REVIEW: Too many performances overshadow awards at Grammys

In case you missed it, the Grammys were last week. Even though most of music’s biggest stars were there, including both living members of The Beatles, the show itself was a bore. A show almost four hours long only televised a handful of awards.

Other than music charts and sales, the Grammys is the only competition in the music field, and the show should focus more on the awards themselves. It’s more exciting waiting for the winner to be announced, than watching Robin Thicke play “Blurred Lines” for the hundredth time on TV.

The choice to have performances over awards, in my opinion, is a mistake. That’s the only reason people are there in the first place.

There were 20 performances and odds are you’ve heard the songs being performed hundreds of times.

The Grammys does give an opportunity to spice things up like when Kendrick Lamar was with Imagine Dragons, and Daft Punk performed with Stevie Wonder. Both of those performances were impressive and were the highlights of the show. But why would the Academy, who’s obsessed with what’s hot and what’s not and only awards artists with relevancy, have Metallica play a six minute song that’s 25 years old? Let alone play that song with a relatively unknown pianist.

This year’s show was so jam packed with performances, they didn’t even have enough time to show the finale. The Grammys received a lot of hate from both fans and the musicians themselves. Trent Reznor, lead singer of Nine Inch Nails, tweeted a hate message to the Grammys that received thousands of retweets.

The actual awards are a hit or miss, and that’s expected; musicians are snubbed every year.  It’s hard to take an award show seriously that’s awarded the Baha Men, and Will.I.am seven times.

I was pleased with Daft Punk winning “Album of the Year.” They truly were the most deserving out of the nominees. But even after all this junk that we know is going to happen, why are we so obsessed with music’s biggest night?

Although the Academy needs to reconsider its priorities, we’re still obsessed with the Grammys because we’re passionate about music.