Did I 'get this right'? Finally, last night, I watched THE GRAMMY'S.....having tuned in to the Live Show earlier, just as Little Big Town was standing, country ABBA style, delivering their big hit, almost yawning, having performed it a jillion times before...... But, last night, I watched/listened from the get-go....skipping both the ads for Acne and mood-disorder meds and the mostly attitudinal tongue-stumbling acceptance speeches.....ZZzzz.....Noting this year's prevailing conformacy of Matrix-styled long coats and jackets, bejewelled ladypanties on breast-pumping, crotch-grabbing second tier backup performers, deep-knee-bending, status athletic shoe wearing predictability........just to set the 'tone' for the coming indulgences........This is NOT to imply that I didn't 'get off' on the performances, however! Kendrick Lamar doin' his thang, surrounded by squatting, super-shorter-than him terrorist hip-hoppers in post-apocalyptic military assault gear, fronting 5, or was that 7....to 'up' the excitement, up-facing pivot spots, joined by some glowingly white transgenderish Kabuki drummer, who....abandoning her/his hyper-extensions behind the skins, joined him in chimp squats and head-bobbing, before heading, mouth-up, between Lamar's parting thighs as the red inudates the stage, as Kendrick shoots the trannie.......wait....then a brief intermission....as Dave Chappell confirms that this performance is almost too edgy for CBS.....then, back to Kendrick's unintelligible-anyway lyrics.......All this.....in Red, of course...with a Mephisto-ish Bono, costumed as a Kabuki demon...no less.......All this in an enormous, throbbingly patriotic showdown......cut to some damage control: "This is a Satire by Kendrick Lamar".......as KL shoots the now red-shrouded, white plastic hospital ID-wearing, faceless dance crew, that later resurrects during a mega-kilowatt light show, as Kendrick implores us to burn everyone that we, mistakenly, thought was dear to us........Fade to Black.......Tumultuous Applause, as Nero fiddles while Rome Burns....... Did I see what you saw, folks?
