A great show at the Grammys last night and good to see a few of us Brits getting awards!

I was especially pleased to see Adele being honoured again. She is the polar opposite of artists like Beyonce and J-Lo who to my mind are all sex, flashing lights and noise. Adele is just pure honest musical talent.

PeterG - 11 February 2013 06:36 AM

She is the polar opposite of artists like Beyonce and J-Lo who to my mind are all sex, flashing lights and noise. Adele is just pure honest musical talent.

agreed- great voice but she belts out everything I’ve heard- needs to make better use of the dynamic range.

PeterG - 11 February 2013 06:36 AM

I was especially pleased to see Adele being honoured again. She is the polar opposite of artists like Beyonce and J-Lo who to my mind are all sex, flashing lights and noise. Adele is just pure honest musical talent.

are you saying Adele is not sexy? I strongly disagree…

No, I’m not saying that, in fact Adele is a very sexy lady! But she wins Grammys for her music, not her legs :)

I agree 100%, though I did not watch..

I am deeply saddened to see what our music “industry” has become (damn near every other industry too). The noise that is considered music these days is incredibly ridiculous. How people like Niki Manage (however its spelled) get famous and blow up into “superstars” is way beyond my comprehension. Theres no musical talent, yet, they are dominating the scene. Makes me puke. Really.

All I can do is blame it on people buying it. Its one thing to listen to the radio drill it into our heads 100x a day (I stopped listening to the radio all together because of it), but to actually buy these “albums” and support these people for the clicks and beeps as well as repetitious grunts and moans, is just ludicrous. Shame on people for that.

How does sexiness even relate to music?!?..Turn these “hotties” into models or something. Dont allow these corporate idiots to kill music, just to please your eyes and get rich off ya. Theyre making us stupid and broke. We deserve it though, I guess.

To some extent the talent competitions like X Factor are to blame. Only very rarely does a proper talent emerge from these competitions, most are just plain performers wrapped up in the glitz of production. And that’s where the producers see there’s money to be made

I remember in the UK show someone sung White Flag. (You may know it, a quiet song sung originally by Dido).  Simon Cowell said in his comments that he “had never liked that song, it did not have a big moment”.  By that I guess he meant there was no opportunity to get the singer to go up an octave, bring up the lights, start the sparkle shower and bring on the 50 voice choir!

All of this simply disguises a lack of talent. But it makes money because, as noted, people really are impressed by this and do actually buy the records. These days it’s a little less about music, more about glamour, production and celebrity.

The day the music died..........

Ok, heard Adele sing another song tonight. Take back what I said about the dynamic range.

The problem with the music industry today in this country,talent is the exception now and not the rule.
If your are a true player and/or singer, the technology of today opens so many creative doors. Many new artist choose to use the technology of buying loops, using pitch correctors and never really learn their musical craft.

Also, many musical artist today, do not have any roots, influences or musical heroes. I grew up playing and listening to Ray Charles, Elvis, The Beatles, Dave Brubeck, Ronnie Hawkins and just way too many to list them all. The people I grew up idolizing also had roots and influences. it is a long continuing pool of great music to pull from when creating.
I think that Rap music has done more to make musical idiots out of the listening public and has given the R&B;genre a bad rap (no pun intended). These Rap guys write horrible lyrics and most of them, If you listen don’t have much rhythm. To me, 15 minutes of looped drum grooves with some guy spouting hatred or insulting women, with a mono tone moaning, is not music. The rap music industry also promotes violence.
Much of the lyrical content with the rappers talk about how killing police and how society is keeping them down...Then after their recording sessions, they get in their Bentleys and Mercedes and drive to their big gated community mansions.
Many of them also call their music hip hop. They should listen to the real hip hop music from the Bebop era. That was.....real music.
In Japan and Europe, the young people are way more in tune with the full spectrum of all musical genres.

The music has become more about looks and image than musical substance.
I just hope that history repeats itself and we get back to the ear and not the eyes.

I hope my comments don’t offend anyone. It’s just my opinion.