How Bruno Mars Blew My Mind At The Grammys

How Bruno Mars Blew My Mind At The Grammys:  There are no absolute acceptable videos of Bruno Mars's Grammys achievement accessible online, which is apparently a acceptable affair for this website, back if there were acceptable videos out there I wouldn't absolutely get annihilation abroad done today. I watched the Grammys endure night the the accepted annoying air of disinterest, as somebody who doesn't absolutely pay abundant absorption to music in general, abundant beneath the affectionate of music that's nominated for Grammys. I was acclaim for Adele like every added animal on the planet, and I was abject appropriate forth with everybody abroad seeing Katy Perry's pleather pantsuit and abhorrent hair that somehow masked the appealing acceptable song she was performing. But I couldn't acquaint Skrillex and Mumford & Sons afar if you paid me, so I was absolute abundant out of my abyss if it came to absolute knowledge.

Which explains how, if Bruno Mars took the date to accomplish "Runaway Baby," I was absolutely floored. I'd heard his abiding songs "Grenade" and "Just The Way You Are" of course, but I affected he was some affectionate of beneficiary credible to Maroon 5, a soulful accompanist who appeals to boyish girls and already in a while stumbles aloft a hit that crosses over with everybody. I had no abstraction there was a Little Richard hairdo, a gold sparkly jacket, a animated advancement band, or even a non-white guy as allotment of the package. The "Runaway Baby" achievement was the a lot of active and absorbing affair that happened at the Grammys from area I stood, but it was aswell a able admonition for me, an alien on pop music who was all too accessible to address off Bruno Mars as something abroad I wasn't absorbed in. Boy was I wrong.

Lucky for me and anybody abroad who apparent something new at the Grammys, we reside in the age of Spotify, and all of these artists are accessible to added ascertain all day-- admitting if you just absorb the day alert to "Someone Like You" on echo as you backsliding into Adele fever, I will not accusation you. Below is the best video I could acquisition of Mars's performance-- admitting seriously, it's not that great-- in case you absent it. And if you bell in with a comment, let me apperceive if you had any agnate agreeable discoveries during the Grammys. Anyone out there a newfound fan of Bon Iver? Did Nicki Minaj affect you with her crazy adjournment performance? Share your stories!

Paul McCartney: behind the scenes of kisses on the bottom photo album shoot

Paul McCartney: behind the scenes of kisses on the bottom photo album shoot: For his latest album, Kisses on the Bottom, Sir Paul McCartney enlisted his babe Mary to yield the pictures to accompany with the album.

The album, Sir Paul McCartney's aboriginal flat anthology in 5 years, showcases the above Beatle on a "deeply claimed journey" accoutrement archetypal American songs that aggressive him and bandmate John Lennon if they wrote their own tunes.

Here is a behind-the-scenes attending at the photo shoot.

Talking about the album, McCartney said: "When I affectionate of got into songwriting, I realised how able-bodied structured these songs were, and I anticipate I took a lot of my acquaint from them."

"I consistently anticipation artists like Fred Astaire were actual cool. Writers like Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, all of those guys – I just anticipation the songs were magical. And then, as I got to be a songwriter I anticipation it's beautiful, the way they fabricated those songs."

Teaming up with Grammy-winning applesauce artist Diana Krall and ambassador Tommy LiPuma, the ex-Beatles frontman recorded his vocals in a berth after instruments for the aboriginal time in his agreeable career.

"It was actual spontaneous, affectionate of organic, which again reminded me of the way we'd plan with the Beatles. We'd accompany a song in, bang it around, if we begin a way to do it we'd say 'OK, let's do a yield now' and by the time anybody affectionate of had an abstraction of what they were doing, we'd learnt the song. So that's what we did, we did the yield reside in the studio," said McCartney.

Sir Paul is the endure of the Beatles to accept the honour; his brilliant now sits alfresco the Capitol Records building, next to those of the added Fab Four members, Ringo Starr, George Harrison and John Lennon – and even a brilliant for the bandage itself.

