2013 Grammy Nominations

 

Last night marked the nomination special for the 55th Annual Grammy Awards. Exciting, right? Just keep reading and find out. I strictly want to talk about the nominations since the performances had thrown me off, from when the show opened with Taylor Swift beat boxing. Any who, speaking of Taylor she co-hosted the festival alongside LL Cool J in her hometown of Nashville, TN.

The first nominations of the night were ''Best Pop Vocals''. The nominees were:  Kelly Clarkson’s Stronger, Florence + the Machine Ceremonials, Fun. Some Nights, Maroon 5 Overexposed and Pink The Truth About Love. I don't keep up too much with pop music. But Pink is always a fine singer so that's a plus.

 

Sheryl Crow and Chris Young announced the ''Record of The Year'' nominees which were:  “Lonely Boy” by Black Keys, “Stronger” by Kelly Clarkson, “We Are Young” by fun. Featuring Janelle Monae, “Somebody I Used To Know” by Gotye, Frank Ocean’s “Thinkin Bout You” and, of course, Taylor Swift for “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.” Of course the camera shoots to Taylor to see her reaction. And, of course she has her general ''shocking'' expression as if she just won the lottery. Nonetheless, she shouldn't expect to win as her nominated song is not even Grammy worthy. On the bright side it's nice to see Frank Ocean and Kelly Clarkson nominated.

 

''Best New Artist'' was next on the agenda and the nominees were the following: Alabama Shakes, fun, Hunter Hayes, the Lumineers and Frank Ocean. I literally only knew two out the five that were nominated. Of course the Grammys are a lot more critical when it comes to actual ''talent''. But nominating artist that the viewers actually know wouldn't hurt.

 

 ''Song of The Year'' followed as the nominees: ''Call Me Maybe'' by Carly Rae Jepsen, ''Adorn'' by Miguel, ''We are Young'' by fun, ''Stronger'' by Kelly Clarkson, and ''The A Team'' by Ed Shearan. Not a bad category as I can agree with who were nominated.

 

The biggest award of the night ''Album of The Year'' consisted of the following nominees: The Black Keys ‘’El Camino’’, fun ‘’Some Nights’’, Mumford and Sons ‘’Babel’’, Frank Ocean ‘’Channel Orange’’ and Jack White ‘’Blunderbuss’’. Yeah, the names alone could put me to sleep. Can' say I agree or disagree with this one as I have not heard none these albums.

 

Of course we can't talk about nominations without mentioning the snubs. I honestly cackled when Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj fans raided the internet over their favorites not being nominated. Something people will have to understand is, the Grammys nominate off of talent. Being popular and putting out mediocre music is not worthy.

 

At the end of the night there was a six way tie for the top number of nominations: fun, Jay-Z, Dan Auer Bach of The Black Keys, Mumford & Sons, Frank Ocean and Kanye West lead the nominations with six apiece.

Head over to the Grammys official website for the complete list of nominations. The 55th Annual Grammy Awards air Sunday, Feb. 10th.