Videogum » Grammys http://videogum.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:45:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Who is Arcade Fire? http://videogum.com/272891/who-is-arcade-fire/music-related-content/ http://videogum.com/272891/who-is-arcade-fire/music-related-content/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:15:41 +0000 BradOFarrell http://videogum.com/?p=272891

I’m not going to sit here and pretend I know anything about music at all. I just discovered Vampire Weekend on Saturday (haha, Oxford commas, right? Guys?) and most of the music on my iPhone is just random hipster junk left there by my exes. And, okay, Arcade Fire does happen to be like one of ten band names I was aware of in 2007, because we watched the Neon Bible flash video thing in a digital art class in school and I pirated the song because it’s a great song. I don’t even know what it is implying when I say that? I’m so afraid of talking about music because everyone has such strong opinions on everything. I don’t know anything about music, DON’T JUDGE ME. But still! Lets judge these people!

This site, WhoIsArcadeFire.tumblr.com and also the Twitter account @WhoIsArcadeFire basically just reposts other people being confused about who Arcade Fire is. Or sometimes people being confused about who the band “The Suburbs” is wondering why their album “Arcade Fire” won Album of the Year.

Haha, dumb people!

They’re on Facebook and they are posting dumb things like your cousins!

It’s not that they’re dumb because they don’t know who Arcade Fire is, they’re dumb because they’re implying that a band is undeserving of an award  because “no one” has heard of them? That’s dumb. Don’t say dumb things like that. Or else you’ll get made fun of on blogs. The end.

[Thanks for the tip, Jill! and Mike]

]]> 107 2010 Grammy Awards FunTown Photo Gallery http://videogum.com/112101/2010_grammys_open_thread/music-related-content/ http://videogum.com/112101/2010_grammys_open_thread/music-related-content/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:52:04 +0000 Gabe I didn’t really watch the Grammys last night. I poked in and out. (Nullus.) It’s really more of a Stereogum thing. (Or is it?) It just seems like out of all the awards shows, none is more out of touch with the culture that it purports to celebrate and more deeply in the pocket of THE MAN than the Grammys. (Real music fans were probably watching Coldplay’s cameo on The Simpsons.) So, I watched Lady Gaga’s opening number, and I saw the Michael Jackson tribute, and Jamie Foxx’s homage to “opera.” But for the most part I stayed out of it. I’m sure Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech was really stirring. I’m sure that the Black Eyed Peas performance of “Barf Barf Pow” reminded everyone that these are just incredible artists at the top of their game who should never ever stop making music.

In any case, I love looking at photos as much as anyone, so here is a FunTown 2010 Grammy Awards photo gallery. And if you actually managed to sit through this thing, please feel free to tell everyone how it went. Awesome and not incredibly boring and kind of disheartening, I’m sure.

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