So “Music’s Biggest Night” occurred yesterday, and awards for just about every conceivable category were handed out. 

Big winners included Beyonce (six Grammys, including Best Female Pop Performance for “Halo”, and Song of the Year for “Single Ladies”), Taylor Swift (four Grammy’s, including Album of the Year, Country Album of the Year both for “Fearless”), Lady Gaga (Best Dance Recording for ”Poker Face”, Best Electronic/Dance Album for “The Fame”), Kings of Leon (Record of the Year, Best Rock Performance by a duo or group with vocals both for “Use Somebody”) and The Black Eyed Peas (Best Pop Performance by a duo or group with vocals for “I Gotta Feeling”, Best Pop Vocal Album for “The E.N.D.”).

There are many more categories and winners, but I would be here all night writing them all down.  Music, by it’s very nature is far too subjective and multiple-genre to say that one particular song or record or single beats out all the others.  Anyway, moving on… 

The show started with Lady Gaga doing Poker Face, being thrown into a incenerator and come out playing Speechless/Your Song with Elton John each on their own piano.  Elton was wearing weird glasses again!  Seemed like old times…

Stephen Colbert was sort of funny in a cringe inducing way, shameless plug for the I-pad and all…..I-pad????  The new “must have toy” for 2010.  I wants it, I needs it, it’s my preciousssssssss…

I loathed every second of Green Day’s 21 Guns, only because I hate musicals (there, I said it) and this struck me as some weird updated version of Rent somehow.

Beyonce brought down the house with “If I Were A Boy” (although what’s with all the over singing?) and then rocked out to a cover of “You Ought To Know.” I was sort of expecting Alanis Morissette to come out and join her.  Epic.  Beyonce should add more of this genre to her next album, she does it so well, she’s definitely the heir apparent to Tina Turner.

Pink did her aerobatic – twirling – singing thing again, (didn’t she do this at the MTV Music Video Awards last September?) but this time was lowered into a pool of water (or hosed) only to be lifted again, spinning around, right round, like a record baby, round, round, round, round, with water flying off of her body and presumably onto the audience below.  To quote my boyfriend, “If I had been below her I’d really be pissed“.

The Black Eyed Peas were, well the Black Eyed Peas.  Lots of jumping around and lots of energy, but if you’ve seen them perform once, you’ve seen them perform a thousand times.  The Energy Never Dies and the performances never change.

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