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| From | Not Lame <popmusic@notlame.com> |
| Subject | Nelly, Whoa Nelly, please..... |
| Date | Tue, 25 Feb 2003 17:38:50 -0700 |
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> NELLY
>
> He's got SOMETHING.
> And I love that he's not given up his hometown of St. Louis. Hasn't gone
> Hollywood.
> But, I'm not a big partier. I don't listen to Top Forty radio. So, "Hot in
> Herre"? Okay. But not MY song of the summer.
> As for Kelly Rowland. She IS the wrong Destiny's Child, right?
> Would have rather seen Maya Rudolph as part of Gemini's Twin instead. At
> least she's got more TALENT!!!
Okay, this has pretty much little to do w/ power pop and subjects discussed
here but since we're all ranting about the grammys, I HAVE TO say
something, especially since I've seen hardly any comments about this guy
performance.
A serious scraping the barrel talent. He will be gone, gone, gone in two
years. Which was evident on this, uh, 'performance'. That was not singing
me thinks, me knows....and what was w/ the scratchy sound he kept doing
before singin' most of his lines?
But much worse, there was *no* attempt by the Grammys' producers to have
him, in the case for decency, to tone down the pyro-technics. Of course,
such supplication to common decency would never occur to the artist because,
well, he's an 'artiste'. But the producers have no excuse.
And the utterly tasteless lyrics connected to the imagery? Come on! This was
a problem after what happened Wednesday night. At least for me, wish it was
for most who were watching. For something that's supposed to represent
what's 'good' about the music industry, it did exactly the opposite. It
just gave fuel(sic) to any critics who find the music output in the retail
pipelines sickening, degrading and morally bankrupt, etc. "I'm burning up,
the flames are around me".....or something to that affect. I was too
flabberghasted and non-plussed to soak it all in and retain a memory synapse
or two to remember the lyrics but they blew huge chunks.
Not trying to overly moralize here(but I guess it's hard to avoid some soert
of basic moral critique as it was a national event three days after a
tragedy inside the music industry), but shame on Nelly and shame on the
grammys for letting that go through *totally* unscathed. That stage was
engulfed in flames....in the context of three days prior with 97 people
losing their lives. Some attempt to not take it over the top, like it was,
would have been appreciated.
This performance could have, fairly easily, been modified or dumped if
anyone had a barometer to gauge simple decency and civility. Yet it was
obvious no one even broached the subject. These dancers and its singer are
professionals. I'm sure they could have modified or changed a routine in 2/3
days time without ruining what they chose to accomplish.
Nelly got NOTHING.
Bruce
@ Not Lame
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