By the way, the "recording industry." Remember, those are the guys who took
5 years to get a record deal to Bill Withers.
Keep your fingers crossed for the growth of the internet and the destruction
of the evil music industry!
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Catanzaro <stevencatanzaro@sprintmail.com>
To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 8:01 PM
Subject: The Grammy that Swallowed the World!
>OK, I'm tuned in just to see what type of dap homegirl macy gray gets, (if
>any) and I have to say this show demonstrates just about all what's wrong
>with the world as a whole, and the music business in particular.
>
>1. Why, on an recording industry run "music" award show, does 3/4 of the
>effort go into staging? (Don't answer.)
>
>2. Why did em-in-freaking-em win the rapper of the year awards? (PS, Mos
Def
>is RIGHT...)
>
>3. How can someone who sings as good as Whitney Houston sound so bad? It's
a
>punishment to hear!
>
>4. Diana Krall, Backstreet Boys, .... all these "Best Artist" self
>congratulators. Wouldn't it be nice if someone gave an award speech that
>went something like "If y'all didn't have your heads so far up your asses I
>wouldn't have won nothing, and I hearby dedicate this award to....")
>
>Now that'd be something.
>
>(Although I do note a substantial percentage of the Buena Vista Social Club
>appeared, sandwhiched in between Marc Antony and Ricky Martin...)
>
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