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Grammy Awards Get Lowest TV Ratings in 10 years
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20050215/ap_on_en_mu/tv_lively_grammys
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gdZiemann
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 12:15 AM
I think Shmoo and Code were the only ones watching. |
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compmore
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 12:33 AM
were there awards this year?? yawwnn!!
they blamed a lack of controversy, no wardrobe malfunction, like last year. then there was competition from desprate housewives etc.... they balme everything except the real reason. I find it interesting that all award shows are being hit with this |
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pianotex
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 12:48 AM
Certainly couldn't be the lack of talent in the music business, could it? |
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p5yk0
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 6:56 AM
I'll agree pianotex. I didn't watch it, but from the reviews, I heard it was the biggest waste of TV room aside from the Super Bowl commercials... |
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JohnCarlton02
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 7:55 AM
I'm sure the record industry & the RIAA will find a way to blame p2p filesharing for the lack of viewership.
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Lachatte
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 8:12 AM
George, I saw your rant yesterday in a different thread in response to a post about local bands not "suffering". It was great! I didn't watch, but I read this review of the Grammies:
"The Worst Performance Award: In a category with tough competition, the award goes to the shambling, off-key tribute to Southern rock. Lynyrd Skynyrd and Gretchen Wilson, who dusted off "Freebird" (yep, "Freebird" ), were so out of tune with each other they might have been singing different songs." (Thought you'd get a kick out of that, George)
http://music.msn.com/grammys/bestworst |
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INeedAlover
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 9:11 AM
"I'm sure the record industry & the RIAA will find a way to blame p2p filesharing for the lack of viewership."
Gee, the last time I watched the Grammy's was when they started crying about P2P "THEFT" (to quote the exact word they used). It turned me off so much to see these wealthy pukes crying about losing a few dollars to P2P file sharing after suing a 12-year-old girl, that I decided the Grammy's should be included in my boycott against RIAA. After all, how many independent label musicians recently have ever won a Major Grammy? Aren't the Grammy's an RIAA sponsored event?
Besides the fact that most of today's music is PURE CRAP, I'm sure many of those with a bad taste in their mouths because of the RIAA propaganda also turned off their TV's this year. Let's see if we can get the ratings LOWER next year! |
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INeedAlover
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 9:17 AM
This was the show to beat in terms of how it was produced," said Shari Anne Brill, a television analyst for Carat USA. "It was just great. It wasn't about someone handing out awards. It was about performances. Viewers who didn't tune in missed a treat."
Yeah some treat! I think most viewers are tired of seeing the same lousy excuse for music being shoveled down our throats to get us to pay $18 for the ONE song on the CD that was worthwile. The comments on Green Day drive this point home:
"The Welcome to the Machine Award: Also to Green Day. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong, to his credit, long ago admitted the band stopped being punk the day it signed with a major label. But releasing an actual concept album, " American Idiot," and seeing it lauded by the music establishment as best rock album, has got to be the most un-punk move in the history of punk. Then they topped it all off with Grammy acceptance speeches that were sweet, mature and genuinely appreciative. It was all so vehemently un-punk it was almost ... punk. " |
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ShadowMom
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 9:59 AM
I saw the suit's speech, whatever his name was. Clever how he went from talking tsunami to filesharing in one little monologue. Maybe he just wishes we would all wash away. |
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pmmusic
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 10:35 AM
Three and a half hours, (seemed like 30)..just to give twelve awards to a total of what 50 bands/groups, "artists", most of whom I never heard of and none that I would pay to see live.
Again, a once relevant and vibrant industry trotting out its very best and brightest while the buying public are staying away in droves.
Are people even downloading this stuff??
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nitedreamerxp
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 11:46 AM
lets put this as simple as we can the music industry is sooooooooo out of touch with reality and their customers it's not even funny this includes putting on shows like the grammys, funny how they can't seem to figure out more people can see thru all of their bullcrap propaganda and just maybe more people are boycotting than ever and the fact that everytime some new technology comes along they cry the skys falling maybe could be turning people off too.Even the "crapster" napster thing during the superbowl was a dud tells you right off jane and joe public has maybe finally woke up and figured the music industry needs to get a hint or a clue. |
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independentm...
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 4:14 PM
"I saw the suit's speech, whatever his name was. Clever how he went from talking tsunami to filesharing in one little monologue. Maybe he just wishes we would all wash away."
To be honest, his tirade, and to see what the enemy was doing to promote the whatsthedownload.com were the only reasons I even bothered to watch. The NARAS Prez tried to spin it so that the RIAA artists (and associated industry) were alltruistic goody two-shoes, giving money to disaster relief and teaching kids how to play music instruments and all, but that they were being ripped off by "evil pirates".
It was pure rubbish. |
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MajorTreat
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 4:19 PM
They knew that because sensor ship Janette Jackson would not show her breast so they did not watched! |
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MajorTreat
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 4:22 PM
It is time to start an indies/p2P Grammy I am sure people will watch this one! |
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MajorTreat
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 4:26 PM
"Are people even downloading this stuff??"
Ya! I am downloading to bother them but I am not crazy I don't listen to it! |
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clickplay
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Date: February 15, 2005 @ 9:23 PM
...."Viewers who didn't tune in missed a treat." Like in doggie treat.
...."jane and joe public has maybe finally woke up and figured the music industry needs to get a hint or a clue."..
Unfortuneately not.A clue would mean that they would take the next step and solve the problem with some sort of activity other than not bothering to snap on the "tube" from their couch with the remote.
No ,I suspect that apathy has taken a greater hold on the half of the American viewing public, the half that needs an injection of some type of manufactured entertainment to move there tired asses.
The war ,the elctions the 'Hangover" ,its part of the morning after the big election ,war bash that's got them down. |
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TheWitchingHour
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Date: February 16, 2005 @ 3:53 AM
Haven't watched an awards show or or any music oriented television in like 10 years.
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independentm...
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Date: February 16, 2005 @ 6:00 AM
Good for you! |
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gdZiemann
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Date: February 16, 2005 @ 8:11 PM
Lachatte -- just spotted your comment. fun-neee, indeed.
Saw Skynyrd in 1975 or 76 at the infamous Toledo Sports Dungeon, one of the worst acoustical structures known to modern man. Few have managed (assuming it still exists) to control the arena's unnatural resounding echo, designed to make the audience sound louder for hockey games and professional wrestling, not to mention the occasional roller derby game.
Skynyrd wasn't among the few. They gave me a headache. Couldn't even hear the piano, either. I didn't even stay long enough to hear "Free Bird." |
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