the grammys

lol

ok i tidied it up, now it's just a grammys thread. But we can talk about how people at it are vaping. ;-p

pharrell's hat is having a good time

https://twitter.com/pharrellhat

weird, they're streaming stuff. For all the copyright stuff they have an internet presence, even if it's not the mainstrage but backstage with clips from this and that. /leaves stream and puts max keiser back on.

http://www.grammy.com/live

get lucky

what purpose did having duft punk there serve? did they do anything? were those knobs and buttons connected to anything?

pharrel can't sing.

grammys

thank god for his hats though.

really? reeeeally? daft punk is the group...don't hate on the robots,lolz

anyways, i wished there was a bit more about LOU...

Why do people care about this? I understand it from the spectacle perspective. But what's the relevance of a meaningless statuette being awarded to someone?

lol (@grammys)

i had to watch the entire thing for my history of rock n roll class

im still fucking watch it please kill me

lol i don't care but i'm posting about it non stop on the internet lol

  On 1/27/2014 at 5:39 AM, Allize said:

But what's the relevance of a meaningless statuette being awarded to someone?

boosts ego, serves as a reminder that peers acknowledge and appreciate your existence, adds color to resume.

personally, i don't see anything bad about winning a grammy- except knowing it's more about popularity than talent, but if anyone handed me a grammy i wouldn't give it back like milli vanilli

Precisely, it's because it is based on popularity and power games that it is meaningless.

  On 1/27/2014 at 6:38 AM, Allize said:

Precisely, it's because it is based on popularity and power games that it is meaningless.

i don't think it's meaningless though. also, i don't think things being based on popularity and power games make them meaningless because music is also a business

with that said, i just realized i've never heard anything by macklemore & ryan lewis

You probably aldready did without knowing, but anyway give this a shot:

http://pissspears.bandcamp.com/album/macklecore-2-return-of-the-cack

im complaining because i was forced to watch them. i usually try to avoid anything about them.

side note i have a friend who looks exactly like macklemore and he happens to be a former member of attack! attack!, he has his hair cut like macklemore now. and yeah hes the crabcore guy. im supposed to go over to his house and teach him how to use synths at some point.

It's a different time, a different time..... now. ...adayz. ...a different time. Imagine if Grammys were given out to just composers of music and not performers. Imagine that! Granted performance is also an art, but imagine if it focused on the creation of the music as a whole and was about musical awesomeness.... Imagine a world where- nah whatever. Fucking Grammys. Bah. That being said, if I won a Grammy for some musical randomness, that would be pretty good. Would look great on my CV when applying to flip burgers to suicide in the deep fryer. Nah but, it would feel good, because it might mean that many a thousands to millions, were given enjoyment through my musics. Still, such an award implies too much (like actual talent) and serves the darker side of humanity by awarding implications of greatness, instead of anything with substance. Buuuuuuut I'm sure awesome people do win Grammys. But when I think of some group like oooooh I dunno, Black Eyed Peas, I think, "I WANT TO KATANA MY OWN FACE, THIS MUSIC WORLD IS FUCKED-- KATANA IN MY FACE."

What is the point of having any sense, in a world that is based on senselessness? Fuck, yo. IDM SHALL OVERCOME.

Mate. Black eyed p's r cool. Where is the love

but hay, daft punk won, so good times had.

  On 1/27/2014 at 5:44 AM, zaphod said:

lol i don't care but i'm posting about it non stop on the internet lol

Could you imagine if there wasn't popular music? Would the underground be mainstream? Who would we hate for being inferior to us?

autechre should have won

The worst album created by a group won... oh wait it's like "The Suburbs" too.

Pharrell has made so many good beats I don't think I can hate him.

  On 1/27/2014 at 5:42 AM, gmanyo said:

lol (@grammys)

i had to watch the entire thing for my history of rock n roll class

im still fucking watch it please kill me

What a godawful assignment! I minored in music history at UT, I have to say that the most lackluster class was the "history of rock n' roll" course. Lot of really terrible students who just wanted a gimmicky course.

We didn't have to watch the Grammys though :/

  On 1/27/2014 at 1:21 PM, Candiru said:

Pharrell has made so many good beats I don't think I can hate him.

Yeah I like Pharrell a lot, he's low-key, talented, sincere. He's like the 2000s equivalent to Quincy Jones.

The teacher for this class is really cool, too. Not sure what point he's trying to make. Him and I have been talking about trying to start a max/msp class one semester.

  On 1/27/2014 at 12:19 PM, Deer said:

autechre should have won

this