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  • Live Blogging E!’s Grammy Red Carpet Coverage

    Some quick thoughts:

    – Ryan Seacrest has been like one of those annoying elevator passengers in the SNL skit – he can barely get through an interview without spouting a few lines of the artists’ signature hit.

    – Whoah. Cyndi Lauper’s hair!

    – Ryan Seacrest is Flo Rida’s brother! I had no idea…

    – Katy Perry… isn’t sheeee pretty in pink. (Seriously, she looked adorable.) She kissed a girl and she’s wearing a Lebanese designer. (Heh heh… he said “Lebanese”). (Paula Abdul was wearing the same designer!)

    – Ryan’s Simon Cowell obsession is just gruesome. I really don’t want to know whether he finds Paula more sexually attractive or vice versa. That’s just gross. And duh! Doesn’t Ryan have to, like, work with these people? Am I a prude to think that maybe there are some questions you just don’t ask a co-worker? (Even if – especially if

    – Wait wait wait… what’s the news ticker saying about The Gap Band’s Charlie Wilson? (He announced he’s in remission from prostate cancer.)

    – Sheryl Crow’s “hiding her Blackberry”.   Holy sh-t, look at those heels!

    -  Double Holy Sh-t…  Chris Brown?  Suspected of felony battery?  Will he make it to the ceremony to perform?  Who’da thunk?  He seems like such a nice guy.

    Okay folks, I’m out for now… taking a dinner break.   I’ll be back later.

    As Paul takes his dinner break, a couple of thoughts from me (Mike)-

    -How short is Ryan Seacrest exactly? He comes up to John Mayer’s belly button.

    -So Chris Brown is under investigation for assault on a female? What’s next? Is Justin Timberlake going to get arrested for slapping a toddler?

    -Ryan Seacrest just called will.i.am a genius. If he’s a genius, then I’m MENSA material.

    -If M.I.A. gives birth on stage, who delivers the baby?

    -Why is Jenny Hud wearing one of those dentist’s bibs? Is she getting drilled while she’s in the audience?

    -How crazy is it that she met her future husband while watching “I Love New York”?

    -Boyz II Men came to the Grammys to look for their careers.

    -It’s Quincy!! He’s gonna talk for the next 25 minutes.

  • Listen To SonicClash Radio Episode 3 – 51st Grammy Awards Preview

    Money Mike and I previewed the 51st Grammy Awards today. We also discussed 2009 January album sales, Jessica Simpson, Kelly Clarkson’s comeback, The Boss and his fight with Ticketmaster, and D’Angelo’s new album.

    Money Mike couldn’t get to the show in the first 20 minutes, so our friend Carletta called in to help me pass some time. Listen below.

    [podcast]http://fightgameblog.com/sound/SonicClash%20Radio%20-%20Episode%203.mp3[/podcast]

  • SonicClash Handicaps the 2009 Grammy Awards V: In Rainbows

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    These are for all the marbles, boys and girls. Grammy’s four major categories are the ones every artist dreams of winning. Even Best New Artist, which portends a solid future as an artist despite the legend of the Best New Artist “curse” (tell that to Christina Aguilera, Mariah Carey, Maroon 5 or John Legend). Here are the nominees in the four “big” categories.

    Record of the Year: “Chasing Pavements” (Adele)/”Viva La Vida” (Coldplay)/”Bleeding Love” (Leona Lewis)/”Paper Planes” (M.I.A.)/”Please Read the Letter” (Robert Plant & Allison Krauss)

    Will Win: Coldplay

    Should Win: M.I.A.

    Coldplay is almost certain to pull off an Amy Winehouse-like near-sweep this year, as “Viva La Vida” will win nearly every award it’s nominated for. The elderly voting bloc of Grammy voters could potentially pull out an upset for Plant & Krauss, and Clive Davis could get a win for his latest protege Leona Lewis, but I think this one goes to Chris Martin and co. Hey, did anyone realize this category is all Brits? What does that say about the status of American music? And how cool is it gonna be to see a very pregnant M.I.A. sashay across the stage to perform “Paper Planes”?

    Album of the Year: “Viva La Vida or Death & All His Friends” (Coldplay)/”Tha Carter III” (Lil Wayne)/”Year of the Gentleman” (Ne-Yo)/”Raising Sand” (Robert Plant & Allison Krauss)/”In Rainbows” (Radiohead)

    Will Win: Plant & Krauss

    Should Win: Radiohead

    Ne-Yo’s nomination itself was a shocker, so he doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning. Despite Weezy’s having the biggest-selling album of 2008, Grammy does not acknowledge hardcore rap in its’ main categories (remember “The Marshall Mathers LP” losing to Steely Dan back in ’01?), so that leaves Radiohead (whose win would be the biggest music-industry “fuck you” ever), Coldplay, and Plant & Krauss, who will most likely snatch this award up, given the Grammy folks’ penchant for a) honoring folks at the twilight of their careers and b) honoring legends late in their careers who’ve completely gotten the shaft in their original, legendary incarnations. Keep in mind that Led Zeppelin never won a Grammy. This is payback time for Plant.

    Song of the Year: “American Boy” (Estelle feat. Kanye West)/”Chasing Pavements” (Adele)/”I’m Yours” (Jason Mraz)/”Love Song” (Sara Bareilles)/”Viva La Vida” (Coldplay)

    Will Win: Coldplay

    Should Win: Adele

    The Bareilles song is a little too jingle-happy for my taste, so I count it out simply by virtue of me not liking it. The Mraz song is also a bit featherweight, and…why am I explaining all of this? Coldplay wins again, although the awfully pretty “Chasing Pavements” would be a better choice.

    Best New Artist: Adele/Duffy/Jonas Brothers/Lady Antebellum/Jazmine Sullivan

    Will Win: Jonas Brothers

    Should Win: This is not a very strong category.

    Um…where’s Leona Lewis? Sara Bareilles? Estelle? OneRepublic? All of these artists were left off in favor of on-their-third-album-so-hardly-new-artists The Jonas Brothers? Gimme a fuckin’ break. If there’s anything that convinces me more that The Grammys are rigged, it’s this category. The JoBros will win simply by virtue of no one having heard of anyone else in the category!

    And like Porky the Pig said, that’s all folks! Stay tuned later tonight for SonicClash’s liveblog of the Grammy Awards and you can also see whether my predictions were right! Enjoy the show!!