Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 6:41 AM by Gene

Seeing all the heds for our favorite "country" group winning all those piles of tin you could almost hear the hacks humming, "Deutschland, Deutschland, über alles...." But last night probably wasn't an immortal masterpiece, as DA POST!!!!!'s ad blurbist admits:

HYPE aside, the absurdity of a Police reunion leading off last night's Grammy awards was a bad harbinger for the most important night in music.

No, we may not be in nursing-home territory, but as the concert biz knows we're getting there. As for the act that made figurative right arms fly upward in a salute:

The Dixie Chicks, who won an arm load of Grammys, including the top prize - album of the year - didn't help the get things started by performing the power ballad "Not Ready to Make Nice."

That tune, which snagged top honors as song of the year, was too slow and mopey at the start and too brash at the end. The ex-blonde, now brunette vocalist Natalie Maines made the song even less attractive by contorting her kisser into the angry scrunch-face during most of the tune.

An angry scrunch-face...but isn't that how the GRAMMY ALBUM OF THE YEAR is ALWAYS mouthed? Isn't that how the undying verities of POP are supposed to be mouthed? Isn't that what makes the recorded...SOUND biz a repository of ETERNAL GENIUS?

Things didn't improve from there.

Well if there's anything the recorded...SOUND biz doesn't want it's an improvement.