So I don't understand some of these Grammy categories: there's album of the year, song of the year, and record of the year. Album of the Year was "Speakerboxx/The Love Below? by Outkast, which I think is a great album and deserves the award. Song of the Year was a Luther Vandross song I've never heard before, so whatever. But then what is Record of the Year supposed to mean? It was a Coldplay song, "Clocks," not a record. To me, a record is an album, and song is just one song. Unless "Record" to the grammy people means "single," as in the $5 CD with the song and a remix or some other unreleased stuff on it, and song just means that one song. But that's stupid. I would think that almost no one buys a "record" for the other stuff on the single, and if they do, then maybe the song wasn't that good in the first place. It seems to me that the Grammy people just want to be able to give more awards out. Why not make "CD of the Year" and give it to some country music person so that everybody is happy and can take home an important-sounding award? I don't get it. And further confusing things, the White Stripes's "Seven Nation Army" won for "Best Rock Song." But wouldn't Coldplay's song (the "record" "Clocks") be considered a rock song? Can the big winners not win the smaller awards? And the Foo Fighters won Best Rock Album while the White Stripes won Best Alternative Album. The White Stripes aren't rock? It doesn't make any sense. What is alternative anymore? The Foo Fighters used to be alternative. If you sell so-many-million records (or albums or whatever the hell they are calling them), do you lose "alternative" status? I obviously don't understand their arcane-ass categories. And there's also "Best Rock Vocal Performance," which I only hope means live performances or their singing talent. Otherwise I'm going to go crazy.
And I didn't see most of the show, because Prince's salute to himself was getting boring, but I did manage to see an awesome acceptance speech, it was for Outkast, I forget which award. The camera pointed into the crowd like it knew where the Outkast guys were, and everybody was looking around, but nobody stood up for awhile. The camera showed some more stuff, they played a second Outkast song and then finally Andre 3000 came out, got the award, said "Thank you," did the peace sign, and walked off. It was pretty funny. I have been looking around the internet to see why they didn't come out earlier, and where Big Boi was, but no luck so far. Maybe they were in the bathroom or smoking dope or something. Or maybe it was on purpose. Either way, funny stuff.
