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[Phire Phox]

It's that time of the year again. It's the Grammy Awards, music's biggest night, where there's some exciting musical performances, a few surprises, and, oh, some awards being handed out every now and then. They'll be performances and appearances from the likes of Daft Punk, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, Anna Kendrick, Ariana Grande, Neil Patrick Harris, Kendrick Lamar and many, many more.

When: January 26, 2014. 8 pm EST
Pre-Telecast (Where the majority of the awards will be handed out) at 4 pm est/1 pm Pacific (Streamed Here: http://www.grammy.com/live)
Where: Staples Center (Los Angeles, California)
Host: LL Cool J

Perfomers:
Sara Bareilles & Carole King
Beyonce & Jay-Z
Gary Clark, Jr.
Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers, Pharrell Williams & Stevie Wonder
Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson & Blake Shelton
Hunter Hayes
Kendrick Lamar & Imagine Dragons
Miranda Lambert & Billie Joe Armstrong
John Legend
Lorde
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis with Madonna
Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr
Metallica & Lang Lang
Kacey Musgraves
Nine Inch Nails, Lindsay Buckingham, Dave Grohl & Queens of the Stone Age (show finale)
Katy Perry
Pink & Nate Ruess
Taylor Swift
Robin Thicke & Chicago
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Keith Urban

Nominees

Album of the Year

• The Blessed Unrest - Sara Barailles
• Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
• Good Kid, M.A.A.D City - Kendrick Lamar
• The Heist - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Red - Taylor Swift

Record of the Year

• Get Lucky - Daft Punk & Pharell
• Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
• Royals - Lorde
• Locked out of Heaven - Bruno Mars
• Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke, Pharell & T.I.

Song of the Year (A songwriter's award)

• Just Give Me a Reason, written by Pink, Nate Ruess & Jeff Bhasker
• Roar, written by Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry Walter
• Locked out of Heaven, written by Bruno Mars, Ari Levine & Phillip Lawrence
• Royals, written by Ella Yelich-O'Connor & Joel Little
• Same Love, written by Ben Haggerty, Ryan Lewis & Mary Lambert

Best New Artist

• James Blake
• Kendrick Lamar
• Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Kacey Musgraves
• Ed Sheeran

Best Pop Solo Performance

• Brave - Sara Barailles
• Roar - Katy Perry
• Royals - Lorde
• Mirrors - Justin Timberlake
• If I was your Man - Bruno Mars

Best Pop Vocal Album

• Paradise - Lana Del Rey
• Pure Heroine - Lorde
• The 20/20 Experience - Justin Timberlake
• Unorthodox Jukebox - Bruno Mars
• Blurred Lines - Robin Thicke

Best Rap Album

• Nothing Was the Same - Drake
• Magna Carta....Holy Grail - Jay-Z
• Good Kid, M.A.A.D City - Kendrick Lamar
• The Heist - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
• Yeezus - Kanye West

Best Rap Performance

• Started From the Bottom - Drake
• Swimming Pools - Kendrick Lamar
• Berzerk - Eminem
• Tom Ford - Jay-Z
• Thrift Shop - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Rock Album

• 13 - Black Sabbath
• Celebration Day - Led Zeppelin
• The Next Day - David Bowie
• ....Like Clockwork - Queens of the Stone Age
• Mechanical Bull - Kings of Leon
• Psychedelic Pill - Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Best Alternative Music Album

• The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You - Neko Case
• Trouble Will Find Me - The National
• Modern Vampires of the City - Vampire Weekend
• Hesitation Marks - Nine Inch Nails
• Lonerism - Tame Impala

Best Country Album

• Red - Taylor Swift
• Based on a True Story - Blake Shelton
• Same Trailer Different Park - Kacey Musgraves
• Night Train - Jason Aldean
• Two Lanes of Freedom - Tim McGraw

Full List of Nominees

 

[IceCold]

Posted this in the Daft Punk thread:

https://twitter.com/starwars/status/426921545185771522



Also:

My body is ready.

