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Let's do a little bit of Grammy stuff. Guys, the it all went
down last night. For those of you who don't care about the Grammys or
you didn't watch it, trust me, we're not gonna like get into too
many like nuts and bolts and like this is kind of I'm talking about that
the big things that happened. But I do think if you didn't watch it,
I kind of think you're missing out. Can I a opening statement,
please? I watched it. I imagine every year I maybe take a swim
through a click through or some years I watched a bunch. I have no
recollection of any history with the Grammys, but I watched I would say eighty
five percent of it last night, and I loved it. And these are
may a lot of artists that I've never heard of or just have heard the
names, a lot of songs that I hadn't, wasn't, didn't know prior
to last night. The hell I watched it for three and a half hour.
What was it on? Was it three hours? Ye? Okay,
and maybe four minutes over they went maybe they kept teasing Billy Joel playing a
new song for the first time in thirty years or whatever, so they had
me on the hook for that. But I really loved it. I agree
with you completely on the format and how they keep it moving and it's not
It didn't feel like other award shows where it's lame and slow. I really
really enjoyed it, including performances from artists that I didn't know anything about.
If they'd have told you in a recap watch after watching the whole thing,
and they said, okay last night at the Grammys on stage that on the
televised version they only gave away five awards. Would you believe it? Yeah?
No, is it did not feel like that many. No, I
don't know how many the game. I'm sure it was more than five,
but it was many. Yeah, it was not many. They made this
decision a few years ago. They said, we're gonna change this and let's
just go. Let's just make this a big concert party. And Trevor Noa
does a great job of like knowing the job. He's not trying to be
too funny, you know, she's not trying to offend anyone. Yeah,
we're just kind of keeping it rolling, kind of quick hit one liners.
But I'll say the performance is what I enjoyed the most, absolutely, with
one exception. I thought they were all excellent. Who did you not enjoy?
Okay, it might be not get but Travis Scott. Travis Scott did
the same performance five years ago at the Grammys. No that I didn't understand.
So Travis Scott, he smashed a bunch of crap and there was fire.
Yes, he had a pit of chairs and fire and sort of speakers
or fake speakers in a circle and he just yelled fiend, that's what he
one hundred times and then smashed nothing with the chairs kind of I can I
make an assumption on why you didn't like that performance? Well, I admit
I didn't get it. Okay, was it because half of it was bleeped
out? Okay? Yeah? That that interrupts so much for me and I
love the ability to express yourself in this country we live in and say anything
that you want on a record. I love that. It's great, But
if you know you're going to be doing something live, I think it really
compromises the integrity of the performance and the and the flow of your song.
If seriously, man, every half second the audio just drops because of an
expletive. You know you need a radio edit that thing? Well, yeah,
yeah, get up there and yeah sing it like you would the radio
edit, because I would have enjoyed that performance a lot more had it not
just been constantly the sound dropped at that account probably played a bigger role than
I could even It was my least favorite performance too, and I think it
was because of that. Had hadn't had the energy in the momentum not been
stopped and that whole vibe of that tune could have just been continual, I
think it would have been a lot more enjoyable. I don't know what it's
Kevin's Kevin and a n If you have a direction, no, what do
you want to talk about? Tons of audio and I kind of get it
in order, but what to expect and I missed the very opening was that
du A Lipa didn't see it still on the movable Jungle Gym. You should
go watch that. Yeah, pretty impressive, sexy. Of course it's d
a Lipa, Yes, dull a peep. Well. The first thing I
saw was they were talking about to Luke Bryan. You're talking Luke Combs,
Luke comb Yes, okay. He's talking about his history with his big cover
of a fast Car, Fast Car, Tracy Chapman, and they have a
nice little story and I'm like, cool, who doesn't like the song fast
Car? Like cool? I'm sad to me, but yeah, God,
it's beautiful. And then they come live and they start down at the waist
and show hands, and I remember thinking, oh, that's I figured Luke
Luke Combs. Luke Combs. I figured Luke Combs be playing the guitar.
