Grammys 2014: The big winners

The Grammy's where on this past weekend! I'm sure you already knew that though what with NZ's very own Lorde winning 2 awards! If you're interested in who else won big on Grammy night then read on my friend.

Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Musgraves is thebombdotcom! I was so super excited when she won Best Country Song fro Merry Go Round and Best Country Album for Same Trailer, Different Park. This was so well deserved; Kacey is a brilliant song writer and her songs are so original and interesting. I think the fact that Kacey won over some of the more accomplished and well known nominees is a sign that the Grammy voters are ready for some more diverse and, dare I say, liberal content in country music.

Lorde

Yeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah guuuuurl. No doubt that you already know that Lorde won 2 Grammys this year for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. We're all so super proud of her! It's so cool to watch her and her producer Joel Little go up there and represent NZ and even cooler to see the super proud look on her Mum's face! She didn't win any for her album Pure Heroine but it is brilliant so make sure you give it a listen.

Macklemore and Ryan Lewis

I have so much respect for Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. It's so cool to see musicians who understand the responsibility and power they have to make positive changes in the world. During their performance of Same Love at the Grammys, 33 couples got married by Queen Latifah in the aisles of the audience! It was so cool to watch and when I saw Keith Urban crying at the end my little heart couldn't take it! If I had gotten married during that song I would start every conversation for the rest of my life with 'Beyonce was at my wedding'.

Macklemore won 4 awards including Best New Artist. 

Daft Punk

Daft Punk cleaned up at the Grammys this year winning 4 trophies including Record of the Year and Album of the Year. Daft Punk are still pretty cool/terrifying so if you get a chance to listen to their new album Random Access Memories please do, I like it but I cant get past the fact that I think my girl Taylor should've won album of the year for Red. Whatevs, it's cool. The Grammys were so much fun to watch that I vote that they air the awards on New Zealand TV every year! If you get a chance also make sure you check out the Performances by Pink, Beyonce and Taylor Swift because they are particularly cool.

Who should've won Best New Artist at the 2013 Grammys.

I know this is an unpopular opinion but Fun are an incredibly over rated band, it really irritates me. It's completely lost on me why they won the Grammy for Best New Artist last week. Alabama Shakes and the Lumineers are pretty good and certainly earned their nominations; but there were two artists nominated for Best New Artist who really deserved to win.

Frank Ocean - Channel Orange 

In my humble opinion this is the man who should've won Best New Artist. His album Channel Orange is so refreshing. My favourite thing about the album is that it's unconventional and that makes his music exciting and interesting to listen to. I'm not too mad because he did win Best Urban/Contemporary Album and Best Rap/Sung collaboration for his song 'No Church in the Wild' (ft Kanye West and Jay-Z).

Genre: R&B
You might like if you enjoy: D'angelo, The Weekend
My favourite Songs: Pyramids, Thinkin' bout You, Forrest Gump

Hunter Hayes - Hunter Hayes 

I'm convinced that Hunter Hayes is going to go on and win a lot of Grammy awards in the future but I was disappointed when he didn't win any of the 3 awards he was nominated for including Best New Artist.

The reason I really like Hunter Hayes' debut album is because you don't find many 21 year olds who put out an album of this quality while co-writing, co-producing, playing every instrument and singing every vocal track. That's impressive for anyone let alone someone of his age on their debut release.

Genre: Country/Pop
You might like if you enjoy: Rascal Flats, John Mayer
My favourite Songs: Somebody's Heartbreak, If You Told Me To, Wanted

Grammy shortlist for Best Spoken Word album

Who knew the Grammys have an award for Best Spoken Word Album? (I found out through a recent post on EarlyWord : The Publisher Librarian Connection)

I'm not too surprised to see that Tina Fey's Bossypants is on the list, as the print version spent weeks on the US Bestseller Lists.

Tina Fey seems to be one those actresses that polarises people, you either love or loathe her. I'm on the fence as I haven't actually seen much that she is in, but I think I might give her audio book a listen on the way to work.