2012 Grammy Awards: Nicki Minaj debutta 'Vacanze romane ' sconcertante' esorcismo' delle prestazioni

2012 Grammy Awards: Nicki Minaj debutta 'Vacanze romane ' sconcertante' esorcismo' delle prestazioni:Lady Gaga has Jo Calderone. And now, Nicki Minaj has Roman Zolanski.
Minaj unleashed her close — abashed — adolescent in a chichi admission of new individual "Roman Holiday" at Sunday's Grammy Awards, but her latest button-pushing move is breeding a accomplished lot of developed chatter.
The larger-than-life changeable emcee kicked off her achievement with an "Exorcism of Roman" mini-movie that had her adhering to the beam and amusement blab while smudging blush lipstick on her face as a Catholic priest looked on worryingly.
But conceivably a added amazing moment during her onstage antics, however, came if Minaj, 29, levitated aloft the date during the televised "exorcism," still askew and rapping as hooded dancers beneath her tromped about the stage.
"I absolutely acquainted like she was extensive out to the boilerplate with this performance, aggravating to accomplish that abounding bound into the pop world," AllHipHop.com architect Chuck Creekmur told MTV News of Minaj's arguable act.
"She'll absolutely accept humans talking. Obviously, we've apparent this afore with Madonna and Lady Gaga — abnormally Gaga."
Minaj, who afresh performed at the Super Bowl with Madonna, is no drifter to altercation herself, generally donning abandoned apparel on the red carpeting meant to abet and titillate.
Fans of the changeable emcee, then, knew they were in for something abnormal if the accompanist strutted down the red carpeting in a blood-soaked Versace glassy clothes and cloak, arm and arm with a black Pope lookalike.
"It's the egg moment of the year," E! News contributor Kelly Osbourne commented, apropos to Lady Gaga's head-scratching access from endure year's show.
To some, amidst a appearance that was all-embracing acclimatized as the music industry mourned the accident of Whitney Houston, Minaj's antics were a acceptable release.
"I admired Nicki Minaj's performance," one Twitter user wrote. "Too abounding humans be sipping on that cynic aid! Hahaha."
Others, however, were a little beneath complimentary.
"Just watched Nicki Minaj's achievement from endure night. If I handed that in as a activity in aboriginal year I would accept failed," one user tweeted.
"Someone just tweeted about Nicki Minaj's performance, adage that they admired Kanye had appear and disconnected it...LMAO," addition wrote.
According to Ken Ehrlich, the controlling ambassador of the Grammys, however, absolution Minaj accept her time in the spotlight — about arguable — was abundantly what the appearance is all about.
"Look, one of the things that is consistently actual important to us, we don't like to bind an artist's artistic freedom," he told CBS' "This Morning" on Monday. "She came to us with that idea. Generally the account are ours, sometimes they're the acts we plan with."
When asked if he anticipation Minaj's achievement was standout, however, Ehrlich balked.
"At that one? I didn't say great," he said. "I looked at that one and said, Okay, I knew about her adapt ego, I'm affectionate of acquainted of what that was, and I absolutely had some questions about it."
jchen@nydailynews.com

Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney Grammy notte; Pop Star piante a bacio sulla leggenda della musica (foto)

Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney Grammy notte; Pop Star piante a bacio sulla leggenda della musica (foto):Lady Gaga channelled up to Sir Paul McCartney during Sunday's 54th anniversary Grammy Awards, burying a big one on the Beatles singer's audacity appropriate through her cobweb vail .
The pop angel kept a low contour during the show, absence the red carpeting completely. Perhaps endure year's egg-tastic access was too harder an act to follow? The aboriginal glimpse of Mother Monster didn't hit our TV screens until the actualization began. Her cobweb and faux-leather full-body ensemble and brand accent kept in band with Gaga's about abandoned accolade actualization looks, but the chastened accompanist wasn't heard from abundant on music's better night. She was up for Album Of The Year, Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album, accident out on all three to the night's better winner, Adele.
Gaga, dressed in head-to-toe black, may accept been anniversary the backward Whitney Houston with her black appearance, but as the night wore on, it seemed anybody at the Staples Center lightened up a bit. The aggregate of tributes to Houston, Amy Winehouse and Etta James, a part of abounding others, and Adele's acclaimed acknowledgment and 6 for 6 win fabricated for a night of remembrance, account and some show-stopping performances.
Take a attending at Gaga's smooch with Sir Paul and some photos of the performances below.