But they have some guitarists. And then they pan upward and it's a woman
and it's effing Tracy Chapman there, who is beautiful and I'm not seen forever
and she looks so good and the hair is so cool, and she has
this smile that illuminated the whole place, and I got goose bumps, and
I'm like I don't even know. I guess she hasn't performed live for years,
decades, and I saw it was on Letterman like during his kind of
last week of shows. I was struck by just how gorgeous she was and
she sings obviously it better than Luke. And then they do kind of a
back and forth duet of fast Car and I was just blown away. And
from that moment I was locked. That's probably what made me enjoy the entire
the entire night. That's the first time through the evening that my eyes welled
up. Yep, and I got teary eyed twice in this damn thing,
And for me, that was the first one. I will say. I
love your positioning statement, and I wanted to hear so much what you thought
about this, because you know, Kevin and Mikey and I we pretty much
have a life thread going via text message, and we just communicate anything that
we see or feel or think that could pertain to the show. And you
know, some of the stuff it doesn't relate to the show. But when
Mikey chimed in last night and said that he thought that the Grammys were effing
incredible, I was like, really, because I think back to myself.
Hell, maybe not even five years ago, that what we saw last night
is something that I would have gone on the air and absolutely pissed on.
Probably really just because of where you're at, just because of where I am
and where I was, and a different perspective, a different lens that I
maybe I am looking at things through anymore. And I know it's not controversial
and it's not angering people with this, you know, this mindset, and
I don't care because I'm not gonna be inauthentic to who I am right now.
But I loved it. Every bit of it I thought was just outstanding.
Yes, sure, you can have little criticisms here or there, And
did every single one of Trevor Noah's jokes or bits just land like a freaking
haymaker to the head? No, some of them fell flat, and some
of them were cringey. And some of the moments, you know, some
of the camera shots of you know, Taylor Swift standing the whole time and
dancing with that makes some people cringe. Yeah, probably, But I don't
know. I think I'm just gotten to a point in my life where I'm
secure enough in who I am and what I like and what matters that I
see something like that and I just see a bunch of people. They're just
human beings that are freaking huge fans that wield a lot of power, sell
a lot of records, and everybody knows who they are, But when it
gets down to it, they're just dorks like the rest of us. They
really are. No, did you strip away all of that success and all
that notoriety and fame. They're just goofy people that are there to have a
good time. I like what both of you guys have said about it so
far because I used to dump on them too, and then I don't know
when it hit me. I definitely did have a big gap from like six
to fifteen of not listening to any pop music, like avoiding it like the
play, And now it's like, okay, I kind of like to be
in the know and be caught up on some of these things. So yeah,
I do know that Olivia rod Rigou was, you know, I do
know who Siza is. You know, I do know who these people are,
and I don't know why. I just kind of care now, but
like this is a since they've been doing this in LA for the last few
years. They had a common theme of people showing up late, like traffic
being in. I'm gonna play it to start outs. Taylor shows up late
and it kind of stops the whole like opening monologue a little bit, as
her and her team kind of come walking in late. Look look at this.
Look at this, I say the names and they pop out Taylor Shrift.
Everybody, are you seeing what's happening right now? As Taylor Shrift moves
through the room, the local economy around those tables improves. Could you see
that? Look at this magic right now? Look at this magic? Huh?
Lionel Richie now Linel wealthy? Look at that? Okay, I liked
that pretty good Lineal Wealthy. I was on board, and I was totally
on team team Lionel after watching the We Are the World document around Netflix.
Cool dude, man, cool dude, it is kind of cool. Yeah.
I think I might have underestimated how powerful he was or or it is.
At the time in the eighties, there was no one bigger maybe Michael
as wish I was raving. I did have to pull one thing because there
was a couple of times when Ed Sheeran was shown. I think one time
I thought I caught him mouthing I didn't have an effing chance, but a
little superlative Trevor Nolla. Here, just look at this table of me.
