From the opening Kendrick Lamar number to U2’s performance in front of the Statue of Liberty to Kesha’s emotional orgy, last night’s Grammy’s reached levels of wokeness that have never been seen before at an awards program. It made me positively dizzy.
The problem, of course, is that if you’re going to be that in your face, you had better have a great product to sell, and I didn’t hear it last night. Instead, I found myself wondering how it would play out if Dr. Luke won Producer of the Year.
I would imagine that virtually everyone living in a red state changed the channel after about two minutes of Kendrick Lamar. Since there are about fifteen televised country music awards programs throughout the year, that probably wasn’t a big deal for either the producers or the viewers. I don’t think the Oscars will reach that level, however; red people go to movies, too.
The Tonys, on the other hand. . .