Speaker 1: Hey, the folks.
Speaker 2: It is Sunday, February first, and as we record this,
Speaker 2: we are one hour into the live Grammys broadcast. Welcome
Speaker 2: to Amy and TJ, folks, right now, tell them robes,
Speaker 2: tell the good people. Should they turn this thing on?
Speaker 2: I go ahead and go to bed.
Speaker 3: You know what, you can turn it on because we
Speaker 3: really haven't seen any awards yet, so you haven't missed much.
Speaker 3: You've seen a lot of performances. We've seen some great,
Speaker 3: great phenomenal. It's like been watching a concert. Basically, I meant.
Speaker 2: The show in general. Would you tell them it's worth
Speaker 2: turning the TV on. I just go ahead and go
Speaker 2: to bed and get the highlights in the morning.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think the best is yet to come.
Speaker 3: I think it's a little bit of a slow start,
Speaker 3: but we have a lot of awards to watch, So yeah,
Speaker 3: I say turn it on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, why not?
Speaker 1: It's not a good cell for the folks over.
Speaker 4: What would you say to everyone listening?
Speaker 2: Uh, you're okay, it's it's I haven't no, no, I haven't
Speaker 2: seen anything enough yet to say. And you know I'll
Speaker 2: tell people miss sleep for some something. Yes, I haven't
Speaker 2: seen anything yet that I would just say, oh, my goodness,
Speaker 2: you got to turn the TV on, see some good stuff,
Speaker 2: seeing some interesting stuff, and you know what, some of
Speaker 2: what we're about to tell you might get you to
Speaker 2: turn the TV on.
Speaker 1: Let's get right to it.
Speaker 2: Uh, first hour only two awards, and the second of
Speaker 2: those two was done at about two minutes to the
Speaker 2: top of the hour, so they barely got one award
Speaker 2: in We should mention that Trevor Noah is back sixth year.
Speaker 1: I think he's done it. How did his top go?
Speaker 1: How at the top of the joke?
Speaker 4: It was a little shaky.
Speaker 3: I think he was trying a little too hard to
Speaker 3: be funny, and I don't know if the.
Speaker 4: Crowd just feels like a little low energy or I.
Speaker 3: Don't know, he just felt a little off, like he
Speaker 3: was pushing it too much. But he's charming, he's lovely,
Speaker 3: he's sweet, he's well intended, so nothing offensive. But it
Speaker 3: wasn't it wasn't great.
Speaker 1: Think he got some classic charm. I like him. He lost.
Speaker 1: I thought Justin Bieber threw him off.
Speaker 2: It seemed like he spent He opened the show, he
Speaker 2: only you know, he says hello to the audience, but
Speaker 2: then he goes down to the TV audience and then
Speaker 2: he goes down there were all the celebrities are sitting
Speaker 2: and he's kind of just he has some planet jokes,
Speaker 2: but he's kind of just riffing.
Speaker 1: And he came up to Justin Bieber, and Justin Bieber I.
Speaker 2: Don't want to say he was pissed, but he didn't
Speaker 2: necessarily play along in the you wouldn't even look at
Speaker 2: it the fun way.
Speaker 4: Justin Bieber did not make eye contact.
Speaker 1: It was being mean.
Speaker 4: He was just he seems that you said it best.
Speaker 3: You said, Justin Bieber seems annoyed right now. And honestly,
Speaker 3: to make up for his seeming annoyance, Hailey Bieber you
Speaker 3: could see, was like engaging and trying to laugh it
Speaker 3: off and say, see, yeah we're good, We're happy.
Speaker 4: But I don't know if Justin's nervous.
Speaker 3: He's performing later, correct, So I'm actually looking forward to that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2: Justin Bieber's a part of the music scene and he's
Speaker 2: nominated tonight, so that's all great.
Speaker 1: So that was his opening.
Speaker 2: Now he started bouncing around the room and you see
Speaker 2: things and something that clear please stands out is one
Speaker 2: guy who was dressed differently than the rest. And he
Speaker 2: has on a big hat and a very colorful suit
Speaker 2: and a very colorful tie and it's all patterned.
Speaker 4: Jamie Fox, what is he there?
Speaker 2: Well, he's a don't get me wrong, He's obviously a
Speaker 2: very accomplished musician. But I'm just saying his get up
Speaker 2: stands out for me tonight. He is wearing a unique out.
Speaker 4: He wasn't looking to blend in tonight.
