The GRAMMY Awards’ Most Easily Fixable Problem
Forget the awards outrage; the GRAMMY Awards are nothing if not predictable in the worthy artistry getting snubbed. Tuning into the GRAMMYs means you accept that the "wrong" person will win some (if not all) of the four major categories. For all the usual pomp and circumstance, however, the GRAMMYs were noticeably slipshod this year. Between Taylor Swift's underwhelming opening performance and Taylor Swift's anti-climactic Album of the Year win, there was a Rihanna last-minute cancellation, reported Lauryn Hill no-show and Miguel performance of a Michael Jackson song that was strangely cut off after about 45 seconds. Even the normally flawless Adele had sound issues.
But the most frustrating aspect of the 2016 GRAMMY Awards wasn't a technical mishap, the extended running time, the "wrong" winners winning or even the Hollywood Vampires, with its collection of aging rock icons haunting the final hour of the telecast. The GRAMMYs skewed old, but they always do; this year, however, the GRAMMYs felt out-of-date, as if the ceremony should have belonged to another year—specifically, 2015.
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