Googling By Numbers

It’s Grammys time, no one can Google anything else and thus I cannot blog about anything else.

Which suits me just fine!

Technically, I haven’t seen the Grammy Awards yet.

I live in one of those countries (Italy) that isn’t really up on what’s hot.

Well, it’s not that they’re not up on it, it’s more that they don’t know what’s hot unless it comes in the form of variety show with old men and half-naked dancing strippers.

But I digress… plus I’m being mean and I don’t want to get attacked by a bunch of angry Italian blog readers (although from my experience, their English as a whole ain’t great… way to busy immortalising soccer players to learn).

I probably will never get to see the Grammys on TV, unless cable shows it, which could be three months from now.

In Italy, they don’t have a version of the Grammys. But they do have SanRemo. Only one person wins, they’re usually extremely hot but extremely untalented… and it’s usually rigged.

But I did some snooping and the ‘American Idiot’ musical caught my attention. At first I thought it was American Idol: The Musical and I had to supress my screams of horror…  ‘Oh, it would be worse than the High School Musical musical I saw at my cousin’s elementary school’… no one could sing.

When I’d found my glasses and saw it was actually ‘American Idiot: The Musical‘, I still kinda stiffled a scream. I didn’t think it was possible for someone to have such an endless font of societal disatisfaction that they could make album after album…let alone turn it into a musical.

From what Wikipedia has told me, the musical seems to be very anti-establishment, like everyone one of Green Day’s songs, drug-fueled and ends… and I quote… with Jimmy “blowing his brains out into the bay”.

How sweet. I’m sure it will be a broadway hit. Although, it’s times like these that you really miss Annie: The Musical and The Lion King.

It might be just me but I can’t see it. Blowing your brains out while you sing a punked up show tune is seriously twisted. What would the Glee kids say?

Although, I must admit, It should be interesting to see the Marilyn Manson-like drug dealer who calls himself “St. Jimmy” break out in a song and dance.

What all this has to do with the Grammys beats me, sorry if I tricked you here on false pretences, but I told you I hadn’t seen it.

Here’s a list of the 2010 winners:

Record of the Year: “Use Somebody,” Kings of Leon

Album of the Year: “Fearless,” Taylor Swift

Song of the Year: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On it),” Beyonce Knowles

New Artist: Zac Brown Band

Pop Vocal Album: “The E.N.D.”, The Black Eyed Peas

Female Pop Vocal Performance: “Halo,” Beyonce Knowles

Male Pop Vocal Performance: “Make It Mine,” Jason Mraz

Rock Album: “21st Century Breakdown,” Green Day

Rock Song: “Use Somebody,” Kings of Leon

R&B Album: “BLACKsummers’night, “Maxwell

R&B Song: “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It),” Beyonce Knowles

Rap Album: “Relapse,” Eminem

Rap Song: “Run This Town,” Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: “Run This Town,” Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West

Country Album: “Fearless,” Taylor Swift

Female Country Vocal Performance: “White Horse,” Taylor Swift

Male Country Vocal Performance: “Sweet Thing,” Keith Urban