Yet another great piece by Joshua Alston of Newsweek, entitled "Six Ways To Fix The Gramn Dammys." This, from the intro:
Last night, as the 51st Annual Grammy Awards were airing, I was staring intently at the screen. Not the television, my laptop, so I could keep up to date on the latest breaking news on Chris Brown and Rihanna. It's a bad sign with the most interesting people at the Grammys are the ones who didn't show up. Soy Bomb, where have you gone? I miss you Ol' Dirty Bastard. Wu-Tang is, indeed, for the children. Somehow, this year's Grammys managed to span a numbingly dull three-hours-and-change without a single such water-cooler moment to justify its existence. The music industry has been on a downward spiral for years, and now the biggest night in music is beginning to reflect that joylessness. Can the show be fixed?
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