Speaker 2: And he is not anyway, but he stood out to me.
Speaker 2: But everybody seems great, looks good. And before we get
Speaker 2: to the performances that we have seen, a lot of
Speaker 2: people are standing by robes and they were waiting how
Speaker 2: how many political statements might be made? How many suggestions
Speaker 2: some of the crowd, Billy Eyish in particular, has been
Speaker 2: very outspoken having to do with what's happening with Ice.
Speaker 2: Trevor Noah made two jokes that kind of gave some reference,
Speaker 2: but they weren't hard hitting, they weren't mean. Got good applause.
Speaker 2: I thought it was funny. I didn't think he went
Speaker 2: too far, especially with the Nicki Minaj stuff.
Speaker 3: Yes, when Nicki Minaj couldn't be here tonight, we did
Speaker 3: hear a cheer from the audience when he announced that
Speaker 3: she was not in the building.
Speaker 1: It was the biggest applause line he had.
Speaker 4: Yes, it landed, Yes, that landed with the audience.
Speaker 2: That one was funny. He just said she wasn't there.
Speaker 2: Almost he had to wait for the audience to cry
Speaker 2: quiet down before he continued with the next part of
Speaker 2: the joke. He said, she's at the White House, and
Speaker 2: this is where he did a Donald Trump impression. He
Speaker 2: said they're arguing over who has the bigger ass, and
Speaker 2: he did a whold Trump impression.
Speaker 1: Obviously I can't do it.
Speaker 3: Was it?
Speaker 1: No mine is bigger, No mine is bigger than it was.
Speaker 4: It was funny.
Speaker 1: The other was just the idea.
Speaker 2: He's talked about Doge's song Anxiety. I believe that is
Speaker 2: nominated tonight. He said, that's our new national anthem.
Speaker 4: Yes, that was a good one as well. That was
Speaker 4: a good one, you know.
Speaker 3: Look, I also he mentioned something that I forgot him
Speaker 3: also looking forward to as well later tonight, not only
Speaker 3: as Justin Bieber performing, but Lauren Hill is as well.
Speaker 4: I'm very excited about that.
Speaker 3: So there's gonna be some really cool formats from folks
Speaker 3: that we've loved for a long time that we haven't
Speaker 3: necessarily seen on that stage.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to get back to a Lauren Hill joke,
Speaker 2: but now we need to completely correct ourselves here about
Speaker 2: whether or not you need to turn the TV on,
Speaker 2: because you should have, because what you're missing right now
Speaker 2: is justin Bieber.
Speaker 1: We are seeing this live rolls.
Speaker 2: It looks like he's doing the thing that we have
Speaker 2: seen Ed Sharon do to where he's completely producing his
Speaker 2: own song, all the vocals, all the backgrounds live on stage.
Speaker 2: You remember, yes, Ed Sharon did this, and he's standing
Speaker 2: here in what looks like silk boxers and nothing else.
Speaker 1: Am I saying?
Speaker 3: There?
Speaker 4: Right, grandpa socks on and some boxer shorts.
Speaker 2: This is interesting. Let rewind and see this so we'll
Speaker 2: get through this. The Lauren hilljoke that I was mentioning,
Speaker 2: he said, was talking about she hasn't performed in.
Speaker 1: A long time.
Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety nine, he said, And he said, back in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety nine, the president had had a sex scandal
Speaker 3: the Grammys.
Speaker 2: Wait, sorry, back then the president was in a sex scandal.
Speaker 2: Everyone computers were going to destroy the world, and Diddy
Speaker 2: was arrested. Boy, how times have changed? Yes, so that
Speaker 2: one land, but not at this point, at least we
Speaker 2: haven't seen necessarily overwhelming overt references to what's going on
Speaker 2: Olivia Dean. One of the two awards robes that was
Speaker 2: given out was for Best New Artists. She did have
Speaker 2: at least a statement she made having to do with
Speaker 2: her grandmother, again alluded to and sweet though it was sweet.
Speaker 1: Do you have that one in front of you?
Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, she came up and she mentioned that her grandmother, yes,
Speaker 3: was an immigrant, and so she had a very I'm
Speaker 3: trying to find it right now.
Speaker 2: I'm up here as the granddaughter of an immigrant. I'm
Speaker 2: a product of bravery, and I think those people deserve
Speaker 2: to be celebrated. We're nothing without each other.
Speaker 4: Very simple, that's how you do it.
