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[Floridian]

It's Grammy weekend folks. It's about that time of the year again where we watch our favorite music artists either get the awards they deserve or get snubbed. The year of 2014 may or may have not been the strongest or most diverse for music depending on your taste, but we make lemonade with the "lemons" offered. This year we're in for a special treat in performances, ranging from AC/DC, to Hozier, to Rihanna, to Madonna, to John Legend and many more. We'll even have a Selma Tribute from Beyoncé. Did I mention that this'll be the first time in 6 years that Kanye returns to the Grammys? This year there will be a Grammy Premiere Ceremony which takes place before the actual event, which will be streamed. During the Premiere event, some awards are given out to the nominees. Whether you're here just to stay for the lovely performances, the awards, or the inevitable meltdowns, this year's Grammy Awards will do its best to present to us with a summation of what 2014 had to offer. The Hype around the program is very strong, and it leaves many questions that are left to be answered in due time; Will Sam Smith sweep the awards and snatch AOTY from Beyoncé? Will Twitter be stable if Iggy wins Rap AOTY? Will Katy finally get a Grammy? How memorable will be the performances be? Will the nominees of your choice finally get their deserved recognition?
Stay tuned on CBS Sunday night at 8:00 pm EST. They'll be updates as time pass by.

When: Sunday, February 8th, 2015. 8 pm EST on CBS channel
Premiere Ceremony: Sunday, February 8th from 3:30 pm to 6:30 pm est/12:30 pm to 3:30 pm PT (Streamed Here: http://www.grammy.com/live)
Where: Staples Center (Los Angeles, California)
Host: LL Cool J

Performers:
AC/DC
Beck and Chris Martin
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga
Eric Church
Brandy Clark and Dwight Yoakam
Common and John Legend
Ariana Grande
Herbie Hancock, John Mayer, Questlove with Ed Sheeran
Hozier and Annie Lennox
Jessie J and Tom Jones
Juanes
Miranda Lambert
Lang Lang
Adam Levine and Gwen Stefani
Jeff Lynne's ELO
Madonna
Katy Perry
Rihanna, Paul McCartney and Kanye West
Sia
Sam Smith and Mary J. Blige
Usher
Pharrell Williams
Beyoncé in a Selma Tribute
Kanye West in a Solo performance

Presenters:
Dierks Bentley
James Corden
Jamie Foxx
Barry Gibb
Dave Grohl
Jennifer Hudson
Enrique Iglesias
Nick Jonas
Anna Kendrick
Shia LaBeouf
Katharine McPhee
Gwyneth Paltrow
Pentatonix
Smokey Robinson
Nile Rodgers
Gina Rodriguez
Taylor Swift
Meghan Trainor
Miley Cyrus
Nicki Minaj
Keith Urban
The Weeknd
Stevie Wonder

Record of the Year:
Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
Iggy Azalea - Fancy (featuring Charli XCX)
Sam Smith - Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)
Sia - Chandelier
Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass

Album of the Year:
Beyoncé - Beyoncé
Ed Sheeran - x
Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour
Morning Phase - Beck
Pharrell Williams - G I R L

Song of the Year:
Meghan Trainor - All About That Bass
Sia - Chandelier
Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
Sam Smith - Stay With Me (Darkchild Version)
Hozier - Take Me To Church

Best New Artist:
HAIM
Bastille
Iggy Azalea
Brandy Clark
Sam Smith

Best Rock Album:
Ryan Adams – Ryan Adams
Morning Phase – Beck
Turn Blue – The Black Keys
Hypnotic Eye – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Songs of Innocence – U2

Best Rap Album:
The New Classic – Iggy Azalea
Because the Internet – Childish Gambino
Nobody's Smiling – Common
The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – Eminem
Oxymoron – ScHoolboy Q
Blacc Hollywood – Wiz Khalifa

Best Rap Performance:
"3005" – Childish Gambino
"i" – Kendrick Lamar
"0 to 100 / The Catch Up" – Drake
"Rap God" – Eminem
"All I Need Is You" – Lecrae

Best Pop Vocal Album:
Ghost Stories – Coldplay
Bangerz – Miley Cyrus
My Everything – Ariana Grande
Prism – Katy Perry
x – Ed Sheeran
In the Lonely Hour – Sam Smith

Best Alternative Music Album:
This Is All Yours – alt-J
Reflektor – Arcade Fire
Melophobia – Cage the Elephant
St. Vincent – St. Vincent
Lazaretto – Jack White

Best R&B Album:
Islander – Bernhoft
Lift Your Spirit – Aloe Blacc
Love, Marriage & Divorce – Toni Braxton & Babyface
Black Radio 2 – Robert Glasper Experiment
Give The People What They Want – Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings

Best Dance/Electronic Album:
Syro – Aphex Twin
while(1<2) &#8211; deadmau5
Nabuma Rubberband &#8211; Little Dragon
Do It Again &#8211; Röyksopp & Robyn
Damage Control &#8211; Mat Zo

Full List of Nominees here

Edit: For those wondering which albums are eligible for nomination:

For the 57th Annual GRAMMY Awards, albums must be released between Oct. 1, 2013 and Sept. 30, 2014.

