A FEW WORDS ON THE 2014 GRAMMY AWARDS

Miley and Justin and Jimmy and the 2013 VMAs.

In essence, nothing is ever new vis a vis the smelling salts/outcry of Offended Elders over Miley Cyrus at last night's VMAs being similar to Britney Spears at the same ceremony thirteen years earlier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RWkAkUWsaA&feature=c4-overview&list=UUcn5FcctiRiiU4EGPpnYLPg

RIP Katy Perry and Russell Brand's marriage.

Whether true love or merely a match made in celeb-publicity Heaven, it's
always a bittersweet thing to see a marriage end too soon.

And now for some comic relief from Katy Perry.

Attractive-but-supershallow Top 40 hitmaker/co-savior of EMI (along with Coldplay) Katy Perry recently did a look-at-me-in-undies photo shoot for ESQUIRE and uttered this very unintentionally funny overassessment of her future career prospects and the current media:
"I'd like to say I'd like to be as big as a Gwen or a Madonna, but I think those days of achieving that level are over. The media is bringing everybody down."
[in response to the ESQUIRE interviewer asking Ms. Perry if she wants to be as big a star as Gwen Stefani or Madonna]

Being visually-appealing-but-molded-from-soulless-plastic will only take one so far. I'll make an easy guess that Lily Allen will outpace Ms. Perry in career longevity--even if Ms. Allen never becomes a savior of EMI.

http://www.esquire.com/women/women-we-love/katy-perry-pics-0409?click=pp

Processing random moments of Grammy ceremony 2009.

1. Mrs. Coldplay (aka Gwyneth Paltrow) introducing Radiohead.
2. (tie) I'd thought I'd never live to see Queen Latifah having to prompt the crowd to applaud Dean Martin getting a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Grammy--much less Stevie Wonder getting visually drowned out by end credits/promos on the telecast.
3. Katy Perry's performance of "I Kissed A Girl"--proving that most other current female stars (ranging from Lily Allen to Estelle to Jennifer Hudson and even to Taylor "I want to be Shania in the worst way" Swift) make up in talent what they may lack in terms of Ms. Perry's gorgeous hollowness and status as the co-savior (along with Coldplay) of EMI.
4. Radiohead's surprisingly effective version of "15 Steps" with accompaniment by some USC Marching Band members.
5. Paul McCartney and Neil Diamond seemingly getting less time--combined--than Kid Rock did.
6. The New Orleans tribute. Definitely a highpoint.
7. The Bo Diddley tribute--which makes me wish John Mayer would do nothing but release instrumental blues-guitar records.
8. The female pop/soul torch being passed from a blurry-eyed Whitney Houston to Jennifer Hudson.
9. The end of any hopes for a Led Zeppelin reunion tour--with deserved Grammys to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss for RAISING SAND.
10. As he ages, music legend T Bone Burnett (who produced RAISING SAND) looks more and more like William Randolph Hearst.