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Celeb News: Yahoo: Best and worst Grammy performances
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Yahoo: Best and worst Grammy performances
Yahoo ranks the performances from best to worst.
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Behold, our ranking of those musical numbers, from best to weakest:
1. Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Lindsey Buckingham, and Dave Grohl: "Copy of a"/"My God Is the Sun"
Who cares if the network used Josh Homme's song to hurriedly run end credits over at the three hours, 45 minutes point? This was a truly inspired idea for a severely rocking jam session, from the moment the Fleetwood Mac guitarist's inimitable picking backed up electro-god Trent Reznor's vocal musings. Better some serious rock 'n' roll as a brief wake-up call at the tail end of the show than none at all.
2. Daft Punk with Stevie Wonder, Pharrell Williams, and Nile Rodgers: "Get Lucky"/"Another Star"
You could argue that a performance centered around two masked men could only get so lively, but Stevie has enough soul to cover for a multitude of robots, and this would've been the universally liked party anthem of the night even if they'd been joined by John Tesh.
3. Lorde: "Royals"
She's not for every taste, and some tweeters found her jerky movements Joe Cocker-like (as opposed to the David Byrne comparisons she's made herself). But the still 17-year-old (!!) New Zealander proved she can not just withstand but commandeer the spotlight with thousands of intimidating elders looking on. Best New Artist? Yeah, she was robbed.
4. Taylor Swift: "All Too Well"
Any memories of some rough awards show performances in her teen years were pushed even further into distant history by Swift's vocal and keyboard agility, nailing the kind of incriminating ballad that shows she'll have a career as a serious singer-songwriter decades after migraines make her give up that head-banging.
5. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Madonna, Queen Latifah, and Mary Lambert: "Same Love"/"Open Your Heart"
Bold and important social statement... or stunt? It's not just you: We can't decide, either. Either way, it made for galvanizing television history and established once and forever that these really aren't your granny's Grammys, as the pro-gay rap song led into the on-air marriage of 33 couples, both same-sex and straight. It remains to be seen how many of them will relish the memory of having Queen Latifah declaring them lawfully wed being stepped on by the applause aimed at Madonna suddenly emerging in a cowboy hat.
6. Metallica and Lang Lang: "One"
Another love-it-or-hate-it moment had the classical pianist adding so many anarchic chords to the metal band's classic, he should have had a capital A painted on his suit.
7. Carole King and Sara Bareilles: "Beautiful"/"Brave"
Bareilles is the truest successor we have to a King-led piano-woman tradition that's unfortunately fallen out of use. The Grammys concentrate so much on odd couples sometimes (like the one directly above) that it's nice to see them come up with a pairing that makes perfect sense once in a while. Simultaneously-pounded pianos sound a lot more like rock 'n' roll than you'd expect. Plus, the coming-out preachiness of "Brave" is really a lot easier on the ears than the preachiness of "Same Love."
8. Kacey Musgraves: "Follow Your Arrow"
The third pro-gay song of the evening came from a country singer, which no longer falls into the go-figure category, thanks to Musgraves's emergence as an independent-minded star. The pro-pot lines also went unbleeped — unlike when Musgraves sang the same tune in November at the CMA Awards — so maybe network censors have been watching the recent legalization polling. The suits of lights and neon cacti might have reminded some longtime viewers of the days when the Grammys wanted to put hay bales behind every country star, but the traditionalist vibe was actually kind of a sweetly ironic backdrop for such an untraditional newcomer.
9. John Legend: "All of Me"
Utter simplicity: The Grammys don't try it very often. When they do, it's almost more shocking than the show's convoluted production numbers or weird pairings.
10. Blake Shelton, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, and Willie Nelson: "The Highwayman"/"Okie from Muskogee"/"Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys"
A powerhouse lineup, but is it churlish to wish that Kristofferson — a brilliant songwriter who was being honored with a lifetime achievement Grammy — had been asked to sing one of his own indelible compositions, as Willie and Merle were?
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Kendrick almost LAST?  And John Legend way too low. What ****** taste, besides Taylor, Lorde, and Daft Punk.
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Imagine Dragons + Kendrick Lamar and Pink + Nate Ruess are so low.
And Katy was mediocre but def not the worst performance of the night.
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I strongly disagree with a good portion of this list, mainly Kendrick & Imagine Dragons and Katy.
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I agree with everything other than Kendrick. His was among the best.
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nnn @ NIN's boring performance being at number 1 when it wasn't even broadcasted complete and people were already leaving at that moment.
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20. Katy Perry, "Dark Horse"
Perry seemed to pick exactly the wrong moment to go Goth on us, looking like she was trying to be Lorde with moves
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This is just nasty tbh, Katy's performance was amazing, possibly the best she has ever done.
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3. Lorde: "Royals"
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I dont agree with a single thing they posted. They put Lorde almost first? That was the worst performance of the night. Beyonce's wasn't that good, Katy's was way better than they gave her credit for, Macklemore's was legendary, Kacey's was amazing, Imagine Dragon's was electrifying. They got it 100% wrong.
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Lorde was boring and she was top 3?
Taylor was flat and yet she was just on her piano but #4? lmao
worst list ever.
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This list Kendrick + Imagine Dragons had the best performance.
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Queen bey highest pop girl, OF COURSE!
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They ranked Lorde #3 with that performance? Ok.
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Pink was far batter than Lordes performance
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Originally posted by cheers09
Lorde was boring and she was top 3?
Taylor was flat and yet she was just on her piano but #4? lmao
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Taylor Swift was not flat. She was actually on-key for once. As someone who has knowledge of vocal pedagogy, I can confirm that. And what does her being only in her piano have to do with her pitch? You clearly don't understand anything about the technical side of music.
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Originally posted by boodytay
Taylor Swift was not flat. She was actually on-key for once. As someone who has knowledge of vocal pedagogy, I can confirm that. And what does her being only in her piano have to do with her pitch? You clearly don't understand anything about the technical side of music. |
She struggled a bit in places but she still sounded nice.
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Originally posted by Mikeymoonshine
She struggled a bit in places but she still sounded nice.
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There's a difference between "struggling" and "being flat". He clearly doesn't have the ability to differentiate between the 2 terms. Flat is being pitchy (singing lower than the correct pitch). Anyway, yes, she struggled a bit in the second chorus.
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Can always trust Yahoo to write the most useless review articles. Katy's performance was the only one I cared for last night.
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