Grammy for Rant

I'm a little bit bummed out.

Last night the Grammy's were given out. Jason was nominated in two categories; Best Song of the Year and Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. He didn't win any. That's okay really.

What is not so okay is; John Mayer won the one for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. That is total bullshit, because he can't even nearly sing as well as Jason. Besides that, it was for the song Say. Jason was nominated with I'm Yours. Neither of the songs are great treasures of the pop music world, but in my book, I'm Yours stands one place higher than Say. Say says nothing. At least it says nothing new we never have thought of ourselves. Jason has a song about the same freakin' subject, and I dare to bet many more artists do.

John Mayer won, because he's John Mayer, and Jason obviously isn't. And here the ridiculous comparison of the two comes in play. (I'm annoyed! Can you tell?) John is so much more commercial than Jason is. He sells his records, where Jason plays the songs from his records. John dazzles people for the sake of dazzling them, where Jason dazzles people, because he almost literally plays and sings his heart out. With that I don't say John doesn't like to play music; he loves it, but the third factor 'attention' is more important to John than it is to Jason. John does and tries more to get that attention to a point where the attention has nothing to do with his music anymore. Think of all the public relationships he has had in the last couple of years (Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Aniston). While John is doing that, Jason is eating raw food (That's another way of getting attention. Not better, but just as effective. And I digress). Apparently, eating raw food isn't as sexy as dating a famous blonde (and a raw food diet don't sell a glossy).

My point is, the Grammy's have nothing to do with the quality of music, but rather with how much money one artist can bring in with his work. Not even with that particular song, cause Jason's I'm Yours is still somewhere high up in the charts where John's Say has disappeared altogether.

I mean: 'Say what you need to say'. Okay, but do you really need to say that 35 times at a time? I think I'd rather hear that someone's mine 35 times, eventhough that would make me wanna slap someone as well.

Conclusion: A Grammy winning artist is not per se a good artist.

And last but not least, I'd like to show how sophisticated the two songs were:

Say
Take out of your wasted honor
Every little past frustration
Take all your so called problems

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Walkin' like a one man army
Figthin' with the shadows in your head
Livin' up the same old moment
Knowin' you'd be better off instead
If you could only

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Have no fear for givin' in
Have no fear for givin' over
You better know that in the end
It's better to say too much
Than to never to say what you need to say again

Even if your hands are shakin'
And your faith is broken
Even as the eyes are closin'
Do it with a heart wide openA wide heart

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say
Say what you need to say

Oh my dear gawd!!!I had to type out the lyrics, because I couldn't just simply copy/paste it. I was very effectively confronted with the overload of Say what you need to say's.

And:

I'm Yours
Well you done done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
Now I'm trying to get back
Before the cool done run out I'll be giving it my bestest
And nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some

I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment babay sing with me
We're just one big family
And It's our God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love loved

So I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure
There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours

Scooch on over closer dear
And I will nibble your ear

I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and laughed
I guess what I'm be saying is there ain't no better reason
To rid yourself of vanity and just go with the seasons
It's what we aim to do
Our name is our virtue

But I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm yours
Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find that the sky is yours
Please don't, please don't, please don't
There's no need to complicate
Cause our time is short
This oh this this is out fate, I'm yours!

Oh my dear gawd!!!

I must admit, I'm fan of both John and Jason and knew both songs and sing-a-song-along happily, but I never thought of what I was singing. Do I now feel smart, or what!?

....Hear my gritting teeth in embarrassment....


John had this to say on twitter:

Best Pop Male Vocal!! I wanna share it with Mraz. His is a really special performance. Hands are shaking, about to play some R and B!!

I think they should, because that will make me (and about a thousands more people) happier, and they so deserve it.

Fair enough, I already knew the Grammy's are bullshit and that both John and Jason are capable of producing high quality music.

There, I said what I needed to say.