Primetime Pantomime

Sunday evening is normally reserved for Masterpiece Theater, a delicate Pinot Noir and remonstrating oneself for being absent from church.
 
Sitting through hours of the Grammys is normally deemed unsafe and falls under the category of ‘don’t try this at home ‘
 
But the highlights got me so lathered up I couldn’t resist a righteous rant on such a putrid affair.
 
The first couple of music, Bey and Jay put on a display so nonsensical that there and then I should have gone back for a second bottle. 

How in the world does an angel like Beyonce with everything going for her, bend so low in order to compete with Miley Cyrus?
 
But apparently I am owed some savage punishment for my sins (many I hear you say) and boy was it punishing!
 
I am all for gay marriage and all, but really does it have to be under a Moonie laced service with Madonna / Joan Rivers as the high priestess? Open your Heart? Say a Little Prayer more like!
 
And you know it’s all over when Ring Starr sings better than Paul McCartney, and Queenie Eye? WTF was that? 

If Paul, Madonna and Joan Rivers want to swap faces, please don’t do it in public.

And whose brilliant idea was it to have China’s Liberace Lang Lang playing with the Monsters of Morons Metallica. 
Lang Lang playing with his elbows would have been more preferable, Oh wait he was.
 
Taylor Swift had five minutes worth of song to find a melody but alas couldn’t achieve one.
 
And then from the heavens came Pink bellowing louder than Church Bells evidently desperate for a Cirque du Soleil audition.
 
Clearly the Cruise liner had come into port when Chicago and Robin Thicke teamed up; I really did think I was on the Love Boat.
 
Lou Reed perhaps would feel thankful not to be included in this Primetime pantomime, for there was little in the way of recognizing his contribution to music; nor the greatest male singer ever to sing, Ritchie Havens.
 
However there were some triumphs; Daft Punk winning and getting people to dance (remember that)
Stevie Wonder's inclusion was a breath of fresh air, at least he can still sing and the wonderful Nile Rodgers reminding us how to groove with style.

Young newcomer ‘Lordes’ broke through with an atmospheric song called Royals.

And country singer Kasey Musgrave’s, who can write a good song, and raise the roof without raising her voice gave us hope that not all is doomed.

Oh and Kanye West was nowhere near the building…

Sadly the great Pete Seeger has passed away, while no one would wish to see him in a pair of cut off’s, he represented so much about music that we have lost.
 
He once said there are plenty great songs never played on the radio. And this can be said for TV as well.

Now where did I put my corkscrew and Bible?