(In that way, you might say the producer is echoing the Weeknd’s feelings on the value of a Grammy.)
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That’s in keeping with cratering awards-show numbers industry-wide, and Winston says linear-broadcast ratings are an outdated means of measuring the success of a TV show in an era of streaming and social media. Nielsen reported the audience for Sunday’s show dropped 53% from 2020 to a record-low 8.8 million viewers. Ratings, of course, are a different story. All the chattering-class praise could inspire him to keep on this path, even if next year’s (hopefully) post-COVID environment means he’s able to book, say, Earth, Wind & Fire or Starr’s former bandmate Paul McCartney, with whom Winston once made a “Carpool Karaoke” of which he’s very proud. 🖤- Ariana Grande February 7, 2019Īnd differentiate himself he did: Reviews of Winston’s debut have been almost uniformly positive - much brighter than the morning-after groans that have typically met the Grammys in recent decades. i hope the show is exactly what you want it to be and more. it was when my creativity & self expression was stifled by you, that i decided not to attend. i can pull together a performance over night and you know that, Ken. I’ve kept my mouth shut but now you’re lying about me. County rules - not New York rules, as you’ll see on ‘SNL’ every week - are that you have to have an 8-foot distance between two microphones.” for masterminding James Corden’s viral “Carpool Karaoke” series. “You can’t really mix artists very much,” said Winston, a Brit best known in the U.S. It was just three months ago, don’t forget, that 86-year-old Charley Pride died shortly after playing the in-person CMA Awards in Nashville - a circumstantial link, perhaps, but not one any producer wants any part of.ĬOVID restrictions also limited Winston’s ability, as he told The Times ahead of Sunday’s show, to assemble the kind of multi-generational jams for which Ehrlich was known. (Starr clearly took cosmetic pains to avoid that distinction.)Īt least in part, Winston was bowing to the necessities of our pandemic era, doing what he could to keep older artists out of harm’s way. might have.Īt 39, Beyoncé - who per academy tradition lost the major prizes but won several genre awards - was practically the graybeard of the night.
Instead, an actual teenager, 19-year-old Billie Eilish, was there, taking up prominent space that Dave Grohl or Emmylou Harris or, as they did just last year, the members of Aerosmith and Run-D.M.C. No jazz greats, no gospel pioneers, no elder statesmen of salsa or reggae or classical music. There were no grizzled monsters of rock there were no wizened Grand Ole Opry members. Beyond Starr’s presentation and a performance by 71-year-old Lionel Richie, who turned up during the “ In Memoriam” sequence to sing his old friend Kenny Rogers’ “Lady,” the Grammys were dominated by performers in their 20s and early 30s, including Harry Styles (27), Dua Lipa (25), Cardi B (28), Bad Bunny (27), Lil Baby (26), Maren Morris (30), Post Malone (25), Megan Thee Stallion (26) and Taylor Swift (31). Sunday’s show at the Los Angeles Convention Center, by comparison, was virtually unrecognizable as a monument to experience.
More often than not, it seemed, Ehrlich would find a reason to have Sting on his program.
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