Are you kidding me? Right now? I look at us. Ed Sheeran,
huh, one of the greatest live performers of all time, one of
the greatest songwriting of all time, flew all the way from Timewan to join
us. Are you kidding me? Is he one of the greatest performers of
all time? You know what? Kevin? To some people, he probably
is. To some people, he probably is. And that's the thing you
got to keep in mind. All this crap is so subjective. Yes,
and I used to be so guilty of just blanket hating anything that was popular
or pop or whatever. But man, there's a more people than are listening
to that than the crap that I listened to that I choose to listen to.
So they're affecting people, They're giving people joy, they're giving people a
distraction or a respite from their day to day grind. It's easy to get
a hold of, it's easy to grasp, it's easy for those hooks to
sink into you. I get it why it's popular, and if that provides
some element of enjoyment to a lot of people in the world. Good for
them, they're doing the Lord's work, in my opinion. Miley Cyrus had
her father's hair from what nineteen eighty eight? Yeah, and she won the
award for Best Solo Pop Performance. I did think it was a little awkward
when she was trying to get the crowd to get into it. Remembered name
and why not time? You don't know this? Off it so Mary,
like you don't know this song? She her, but the crowd the lack
of give a damn dude, that crowd bad bitch alert Miley Cyrus last night.
You could just tell she doesn't give. Some of the people up there
and they say it on Mike say all this means a lot to them.
Danny sort of made this point in the break and I mean a crib you
please, but yes, that how many he's this Grammy? Did I win
this? This is all that matters? She You could tell and I think,
genuinely, I don't know many of you were living a better life than
Miley Cyrus, at least with the attitude that she portrays, which I bought.
And I thought that performance was great. I think she was going for
Tina Turner more than Billy ray Hare. Okay, yeah, maybe because she
had the shimmering dress and she was doing the kind of awkward dances that maybe
only Tina Turner can pull off. And the way she ended the song,
it was all like it was all a tribute to Tina. But I was
I thought she came off pretty damn cool. She seems pretty authentic, doesn't
she. Yeah, yeah, and that song bangs. Dude, that song's
awesome, And that's like the whole thing. She's like, come on,
the crowd kind of sucked every time someone would go up to the microphone everyone
was talking. I think that's just a generational thing. I don't think I'm
gonna say this too. Like if Tomrito says, like, if you're one
of those people are like I'm tired of award shows, blah blah blah.
I kind of get that because the ward shows are way different than they used
to be, well twenty thirty years ago or ten years ago, even got
like fo were five of them within a couple of months of each other.
Oh yeah, it's a word season, right, you all know it's all
coming at once, But like it's also a thing where it used to be
before phones and the internet. It was the one night of the year where
everyone who is someone as an A lister or B lister got together and they
could be seen. And now you see everyone all the time, so it's
it is less special in that regard. I do believe in that, but
I like the big events and the pomp and circumstance. I have and loved
the Super Bowl halftime show so much. A few years ago I went back
and watched every one of them, like the last twenty five years. It
was nuts. I like that crap. Now after Miley did that, they
had the cool I thought, says this performance was badass to kill bill performance
missed it. Okay, So there's a couple guys with like samurai a couple
gals with Samurai swords, and then it's just a cool thing where a guy
like hung down owen Hart style and punched him and then it showed the guy
go up and then he fall a couple of seconds later in the back.
Really, it was like a lot of choreography and stunt. Let's not bringing
up Owen Heart every week. Okay, he knows one wrestler Owen Heart,
Billy performed her song what was made for the audience is talking a lot through
that. And then can I say something about Billy Eilish? Sure? I
effing love her. I think she is outstanding, her and her brother.
