Nashvillest has the Music City connection thing going on with your Grammy talk.

We feel like it’s safe to say that we left our mark on the Grammy’s last night. Sure, Miley and Taylor were no Stevie Wonder and the Jonas Brothers, but Robert Plant and Alison Krauss walked home with five Grammy’s including Best Album and Best Record. Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney, Sugarland, and Keith & Nicole all made appearances, and even Kid Rock showed up and managed not to embarrass us too much. All in all, it was a pretty decent night for the folks who call Music City home.

AuntB didn’t even watch it, but couldn’t resist talking about Bo Diddley.

I have always thought that “Bo Diddley” was the strangest, most wonderful song ever, ever, ever.  I’m not saying it’s my favorite song.  Just that when I hear it, I feel like I’m hearing something profound I’m not smart enough to make sense of.  Like someone in my room is playing “Mockingbird,” “he’s going to buy me a diamond ring, and if that diamond ring…” and someone from the other room starts singing “….don’t shine he’s going take it to a private eye” and you think it’s just some variation on the same song.  But somehow, even thought it’s Bo Diddley singing, he’s the subject of the song, the person who can use a black cat bone to sow such discord in the singer’s house that the singer loses his woman.  And that’s in the stanza that makes the most sense.

Mark Mays hates auto-tune.

One thing the awards show exposed last night was how terrible these pop stars are at singing live. The Jonas Bros singing with Stevie Wonder was hilarious; not the idea of it but the execution. They missed every note they tried (Stevie sounded a little tired, too). Miley Cirus, bless her Asian hating heart (lol) was making those faces when she was singing like she was just killing it, but she never hit a note. Auto-tune is a crutch. If athletes can’t take steroids, then the Auto-tune should be banned.

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