There's a Twitter war right now between ignorant younger people upset that Bonnie Raitt

[highplainsdem]

won the Grammy for Song of the Year, and older people (and smart young people) telling them they need to learn who she is.

I'm seeing so many tweets from young people crying that they'd never heard of Bonnie Raitt, and saying the award was "stolen" from Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Adele, etc.

Bonnie's won 10 Grammy Awards and was given the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award just last year.

[bahboo]

1. hopefully they will listen...and learn....

this old guy loves being exposed to all the current music...

[mitch96]

28. We might be old but they are just jealous that we had the best music, best cars and best hair..nt

[LakeArenal]

2. Eh... Their loss. Good music defies time.

Bonnie is singing all the way to the bank.

She won the award. Beyoncé and Taylor know who she is.

[Demobrat]

4. Well she gave them something to talk about.

Hope they figure it out.

[judesedit]

10. Good one lol

[MMBeilis]

5. I didn't know her or her music in 1992 when she performed "Something To Talk About" at.....

.....the Grammys and I was just blown away. What a amazing talent. And that slide guitar! By that summer I had gone from "Bonnie who?" to seeing her in concert at the Blossom Music Center while visiting Ohio. Let's hope that these complaining young folk discover her music like I did 30 years ago.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. She Is One Of...

...the finest slide players ever.
She has a light touch & she hits pitch. If she is a pinch flat or sharp, that's not an accident. It's to set up tension before she resolves to pitch.
She's a master at something It's easy to be OK, but hard to be great.

[panader0]

36. An ex-DUer that got tombstoned (twice) has played with her (he's a slide player too).

The only Duer I've met in person.

[calimary]

6. Bonnie Raitt is a giant by comparison.

Just means the complainers aren’t very well educated in the length, breadth, depth, or heritage of the music world.

[Mr.Bill]

7. I rarely watch this show or any award shows.

I did watch a bit of it tonight. Harry Styles is being punked by his costume designer. I mean, really?

[jmowreader]

15. Which "really" was the worst to you?

I saw pictures of three outfits.

His grandma is going to be pissed that he made overalls out of the quilt she won the 1958 County Fair with. “It was covered in Swarovski crystals!” Uhh…dude…they will sell those to you by the pound.

The suit he wore to accept his award wasn’t all that bad, if you skip over the part where the pants look like gym wear and the thing he was using as a shirt looked like a bustier.

And the sequin silver catsuit would have looked fantastic with six-inch heels, smokey eyes, Taylor Swift’s favorite lipstick, and long earrings.

Harry, my dear, if you’re going to the Grammys in drag, go big or go home.

[Mr.Bill]

30. That's a tough choice.

[aggiesal]

8. I want to know why there aren't more foreign/international artist ...

that make better music, nominated for a Grammy.
Grammy's are only for the best English music (American & British artists).
They have one category where artists from different nations compete against each other.

I boycott the Grammy's until this happens.
I didn't watch this year, so maybe they did, this year.

[ZonkerHarris]

12. It is the American Academy of music that gives out these award's

There are academies in each country that give out the same awards. In spite of being an American award ceremony, based on American record, sales and releases, many foreign and international artists get nominated like this year, Måneskin my favorite rock group from Italy, was in the best new artist category.

[moniss]

9. I take comfort

in knowing that most of those would criticize BR also have no idea who any of these guys are.

[ZonkerHarris]

11. It's a heartache

[waddirum]

14. that's Bonnie Tyler

I’m pretty sure

[ZonkerHarris]

16. That'll give you something to talk about

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. There is a genre of YouTube vids called "First time reactions"...

or First Time Hearing where young people document themselves listening to old classics like Steely Dan's "Black Cow" or "Hey Nineteen" or Fleetwood Mac's "The Chain" and they seem astounded that such good music was made before they were born!

Shit...I remember when "Aja" and then "Gaucho" dropped and within days, every rock station in town (I lived in Miami then) was playing any number of tunes off those records ( I mention those because they were the first albums from a group I really liked to be released right after I started driving, so I heard most of their hits on the car radio first). Ditto "Rumors" and ELO's "A New World Record" and scores more. And fucking Kanye West thinks he is a musical genius. That motherfucker couldn't share the stage with Jeff Beck or Walter Becker or Roger Rosenberg or any number of the hundreds of musicians we all listened to 40 years ago. And the dude that created Boston? He created their debut album in a studio he built in his fucking basement. Anyone know his name? ****

It's not as if no good music was made before 2000, young people! Us old farts had it pretty good back then!

Congratulations, Bonnie. You deserve every award you ever get.


****

[jmowreader]

18. Tom Scholz was the guy who founded Boston

He holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in mechanical engineering from MIT…which explains why he spent his entire career doing circuit design.

