Music's Biggest Night
Courtney Jones
Issue date: 2/3/10 Section: Entertainment
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Taylor Swift ended up winning the biggest honor of the night with album of the year for her CD "Fearless". Swift was nominated for eight awards but walked away with the top honors as well as best country album for "Fearless" and best country song. Winning album of the year was a redeeming moment for Swift, as she visibly struggled to sing in tune while playing live with Stevie Nicks. But, at least she sang her own music, and although it was bad, everyone knew she wasn't lip-syncing. It was impossible not to notice the error, though.
Despite Swift's spotlight moments, Beyonce was actually the night's biggest winner, taking home six of the ten Grammys she was nominated for. She also found a place in Grammy history; no other female artist has ever accomplished winning six trophies in one night before. The Zac Brown Band won best new artist. They were the headliner for Spring Weekend 2009 at Longwood, and nine months later they win a Grammy.
Lady Gaga, considered by many to be this year's biggest breakout act, was ruled ineligible because she had a song released and nominated last year. Lady Gaga, whose performance opened the show, won two Grammys presented in the pre-telecast. Her single "Poker Face" won in the best dance recording category. Her album "The Fame" also won a Grammy for best electronic/dance album of the year. She did bring her own style to the show by performing a mash-up with Sir Elton John. Wearing an atrocious green sparkly leotard, she belted out her hit "Poker Face" before mellowing the crowd with a piano heavy version of her ballad "Speechless" and Johns' "Your Song."
The biggest focus of the media for the night was definitely the Lifetime Achievement award that went posthumously to Michael Jackson. Before the award was given out, Lionel Richie appeared on stage to present a video of Jackson's "Earth Song" in 3D. Umm, what? The Grammys show things in three dimensions now? It wouldn't have been such a shock if I had any idea it was coming and neither apparently did most of the audience. Unless you were psychic or saw an ad to get 3D glasses at Target, you watched a video of blurry people singing with blue, red and green surrounding them. 3D is cool and all, but not when you don't have the glasses.
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