tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536279.post4664632713064977686..comments2024-03-08T00:23:07.688-08:00Comments on HICK CHIC: 2016 GRAMMY AWARDS it's a national holiday it's worldwide it's music's biggest night... Heidi the Hickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00639479864903922047noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536279.post-14588938698240241272016-02-24T10:29:48.109-08:002016-02-24T10:29:48.109-08:00Melanie! So good to hear your professional opinion...Melanie! So good to hear your professional opinion, Thanks!!<br /><br />Jules, and Paul: it's what I can do for you! Heidi the Hickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639479864903922047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536279.post-66969466007519809062016-02-18T10:06:32.253-08:002016-02-18T10:06:32.253-08:00Hey, love the photos. More coming? (johnny and a...Hey, love the photos. More coming? (johnny and alice maybe???!!!)juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16351247097680979735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536279.post-76905908039746161102016-02-17T08:04:31.674-08:002016-02-17T08:04:31.674-08:00Hey, the pictures really help to enhance the flavo...Hey, the pictures really help to enhance the flavor. Thank you Heidi, a great presentation.Paul Teehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17649547928178162423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536279.post-9213073665683620462016-02-16T15:01:17.383-08:002016-02-16T15:01:17.383-08:00Love this, as usual. Thanks for the commentary. I...Love this, as usual. Thanks for the commentary. I'll have to look up some of the performances, since you gave such a good review. Great as usual Heidi!juleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16351247097680979735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17536279.post-75480441909581386972016-02-16T05:10:18.411-08:002016-02-16T05:10:18.411-08:00So, I showed your blog to Melanie. She so enjoyed ...So, I showed your blog to Melanie. She so enjoyed it, she wanted to write a comment. I should have told her a SHORT Comment. But then, I often get carried away too.<br /><br />Hey, Heidi,<br /><br />I really enjoyed your ongoing commentary of the Grammies. You're certainly more up of the artists than you initially gave yourself credit for. Now that I'm away from the blog I won't recall all the names but here goes:<br /><br />That duet between the blonde white woman and the black woman: yes, how could they be paired like that? I wouldn't want to have been. The black woman held back tremendously, but even her soft sounds were like cutting metal compared to the cottony not-so-muchness of the white woman. There were some great soft moments, though.<br /><br />Hamilton was indeed crazy amazing. The duet between Carrie Underwood and the lost Hemsworth was very good, in its country way...I think they said he was a former quarterback? There was definitely connection, at least happening from his end. Adele I had to switch away from because I couldn't stand that she kept going flat in her upper middle range, the part just before it switches more into head voice...it was scratchy and strained and under the pitch. Probably because she had to talk too much before she sang, and from the flight over. In any case, it was painfully bad in places. If she were to have to sing a bunch of concerts on top of this wear we could hear, she'd be back to needing surgery. It's what you do when you're not in good shape that builds on itself. I switched away to the Westminster Dog Show....they had a great little Pug.<br /><br />I had similar reaction to the Alabama thing...how refreshing for talent in any shape or age to be recognized. The Weekend guy's hair was deliberately nuts but we also have a performer in Toronto who has ropes of hair going this way and that. What's his name's extended performance you referred to as being a THING was too disjointed for me to be able to recognize it as a unified piece of art, but extraordinarily creative, I wouldn't put it down. <br /><br />I also agree that it was Taylor Swift all the way...as if she really was the producer and raison d'etre for everything (although in the past it's seemed to be Beyonce). Stevie Wonder's voice was amazingly fresh and the group he was with were perfection. If he hadn't always had his hair pulled back in braids he probably wouldn't have gone bald. Lionel also could still really sing unlike the Eagles crew. Well, I never was an Eagles' fan either but back in the 70's there was a tendency to be really laid-back in lots of ways. Yeah no passion or excitement or joy. Unlike Wonder and Ritchie, they were all dried up. <br /><br />A couple of other things impressed me...the white artists didn't seem to be forcing their admiration of black artists and perhaps v.v...and the level of musicianship and artistry was 'way up from previous years. Even people with modest vocal endowment could make up for it with those qualities. <br /><br />Well I never reached Bieber because I went to bed. We'd been babysitting Auden and Sacha (he's 6 months old) and he mostly cried as I held him.<br /><br />You take care and keep writing those colourful funny pieces! Love, MelaniePaul Teehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17649547928178162423noreply@blogger.com