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:
Album of the Year
The Nominees:
Adele - 21
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Bruno Mars - Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Rihanna - Loud
Will Win:
Adele. Come on, does anyone seriously think otherwise? Like it or not, 21 is one of the biggest selling albums of the past decade, breaking sales records left and right and even healing the deaf, lame and mute on occasion. The fact that they even bothered to nominate four other artists feels frankly a little unnecessary—we all know this is Adele's year, let's just skip the fanfare and give her the trophy now.
Should Win:
I'm not crazy about any of the nominees, frankly, but it'd be a mind-blower if Foo Fighters took home the award. Not because I think Wasting Light is that great of an album, but because after Arcade Fire's surprise win last year, I think it'd be great to see a bona fide rock n' roll group take the Top Grammy two years in a row. No offense Rihanna, but the fact that you're even nominated for such a (supposedly) prestigious award makes me want to dump coffee all over my keyboard. At this point, we should all just take off our proverbial hats to Adele and hope for better luck and better choices next year.
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