Remember when the Grammys show was about handing out awards? We got to see all these acceptance speeches and people cry or laugh etc. Now, the three-hour telecast only has about a dozen televised award presentations and the rest is performances etc.
To be presented on air are: record of the year, album of the year, song of the year, new artist, pop collaboration, pop vocal album, rock album, female R&B vocal, R&B album, rap album and country album.
Among the NINETY-SEVEN categories awarded early before the telecast are such things as music video, rap song, male R&B solo performance, country song, male and female pop vocal solo, rock song, R&B song, comedy album and male and female country vocal.
I'll get to see it, but you won't! So I'll try and bring you some of the action as it happens. Some of the bigger stars might be home primping for the telecast so who knows. I remember Hillary Clinton actually showed up when she was awarded the best spoken word Grammy for the audio version of her "It Takes A Village Book.: Yes, the former First Lady, current U.S. senator and presidential candidate is a Grammy winner!
Anyway, some categories that no one will much miss being televised are chamber music performance, album notes, classical producer of the year, orchestra performance, instrumental composition, and New Age album.
Sheesh...it's gonna be a loooooooooooooooooooong day!
And I'm still hungry too. Beef jerky girl is avoiding eye contact w/me now. I think she's afraid I'm gonna eat all her snacks. And who's to say she's wrong?