The Grammy Awards of 2013 may be done already, but the memory lingers, with great performances ending up to be the biggest part of the Awards night adjudged to have dropped in rating from last year. But in all, the night was great.
The girl who likes writing about boys and love and relationships opened the night with her hit “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.”
“I’m sorry. I’m busy opening up the Grammys, and we are never getting back together,” Swift said, changing her lyrics to fit the evening.
There were plenty of duets: British artist Ed Sheeran was joined by fellow countryman Sir Elton John for a duet of the former’s hit song “The A Team,” nominated for song of the year. R&B crooner Miguel was joined by rapper Wiz Khalifa for a rendition of “Adorn.” Miranda Lambert was joined by fellow country artist Dierks Bentley for a performance of their hits “Over You” and “Home.” Maroon 5 was joined by Alicia Keys for performances of “Daylight” and “Girl on Fire” respectively.
Fun. performed “Carry On” and won a big one for the night: song of the year for their hit “We Are Young.” Mumford & Sons offered a rousing rendition of their song “I Will Wait.”
The Grammys went sepia-toned for Timberlake’s performance of his new single “Suit and Tie,” which offered plenty of homage to the Rat Pack era with Timberlake in a tux with a bow-tie and a big band and similarly suited backup singers billed as “JT and the Tennessee Kids.”
The quotes of the night I’d say belong to Adele and Grammy host LL Cool J.
“We work so hard; we make it look so easy,” Adele said in sending “big love” to the other nominees as she took the first award of the night; the best pop solo performance for her song “Set Fire to the Rain.”
LL Cool J made some remarks about the importance of the award to the various performers. While they came from different parts of the world and different genres, the artists shared the same desire to make it in the industry, LL Cool J reflected.
“Cause when you get right down to it a Grammy isn’t just a shiny trophy to hold on to,” he said. “A Grammy is a dream come true,” he said.
Despite the memo sent by organizers of the Awards about how well-covered artistes should be for the event, Jennifer Lopez still went naked on a leg, and she joked about it.
“As you can see I read the memo,” Lopez joked, wearing a black dress cut extremely high and fully exposing one leg.
And this…should we call it insulting for a fellow artist to say she doesn’t know who Miguel is, with the kind of hardwork Miguel has put in to deserve a Grammy nomination? What was running through Kelly Clarkson’s mind?
“Miguel, I don’t know who the hell you are, but we need to sing together,” Clarkson said, after Miguel’s Grammy performance.
“I mean, good God, that was the sexiest damn thing I’ve ever seen. What?” Maybe she wasn’t dissing after all.
But we can say same about Harry Styles of One Direction was dissed via a faux Brit accent by, you know who…Taylor Swift.
Did you see the picture of the couple smoking something that looked like pot at the Awards? I guess we won’t exhaust the Grammy story anytime soon.
