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Of the stars with a shot at sweeping the three top categories on the show — which airs between 8 and 11:30 p.m. on CBS — all boast double X chromosomes. Vying for Album, Song and Record of the Year honors are fierce R&B diva Beyoncé, faux-country teen star Taylor Swift and dance-floor freak show Lady Gaga. There’s even a key fourth woman up in two of the top three slots (Album and Record): Fergie of the Black Eyed Peas. The fact that gender played such a big part in choosing the top candidates speaks to more than just the particular work these women released in the last year. It proves that estrogen fuels much of what’s left of the music industry itself. More, it underscores the red-alert level of anxiety experienced by the entire business. As illegal downloading continues to erode CD sales (while, ironically, escalating actual music consumption), the industry has had to choose more carefully who to back with its bucks. At the same time, the infinite choices provided by the Internet have undermined the industry’s attempts to sustain mass-market stars, to the benefit of smaller indie labels. Which means the major companies have to think even harder about who has the goods to endure as the last true panmedia stars. The thinking goes something like this: Female artists — with their endless hair, makeup and clothing adornments, not to mention the assertive characters they need to survive in a male-dominated world — make more fetching, changeable and interesting icons than most of their male counterparts. (Adam Lambert to the contrary.) Acts like the Dave Matthews Band, Green Day and U2 may impress no end in the realm of music. But they lack the tricked-out glamour and sizzle that stars like Beyoncé and Gaga can use to get on fashion and lifestyle magazine covers, as well as to land on the most coveted seat on the planet: across from Oprah. As the general media lose interest in actual music while gaining interest in what’s garish, record companies need singers with big enough backstories and attitudes to snag the most eyes and ears. That explains why the lone males we see in the top Grammy categories this time are the rather frumpy Matthews & Co. (up for Album of the Year) and, for some token man candy, Kings of Leon (up for Song and Record). But if this year’s big categories saved at least a seat for males, it’s telling that they haven’t made equal room for a group voters normally make sure to include: arty ringers. Read more: here |
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The 28-year-old singer who collected nominations including album of the year for her ‘I Am . . . Sasha Fierce’ double CD and for the single ‘Halo’ has been booked for the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards to be held on Jan 31 here, Aceshowbiz reported. In addition to Beyonce, another musician who is speculated to make a live performance at the forthcoming show is Maxwell, who has grabbed six nominations. However, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences which organises the event has not yet confirmed the report. |
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Nominated for three Grammys, Beyoncé’s hit “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” from her third solo album, I Am … Sasha Fierce, has taken the world by storm. Peaking at No. 1 on the Billboard chart and staying on top for four non-consecutive weeks, the single dominated Hot 100 Airplay, topped U.K., Canadian and Australian charts and, with over 3,000,000 digital downloads, became the singer’s highest-selling song. But do you know the story behind the music and the moves? The Lyrics “It was the only public statement that they ever made about marriage,” says the song’s producer Christopher “Tricky” Stewart. “When we went into the studio she didn’t have a ring on or anything, because at that point they were still really hiding it. That’s where Dream got that concept from.” “I thought it was a subject that most women wanted to talk about because most of us men are scared as s— to be bound to a commitment,” adds The-Dream (real name: Terius Youngdell Nash). The Sound “I always believe that every artist has a groove to them,” says Tricky, who crafted the song’s shuffle beat. “That rhythm is what she responds to,” he adds. And once she had the rhythm locked in, she delivered the now-classic lines, “on point right away,” says vocal producer Kuk Harrell. “She knows what she’s going for.” The Video “She wanted it to feel good and powerful and she wanted something that everyone would do,” says Knight. Beyoncé’s main inspiration was the Bob Fosse-choreographed performance of “Mexican Breakfast” on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1969 and, says Gatson, “Shirley MacLaine in Sweet Charity … That is why Beyoncé ran up the wall [in the video].” Pair those moves and killer costumes, “reminiscent of the high-cut leotards seen in both A Chorus Line and All That Jazz, but modern,” according to designer Tina Knowles, and add a flash of that $5-million Lorraine Schwartz wedding ring, and it’s easy to see why “Single Ladies” became an instant classic. “I think the visual is what really pulled the record together as a whole,” says Tricky. “The reach was just unparalleled.” Watch the 52nd Annual Grammy Awards on Jan. 31 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, live on CBS – and catch up on all the news and style from the show on PEOPLE.com! |
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