The 51st Grammy Award nominations are in -- and are quite interesting. No, really. The entire list is here, but some highlights. And no, a highlight is not Paul McCartney earning a nomination for "I Saw Her Standing There." REALLY? Or Ministry earning a nod for a Stones cover of "Under My Thumb" -- in Best Metal category. Um. Props to Justice for getting a nomination for its MGMT remix, though.Record of the Year:Adele, "Chasing Pavements"Coldplay, "Viva La Vida"Leona Lewis, "Bleeding Love"M.I.A.
In the RFT that's coming out later this week, our music writers will weigh in on what they liked -- and didn't like -- about music in the year 2008. Various writers from around the Village Voice Media chain also weighed in on their jams, lists we'll be rolling out over the next week or so. Here's a sneak preview of these, my list of top ten pop songs.BY ANNIE ZALESKIPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussy
Because I'm on vacation, I'm writing this FROM THE PAST (ooh, spooky), and there won't be any live-blogging about Sunday's Grammy Awards broadcast from me this year. However, consider this post an open commenting thread for the show. According to Grammy.com, the list of performers is crazytown:Current GRAMMY nominees Adele, Chris Brown, and Sugarland; a special
performance with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift; and a Four Tops tribute
featuring Abdul "Duke" Fakir (2009 Lifetime Achievement Award hon
