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Last night's Grammy show was a musical knockout. There were stars galore, one bang up performance after another, and oh yeah, a couple of awards thrown in. Christina Aguilera nearly fell on her face, Mick Jagger proved age ain't slowin' him down and Esperanza Spalding proved that Bieber fever isn't as deadly as it seems.
It kicked off with a rousing all-star, diva salute to the ailing Aretha Franklin by Jennifer Hudson, Christina Aguilera, Martina McBride, Yolanda Adams and Florence Welsh and ended with a rock performance by Arcade Fire.
In between, Justin Bieber, Eminem, Usher, Rhianna and a whole bunch of other people I never heard of but whose albums I want to run out and buy, took to the stage.
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Here are my highlights and lowlights:
Highlights of the 2011 Grammys
- Christina Aguilera made up for flubbing the national anthem at the Superbowl by tearing up her part of the Aretha tribute. Then when the performance was over, she nearly tripped off the stage, but didn't.
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- Jennifer Hudson effortlessly blowing the roof off during her part of the Aretha tribute. I'm loving her more and more every day.
- Aretha's taped thank you for the tribute. She looked good, even though the dress she was wearing looked like it was from about forty pounds ago.
- Thought they had to call in security during Muse doing "Uprising," but was relieved to see the scary, masked anarchists were only lost backup dancers.
- An overdose of Lady Gaga. irst she was on 60 Minutes, coming off very shrewd and smart -- telling Anderson Cooper how she's studied "the sociology of fame." I'm thinkin' she's also studied the career of Madonna. Then she was one of the big performers on the Grammy show itself.
- And speaking of Madonna, did y'all notice how Gaga's new song, "Born this Way" sounds a lot like Madonna's "Express Yourself?" Not that I'm saying it's a ripoff, but sounds just enough like it to not be as original as Gaga's other stuff.
Grammy Lowlights
- Not a lot of lowlights 'cause the show was that good, but the tribute to dead musicians? Not cool. They
