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I stopped watching the Grammy's years ago. I was just getting too angry over the abject and pointless schlock being passed off as "music". Music is not some sort of commodity to be prepackaged in glitter, flash and dance. It is an Art form. I pine for the day when top quality musicians, and not just past successful people, finally get the respect and chance to record from the suits in the music industry. Plenty of fine talent goes unsigned or completely ignored and at the certain detriment of this noble endeavor. Lip synced disco pop rehash is not music, it is only ear pabulum for the musically illiterate. The 60s, 70s and even a little bit in the 80s produced well written and musically relevant tunes and bands. That is, disco symptom "music" and the obligatory teeny-bop pop crap notwithstanding. Today it's all about the sex, glamour and dance. It's all show no substance. The more tattoos, cleavage and not so subtle sexuality equals more sales. The suits have turned everything into a marketing strategy replete with all the trappings of a carnival side show. No so back in the day. Music was the focus. Show took a back seat to quality. When does it end?