thank-you notes (grammy awards live blog)
So Carrie Underwood is the Best New Artist. She may be newer than Imogen Heap, but she's not exactly new this year. She won "American Idol" in spring 2005, and it feels like she's been around forever. Seriously, who came up with the criteria for this award?
It seems the winners are being very brief with their acceptance speeches — more so than winners at other awards shows. I wonder why that is?
Something, perhaps, to do with the fact that most popular songs are 3 to 5 minutes long, while TV shows are 30 to 60 minutes and movies are a couple hours? Maybe the musical artists are just used to reaching audiences in shorter time slots.