[Dixielandjazz] Grammys - getting their due?

[Richard Broadie]

Until this year I was a dues paying member of NARAS "the Grammy people" but 
quit when I couldn't find a single person or group out of hundreds of 
choices that I wanted to vote for - in any category.

Don't like the way the Hollywierd world is going.   Dick Broadie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mort Weintraub" <mortw at ix.netcom.com>
To: "'Rob McCallum'" <rakmccallum at hotmail.com>; <Vaxtrpts at aol.com>; 
<dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 1:33 PM
Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Grammys - getting their due?


> Was it Mencken who said, "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste
> or intelligence of the American public".
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com
> [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Rob McCallum
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 4:28 PM
> To: Vaxtrpts at aol.com; dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
> Subject: RE: [Dixielandjazz] Grammys - getting their due?
>
> I agree, for the most part.  Pop music has deteriorated to the point in
> which murderers (Snoop Doggy Dogg) and wannabe gang bangers and their 
> inane
> ramblings have become the base of the pop music world.  Add to that 
> watching
>
> mediocre singers like Britney Spears flaunt their MTV-approved sexuality 
> for
>
> megabucks offends my musical sensibilities.  With few exceptions, all the
> wrong people get those awards.  It's a big joke and there are a lot of
> people laughing all the way to the bank.  For people like Snoop and the
> other jackasses who romanticize ghetto violence to make millions selling
> that crap to the kids, they actually make more money in the music business
> than when they sold crack.
>
> Along that line, I would like someone to explain the appeal of Paris 
> Hilton.
>
>  She has got to be one of the most ignorant human beings ever born.  I
> suppose her "reality" show gets the same viewers who slow down to see a 
> car
> accident.  She doesn't even pretend to have any talent.  Jessica Simpson 
> is
> as dumb as a post too, but at least she can sing, and I give her and her
> husband some credit for trying to bring back the TV variety show.
>
> All the best,
> Rob McCallum
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>From: Vaxtrpts at aol.com
>>To: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>>Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Grammys - getting their due?
>>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:33:22 EST
>>
>>In a message dated 2/15/2005 12:00:35 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>>dixielandjazz-request at ml.islandnet.com writes:
>>#2 BAD NEWS
>>
>>February 15, 2005 - NY TIMES - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 7:58 a.m. EST
>>
>>Grammy Awards Get Lowest Rating Since '95
>> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>Why is this bad news???? The grammys have become the epitome of bad taste
>>and
>>even worse "music," if you can call much of what they present, music.
>>Could
>>it be that the American public is getting tired of that crap?  I guess
>>though,
>>it could also mean that lots of teeny boppers, who the grammys really aim
>>at,
>>may have been watching some stupid reality show, instead.
>>They don't even show any presentations of "good music" awards on the TV
>>show,
>>they just announce before commercials about "previously awarded
>>categories."
>>Yes, Ray Charles may have gotten some posthumous awards, but the still
>>wasn't
>>enough to make me watch.  Some years I have looked in at times while
>>watching
>>something else, but this year I didn't even look once.
>>Mike Vax
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