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.

2012 Grammys: voters likely dub Adele next pop queen

2012 Grammys: voters likely dub Adele next pop queen:  Adele may not yield abroad the top ceremoniousness at the 54th anniversary Grammy Awards tonight. Drifter things accept happened — in fact, drifter things did appear at the awards appearance just a year ago, if the coveted aureate gramophone for anthology of the year went to all-embracing Canadian alt-rock bandage Arcade Fire.

That was a massive upset, and the aboriginal time a accumulation nominated in the addition anthology class becoming the bigger Grammy prize. Afterwards that, if Lady Gaga or Bruno Mars somehow manages to blemish Adele’s night, it’ll feel anticipated by comparison.

Yet if the show, which will be advertisement reside from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, could rig the contest, it is around assertive that Adele would airing abroad the bigger winner. The Recording Academy — the record-industry affiliation that presents the awards — has abundant to acknowledge the British pop accompanist for: "21," her green album, about kept the industry afloat endure year. It awash abutting to 6 actor copies, which was the bigger single-year booty back Usher’s "Confessions" in 2004. The four added competitors for anthology of the year — Rihanna’s annoying "Loud," Lady Gaga’s absorbed but asperous "Born This Way," Mars’ failing "Doo-Wops & Hooligans" and the Foo Fighters’ barbaric "Wasting Light" — were all bartering hits. But none came abutting to analogous Adele’s sales success, which acquainted like something out of the blockbuster aeon of the mid-’80s. Almanac admiral would apparently feel like absolute ingrates if they denied Adele a big night.

It is aswell an befalling for Grammy voters to attending prescient. Three years ago, Adele was called best new artist. This class has become something of a cultural joke: Past winners like A Taste of Honey, Men at Work, Marc Cohn, Arrested Development and, a lot of infamously, Milli Vanilli were never able to bout the antecedent success that helped net them their trophies. Taffy Danoff of the Starland Articulate Bandage — addition flash-in-the-pan new artisan champ — even joked that the accolade was cursed.

But there is no anathema operating actuality added than the anathema of bad judgment. Grammy voters accept generally acclimated the class as an befalling for wishcasting. The new artisan Grammy about goes to the artisan who represents the administration that the enactment would like accepted music to go in, rather than an honest appraisal of the way the wind is blowing. This explains why there hasn’t been a hip-hop champ in this class back Lauryn Hill in 1999, even as rap has remained one of the a lot of almighty bartering armament in accepted entertainment. A quarter-century afterwards the actualization of Run-DMC, Grammy voters are still annoyed about their moneymaker. Drake, a melody-loving PG-13 rapper for whom a continued crossover career is calmly foreseeable, was nominated in the new artisan class endure year. He absent to applesauce bassist Esperanza Spalding.

The archetypal champ in this class has been a changeable traditionalist who does not foreground a band. She is not in command of a accumulation of musicians; often, she almost seems in command of herself. From 1994 through 2003, a changeable abandoned artisan won best new artisan every year but one (the aberration was Hootie and the Blowfish in 1996, addition case of voters benign acquaintance over experimentation).

Female abandoned artists accept won four of the endure 5 new artisan gramophones, too. It is account asking: What is traveling on here? Why is the recording industry so atrocious to authorize well-behaved, backward-looking adolescent women as the approaching of music? Are the associates of the Grammy-voting enactment bedridden by nostalgia, or artlessly admiring to what they accept they can control?

Even singer-rapper Hill, who is now anticipation of as aggressive — an annoying actor in bartering ability — was initially accepted as a good-girl addition to the austere monster that boilerplate hip-hop had become. Hill was the Adele of her era: a singer-songwriter who accustomed best pop even as she fabricated abundant concessions to the bazaar to agreement she’d be a sales success.

Adele performs with a baby combo, but is fundamentally a abandoned artist. She doesn’t allow in the array of headline-grabbing escapade that derail pop careers; so far, at least, she seems refreshingly adherent to her music. She comes off as imperiled, and in charge of aegis and advice — all of her songs are about affliction and men who accept done her wrong, and a assiduous articulate bond abrasion throws a adumbration over her future. (To add to the drama, her achievement tonight will be her aboriginal afterwards months of recuperation.)

Most important, she is a adherent apprentice of agreeable history. "21" is no fashionable pop confection. It sounds as if it could accept been fabricated in 1976. On its 11 tracks, Adele alludes to Etta James, Aretha Franklin and Carole King as abundant as she does to any of her contemporaries.

Should she accommodated expectations and yield home the anthology of the year Grammy tonight, Adele will achieve something no above best new artisan has done back the Beatles. This would aswell authenticate that the voters are convalescent as prognosticators — something that, for the account of their own able survival, they would adulation to believe.

In fairness, they’ve appear a continued way back bestowing the new artisan accolade on Debby Boone in 1978: They’re still searching for artists who fit the good-daughter archetype, but they’re accomplishing a bigger job anecdotic ones whose capital abnegation doesn’t about-face off pop audiences athirst for novelty. Amy Winehouse in 2008 was a abort (especially with Taylor Swift on the ballot), but this was adapted the afterward year with Adele’s win — Adele is the acceptable adaptation of Winehouse. Added contempo best new artists accept fabricated a apology of the alleged curse: Alicia Keys and Carrie Underwood accept both had advantageous careers aural the music industry, consistently scoring blueprint hits while demography alone the a lot of affected risks.

So an Adele win would be added than just the consummate celebration of a appalling accompanist who has done far added to save the almanac industry than anybody in a boardroom. It would be the ultimate validation of the archetypal artisan Grammy voters accumulate on blame on us — sometimes with amusing results.

With Adele, they’ve assuredly begin their ideal star: a nostalgist accomplished abundant to address to adolescent admirers and a ambitious careerist who shows no admiration to attempt what she’s got. No admiration they knew how to bazaar her. They’ve been cat-and-mouse for her for 54 years.