{"id":265,"date":"2007-02-09T22:47:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T03:47:27","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-09T23:26:18","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T23:26:18","slug":"grammy-watch-three-big-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/grammy-watch-three-big-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAMMY Watch: Three Big Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Townsman Rick<\/strong>, one of Rock Town Hall&#8217;s most contemporary and open-minded regulars, has determined the three big questions leading into this Sunday&#8217;s 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards:<\/em><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pdJ0C5iFJn4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nFor me, there are three big questions going into the GRAMMYS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first is, how will <strong>The Police<\/strong> do?<\/li>\n<li>The second is, will <strong>Gnarls Barkley<\/strong> have that breakout performance that has the whole country going &#8220;I have no idea WTF these guys are, but they&#8217;re great!&#8221; Unfortunately, they&#8217;ll probably play the tame hit &#8220;Crazy&#8221; instead of a mindbender like <strong>&#8220;Go-Go Gadget Gospel&#8221;<\/strong>, but still their bizarre combined Look should be interesting and challenging to folks in <strong>Peoria<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Third, have we really gone so soft that <strong>Corinne Bailey Rae<\/strong> will win GRAMMY Awards? <em>Sheesh.<\/em> At least <strong>A Taste of Honey<\/strong> (who beat out Costello for Best New Artist, but you knew that, right?) were aggressively cheesy, and their one hit does have legs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman Rick, one of Rock Town Hall&#8217;s most contemporary and open-minded regulars, has determined the three big questions leading into this Sunday&#8217;s 49th Annual GRAMMY Awards: For me, there are three big questions going into the GRAMMYS: The first is, how will The Police do? The second is, will Gnarls Barkley have that breakout performance <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/grammy-watch-three-big-questions\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}