A few
people from our cohort and I met up to watch the 2020 Grammy Awards ceremony aired
live on CBS last night. The Grammys celebrated Lizzo, Lil Nas X, and Tyler, the
Creator--his performance, his inhaler, and all. The Grammys mourned Kobe Bryant.
Billie Eilish conquered the categories. And Ariana Grande seemed a bit off her game
that night.
Amongst the
noticeable bustle from the ceremony’s last-minute changes in production at the
wake of Kobe Bryant’s death as well as the scandal surrounding former Grammys
CEO Deborah Dugan and her allegations that the ceremony is rigged (let’s pretend
that we are all surprised by that), I couldn’t help but view the Grammys in the
context of television’s nature of liveness. How we were able to watch the show aired
from the Staples Center only several miles away in almost real-time, how the
nature and perception of the ceremony was affected by the allegations of Dugan,
how quickly the televised content could react to recent news, and such.
On that
note, I am sharing on the blog a link to Tyler, the Creator’s ecstatic
performance from that night. I was genuinely shocked by the presentation, not
to the mention the camerawork. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyihlREUghk
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