Sam and I were both chosen as seat-fillers for the Grammy's yesterday! They chose about 500 people out of 17,000 that applied, so we were excited that we both got to go.We had a great time, even though it was sort of a strange experience. We stood in different lines for 3 hours, then had to wait for about an hour in a blocked-view section. During this time, the performance I got to see that was impressive was Muse's "Resistance." I missed the Bieber/Usher performance and the tribute to Aretha Franklin at the beginning.
After about an hour and some difficulties, we finally made it past security down to the floor section. So for the last 1-2 hours of the show, we were sitting within the first 15 rows, sort of moving around to different seats during commercial breaks. I was up-close for lots of great performances: Cee Lo Green, Eminem and Rihanna, Katie Perry, Lady Antebellum, Barbara Streisand, and I was especially excited to see Arcade Fire, who won best album of the year.
Surprises of the night:
-Justin Bieber didn't win best new artist, which I was happy about since I'm not a fan of his music. BUT I had never heard of Esperanza Spalding, who won this category. Here is a video of her performing at the White House: http://www.youtube.com/embed/6I6hVnTdnWU-For a while, I was sitting near Nicki Minaj, who at first I had thought was Lady Gaga because of her outfit (yes, that is her real hair):
-Lady Antebellum won 3 or 4 Grammy's for this song: Need You Now They performed this song, and I had recognized it, but hadn't heard of Lady Antebellum and didn't really understand why this song was worth so many Grammy's. Regardless, it was a good performance.
-I think the best performance was "The song otherwise known as Forget You" by Cee Lo Green, featuring Gwyneth Paltrow (who can sing!...with 5" heels standing on a piano no less)... and a ton of muppets! It was quite creative and entertaining. Here's a video I found of the performance: http://bcove.me/qdauq7pu Check it out!
-And last surprise of the night: here is Eminem's happy face:
(To smile: Raise facial muscles from lower cheek to corner of mouth, and from upper cheek to bottom eyelid.)
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haha...love that last caption. cool to hear about your experience, or at least the last hour or two of it. ;)
AWSOME BLOG!
Just watched the videos. I actually liked the Bieber/Usher/Jaden performance. Probably because I think it's amazing that Jaden and Bieber are so talented and dealing with the music world at such a young age.
But the muppet Forget You performance was crazy! I can't believe they had muppets!!! Gwenyth actually played a role in Glee a couple months ago and did an amazing job. I didn't realize she was such a good singer.
And I hate that song "Need You Now." I can't believe it won so many grammys. I change it every time I hear it on the radio.
watched the show, but couldn't spot you! How fun!?! So glad you got to do this. way cool!
Hi that's so awesome! I was wondering how you got such a cool gig? Do you have a contact email you wouldn't mind sharing? You can email me at GYoon09@gmail.com I would greatly appreciate it!
Hello "anonymous". If you go to seatfillersandmore.com you have to sign up on two different sites, one for the free membership and another for specific events. they send you updates on the popular events. we'll probably try to go again this year :)
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