Daft Punk Wins 4 Grammys

(CelebNMusic247-News) Daft Punk Wins 4 Grammys

The 2014 Grammy Awards were all about French electronic duo Daft Punk and their breakout album “Random Access Memories” which won them Album and Record of The Year!

Although we love Daft Punk, we also don’t feel that they deserved album of the year since there were better artists than them, but hey it was The Grammys choice. Not only was it about the music for Daft Punk it was all about the helmets. The electronic duo had a couple of changes and we know fans must have been going wild over the robots.

Anyways, Daft Punk struck gold with their 2013 hit hit single “Get Lucky,” with Pharrell Williams and Nile Rodgers, which won for record of the year Sunday at the 56th Grammy Awards.  The Recording Academy voters gave the twosome four awards over the course of a long but visually and musically dazzling ceremony.

Their producer Pharrell Williams landed himself his own award for producer of the year as well.

As for, Macklemore, he won All of the hip hop categories, which we are NOT pleased with one bit. There is a thing called rapping and talking over music is NOT rapping. We will say it again Macklemore is a pop-Alternative artist, but we feel the Grammys put him in the hip hop category so he could win. If he had to go up against Alternative and rock artist he would have lost like he should have. It is a disgrace when real hip hop artists loose to a sutto rap artist. Kendrick Lamar should have won. Pusha T should have been nominated and Macklemore should NOT have been in the hip hop categories, but it just goes to show you that his “white privilege” got him in the door and allowed him to win.

Overall we are disappointed with the Grammys. Beyonce and Jay Z were lackluster, and the show was overloaded with performances that weren’t so great.

The most memorable performances of the show was Lorde, who looks 24 but is actually 17. Can someone help this girl look her age. She looked so raggedy.  Next was Imagine Dragons and Kendrick Lamar who were amazing. Lang Lang and Metallica blew the roof off and Queens of Stoneage, Foo Fighter and Nine Inch Nails killed it.

The duds of the show was Macklemore with their overplayed song “I Can’t Change” – Love the song, but it needs to lay low for a long while. Now we understand this was a monumental history making moment for Grammys with 33 weddings, but the sound was off, Macklemore was annoying and Madonna was drowned out by the gospel choir. Overall the moving moment was shadowed by sound issues. Congrats to the couples we can’t take that away from you, we just wish it sounded better.

We would like to give a special shout out to one of our Grammy winners tonight for Best Jazz Vocal Album:  Liquid Spirit, Gregory Porter. The album is amazing and his music is awesome. Check him out if you haven’t.  Gregory was nominated last year for a Grammy Award, but didn’t win. We are pleased that he took an Award home tonight. Last year Porter spoke with us about Grammy night and his music. 

Here is the FULL list of winners below:

GRAMMY WINNERS 2014

Album of the Year: Daft Punk

Record of the Year: Daft Punk, Get Lucky

Song of the Year: Royals, Lorde

Best R&B Song: Pusher Love Girl, Justin Timberlake

Best New Artist: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Get Lucky, Daft Punk ft. Pharrell Williams and Nyle Rodgers

Best Rock Song: Cut Me Some Slack, Dave Grohl, Paul McCartney, Krist Novoselic & Pat Smear

Best Pop Solo Performance: Royals, Lorde

Best Rap/Sung Collaboration: Holy Grail, Jay Z ft. Justin Timberlake

Best Country Album: Same Trailer Different Park, Kacey Musgraves

Best Pop Instrumental Album: Stepping Out, Herb Albert

Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: To Be Loved, Michael Buble

Best Reggae Album: Ziggy Marley In Concert, Ziggy Marley

Best Spoken Word Album: America Again: Re-becoming The Greatness We Never Weren’t, Stephen Colbert

Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical: Summertime Sadness, Cedric Gervais, Remixer (Lana Del Rey)

Best Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance: Break Every Chain [Live], Tasha Cobbs

Best Gospel Song: If He Did It Before… Same God [Live], Tye Tribbett

Best Gospel Album: Greater Than [Live], Tye Tribbet

Best Latin Pop Album: Vida, Draco Rosa

Best Song Written For Visual Media:  Skyfall, Thomas Newman

Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance: Brady Wells and Roomful of Teeth, Roomful of Teeth

Best New Age Album: Love’s River, Laura Sullivan

Best Jazz Vocal Album:  Liquid Spirit, Gregory Porter

Best Jazz Instrumental Album: Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue, Terri Lyne Carrington

Best Latin Jazz Album: Song For Maura, Paquito D’Rivera And Trio Corrente

Best Compilation Soundtrack Album: Sound City: Real To Reel, Butch Vig (Compilation Producer)

Best Musical Theater Album: Kinky Boots, Cyndi Lauper

Best Americana Album: Old Yellow Moon, Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell

Best Folk Album: My Favorite Picuture of You, Guy Clark

Best Dance Recording: Clarity, Zedd ft. Foxes

Best Dance/Electronica Album: Random Access Memories, Daft Punk

Best Comedy Album: Calm Down Gurrl, Kathy Griffin

Best Rap Performance: Thift Shop, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Rap Song: Thift Shop, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best Rap Album: The Heist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis

Best R&B Performance:  Something, Snarky Puppy With Lalah Hathaway

Best Traditional R&B Performance: Please Come Home, Gary Clark Jr.

Best Urban Contemporary Album: Unapologetic, Rihanna

Best R&B Album: Girl on Fire, Alicia Keys

Best Blues Album: Get Up! Ben Harper With Charlie Musselwhite

Best Music Film: Live Kisses, Paul McCartney

Best Country Duo/Group Performance: From This Valley, The Civil Wars

Best Country Solo Performance: Wagon Wheel, Darius Rucker

Best Country Song: Merry Go Round, Shane McAnally, Kacey Musgraves & Josh Osborne

Best Rock Performance: Radioactive, Imagine Dragons

Best Alternative Music Album: Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend

Producer of the Year, Non-Classical: Pharrell Williams

Best Metal Performance: God Is Dead, Black Sabbath

Best Rock Album: Celebration Day, Led Zeppelin