There's a pre-telecast ceremony, which started, per the L.A. Times, around 1:30 Pacific and ran about 2 and a half hours. Most of the awards - even in the mainstream genres - are announced then. Grant could have left out of sheer tedium by the time 5 p.m. rolled around.
David ________________________________ From: Joe Hass <[email protected]> To: TV Or Not TV <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2014 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Grammys In my Facebook feed was a post from someone who linked to the fact that Natalie Grant, who was up for a couple Grammy's (Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance and Best Christian Music Song) left the auditorium early, implying it was related to the behavior of Ms Knowles. Two questions: do they even announce these awards during the telecast, and had this woman never watched a Grammy telecast before? On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 10:14 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: I am only a casual follower of contemporary music, but I usually watch the Grammys. More even than the Oscars or the Emmys, the Grammys seem to be less about recognizing artistic merit or accomplishment, and more about commerce, for both some recording artists (and of course the companies that sell their music) and even more for television. There is nothing at all new about absurd winners and losers, so I won't waste any breath about that. But I do wish they would stop trying so very hard to create these faux historic "Grammy Moments". Occasionally something special might be appropriate, but as a casual music fan I would appreciate a lot more if I could watch the Grammys to see performances from current acts that I otherwise would not see or hear about. I don't really need to see another geezer act. Maybe the Paul and Ringo song was understandable, but the performance of Photograph was just painful. > > >My FB feed has a fair share of Beyonce-bashing (I have a lot of conservative >ÇX FB "Friends"). Whatever. Beyonce did right what amateur posers like Hannah >Montana try so hard and fail to do. I did not have any problem with that. -- -- -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
