nice girls (grammy awards live blog)
I have to confess I don't know a lot about many of this year's nominees, or about their songs or albums.
I don't really listen to the radio, ever, so I'm only exposed to new music through TV and movies, or through recommendations and gifts from my highly musically literate aunt in Delaware, or friends in Vancouver or Syracuse. So though I can always be found with music in the background — CDs in the car and at home, and my mp3 player all night at work — most of what I listen to is more obscure, more independent, less in the mainstream than what's played on the radio. I read Entertainment Weekly, but I usually just skim the music section, on the lookout for pieces on artists I already know.
So most of tonight's performances will probably include songs that are very new to me, if not to the rest of the viewers.
The Dixie Chicks' "I Don't Wanna Make Nice" sounded like a good song. And Beyoncé put on a great show too.
And Mary J. Blige just won in the R&B Album category for "The Breakthrough."
Such nice girls.