... tight gold plastic short shorts — panties really, almost Spanx, don't you think? He's carrying Lady Gaga inside a prop left over from "This Is Spinal Tap."
More tight shiny men's pants at #25 (Ricky Martin). Justin Bieber also models the comically male, spoofing adulthood, I think, doing bagginess instead of tightness, at #36. Katy Perry, at #40, seems to be spoofing the old mishap of unwittingly dragging toilet paper with you out of the bathroom. Rihanna, at #47, seems to have collected all that toilet paper and crimped it into millions of tiny ruffles to band around her body in stripes — alternating with — apparently! —nakedness.
It's the Grammys. It's perfectly apt to dress as a joke.
February 14, 2011
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The costumes keep getting wilder...
The productions values keep getting more amazing...
The gayety keeps getting gayer...
And the music keeps getting worse.
How can that happen?
I read in Time Magizine where Sarah Palin said Christina Aguilera looked like a whore.
And that she should be deported.
Yesterday at 7-11 I saw a white 40ish woman wearing her pants around her knees.
Is Monica's dress on backwards? (#19)
Was that Christoper Lee in front?
I did like Bruno Mars' get-up, and Crystal Bowersox looked great in green.
Some country chicks won a bunch of Grammy's and Kanye West wasn't there to assert minority privilege and entitlement? That's a bigger story that Lady Gaga's egg stunt.
A band member in one of my bands sent me a link to an article recently about how the Stones recorded their early albums.
Egg cartons were used to dampen the concrete walls of the studio. A cheap two track tape deck was hung on the walls.
Everybody wore cheap blue jeans.
The music everybody still listens to was produced for just about nothing. And, somehow, it's still what everybody listens to, even as the costumes get wilder, the production values get more amazing and the gayety gets gayer.
You're behind the power-curve, Trooper. That Palin rpt was bogus. It was all satire from 3rd source. Palin has demanded a retraction/apology from Time. Several other publications who printed it caught it and retracted, etc., but not slow-on-the-uptake Time--which probably has its leftist back up anyway and intends to brazen it out..
st - I don't listen to the Rolling Stones. The Beatles famously did not wear jeans during their sessions. But they did smoke a lot of cigarettes and pot.
We are heading for a "disco sucks" type movement with all this crappy club music.
Let's just hope that no sports organizations decide to blow anything up while serving cheap beer.
This is why I watched a piece on Sherman's March last night.
Virge you are behind the mocking curve. That was what I was busting on. I read Powerline this mornng with the whole story.
Sharpen up dude.
The last band I really liked was, I think, The White Stripes. They officially split up for good this month. Que sera sera.
"Let's just hope that no sports organizations decide to blow anything up while serving cheap beer."
I don't know about that. The dog ass Mets will have to blow up their team and give away free beer if they want anyone to show up this year.
No one cares about the Grammys. Not even musicians.
But Troop, it was reported in TIME, so it must be true.
All lying liars deny that they are lying liars; just ask my Senator, former comedian, wrestler, Air America host, and thief of Boys & Girls Club money, Al Franken.
Besides, it'll be a retraction on page eleventy-five if it happens at all.
I skipped the Grammys. Was at a concert. Interpol. Not great, but not bad.
It saddens me to think that I shall not live long enough to see Justin Bieber's full maturation as an artiste. After Miley Cyrus's refusal to sext him and his losing struggle with video game addiction, perhaps his voice will develop deeper, darker tones and he will turn to the blues. When he sings "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning," you will feel the presence of someone who has known the pain of carpal tunnel syndrome and losing a Facebook friend. This is a man who will go to the dark side and will come back to tell us what it looks like. How sorry I am that I will not be present to witness all the beats and interludes of this avatar of our times.
Those are some seriously weird people. Nicole Kidman is gorgeous but she does seem to have a thing about short guys.
I watched "Going My Way" on TCM last night instead but they had a crappy copy of the video that kept skipping. Some pretty good music there, especially some excerpts from Carmen. Popular music left me behind 30 years ago. I feel sorry for my youngest daughter who has never heard decent music. The 70s pop was good. Nothing since except country has been listenable for me.
Of course, I like opera so I'm an outlier.
Nothing since except country has been listenable for me.
The hell you say. Rush has had at least a dozen albums since then.
Guaranteed that all of the women at the show were hairless. Most of the men probably were, too.
Peter
Was Jimmy Sturr there? What did he where? That's all I care to know.
Nuts. Bill Harley lost to Julie Andrews.
I don't think I've ever watched the Grammys. Back in the 60s, they ignored rock and roll. That actually made more sense, but it annoyed me.
Favorite Grammy Moment.
A Taste Of Honey (Boggie Oogie Oggie) won best new artist against The Cars and Elvis Costello in 1979.
Woof, you nailed the end of it
To credit Beiber, he actually looked more like a man than some of the actual men in attendance.
And his cell phone ringtone is apparently Oklahoma State football coach Mike Gundy's 2008 "I'm a man!" tirade, which makes absolutely no sense to me.
I wish we knew if Serene Branson is ok, because I sooo want to use the phrase "heavy burtation".
I want to know what goes through the minds of men who wear skinny pants. I mean, seriously...they can't be thinking "I'm gonna look so good," so they must be thinking, "I'm gonna look ridiculous but at least people will remember me." Except that doesn't even make sense because I try to block those skinny pants-wearing pansies from my memory. Don't you?
I want to know what goes through the minds of men who wear skinny pants.
They are thinking, "I'm soooo going to look like The Crow."