 

[ThatOneDude]

inb4 the heist wins best rap album

Spoiler

rooting for gkmc though

 

[v1lla21]

Yeezus is going to win. Nothing touches that masterpiece.

Spoiler

/s

Am I the only one that dislikes Lorde?

Edit: hoping GKMC and Red win.

 

[effzee]

Kendrick Lamar is performing with Imagine Dragons?

That could be really good.

Inb4 gaf bitching about the nominees, who should or shouldn't win, or how the Grammy's don't mean anything.

Just going to enjoy the performances. I view it more as an amazing concert.

 

[Gunstarheroes]

Daft Punk is gonna get Best Song, i can feel it.

 

[Fry]

Weren't most of these released in 2012?


Will watch for Kendrick.

 

[Tucah]

Weren't most of these released in 2012?

Eligibility period is Oct. 1, 2012 - Sept. 30, 2013.

 

[effzee]

Weren't most of these released in 2012?


Will watch for Kendrick.

Grammys year is from Oct to Oct I believe. So anything from from October 2012 counts.

Same way next year anything releassd after October 2013 will be nominated even though it will be close to 1.5 years old.

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

I thought I was making it

 

[whatsinaname]

Roar nominated for best song writing? -_-

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

.

 

[Bread]

Nine Inch Nails is alternative music? ok. Hopefully HM or MVOTC wins that category.

 

[Fry]

Eligibility period is Oct. 1, 2012 - Sept. 30, 2013.

Grammys year is from Oct to Oct I believe. So anything from from October 2012 counts.

Same way next year anything releassd after October 2013 will be nominated even though it will be close to 1.5 years old.

Got it. Thanks.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

Eligibility period is Oct. 1, 2012 - Sept. 30, 2013.

I've always disliked this.

 

[ReiGun]

I'm here for the performances and the inevitable salt the award results will cause.

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

I just realized Gaga wasn't nominated.

RIP

 

[Fey]

Macklemore will win all the rap awards and will be considered the first "rap"/"hip hop" album to win AOTY while Lorde will be praised and rewarded for being racist. x

 

[DMeisterJ]

The most important categories:

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance
"Get Lucky" – Daft Punk featuring Pharrell Williams
"Just Give Me a Reason" – Pink featuring Nate Ruess
"Stay" – Rihanna featuring Mikky Ekko
"Blurred Lines" – Robin Thicke featuring T.I. and Pharrell Williams
"Suit & Tie" – Justin Timberlake featuring Jay-Z

Best Urban Contemporary Album
Love and War – Tamar Braxton
Side Effects of You – Fantasia
One: In the Chamber – Salaam Remi
Unapologetic – Rihanna
New York: A Love Story – Mack Wilds

Rihanna is gonna win both

 

[Chris R]

Lonerism winning would be insane. Hope kdot wins a thing or two also.

 

[bjork]

Lorde isn't over enough to be winning these yet. Maybe in an album or two. Next year is Grimes Time, so she can't win then either.

 

[sn00zer]

While im not a fan of the awards...the Grammy's do give good concert and give a lot of genres a shake on stage

 

[redfirm]

does anybody know the starting time for us duch people??plzz

 

[Mau ®]

ICON Rihanna is sitting in the front row with the writer of her SMASH HIT "Stay". Make sure to stay perched for them taking the grammy for best Pop Duo as well as the gif material she'll provide throughout the night.

 

[Danielsan]

I don't understand these awards. How is James Blake up for best new artist? The dude has been around for a while, and Overgrown is his second full length album...
It's the same thing they pulled with Bon Iver...

 

[Kusagari]

I don't understand these awards. How is James Blake up for best new artists. The dude has been around for a while, and Overgrown is his second full length album...
It's the same thing they pulled with Bon Iver...

New artist basically means whenever Grammy voters found out you exist.