 

[Vazra]

https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS

Ready if Iggy wins anything to have the best live commentary around.

 

[maxcriden]

Thanks for making this great OT!

Record of the Year:

Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
Sia - Chandelier

Song of the Year:

Sia - Chandelier
Taylor Swift - Shake It Off

Best New Artist:

Bastille

Best Rock Album:

Turn Blue &#8211; The Black Keys

Best Alternative Music Album:

Melophobia &#8211; Cage the Elephant

P.S. what's the difference between album and record of the year?

 

[SaintZ]

TBH, Iggy has a lot of competition. I don't see her winning the rap album. I think she has a chance with Fancy in the duo category tho.

 

[strafer]

AC/DC?

I thought the band disbanded after the drummer stuff

 

[Maintenance]

Dreams: Anything but Taylor Swift.

Reality: She'll win a lot of stuff, unfortunately.

 

[BeatResetsTheWorld]

TBH, Iggy has a lot of competition. I don't see her winning the rap album. I think she has a chance with Fancy in the duo category tho.

She'll win. Trust me

 

[enigmatic_alex44]

Can't wait for the meltdowns when Igor wins lmaooo. Dark Horse for single of the year.

It's gonna be Sam Smith's night :*)

Mega excited for the Queen of Pop performing Living for Love, Gaga, Ariana, and Katy.

Taylor's not performing though? 1989 truly has been forgotten, poor her.

 

[Courage]

My god, the album of the year nominees are horrible. Beyonce literally the only good album out of the bunch.

 

[Vazra]

Can't wait for the meltdowns when Igor wins lmaooo. Dark Horse for single of the year.

It's gonna be Sam Smith's night :*)

Mega excited for the Queen of Pop performing Living for Love, Gaga, Ariana, and Katy.

Taylor's not performing though? 1989 truly has been forgotten, poor her.

Yet 1989 sales are better than Gaga, Ariana and Katy latest albums combined.

Random Guesses
Record of the Year:
Sia - Chandelier

Album of the Year:
Sam Smith - In The Lonely Hour

Song of the Year:
Sia - Chandelier


Best New Artist:
Sam Smith

Best Rock Album:
Songs of Innocence &#8211; U2

Best Rap Album:
The Marshall Mathers LP 2 &#8211; Eminem


Best Rap Performance:
"i" &#8211; Kendrick Lamar


Best Pop Vocal Album:
In the Lonely Hour &#8211; Sam Smith

Best Alternative Music Album:
St. Vincent &#8211; St. Vincent


Best R&B Album:
Love, Marriage & Divorce &#8211; Toni Braxton & Babyface

 

[con-ca-te-nate]

Thanks for making this great OT!

Record of the Year:

Taylor Swift - Shake It Off
Sia - Chandelier

Song of the Year:

Sia - Chandelier
Taylor Swift - Shake It Off

Best New Artist:

Bastille

Best Rock Album:

Turn Blue – The Black Keys

Best Alternative Music Album:

Melophobia – Cage the Elephant

P.S. what's the difference between album and record of the year?

Album of the Year- Whole Album
Recor of the Year- One song

Both awards are being given to the artist, producer etc.

Song of the Year- One song but only given to the composer/ artist

 

[teruterubozu]

Jeff Lynne
Sam Smith

Stay With Me/I Won't Back Down medley?

I wonder if Jeff Lynne is there to accept the award along with Sam Smith. lol

 

[Kusagari]

She'll win. Trust me

I'd be far more confident in it if Em wasn't there. The old fogies might just give it to him like always.

 

[Cow Mengde]

Weird Al needs to win all the awards.

 

[con-ca-te-nate]

It'll be Sia's night bitch.

 

[ryseing]

Best New Artist:

Bastille

?

You don't like Haim?

 

[maxcriden]

Album of the Year- Whole Album
Recor of the Year- One song

Both awards are being given to the artist, producer etc.

Song of the Year- One song but only given to the composer/ artist

Ah HA. Thanks con-ca-te-nate!

You don't like Haim?

Honestly I don't even know the name. What would be a song of theirs that I'd have heard on the radio, like top 40?

 

[Servbot24]

The worst thing about the Grammys is not the bad artists, but the bad artists that the press pretend are a redeeming quality, like Adele and Arcade Fire.

 

[Floridian]

It'll be Sia's night bitch.

She has a good chance of winning too.

 

[Damerman]

Adele and Arcade Fire.

Lmao... So edgy.... Arcade fire and adele bad artists... First i ever heard of it.

 

[Courage]

Arcade Fire.

 

[Galang]

The mess when Iggy wins best rap album will be very entertaining. As wrong as it is... I'm excited to see the fallout as well as Iggy acting like she deserves it.

