2024-02-05 11:38:03
Opinion music awards ceremony
The Grammys’ secret message
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Joni Mitchell with Brandi Carlile before her big performance at the Grammys
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Taylor Swift is hailed as queen of the 66th Grammys. She didn’t even get the most awards – and Joni Mitchell took the throne of Los Angeles at the age of 80: her appearance alone revealed that it’s no longer about who wins how much.
The magical moment of Grammy night was by no means the awards blessing for Taylor Swift with the announcement of her new album in April. It was the appearance of an 80-year-old with blonde pigtails. Joni Mitchell not only picked up the Grammy for Best Folk Album for recording her comeback concert at the Newport festival. She sat on the stage and sang „Both Sides, Now“ from 1966. For six minutes, Joni Mitchell sat in a neo-rococo wingback chair at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles and sang: “It’s life’s illusions that I recall/ I really don’t know life/ I really don’t know life at all”. About the illusions of a life in her memory, about the life that she doesn’t even know.
Joni Mitchell sings “Both Sides, Now” at the Grammys
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Brandi Carlile, half her age, sat next to her, playing the guitar and listening to her every word. Joni Mitchell beat time with her cane. Their musicians in the circle once again transcended the pop music of the 20th century between folk and jazz. The stars in the auditorium rose to their feet, some crying. Joni Mitchell looked across the room and laughed. Even after 66 years, the Grammys still manage to convey the belief that it’s about winning gold gramophones. About the glamor of a gala in which musicians present each other with trophies, are overwhelmed and thank God, the mother and the sound engineer. About records.
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Even in 2024, the Recording Academy will manage to simulate a music business that serves to add value to sound recordings, songs and albums. Who wins the most Grammys for a piece or for several pieces that can be listened to on records or in streaming? Is Taylor Swift now a music world champion with her four albums of the year because Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon only had or have three Grammys for their albums of the year on their mantelpiece?
The music business has largely devalued its goods. There are no official channels for films and books like YouTube and Spotify, where everything, at least almost everything, can be found for free. After 150 years of recorded music, beyond time and place, she returns to her classic style of performance: the concert hall. Tours through stadiums and halls used to be promotional trips for the albums, today the albums are arguments for tours. And the Grammy Gala becomes a festival with awards ceremonies.
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There was Billy Joel with “Turn the Lights Back On”, his first new song in 17 years, finally the piano man again. Soul singer SZA (three Grammys) performed her hit “Kill Bill”, Miley Cyrus (two Grammys) performed “Flowers”, Billie Eilish (two Grammys) sang her anthem from the “Barbie” film “How Was I Made For”. ?” in the costume of a 1960s diva Barbie. Tracy Chapman sang “Fast Car” together with Luke Combs, the country singer – also against the inflation of the price categories, in which not only the overview is lost, but also the ideal of open music, over categories for more “black” and more ” “white” albums or songs.
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The opening song of the Grammys was bigger than any Grammy itself: the rap poet J. Ivy wrote poetry, and the Pentatonix mixed choir sang gospel, the Larkin Poe sisters Megan and Rebecca Lovell played “white” southern blues rock, Jordin Sparks sang “ black” R&B, and Sheila E. ended the live session with a drum solo.
Taylor Swift (two Grammys) didn’t sit on the throne at the Grammys, she didn’t perform, she didn’t sing anything. But Joni Mitchell (a Grammy).
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