I know you are all too damn cool for the 2005 Grammy Awards; but don't you think they deserve a little thread action anyway?

This is never sexy when the look on the dude's face is that of Usher's.

(xpost: I don't think you're supposed to be looking at his face!)

(xpost: Al, remind me who produced "U Don't Have To Call" again?)

**applause**

btw I used "the media" and not "critics" when I mentioned institutional racism up there. I'm talking about the whole damn thing. God knows US magazine doesn't care who's working with the neptunes.

WIVES' BEAT THE BANDS
Tue Feb 15, 4:24 AM ET

THE Grammy awards last Sunday drew its lowest total viewership since Tony Bennett (news) won for best album a decade ago.

The telecast drew 18.83 million viewers, according to preliminary figures released yesterday. That was the lowest figure in a decade and the second-lowest in the history of the Grammys (news - web sites) TV show.

The 1995 Grammys were a low-water mark for the music awards because it was a year without a strong contemporary musician. Instead the awards were dominated by old-timers like Bennett, Bonnie Raitt (news) and Eric Clapton (news).

Among the key 18- to 49-year-old age group, the audience was off by nearly one-third.

Sunday's show was marked by a batch of awards for the late Ray Charles, who posthumously won eight categories in all, including album of the year and record of the year.

The lack of a single, living artist with a large following dominating the awards — as, for instance, Alicia Keys has in the past — may be to blame. So was the competition from the runaway hit "Desperate Housewives."

The awards won the 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. prime-time hours relatively easily among total viewers.

But at 9 p.m., "Desperate Housewives" outdrew the Grammys by nearly 3 million viewers.

— Post wire services

Haha! I'll take "Spectacularly Missing The Point" for $600, Alex.

The specifics of how one particular person doesn't find Celebrity X sexy has absolutely no bearing on how (random large number Y) people find Celebrity X sexy.

HOTTT

so why are you surprised that people find usher sexless, then, even though lots of other people don't? how does one contradict the other?

-- The Ghost of Dan Perry (djperr...), February 15th, 2005.

doing one single with the Neptunes =/= doing half an album with the Neptunes and having Pharrell appear with you in a bunch of videos. at least as far as what's going to buy you more critical goodwill.

I am also very disappointed that the Grammys had very little Lil Jon. Did they tie him down or something?

you're getting too critico-poetic here, anthony.

Because people use their personal opinion ("I don't find Usher sexy") to contradict observed data (when Usher drops trou and rubs himself, many people in the audience react in a manner that could best be described as an en masse shout of "YUM YUM GIMME SOME"). My position is not the one which is attempting to contradict observed results.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IWIA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

whose is? where are all these people on this thread who have said "no one finds usher sexy"? i must have missed them, so please point them out to me.

that's impossible; you're merely embracing your minority stance by contradicting the millions of justin fans who find his falsetto completely pleasant. how dare you express such a perverse opinion?

that's impossible; you're merely embracing your minority stance by contradicting the millions of justin fans who find his falsetto completely pleasant. how dare you express such a perverse opinion?

You guys are talking about Justin Hawkins of the Darkness, right?