Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s R&B supergroup Silk Sonic made their television debut at the 2021 Grammy Awards, performing their first single “Leave the Door Open.” The duo performed the tune in retro orange suits, complete with sunglasses and twinkling lights in the background. Their new album An Evening With …
Read More »15 Thoughts on the 2021 Grammys
As a fictional singer-songwriter who once fictionally peed their fictional pants at a fictional Grammys ceremony once sang, via real-life, dry-trousered songwriter Jason Isbell, “Maybe it’s time to let the old ways die.” And, like, it really is. The 2021 Grammy broadcast was already poised for reinvention, with producer Ken …
Read More »Lido Pimienta Is Feeling Free
Lido Pimienta is at home in Toronto the day after releasing yet another visual feat — this time, it’s the Orly Anan-directed video for her song “Coming Thru,” which features her presiding over an opulent table that brims with lush fruit and food. Her son, Lucian, chatters happily in the …
Read More »The Crisis Behind the All-White Grammy Category
The only artists up for the 2021 Best Children’s Album Grammy are white — which, in a year of reckoning for the Recording Academy over diversity problems, has drawn wide ire, and led to three of the five white nominees writing to the Academy last month asking for their names …
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