53rd Annual Grammy Awards Live Blog!

L I V E - B L O G !


Tune in to The Chronicles of MC this Sunday February 13th at 7:30pm

7:44pm: Flipping around on the red carpet shows, turned on the TV Guide channel to see Katy Perry getting interviewed. She's brought her 90 year-old grandmother - how sweet! Even drops a cheesy, "No matter what, I'm leaving with a Grammy tonight!"

7:45pm: Interviewer just asked what Perry's grandmother is wearing. "I'm wearing Armani," she enthusiastically replies.

Suddenly not so sweet anymore.

8:00pm: A run of clips that show Aretha Franklin when she was the size of a one-bedroom apartment up until present day when she is the size of an expansive estate.

8:02pm: Jennifer Hudson looks unbelievable. Christina Aguilera loves to overdo it to the point where it looks painful. Try being a nit more natural...woman.

8:08pm: What is up with the announcer letting us know who is singing while the first line of each singer's medley begins? Is it for the blind people at home?

8:13pm: Ladies and gentlemen...there were about four dozen more exciting ways this telecast could have begun. Methinks half of the viewers have tuned out, gone to grab a beer or taken a nap.

8:22pm: Ricky Martin stole Gary Glitter's pants.

8:25pm: Lady Gaga is doing a great cover of this Madonna song!

8:27pm: Oops...was just told it's not a Madonna song but the new Gaga single. My errrr.

8:32pm: And at the half-hour mark, the Grammys turn into the CMAs.

8:34pm: "My favorite dog is buried in the yard." Seriously?!?!

8:40pm: I don't see Muse dropping the ball here. Cheers to all of us who have known about this great band since Showbiz.

8:45pm: Kudos to Muse for successfully replicating their arena stage show at an awards show. That's what you've been missing out on America.

8:51pm: This is what happens when you want to put an artist on the Grammys but they aren't strong enough to carry their own slot, so just lump them all together and see what happens. It tends to work zero percent of the time.

9:06pm: It's Bieber time!

9:14pm: Ninja drummers, popped leather collars, Will Smith's kid, glorious, sweaty/lip-synced/dressed as a nutcracker Usher performance and one bad landing by a dancer makes for a pretty terrible spectacle.

9:15pm: So glad they didn't decide to give Best Rock Album to the old brigade of Tom Petty or Neil Young (Jeff Beck would've been ok). But not sure how good this Matthew Bellamy/Kate Hudson union is - you did see what she did to Chris Robinson's career - no?

9:24pm: Lady Gaga just thanked Whitney Houston. Pretty sure that these days, Whitney Houston doesn't even know who Whitney Houston is.

9:26pm: Time for the ménage à trois everyone has been talking about.

9:28pm: I guess it wouldn't be prudent for Mumford and Sons to do that "I-really-fucked-it-up-this-time" song?

9:31pm: Great song choice by Bob Dylan, but he sounds worse than normal. It's like he had a tracheotomy before taking the stage.

[9:33pm: Insert obligatory "Where's Soy Bomb when you need him?" joke here.]

9:41pm: Green Bay Packer Clay Matthews is everywhere since winning the Super Bowl. And he can just about string together a sentence!

9:43pm: Yeah - that tribute to Teddy Pendergrass was really heartfelt in it's one verse. Fail.

9:45pm: Kings of Leon: losing cred by the second.

9:48pm: Cee-Lo Green...I want to knock you on so many levels right now. But I just can't! You look like a cross between Elton John and Hulk Hogan and a parrot-meets-Elmo gladiator - and I love it . Despite Gwyneth Paltrow joining you on the most-overplayed song since "Crazy," I just can't hate.

9:58pm: Over/under for the end of song cut to Katy Perry's grandmother?

10:06pm: Wow...what a crap choice for Song of the Year. "Need You Now" sounds like something that played on early 90s radio, pre-Shania.

10:13pm: Dear Grammys: Please don't clusterfuck-up my Dr. Dre moment. Thx. -mc

10:19pm: It's never enough Dre. But please drop Detox yesterday.

10:22pm: Blown away that Bieber didn't take Best New Artist. That sound is a million tween hearts breaking apart on Twitter. That'll knock you down a peg hair-boy.

10:29pm: Neil Portnow provides his annual bathroom break for the masses. Thanks! BRB!

10:33pm: Hey Recording Academy, good job acknowledging Alex Chilton and Ronnie James Dio during your In Memoriam...but what about Peter Steele? What about Gary Moore?

10:41pm: OK: Mick Jagger is 67 years old. 67 years old. And he brings it like that?! The man is one of the greatest performers in history, and Keith Richards is probably kicking himself for stabbing his frontman in the back this year with that tell-all tome, putting a 50th anniversary Stones tour in jeopardy.

10:47pm: Barbra Streisand reminds me of that painting in Goodfellas: "One eye's looking this way, one eye's looking that way, and the nose in the middle is like, "Whaddya want from me?'"

10:51pm: Nicki Minaj looks like a Q-Tip that my friend Audrey would use with that matching leopard print outfit. Will.i.am looks like he just lost the Super Bowl. Oh wait.

10:56pm: Eminem winds Best Rap Album. That's pretty damn cool he shut down a talented pool.

11:04pm: Seriously...the Academy loves the shit out of country music.

11:16pm: Arcade Fire performance: 1/3 of America is going, "What the hell was that?" 1/3 of America is going, "Yay - about time" and 1/3 of America, mainly Pitchfork readers, are crossing their arms snorting, "Sell-outs."

11:23pm: Arcade Fire cap a night of come-perform-win-a-Grammy. Tough to knock this though. It was either The Suburbs (look it up Streisand - it's not that hard to pronounce) or Recovery. I'll take it.

11:30pm: It's going to take a bit to digest this one. Some of it was beyond bad - but who really expects different? But there were some really bright spots and surprises, well, surprised that certain things didn't suck as bad as they looked on paper.

Check back later this week for a full-recap, and thanks for following along!