[A HERETIC I AM]

20. Click on the 4 asterisks at the bottom of my post.

I know who it was, but I do appreciate the fact that you know as well!

[panader0]

37. How's about Jerff "Skunk" Baxter? Remember him?

[A HERETIC I AM]

39. Absolutely! Saw him live with The Doobie Brothers in Miami way back when.

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He played on a couple of Steely Dan's albums, as you're probably aware. (On edit to rephrase; He was a founding member of Steely Dan, playing on their first 3 albums.)

While most guitarists played standing up while on stage, Baxter often played while seated in a chair as his signature style.




I should say that I am by no means the kind of person that can rattle off band members names as if they're family, not by a long shot. The primary point I was trying to make in my post above, in response to the OP was, as I said, that there were plenty of great musicians putting out fantastic music long before the Taylor Swift's of the world were a gleam in their fathers eye!

[panader0]

40. I thought of Baxter because it was mentioned above that Tom Scholtz went to MIT.

Baxter was a defense counselor, another really smart guy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Baxter

[A HERETIC I AM]

41. I had heard he was doing that kind of work but never read any more about it.

According to that Wiki link, having a helpful and influential next door neighbor can make a world of difference!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

17. Do those kids realize that Beyonce broke the record,

which was held by classical conductor Georg Solti? Let them gnaw on that.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

19. :hi:

&ab_channel=Melanie-OfficialPageofMelanieSafka

[Ilsa]

26. Love love love Melanie and Lay Down

Yes, I'm a boomer too! Thanks for sticking up for us.

[crud]

31. Just heard "Beautiful People" recently

Loved that song.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

21. I see or hear her name and hear this...

Canned --

And live --

Wish I had her on vinyl instead of CDs.

[CrabbyAppleton]

23. I always hear her cover...

of John Prine's Angel From Montgomery, which leads me to John's In Spite of Ourselves with Iris Dement.

I'll stop there, I have to get up early and I need to find the proper thread to post about the Bloons TD gap we are needing to correct.

Crabby

[CrabbyAppleton]

22. I first saw Bonnie 49 years ago...

at the Fox Theatre, Atlanta, opening for Little Feat with the band Orleans backing her up. Lowell George was a huge mentor/influence on her slide playing. You can still hear his influence on her playing.

Kudos to Bonnie.

Crabby

[hlthe2b]

24. Figures... I suppose they did NOT go equally nutso when Willie Nelson beat out all the younger

country performers for the best country album and best solo performance earlier in the evening?

I know it makes me sound like today's version of a crotchety "Mr. Wilson," but it really IS true, that I knew the musical "stars" of my grandparents' (Big Band) and parents' generation (Sinatra, early rock, early country, late big band, and so forth) and actually took the time to learn and listen to some of them. I detest wanton ignorance and that seems to be de rigeur today.

Honestly, I got bored midway through the Grammys after the great Stevie Wonder performance, but at least I know who the performers are--even those I don't like-- and checked the winner list this morning. And though there are a bunch of overly hyped performers I don't like much, I have listened to at least some of their work and for some, even given them a reassessment a few years in.

I think I will have to seek out the youtube "first impression" series where the two youngest generations listen to that which they have never heard (usually 60's-2000 music) for a palate cleanser. They are always enjoyable to watch.

[murielm99]

25. I always get bored about halfway through.

All those people congratulating and thanking each other and most of them don't mean a word of it.

I often take a break halfway through and come back to see the last half of it later.

I know who the performers are, like you. I don't have to rush out and buy their music to appreciate them.

What I did not appreciate was the closing act. Why did DJ Khaled have to close the show? He is noisy and boring. I have no respect for him. Don't play yourself? He was doing that for us. He can go somewhere and play with himself. I don't think he had any respect for the audience, either.

[Ilsa]

27. Love Bonnie Raitt!

I watched the first half of Lizzo's HBO special. She's an incredible talent. I love her messages about the strength of young women, but sometimes she gets a little too vulgar. She's a gifted artist all-around.

[TexasBushwhacker]

29. Geez, Lizzo got Album of the year

What's wrong with spreading the love?

[LexVegas]

32. Styles got album of the year. Lizzo got record of the year. nt

[Vinca]

33. I'm just happy I recognized the name of anyone nominated. LOL.

[Mosby]

35. It's not just random tweeters

Link to tweet

[Different Drummer]

38. I haven't watched the Grammys since this happened. Never will again.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/trent-reznor-cut-grammys-finale-681530/

[GenThePerservering]

42. I know that quite a few younger artists

actually are inspired and influenced by, and extremely knowledgeable about, older artists - too bad their fans aren't.

That Song about the Midway is my favourite Bonnie Raitt song.