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Fewer and Fewer Grammy(R) Viewers Year By Year (February 15, 2004)What has happened to the once popular Grammy Award telecasts? Surely, few people were interested in such niche acts like Kanye West, Alicia Keys, Usher, and Norah Jones. Sure, the Ray Charles tribute may have been grand according to reports, but I did not see the annual event once again due to the fact that I just don't care about most of the acts that have gotten airplay solely because they sound like other people who did hip hop, rap, soft rock, and R&B. I asked anybody at work if they had any interest in who would win a Grammy and they responded that they simply don't give a damn about today's music.What else is wrong with today's music that the commercial stations keep playing on the radio? Just look at the playlists of Channel 933, My 94.1, 91X, KGB, heck, most every station in this or other towns and you'll see that the stations are bereft of life as the playlists are filled with blandness and bore while the music programmers maintaining such monotony are derelect as their playlists remain stagnant and predictable. The most exciting music out today isn't coming from commercial radio, but from the Internet such as our own dfsxradio.com where music with a funny or twisted message designed to stimulate your brain is the kind that the music directors at idiot brands such as Jack-FM should be including in their playlists on a regular basis. The only other genres include synth pop, dance, electronica, non-watered down light music such as folk or blues, and traditional rock and roll, none of which can be found on your local radio stations. With no radio stations playing what needs to be played, the music fans just don't see anything in it for them when they decide whether to watch the Grammy telecasts or not. As for what was interesting about the Grammys aside of the awards the boring artists like West and Keys won, here are the winners that really matter. See the rest of the list at http://grammys.com/awards/grammy/47winners.aspx.
Category 12: Best Dance Recording
Category 13: Best Electronic/Dance Album
Category 16: Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal
Category 19: Best Rock Instrumental Performance
Category 20: Best Rock Song
Category 21: Best Rock Album
Category 22: Best Alternative Music Album
Category 24: Best Male R&B Vocal Performance
Category 26: Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance
Category 36: Best Female Country Vocal Performance
Category 39: Best Country Collaboration With Vocals
Category 73: Best Polka Album
Category 76: Best Spoken Word Album
Category 77: Best Comedy Album
Category 90: Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical John Shanks: Autobiography (Ashlee Simpson) (A), Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson) (T), The First Cut Is The Deepest (Sheryl Crow) (T), Fly (Hilary Duff) (T), Shine Your Light (Robbie Robertson) (T), So-Called Chaos (Alanis Morissette) (A)
Category 91: Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical
Category 106: Best Short Form Music Video
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