 

[Mr. Doop]

Weird Al better win best comedy album.

 

[Servbot24]

The mess when Iggy wins best rap album will be very entertaining. As wrong as it is... I'm excited to see the fallout as well as Iggy acting like she deserves it.

This is one of those things where you secretly (or openly, idk) root for the worst people to win.

 

[Karsha]

How does it exactly work, "1989" is considered for next year ? Because it's a bit weird seeing that it has 0 nominations when it comes to albums

 

[Deleted member 102362]

Best Dance/Electronic Album
Syro - Aphex Twin

all that matters.

 

[teruterubozu]

How does it exactly work, "1989" is considered for next year ? Because it's a bit weird seeing that it has 0 nominations when it comes to albums

Probably. HAIM's album was 2013 and they're being considered for Best New Artist, for example.

 

[Floridian]

How does it exactly work, "1989" is considered for next year ? Because it's a bit weird seeing that it has 0 nominations when it comes to albums

There's an Album deadline for the Grammy Awards, which was September 30th. 1989 came out after the deadline so it wasn't eligible for AOTY. It could have a chance at appearing on next year's AOTY nominees.

 

[teruterubozu]

Oh shit, Tom Petty's being nominated for Rock Album too.
I'll laugh if Tom Petty & Jeff Lynne stand up with Sam Smith for "Stay With Me."

 

[Oozer3993]

Kanye is performing twice. I repeats, KANYE IS PERFORMING TWICE. Once with Rihanna and Paul McCartney and again with "an as-yet-unannounced new solo track" according to MTV.

 

[D23]

I want Iggy to win best rap album for the meltdown

 

[Kusagari]

Kanye is performing twice. I repeats, KANYE IS PERFORMING TWICE. Once with Rihanna and Paul McCartney and again with "an as-yet-unannounced new solo track" according to MTV.

So he's not performing Only One?

Thank god.

 

[Floridian]

Kanye is performing twice. I repeats, KANYE IS PERFORMING TWICE. Once with Rihanna and Paul McCartney and again with "an as-yet-unannounced new solo track" according to MTV.

Interesting, Lemme edit.

 

[Matt_]

Sam Smith - Lay With Me (Darkchild Version)

I wasn't aware there was another version?

He's going to sweep anyway

 

[Dénouement]

So excited to see Madonna's first (real) performance at the Grammys in nearly 10 years, when she opened the show with Gorillaz in 2006! Should be a great performance of Living For Love, the first single off her 13th album, Rebel Heart, which is due in early March!

Also exciting to see Katy Perry in the performances, they must have added her when they saw how she drew 118 million people to watch her amazing halftime show last week - the most watched halftime show in history! It also makes sense considering her video for the song Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J), which is nominated for a Grammy award, just became the most watched video by a female artist! 800M+ views in less than a year! Wow! Disappointed she won't be singing Legendary Lovers or Walking on Air, though, instead opting for the boring ass By the Grace of God from her multiplatinum album, Prism.

Ariana Grande should also be amazing as always! But I'll let botty take it from here.

 

[Vazra]

I want Iggy to win best rap album for the meltdown

If Iggy wins an award I shall post this gif everytime she gets one but if she gets none you'll see it here.

 

[Patapwn]

Pop gaf rejoice!

 

[enigmatic_alex44]

Yet 1989 sales are better than Gaga, Ariana and Katy latest albums combined.

Gurl since when do you stan Taylor though?

 

[Vazra]

Gurl since when do you stan Taylor though?

I don't stan her but I can't lie about sales.

 

[friskykillface]

Daft Punk winning last year was amazing , saw lots of salt on twitter

B^) can they win again this year

 

[Soulscribe]

Will be watching for Gaga and Madonna.

 

[Blood Diamonds]

I have my essay on cultural appropriation and racism ready for when Igloo wins something

 

[rhandino]

- Beyonce
- Katy Perry, her first Grammy and performance.
- 45 Seconds, the Rihanna vocals live X_x
- Juanes performance.
- The possibility of Azealia Banks meltdowns aka. Iggy winning.
- Madonna performing live "Living for Love"

Yeah, that cover it all.

 

[Floridian]

Rehearsal image

 

[Meowster]

Hope Taylor and Sam sweep!

 

[Blood Diamonds]

Rehearsal image

who the fuck is that on the far left

 

[Floridian]

who the fuck is that on the far left

I don't know, but by association, Kanye is going to make him famous.

 

[AyaisMUsikWhore]

I would be pretty messed up if HAIM loses to Iggy. Now that would be more upsetting than anything else she could possibly win. HAIM is leagues, miles, fucking universes better than Iggy.

Anyone but Iggy needs to win Best New Artist...except Bastille. They just plain suck

 

[Crud]

The secret to enjoying it, is by not watching.

 

[Jackben]

The 57th Annual Grammy Awards 2015 |OT| White Women Win