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| From | matty karas <mkaras@mindspring.com> |
| Subject | Re: Nelly, Whoa Nelly, please..... |
| Date | Wed, 26 Feb 2003 00:29:12 -0500 |
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> 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.
i like that nelly song, but yeah, that was one of the most egregious displays of bad taste i've ever seen on national television.
i see no point in complaining about who did or didn't win grammys, and how people performed -- it is, and always has been, a dumb and pointless ceremony with little connection to the real world -- but what was frightening about the nelly performance was that it suggests that the disconnect between the grammys and the real world goes way beyond mere questions of musical taste. the real world was completely absent from sunday's telecast. they broadcast the whole thing from this weird bubble in which 97 people hadn't died three days earlier at
a MUSICAL event featuring a GRAMMY-NOMINATED band (they should've de-flamed nelly's performance, and they should've had a moment of silence or *something* for the victims) ... a weird bubble in which we aren't about to go into a major war (fred durst's bumbling anti-war statement doesn't quite count, though i do give him points for at least trying, and sheryl crow loses points for a hairdo that covered up the word "no" on her "no war" guitar strap, and other than that there was no indication that anything was amiss in the world) ... a weird
bubble in which no one seemed to notice that the two men who opened the show with what i believe was supposed to be a moment of musical healing actually hate each other, and can't even be bothered to fake it ... a weird bubble in which no one noticed that the once-famous actor who introduced those two was seemingly drunk off his ass ... a weird bubble in which two major young pop artists, lisa lefteye lopes and jam master jay, hadn't just died ... a weird bubble in which there apparently *is* a difference between a "traditional r&b" album, an
"r&b" album and a "contemporary r&b" album ... aaaarrrrrrgggghhh ... i'm making myself mad just thinking about it ... elvis, bruce and dave could've saved the whole night for me if they'd flipped the script and played "washington bullets" or "the call-up" instead of "london calling." but in this weird bubble, those two songs were never written, and the world they were written for never existed.
sigh.
end of rant.
matty
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