The 54th annual Grammy Awards air Sunday, February 12 at 8pm EST on CBS.
It never fails... each year, you think long and hard about your list of Grammy predictions, only to tune in Sunday to discover that, yeah, whoops, you weren't even close. Why? Because you and I can think rationally about music and the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences cannot. (Imagine I'm saying all this like Colonel Landa in Inglourious Basterds.) So, in the spirit of attempting to think like the NARAS, I've divided this year's obligatory Grammy Prediction cycle into two separate categories—who WILL win, and who SHOULD win.
(Don't like any of the nominees? Of course you don't. It's why you should vote now in our first-annual ANTI-GRAMMY Awards.)
Today's Category:
Best Rock Performance
The Nominees:
Coldplay - "Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall"
The Decemberists - "Down By The Water"
Foo Fighters - "Walk"
Mumford & Sons - "The Cave"
Radiohead - "Lotus Flower"
Will Win:
Foo Fighters. The nominees are all great this year, but come on—the Foos are the only "real" rock n' roll act here. The Decemberists and Mumford & Sons are a little folksy for a rock award, Coldplay are a little too pop... and Radiohead are a little too much of whatever it was they were doing on The King of Limbs. As I've said before, this is the Foo Fighters' year, they're going to sweep all the rock categories they're nominated in.
Should Win:
Radiohead. No particular reason—I'd just like to see King of Limbs earn some industry accolades after last year's astounding Mercury Prize snub. Any other year, I'd be rooting for The Decemberists, but The King Is Dead, despite being their all-time best-selling album, traded in everything I liked about them for a straight-forward country/folk rock sound. Sorry, guys.
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