Have you seen her documentary? Yes, it's great, It's so good and
she is fantastic. One point that I wanted to bring up when they did
Record of the Year is a record of the year when they noticed when they
honor the songwriters or is it song of the year songwriter? Okay, song
of the Year is something I noticed and I don't know if I've seen this
ever before. Every single song that was nominated, they listed all of the
writers, and every one of the artists was represented as a writer and often
the main writer. Billy and her brother were the only ones that did not
have co writers. Really, yeah, every single other artist that was represented
and Best Song of the Year had it was their name. And then other
writers you don't know what percentage they wrote. Maybe they wrote a lot of
it, maybe they wrote nothing and they just get that credit. But Billy
and Finnigan were the only ones that were solely credited for their own song.
I think that's badass. Their process is pretty clear, we hang out in
our room at our house. All right, here's hijacker number one of the
night, Taylor Swift, Right, why is it down? Hold on my
lucky number. I don't know if I've ever told you that. I want
to say thank you to the members of the Recording Academy for voting this.
She said, thank you too. Sorry, I thought I edited that.
I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that
I've been keeping from you for the last two years, which is that my
brand new album comes out April nineteenth. It's called it's called The Tortured Poets
Department. I'm gonna go and post the cover right now backstage. Thank you,
I love you, Thank you. I just dropped an album on everyone.
Internet blows up. And I equated this to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock
WHOA when you go do something like that and you're her. It was the
same way if it was Beyonce, someone like that who has that status.
You do something like that in the middle of the night, You've deemed the
rest of the night meaningless unless there's another hijacker, and there absolutely was.
Because winning the Doctor Dre Award was mister Jay zhil yes and his speech.
Uh, I mean, it's like the only thing that could change the topic
a from her releasing a new album. It was this. It may have
been my favorite, my favorite part of the night. I'm sorry. Cheff
and a Fresh Prince winning their first Grammy in eighty nine and boycotting because it
wasn't televised, and then they went to like a hotel and watched the Grammys.
I didn't even understand what the It wasn't a great boycott. But then
ninety eight I took a page out of their book. I was nominated for
the Best Rap Album, and DMX had dropped two albums that year. They
both were number one shout out the DMX, and he wasn't nominated at all.
So I boycotted and I watched the Grammys. I'm just saying, we
just we want you all to get it right. We love y'all, We
love y'all, We love y'all. We want y'all to get it right,
at least get it close to right. And obviously it's subjective. You don't
gott to clap at everything. Obviously, obviously it's subjective because you know it's
music and it's opinion. Based, but you know some things. You know,
I don't want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more Grammys
than everyone and never one album of a year. So even by your own
metrics, that doesn't work. Think about that, the most Grammys, never
one album of the year. That doesn't work. You know, some of
you, some of you gonna go home tonight and feel like you've been robbed.
Some of you may get rob some of you don't belong in a category.
No no, no, no, no, no, no, no
iday No. When I get nervous, I tell the truth, all right,
some of you might actually get robbed. I mean it's downtown La.
So I think Beyonce's won thirty one Grammys and has never one album of the
year. Taylor won. So that's that's a we're mad at Taylor. I
don't know. I don't know. You can try, man, Yeah,
JJ Mike on please is that what that is? No, that's not what
that is? Okay, that's what I'm asking. What is it? That's
the fact that she's the most awarded Grammy artist of all time and it's never
one album in the year. That's what that is. Well, what if
some people don't belong in the category. Some people just don't belong in certain
categories. That's what that means. People can take it how they want to
take it, how they is. That's how how do you take it.
I take it as some people don't belong in certain categories. You take it
verbatim and don't read into it at all, and then I mean people are
going to take any run with it as a but I don't understand. Yeah,
people on social have speculation. He didn't say names. He was just
stating you think Beyonce liked him doing that. I couldn't tell. Her reaction
was like, I couldn't tell. She was just she was just like,
Okay, Jay, get off the stage. Yeah, she's not like that,
that's what He's not like that. Yeah, but she knows. She
knows that she has been snubbed for album with You. Oh yeah, and
that's the most prestigious album. And Taylor was of the year last night,
her fourth, the most of anyone. She passed Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra,
and uh someone else. I'm forgetting weird al it wasn't weird out.
