Night of a Thousand Disappointments

Are you SERIOUS?? I mean, "IS THIS A JOKE!??!" Those were the astonished words rolling off my tongue as I lifted my jaw off the floor and tried to put it back in my face before the Grammys were over. "Did that whiny little lady REALLY just win a slot next to the legendary Tony Bennett and Natalie Cole for singing about not wanting to go to rehab!?!" The man who has performed for 80 years and written a tribute to my favorite little city by the bay, and a beautiful woman who digitally sang a hauntingly beautiful duet with her deceased father that still makes me cry. And now add to the list someone who probably won't even be around next year. What a cryin' shame! Also on the roll of undeserving winners was a man who appeared to think he, at his maturity of, maybe 20?, ran the show. The best two moments (besides the performance of my girl, the only reason to watch "The Nanny Diaries"), came when two other performers verbally recognized the outstanding arrogance of Kanye West. That made me smile. The kid DOES NOT run the Grammys! The Grammys are probably as old as his grandparents.
This may be the dumbing down of America right in our living rooms. How can a multiple award winning group show up on stage to accept their reward AND perform wearing jeans and t-shirts, when the presenters, and people just sitting in the audience are wearing nice dresses and suits? I know this is not Heaven, and the Grammys aren't the pinnacle of Hollywood . . . oh, wait, they ARE. Still, they are not Heaven. I look forward to a righteous and merciful judgement in Heaven.