"Bigwigs" seemed like the best word for the job at hand. I didn't pick it in order to give Sia more prominence than she already has, but she did come to the Grammys looking like this. I guess that might look cool to people who don't remember Carol Channing:
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"Sit down, Macca, you ponce! Brian will be mad at us, and make us read more fan mail!" -- Ghost of John
I remember Carol Channing, and I've never heard of Sia. I guess that makes me...not as young as I once was.
Hello, Dolly!
Oh, yeah...the broads with the Carol Channing styled "fright wigs" look stupidly "edgy".
As Diogenes would exclaim, loudly, as they passed by,
"AFFECTATION".
ELO's "Mr. Blue Sky" was the best Beatles song the Beatles didn't write.
McC was enjoying it like a proud father.
I am Laslo.
They maybe overdid the production, but ELO had fantastic pop sensibilities. Jeff Lynne was a genius.
Was there anything else worth dancing to at the grammy's?
That thing on her head would stop an IED.
ELO along with Queen are my favorite bands from the 70's.
Paul McCartney looks more and more like a woman as he "ages."
Why is that?
"Paul McCartney looks more and more like a woman as he "ages.""
Men and women start looking the same as they age, so if you care, and you are a man, you need to keep your hair short and your body lean and toned and wear a jacket and non-baggy pants. If you're a woman and you care, do something with your hair that a man would not do, wear makeup, get to a normal weight, strap on a bra, and wear skirts, not pants.
This is one of my pet peeves: Men who could easily get a haircut, yet choose to look like unattractive women.
Jeff Lynne is a genius.
Sadly, he'll never get much credit for it.
Jeff Lynne was a Travellin' Wilbury: of COURSE he was a genius.
I am Laslo.
Jeff Lynne was in The Move...who transmogrified into ELO, (with the departure of Roy Wood).
(with the departure of Roy Wood).
Who went on to form the awesome and nearly incomprehensible Wizzard.
French horn FTW
Men and women start looking the same as they age, so if you care, and you are a man, you need to keep your hair short and your body lean and toned and wear a jacket and non-baggy pants. If you're a woman and you care, do something with your hair that a man would not do, wear makeup, get to a normal weight, strap on a bra, and wear skirts, not pants.
I count 37.5 microaggressions in that single paragraph.
Paul McCartney is starting to look like Angela Lansbury.
The surviving Beatles had Lynne produce "Real Love" and "Free as a Bird."
The guy must have some heavy chops.
Jeff Lynne has always been a late period Beatlemaniac and ELO was one of the best singles acts of the 70s. The problem they had was that they didn't see themselves as a singles act and they had a lot of filler on their albums.
I had the same thought about Sir Paul! How's he getting so damn pretty?!?
I have to wonder if it's so weird for him to be up there on stage performing with these kids who were born long after the Beatles broke up. Wonder if he imagined such a thing in 1964.
Sia's an interesting woman. She makes pretty good music (my daughter is a big fan), and also some strange videos. The young girl with her in the picture Althouse linked is a dancer who's appeared in a few of her videos.
Sia's got this thing about hiding her face, though. Just watch her live performance of the song "Chandelier" on Ellen Degeneres' show (the dancer is the same girl as in the picture).
The Grammy's were on last night? I had no idea. I watch none of the award shows - Oscars, Grammys, Tonys, ACM, - anymore and haven't seen even one in the last 15 years or so. With the mid-season premier of "The Walking Dead", the premier of "Better Call Saul", and thellatest eipsode of "Downton Abby" there was much better fare to watch.
Wood and Lynne formed ELO as something of an experiment in using non-traditional ( in the rock and roll sense) instruments to make rock music. Wood was infatuated with the cello at the time, and put it to use - there are something like 150 cello overdubs (all by Wood) on the 10538 Overture. It wasn't until the second album that Lynne and Bev Bevan found their signature sound on Roll Over Beethoven.
Interesting bit of trivia: ELO holds the record for the most Billboard Top 40 hits without ever having a #1 record.
"Men and women start looking the same as they age, so if you care, and you are a man, you need to keep your hair short and your body lean and toned and wear a jacket and non-baggy pants. If you're a woman and you care, do something with your hair that a man would not do, wear makeup, get to a normal weight, strap on a bra, and wear skirts, not pants."
Or wear shorts. Male and female legs are usually distinguishable at any age.
"Men and women start looking the same as they age, so if you care, and you are a man, you need to keep your hair short and your body lean and toned and wear a jacket and non-baggy pants. If you're a woman and you care, do something with your hair that a man would not do, wear makeup, get to a normal weight, strap on a bra, and wear skirts, not pants. "
The perfect couple, just like you two. Go figure.
Ahhh crap. I might have DVRed the thing if I knew ELO was going to be playing.
"Sweet Talkin Woman" is one of my most favorite songs.
I see two other men standing. Both are behind McCartney.
I started listening to ELO again last year. I might have watched if I knew they were going to be on, but I doubt it, I don't like reality shows.
I was watching some of their videos on Google Play yesterday. They had used a lens filter to fill the screen with multiple images of the instruments. The videos felt more dated than the music. YouTube has better ones.
What songs DIDN"T Paul McCartney get up and dance to. All the ones that are being nominated for awards this year. Because they suck.
If Sam Smith had sang I won't back down that would have made the Grammy's. Instead he sang his crappy ass,boring, derivative song.
He looks like Bruce Jenner, pre-op.
@jr565 - Wow, they are the same song! I hadn't read about that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tki-gzX_9k
I see that Kanye made an ass of himself again.
McCartney is a nitwit.
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