WAITING FOR THE SHOW TO CHANGE: So I'm still thinking about "last night's Grammy Awards, lameness of" and it struck me that the overall problem was that there was very little, in terms of performance, that could fall under the category of "you'll never see that again", compounded by the fact that a number of performers (Beyonce, RHCP, Gnarls Barkley) went with songs or arrangements which sapped the room of its energy.
Step one to fixing the show? Bigger James Brown tribute. You've got Prince in the room, Usher presumably available, and, hey, why not invite Jacko in from Bahrain? The Godfather of Soul is dead; more could have been done to honor that in an entertaining way.
Second: here's some of the nominated artists who didn't perform but could have brought some energy to the proceedings: Madonna, KT Tunstall, Pink, Macca, The Fray, Pussycat Dolls, Nelly Furtado, The Raconteurs, Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z, Janet Jackson, and The Flaming Lips. Are you going to tell me that Wayne Coyne in a bubble wouldn't have gone over with this crowd? How about letting the Raconteurs cover "Crazy" and let Gnarls do "Gone Daddy Gone"? A Dolls tribute to the tenth anniversary of the Spice Girls invasion? And give us some collaborations we've never seen before -- Carrie Underwood with Rascal Flatts is not enough.
Or: was this just a fairly lame year in music, and if they're going to give the most-nominated artists the spotlight, a show like this was inevitably to follow?
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