Dave Itzkoff: Here we go. Greatest meme in the history of the Internet, coming up. And Madonna slipping in a chorus of “Open Your Heart.”
Jon Caramanica: WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IS HAPPENING? This is easily peak insanity at the Grammys.
Jon Caramanica: To recap: Madonna is dressed as an evil sheriff from “Justified” and is singing an art-song version of “Open Your Heart” after 33 couples got married to a Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Song under the watchful eye of Queen Latifah. Did I miss anything?
Dave Itzkoff: I think they got the stained glass on discount from Nicki Minaj’s stage show.
Jon Caramanica: Stained plexiglass. Every part of that was face-melting. Better than 100 Lang Lang / Metallica mash-ups.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/grammy-awards-2014-live-blog/I have to agree with them. I was so looking forward to this—really. But, aside from Macklemore, who I thought was pretty great, I thought this was totally cheesy, and frankly, a kind of usurpation of the same-sex marriage topic in order to promote the music industry. Call me unsentimental (and I love gay weddings), but I was not really moved, and thought this was about as nutty as the Metallica - Lang Lang production.
Flame away.
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