Lady Gaga as David Bowie
The Grammys are still being
slammed over their telecast this past Sunday that suffered
the lowest rating in 7-years. I did not watch the show (I'm
boycotting them over giving
copyright infringing artists Grammys), but I have
read articles on the telecast and seen a clip on Twitter of
Lady GaGa's tribute to the late music legend David Bowie.
Lady Gaga as David Bowie
Lady GaGa can sing, but it would
have been better had she not tried to dress like Bowie and
franticly moved around the stage like an escaped mental
patient. Bowie's performances were not like that. GaGa
looked clumsy trying to be Bowie and the make up was
amateurish and symmetrically uneven. They did not correctly
recreate his look. Bowie simply didn't look that way.
Lady Gaga as David Bowie
The Grammy committee could have
allowed Gaga to do ONE song not EIGHT, which led to other
tributes being scrapped. They could have also invited
Bowie's friends Mick Jagger and Grace Jones to America from
England to do a tribute, as they knew him and are apart of
that time in music, having lived it with him during their
respective hay days. The Gaga tribute was very misguided and
strange to the point it even offended Bowie's son.
The family of the late music
legend, Natalie Cole, has slammed the Grammy committee for
omitting a tribute to the singer who died last December. As
stated in previous articles, I am not of the belief the snub
was racially related, as the Grammys have given many awards
to minorities over the years.
David Bowie
I remember when I was a kid Cole
dominated a Grammy telecast with the song "Unforgettable"
winning multiple awards for her moving duet with her
deceased dad, Nat King Cole. However, the Grammys scrapped a
musical tribute to Cole and others because Gaga's
overindulgent 7-minute set to Bowie that audiences deemed a
big commercial for her sponsor Intel, took over the show.
Gaga's set should have been shorter.
As stated in the column on Monday, February 15, 2016, prior
to the Grammys' airing "Even 30-seconds of a top song by
each such as Cole'a 'Unforgettable' White's 'September' or
'After The Love Is Gone' Bowie's 'Let's Dance' and 'You
Belong To The City' by Frey from the Miami Vice soundtrack."
(Grammy Awards Slammed As Racist Over Excluding Black Stars From
The Posthumous Musical Tribute Segment Of The Show)."
Natalie Cole won 9 Grammys in her career and received
21 nominations
No one would have been offended
at such a montage and performance sequence. If they had closed out the tribute
section with "After The Love Is Gone" people would have been
tearful, due to the song's lyrics and tone indicating a
goodbye (which audiences would be saying goodbye to the
stars who had passed away).
It should be noted, the Grammys
reversed their position on Maurice White, as articles reveal
a musical tribute to him was added and he was awarded a
posthumous lifetime achievement award. However, no musical
tribute was added for Cole and they really could have shaved
some of GaGa's time to do so.
STORY SOURCE
Natalie Cole's family 'outraged' over Grammy snub
Natalie Cole's family 'outraged' over Grammy snub
Wednesday 17 February 2016 04.20 EST Last
modified on Wednesday 17 February 2016 04.24 EST - Natalie
Cole’s family have shared their disappointment following the
“disrespectful tribute, or lack thereof” for the late singer
at the Grammy awards this week. While Cole, who died on 31
December, was acknowledged during a short “in memoriam”
montage to artists who died in the previous year, members of
her family have said she deserved a longer homage.
Cole’s sisters Timolin and Casey, told ET
Online: “Words cannot express the outrage and utter
disappointment at the disrespectful tribute, or lack
thereof, to a legendary artist such as our sister.” “Here is
a woman who has been in the business for four decades, had
21 Grammy nominations and won nine Grammys,” the singer’s
son, Robert Adam Yancy, said. “She deserves more than [to be
a part of] a minute-and-a-half tribute.” Yancy called the
Grammy’s brief tribute “shameless”, in light of individual
performances during the ceremony that were dedicated to
David Bowie, the Eagles’ Glenn Frey and BB King...
http://www.theguardian.com
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