Knock me over with a feather. Smokey Robinson has just sung "Tracks of My Tears" and it reminds me of why I love music...all the Motown records my big sister played in our house. It's the soundtrack of my life and for Smokey to be able to go out there still looking and sounding so good, shows you that if you love what you do, it sure keeps you young! I'll bet a lot of money helps too.
He was followed by Lionel Richie singing "Hello" and I have to say, his voice is as good as it ever was. Being at least a decade-plus younger than Smokey, he can still hit all the notes. I'd love to see a lot MORE of Lionel Richie and a lot LESS of his daughter, Nicole Richie. I liked her the most of all the young train wreck girls but she kinda lost me when she took drugs and drive on the wrong side of the 134 Freeway a few months back. That is just not cool.
OK, as I was going off on that tangent, a guy named Chris Brown has just sung "Run It" and gets a standing ovation but I'm not into it. But I can get into this: Christina Aguilara belting out "It's a Man's Man's Man's World." The girl is almost obscured by dry ice for a second but she sure has some serious pipes. She just hit a really high note that was kind of a scream and a music writer from the Tennessean sitting next to me just yelled out: "Yoko!"