2012 Grammy Awards: miglior nuovo artista, vince il Bon Iver

2012 Grammy Awards: miglior nuovo artista, vince il Bon Iver:Even admitting Bon Iver won two Grammys endure night for their self-titled album, the awards appearance still makes advance accompanist Justin Vernon squirm.
"It's absolutely harder to acquire this award," he began his hardly awkward accepting speech. "There's so abundant aptitude out here... and there's a lot of aptitude that's not actuality tonight. It's aswell harder to acquire because you know, if I started to accomplish songs I did it for the inherent accolade of authoritative songs, so i'm a little bit afflictive up here."
His words should appear as no abruptness to humans who knew Bon Iver afore they won the awards for both "Best New Artist" and "Best Alternative Album" (for those who haven't heard of 'Bonny Bear', no worries: a 'Who is Bon Iver?' Tumblr already exists). In an account with the New York Times aback in December, Vernon bidding his animosity about the Grammys even added angrily than he did on stage.
"I don't anticipate the Bon Iver almanac is the affectionate of almanac that would get nominated for a Grammy," he said then. "I kinda acquainted like traveling up there and getting like: 'Everyone should go home, this is ridiculous. You should not be accomplishing this. We should not be acquisition in a big allowance and searching at anniversary added and assuming that this is important.' That's what I would say."
It's not just the Grammys that affront him, though, but the absolute amphitheatre of music awards shows. In a blog column endure August, Vernon bashed the VMAs even added passionately.
"Why do we NEED this bits so bad? Why don't we just accept MUSIC? DO music? soul? I don't know," he wrote, criticizing MTV for getting about "the dollars."
He echoed that affect in the New York Times interview, area he came down on Grammys nominees by adage "98 percent of the humans in that room, their art is compromised," as able-bodied as in his accepting speech, if he thanked "all the non-nominees who've never been actuality and never will be here," alongside his friends, family, and the voters.
If you're apprehensive why Bon Iver didn't accomplish endure night, just accusation the band's integrity. The reason, again, goes aback to the band's abnegation to accord with an alignment that would try to behest their agreeable behavior. The bandage was asked to play with added acts that had "nothing to do with" their music," according to Billboard.
"We affectionate of said 'fuck you' a little bit and they array of acted like they capital us to play, but I don't anticipate they capital us to play," Vernon said. "Fuckin' bedrock 'n' cycle should not be absitively by humans that accept that job. Bedrock 'n' cycle should be the fucking humans with guitars about their backs."
Despite their skepticism, however, Bon Iver still managed to exhausted out United States, the Bandage Perry, J. Cole, Skrillex and Nicki Minaj for the Best New Artist prize.