They should have a corresponding award ceremony called the Grumpies, where an older generation can register their disapproval of the music, mores, and costumes of the younger generation. Lady Gaga is kind of witty and doesn't really get up your nose the way Madonna did. Madonna is the benchmark for all annoying female artists. Justin Bieber, for all I know, might be a nice kid and talented as well. I've never heard any of his music and cannot pass an informed judgement. But that's no reason not to make fun of the little twit. I have actually heard a song by Eminem. He's kind of talented, but the rap genre hits the nerves like a dentist's drill. I don't know enough about him to discern whether he's a real asshole or if it is just part of his act. But he's definitely more irritating that Just Bieber. The lifetime achievement award must go to Kanye West. He seems really awful. It's not a generational thing. He really awful.
I realize that Lady Gaga is more than somewhat derivative of Madonna, but the whole thing about the cone bras is diluted when you cut them in half and put the halves on your shoulders.
They are trying to make Peter sad.
I kind of like Justin Bieber. He seems like a kid who works pretty hard...and he is talented. I have JB cd in my car as we speak, though we listen to it only when my daughter is riding shotgun. I can listen to it and I can understand the lyrics. I don't know much about Eminem but my daughter has great respect for him. She says his songs are positive-thinking and that I would agree with his lyrics. One of his songs is about taking responsibility...evidently, he came to that line of thinking later than some but takes it serious now? All I know about current music trends I learned from a 13-y-o....which must be pretty obvious. I like Gaga's stuff almost as much as I like Greyson Chance singing her Paparazzi song.
There's a web site for lesbians who look like Justin Bieber.
Lesbians who look like Justin Bieber
Was that really John Mayer in the photo identifying someone as such, 'cause it sure looked more like Johnny Depp?
(Let's take a closer look at those shoulder cones.)
Serene Branson is HAWTT! And the bonus factor of apparently self-administering roofies..
Mary Beth- YIKES! 20,000 TONS! TONS?
We'll have to have a suicide watch for Ironrails.
Ah, the Onion as in hairless as.
Have Adam Lambert and kd lang ever been photographed together?
Actually, kd is much more handsome.
The Grammy's really do resemble the Star Wars bar scene.
Truth was fiction, first.
wv - tarkness
Having the quality of ELP
They should have a corresponding award ceremony called the Grumpies, where an older generation can register their disapproval of the music, mores, and costumes of the younger generation.
This.
Was that really John Mayer in the photo identifying someone as such, 'cause it sure looked more like Johnny Depp?
It's Mayer, trying to fool unsuspecting women who have not yet caught on to his douche schtick.
Random comments:
-Lady Gaga's egg reminds me of the movie "The Vanishing" (the original) Its an image from a dream mentioned in the movie
-Ciara- the shoes make the outfit
-Barry Manilow. The Joan Rivers effect.
-snooki- does she sing?
-Kathy Griffin - does she sing?
-Nicki Minaj- Cruella D'Ville meets a leopard
-B.o.B.- Is he Jewish?
-Jennifer Hudson- Surgery can do all of the work for you. Isn't it wonderful!
-Eva Longoria - does she sing?
-Ricky Martin - can't tell if he looks more gay or drunk.
-LeAnne Rimes- can you say "eating disorder"
-John Mayer- has morphed into Johnny Depp
-Lenny Kravetz- does leather still say the same thing as it once did?
-Jordin Sparks - hiding the caboose
-Justin Bieber - I wore that same thing at my senior prom
-Muse - they don't look the same without their lights and props
-Kim Kardashian - does she sing?
-Katy Perry - angel in a D cup
-Jennifer Lopez/Adam Lambert- same person with and without wig
-Rhinna - the Friz Lang effect
-Cyndi Lauper - our generation's Zsa Zsa Gabor
I have to say all of the black men looked very distinguished and not very hip. But who am I to say.
And Professor, Dylan didn't walk the red carpet?
(maybe it wasn't wheelchair accessible)
"-Ricky Martin - can't tell if he looks more gay or drunk."
He's starting to get that bloated, sagging, dead-eyed look that starts to set in after aging closet queens decide to "come out" a decade or so after anyone cares. I call it the Reginald Dwight effect.
I looked at every picture (with special focus on Rihanna) and the thing that puzzles me is--well, these are Grammy awards, right? And that involves music, right? So I started eliminating those people that don't acually make music like Heidi Klum and Nicole Kidman and then I started eliminating those that don't make good music and, uh, well, I'm coming up blank here. Christ on a Raft! Was there even one decent musician at this freak show?
I call it the Reginald Dwight effect.
Ouch!!
Shouting this is one time I actually agree with you, although I thought Pink's production number last year was interesting, most of the music is so over-produced as to make me GA Gag.
By today's standards, Cyndi Lauper doesn't seem so unusual.
"... most of the music is so over-produced as to make me GA Gag."
Whenever I hear a pop song these days, I always think of Isaiah chapter 40, of a voice, beleaguered, twisted, processed, bleached, stretched, polished, scrubbed of all but a dim glimmer of humanity, crying out of a wilderness, a parched, scrub-covered, melody-deficient, harmony-bereft desert of brittle digital noise.
And I whisper, "Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for music to return to us."
Bryan- both Heidi Klum's and Nicole Kidman's husbands are musicians. Seal and Keith Urban.
It's the Grammys. It's perfectly apt to dress as a joke.
And then become one.
I saw enough of the grammys to realize how astronomically far 'the bar' has been lowered. I mean- justin bieber and lady gaga? Really?
Consider some of the grammy winners in 1971:
Paul Simon
Dionne Warwick
Johnny Cash
BB King
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