 

[redfirm]

I don't understand these awards. How is James Blake up for best new artist? The dude has been around for a while, and Overgrown is his second full length album...
It's the same thing they pulled with Bon Iver...

who is james blake?

 

[BigFwoosh]

Roar for Song of the Year and Magna Carta Holy Grail for best rap album... smh.

 

[kingocfs]

who is james blake?

whoisjamesblake.tumblr.com

 

[Ryaaan14]

I just realized Gaga wasn't nominated.

RIP

ARTPOP wasn't even out yet

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

ARTPOP wasn't even out yet

Applause would have been up for Song of the Year

 

[Hasphat'sAnts]

The most important question: which song does Pharrell want to win?

 

[Touchdown]

#Beautiful should be up for best song, best pop song, best R&B song, record of the year, best pop vocal, and best pop duo. Bye.

 

[Kusagari]

Also Roar is probably the worst Katy Perry single ever and it's a joke it's nominated.

 

[Fey]

ARTPOP wasn't even out yet

I wonder what the excuse will be next year.

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

Taylord will also be performing her best song to date, All Too Well.

You better prepare yourselves for the slayage.

 

[Phire Phox]

I thought I was making it

Sorry :/ Didn't see anyone call dibs on making a thread so I just thought I'd throw one together.

 

[chaobreaker]

Lorde to win the "Everything She's Nominated For" award.

What? No, I'm not listening to Pure Heroine for the 100th time now. Honest.

 

[WhereAreMahDragonz]

Sorry :/ Didn't see anyone call dibs on making a thread so I just thought I'd throw one together.

It's okay <3

All that matters is that we have one

 

[NYCmetsfan]

This seems pretty cool.

Grammys to Feature On-Air Weddings of 34 Couples

 

[GK86]

Song of the Year (A songwriter's award)

Roar, written by Lukasz Gottwald, Max Martin, Bonnie McKee, Katy Perry & Henry Walter

Que?

 

[Majmun]

So, Beyoncé is going to win her 18th Grammy with Part II (On The Run).

Cool.

 

[Phire Phox]

So, Beyoncé is going to win her 18th Grammy with Part II (On The Run).

Cool.

Holy Grail is taking that one.

 

[Oozer3993]

The Grammys website does not list Beyonce and Jay-Z (screw you Shawn, I'm keeping the hyphen in there) performing. I know they're heavily rumored to, but I find it odd that they'd be left out of the Grammys site.

Just a heads up: You're all gonna be Kacey Musgraves fans after tonight. Just warning you now.

This will be only the second ever live, televised performance for Daft Punk. Their first was 6 years ago, again at the Grammys, as part of Kanye's legendary set.

If Taylor wins AOTY, she will become the youngest person ever to win the award twice. She will also become the only woman ever to win it twice for her own albums.

P.S.

 

[PhoenixDark]

Not even going to get my hopes up for this nonsense. Macklemore will win every rap category, which would be pathetic but expected. I'd imagine Daft Punk will win AOTY.

There's a rumor that Kendrick has received the vast majority of the Grammy board's AOTY votes but I just don't believe it.

 

[DMeisterJ]

Jay and Bey just HAVE to perform DRUNK IN LOVE tonight.

It'd be amazing.

 

[Jitters]

Looking forward to Dark Horse.

 

[Pryce]

Paradise - Lana Del Rey

Get it, Lana.

 

[Discotheque]

Not even going to get my hopes up for this nonsense. Macklemore will win every rap category, which would be pathetic but expected. I'd imagine Daft Punk will win AOTY.

There's a rumor that Kendrick has received the vast majority of the Grammy board's AOTY votes but I just don't believe it.

daft punk for aoty? that would be cool even though their album was boring.

anyways they might go for macklemore for aoty (nooooooo) and kendrick for rap aoty.

 

[MadSkillzBahamut]

Am I going to be able to watch the show from the UK?