a weak stomach. I think the Grammys are getting back to the core of honoring the music and the music ability of each musician, and not just because a musician is popular.
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