2012 Grammy Awards: Adele viene affermata, Whitney Houston è addolorato

 2012 Grammy Awards: Adele viene affermata, Whitney Houston è addolorato:The 54th Grammy Awards will be remembered as a adventure of two women with towering, around-the-clock choir — Adele and Whitney Houston — one apery active celebration and great possibility, the added a admonition of beginning tragedy and a activity unraveled. Adele, the 23-year-old British singer-songwriter, took home six awards including album, almanac and song of the year, a bays compensation that puts a gold-plating on a bartering and analytical success adventure that has badly defied the austere gravities of today's economically-challenged recording industry.
Adele's added achievement came if she stepped to the microphone and sang a able-bodied adaptation of her hit "Rolling in the Deep," which suggests that she is accomplished the career alarm of throat anaplasty that came just afterwards Halloween and kept her aphasiac through New Year's Day. It was her aboriginal accessible achievement back the operation.
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Adele's ceremoniousness for her green album, "21," were abutting adjoin the addled affliction and still-raw reactions to the afterlife of Houston on Saturday. The 48-year-old accompanist was begin in a bathtub in her allowance at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and, while the assurance of could cause of afterlife could yield weeks, Houston's history of biologic addiction is a acceptable starting point for the investigation.
The Grammy advertisement on CBS began with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band assuming its new hard-times anthem, "We Yield Care of Our Own," and again host LL Cool J acclamation the accident of Houston, a six-time Grammy champ who confused from the acme of the pop archive into the pit of a abridged life.
"We ask ourself," the rapper and amateur said with the brittle tones of a Sunday sermon, "How do we allege to this time, to this day? There is no way about this. We've had a afterlife in our family. At atomic to me, the alone affair that seems appropriate is to alpha with a adoration for our collapsed sister, Whitney Houston." He again apprehend a adoration while the admirers went silent, abounding with angled heads.
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It was one of the abounding moments of affect during the night. The big winners included the Foo Fighters with 5 awards and Kanye West with four, but it was the performances — not the envelopes — that opened up the accurate ball of the night.
Country accompanist Glen Campbell, who is aggressive Alzheimer's disease, was accustomed a balmy acclaim afterwards his engaging, high-energy achievement of "Rhinestone Cowboy."
Meanwhile the acclaim for Chris Brown's adventuresome ball plan (he performed on a ample prop of behemothic cubes) may acquire echoed with a faculty of redemption. Brown's approaching seemed ambiguous at the Grammys in 2009 if he absent the appearance and was arrested on suspicion of abomination advance on his girlfriend, Rihanna, but on Sunday he won best R&B anthology for "F.A.M.E."
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"First and foremost, I gotta acknowledge God, and acknowledge the Grammys for absolution me get on this date and do my thing," Brown said. "All my fans, I adulation you. We got one. Acknowledge you."
The best new artisan accolade went to Bon Iver, the folk-pop activity of administrator Justin Vernon, who acclimated his time on the Grammy date to acknowledge "all the non-nominees who never will be here." Although the brand of Kanye West acquire accustomed Bon Iver, the Midwestern act was aggressive adjoin bigger names such as rapper Nicki Minaj and ball music awareness Skrillex.
"It's absolutely harder to acquire this award," Vernon said. "There's so abundant aptitude out there and on this stage. There's so abundant aptitude that's not here.... If I started authoritative songs I started for the inherent accolade of authoritative songs."
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The 3 1/2-hour appearance aswell featured cross-generational pairings, a lot of conspicuously a Beach Boys alliance that came arranged with the newer falsettos and harmonies of Maroon 5 and Foster the People.
Brian Wilson wasn't the alone 1960s fable on date — Paul McCartney performed alert on the show.
The 69-year-old McCartney performed a new song, "My Valentine," with an orchestra, Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh and applesauce pianist Diana Krall. The song was accounting for Nancy Shevell, his new wife, and he aswell crooned it on their marriage day.

Vittoria Best New Artist Grammy di Bon Iver confonde gli spettatori

Vittoria Best New Artist Grammy di Bon Iver confonde gli spettatori:By Maura Judkis
When indie bandage Bon Iver won Best New Artist, the minds abaft the blog “Who is Bon Iver” were absolutely delighted: It meant affluence of fodder for their Tumblr, which preys on the abashing of admirers who acquire never heard of the affable bedrock act
Sure enough, Twitter bound lit up with annoyed Skrillex and Nicki Minaj admirers who had no abstraction who Bon Iver was. “Lol and best new artist...... BonIver.... Who? Lol” tweeted @scottspeed. “Bon Iver who r u?” tweeted @haileybaldwin. “Who was that guy? Bon Iver?” tweeted @Paige_Duke.
For the uninitiated, Bon Iver is a bandage from Eau Claire, Wis., and association who don’t apperceive their music on its own may acquire heard of them from their accord with Kanye West as acknowledging choir on “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.” Bon Iver’s abashing aswell aggressive a YouTube mashup from a accumulation that alleged itself Bon Joviver, arena off Twitter users conflating the bandage with Bon Jovi.
Washington Post music analyzer Chris Richards advised Bon Iver’s self-titled anthology in June, calling it, “amorphous and boastful — a brume of acoustic guitars, aerial synthesizers and aerobatics drums amphibian below Vernon’s consciousness-expanding yowl, like two stratus clouds overlapping in a dream.”
Those who did apperceive the bandage accepted frontman Justin Vernon for his apprehensive accepting speech. “It’s harder to acquire because if I started to accomplish songs, I did it for the inherent accolade of authoritative songs, so I’m a little bit afflictive up here,” he said. “I wish to say acknowledge you to all of the nominees, to all of the non-nominees that acquire never been actuality and never will be here, all the bands I toured with, all of the bands that aggressive me.”
Last year, a Grammy win aggressive agnate abashing and a aftereffect blog if Arcade Fire won Anthology of the Year, assault out Lady Gaga, Eminem and Katy Perry. Admirers took to Twitter to ask about the band, even admitting they had been authoritative annal for years. Who is Arcade Fire? actual their anguish