Steven Wan, Stevie Wonder, Steve Wonder, Yeah, Okay. Twenty ten
Taylor won Best Album. When she used to sing, she used to sing
in a different voice. Taylor used to be Country Carol. She won Best
Album both Taylor and Beyonce. Beyonce was nominated that year for Album of the
Year two Taylor won. Now look, neither one of them deserved to win.
The winner should have been Big Whiskey and the Grugrux King by the Dave
Matthews Band, who was nominated for Album of the Year that year. But
you know whatever, you know, I don't. I'm not winning the Doctor
Drey Award anytime soon, so I can't go say that. Tell yourself short,
Kevin, you may win the Doctor Dray Award one of these days now
twenty Yeah, there's a couple of more years like back won over Beyonce in
twenty fifteen. Was that for Sea Change? That was from Morning Fase,
the sleepy album. That's great. Yeah, No one like that year.
I love that. When when did u Adlee got her in twenty seventeen,
that's kind of a perfect store and people were gonna vote for Adele at that
time. It seemed like Stgil was up that year as well. And the
other one was twenty twenty. It was for Renaissance last year and who won
last year from a year Harry styles Harry's house. I don't know who I'm
mad at. I'm not mad anybody. I thought Tate had an odd night
because I was loving that because I was like, you know, she gets
ripped on and I can find I don't care, but she stands up,
sings along, dances big smile, and supports the hell out of her friends
and other artists, seemingly all of them know the words, right. I'm
like, that's great and that you emit that positivity and then yes, you
have everything in the world come back to you and that's one of those secrets
of life. But then when she kind of got up on stage, it
was very much about me, including announcing her album and marketing. She kind
of no sold Celine Dion. I was surprised she's taking heat for that,
is she? Yeah, it's like didn't acknowledge her and look, that could
have just been a mister of the moment. Yea, yeah, it wuld
have been. I thought it was great because look, and again subjective,
but I felt like if anybody other than Sizza was gonna get Album of the
Year, it should have been Lana del Ray. That album is effing phenomenal.
It's unique, and I love her and I love her her career and
I think she's just outstanding and she is an inspiration to a lot of those
girls that are up there, those ladies that are up there. I thought
it was kind of interesting that she brought her up there. I didn't know
they were great friends. I didn't know a lot of del Raven's friends with
anybody. You know. Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that either.
I had no idea that that that she was bringing her up. Well,
that was kind of a wild night. Yeah. Taylor went for Album of
the Year, the other one, you know, billy one, Song of
the Year, Record of the Year, which is recording. It went to
Flowers, Miley cyrus So, Three White Girls. You know, well,
I thought it was Tracy Chapman stole the show, But I thought Fantasia was
awesome. Don great tears for the in memoriam with any Lennox doing said,
I mean that was that was really heartfelt. It's kind of choppy, that
whole section, yeah, like moving. Yeah. They and then Jimmy Buffett
just pops in out of nowhere and sings five seconds Will come Monday. And
then and Rennix was there. I don't know, that was just oddly produced,
but yes, yeah, very good. And I thought that Jonny Mitchell
thing was awesome too. To man, gonna be eighty something years old,
I had a brain aneurysm. I didn't know that. I didn't know any
of that. To learn how to walk three times right, I love saying,
you know, Johnny Mitchell is the first one, the first woman to
take your clothes off and go skinny dipping, and the rest of the rest
of the US are following. I thought that was a pretty cool way to
put it. But that was I actually liked the song too, Yeah,
pretty old song. I loved it. I can't believe it, absolutely loved
it. Some juice. It's good. Yeah, it's good. And then
they arrested killer Mike. Oh yeah. Maybe we'll get to that, you
know a little bit later in the show as well, along with other things.
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