Grammy 2010 nominations

This year to me marked the return of dance music. It even reminded me of the 90’s, when Aqua, Ace of Base, Alexia, Haddaway, Whigfield, DJ Bobo, Nikki French, Corona, La Bouche and many other bands of this type of music, called Eurodance, made a huge success in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Most of the hits today recall this period of time. Lady Gaga, Madonna, Britney, David Guetta, The Black Eyed Peas, they’re all following this style.

The Grammy awards have more than 100 categories, and I’m only making comments about the 4 main categories, the dance music category, which is pretty strong this year, and some others that may be announced live on TV telecast.


Record of the year

• Halo - Beyoncé
• I Gotta Feeling - The Black Eyed Peas
• Use Somebody - Kings Of Leon
• Poker Face - Lady Gaga
• You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift

They were all huge this year. Taylor Swift was inducted to superstar after Kanye West’s incident. Alright, it was ridiculous, and I felt sorry for her, but they’re making her something she’s not! My favorite one is King of Leon’s track, but I Gotta Feeling is the most successful one.


Album of The Year

• I Am... Sasha Fierce - Beyoncé
• The E.N.D. - The Black Eyed Peas
• The Fame - Lady Gaga
• Big Whiskey And The Groogrux King - Dave Matthews Band
• Fearless - Taylor Swift

And here comes Taylor again... This category generally awards a well-established artist, probably because the voters don’t know in who to vote. They don’t know if Beyoncé is better, The Black Eyed Peas or Lady Gaga, so they choose Dave Matthews because he’s got no chance on winning. But he ends up winning after all… It always happens. I would choose Lady Gaga.


Song of The Year (songwriters)

• Poker Face - Lady Gaga & RedOne, songwriters (Lady Gaga)
• Pretty Wings - Hod David & Musze, songwriters (Maxwell)
• Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It) - Thaddis Harrell, Beyoncé Knowles, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart, songwriters (Beyoncé)
• Use Somebody - Caleb Followill, Jared Followill, Matthew Followill & Nathan Followill, songwriters (Kings Of Leon)
• You Belong With Me - Liz Rose & Taylor Swift, songwriters (Taylor Swift)

I don’t know how they choose different songs for Record of the Year and Single of The Year. It sounds pretty much the same to me. It must be a way to award everyone. If it makes some kind of sense to me, Record of The Year would go to the most successful one, and Single of The Year would go to the best song, which would be King of Leon’s.


Best New Artist

• Zac Brown Band
• Keri Hilson
• MGMT
• Silversun Pickups
• The Ting Tings

Except for The Ting Tings, which is pretty obnoxious and has been around for at least 2 years, I haven’t heard of any of them before.


Best Pop Vocal - Female

• Hometown Glory - Adele
• Halo - Beyoncé
• Hot N Cold - Katy Perry
• Sober - Pink
• You Belong With Me - Taylor Swift

Adele’s so boring but the Grammy’s love her… I never heard of song of hers on the radio. And never heard this one. I would choose Katy Perry or Pink, they fit better the category. But if it is a fair award show, and Taylor Swift doesn’t win any of the main categories, she’ll win this one.


Best Pop Vocal - Male

• This Time - John Legend
• Love You - Maxwell
• Make It Mine - Jason Mraz
• If You Don't Know Me By Now - Seal
• All About The Love Again - Stevie Wonder

The only one I know is Mraz’s track, and he has done better before, but I can talk about the artists. Stevie Wonder may record a burp and he still will win a Grammy. I like his work from the 60’s and 70’s but now he lives from the success of the past. I love Kiss From A Rose from Seal, but not much other than that. John Legend is boring. Maxwell I don’t know much about.


Best Pop Vocal – Double or Group

• I Gotta Feeling - The Black Eyed Peas
• We Weren't Born To Follow - Bon Jovi
• Never Say Never - The Fray
• Sara Smile - Daryl Hall & John Oates
• Kids - MGMT

I Gotta Feeling is the best song The Black Eyed Peas ever done by a clear mile. I adore Bon Jovi. I love The Fray’s song but it’s not as impacting as “How To Save A Life”, “Over My Head” or “You Found Me”. Hall & Oates are always a sure presence on my 80’s playlists. Never heard about MGMT… From the huge disparity of the success of The Black Eyed Peas success comparing to the others, they seem to be the clear winners. But the song is not hard to sing at all.


Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals

• Sea Of Heartbreak - Rosanne Cash & Bruce Springsteen
• Love Sex Magic - Ciara & Justin Timberlake
• Lucky - Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat
• Baby, It's Cold Outside - Willie Nelson & Norah Jones
• Breathe - Taylor Swift & Colbie Caillat

This category and the previous one should be just one, frankly... I just remember Lucky, and I don’t think it’s a big deal anyway.


Best Pop Vocal Album

• The E.N.D. - The Black Eyed Peas
• Breakthrough - Colbie Caillat
• All I Ever Wanted - Kelly Clarkson
• The Fray - The Fray
• Funhouse – Pink

From all of them, the only one I think I would listen to all the tracks without passing to the next one is The Fray’s, but isn’t it alternative rock? And The Black Eyes Peas is too much R&B/Hip Hop. From the actual pop ones, I would choose Kelly Clarkson’s.


Best Dance Recording

• Boom Boom Pow - The Black Eyed Peas
• When Love Takes Over - David Guetta & Kelly Rowland
• Poker Face - Lady Gaga
• Celebration - Madonna
• Womanizer - Britney Spears

Except for Boom Boom Pow (terrible title, in my native language it sounds totally pornographic) I love them all. Any of the others could win and it would be fine.


Well, the others thousands of nominees you can check out here:
http://www.grammy.com/nominees