Speaker 3: That's how you make a statement without being divisive. And
Speaker 3: she said something beautiful, personal and it was positive, and
Speaker 3: I thought that was something that hopefully might be mirrored
Speaker 3: by other artists who get up instead of being divisive.
Speaker 3: That was a beautiful way to make a statement and
Speaker 3: actually have it be inclusive.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so we'll get to some of those performances.
Speaker 2: This was cool. I thought. Rogues that the Academy did
Speaker 2: all of the best New Artists nominees perform back to
Speaker 2: back to back to back.
Speaker 4: That was very cool.
Speaker 1: It's cool to do it like that.
Speaker 2: This might be the only chance they get to be
Speaker 2: on a Grammy stage, but they you know, and they
Speaker 2: just happened in secession like that.
Speaker 1: It was really a nice touch. I don't remember.
Speaker 2: They might have started this year's back, I can't remember,
Speaker 2: but it was done well. However, we got some very
Speaker 2: positives to say about what we saw. We got some
Speaker 2: we don't want to call them negatives, but they were
Speaker 2: to see them next to each other, you kind of
Speaker 2: compare and contrast back to back the different styles, yes,
Speaker 2: of these artists.
Speaker 4: And their comfort levels performing.
Speaker 3: I mean, can you imagine best New artists you were
Speaker 3: getting to perform on a Grammy stage in front of
Speaker 3: the world, and you've got what how much time did
Speaker 3: they each get?
Speaker 4: Maybe a minute? So that is so much pressure. That
Speaker 4: is so much pressure.
Speaker 3: And we saw some people, well, let's just say, perform
Speaker 3: better than others under that pressure.
Speaker 2: Well, perform better than others. But also why are some
Speaker 2: choosing to sing and some want to lip sync? All right,
Speaker 2: we continue here, robes. I look, they choose their different reasons.
Speaker 2: People choose to lip sync all kinds of things and
Speaker 2: rehearsals and acoustics. It's not a matter if they can
Speaker 2: or they can't sing, and they can all sing, but
Speaker 2: it does make a difference. It does leave an impression,
Speaker 2: and it does leave it an impression on me.
Speaker 1: I like live music. I like to hear people sing live.
Speaker 2: Some people like the show of it, and certain folks
Speaker 2: Sabrina Carpenter puts on that was pretty elaborate.
Speaker 1: Once again, she's known for this, now, does she not?
Speaker 4: Yes, she has a lot.
Speaker 3: The few times we've seen her perform, she's got elaborate sets,
Speaker 3: lots of dancers, lots of coordination lop. I can only
Speaker 3: imagine what her practice is like, her rehearsals are like,
Speaker 3: because the coordination she has going on. She certainly puts
Speaker 3: on a show, but you can absolutely tell she's lip sincing. Now, look,
Speaker 3: when you're singing on a stage and you're moving around,
Speaker 3: you're dancing, and you want and if you want your
Speaker 3: vocals to be perfect, they're probably not going to be
Speaker 3: perfect if you're singing and dancing like that. So some
Speaker 3: artists choose to have their vocals just be.
Speaker 4: The way they sounded in the studio. I appreciate it
Speaker 4: when you hear Yeah, you might be.
Speaker 3: A little flatter, a little sharp, or a little lout
Speaker 3: of breath, but I love seeing the performance and have
Speaker 3: it not be perfect.
Speaker 4: But have it be real and edgy and live.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it feels a little too packaged and authentic,
Speaker 3: and I don't love it.
Speaker 2: That's a good word. It's just not our preference. But
Speaker 2: it's a hell of a show. The production she put
Speaker 2: on with the airplane and Jesus the Captain and all
Speaker 2: the I mean, hell, that's impressive that they put that together.
Speaker 2: But that was impressive, just not our are necessarily our preference,
Speaker 2: and a few did that.
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get the themes as like they're doing.
Speaker 4: They also lip synced, for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but the themes like I'm following on a little
Speaker 2: story or a movie set. And I guess it's a
Speaker 2: throwback to music videos to a certain degree.
Speaker 3: Performative, yes, And then you have people like Leon Thomas
Speaker 3: and Lowly Young just get up there and sang and
Speaker 3: that it's just and even slow it down. Do less
Speaker 3: of the Dog and Pony show, and not to I'm
Speaker 3: not trying to make that sound like it's silly, but
Speaker 3: really put on this big instead.
Speaker 4: Just show what those pipes can do. And that's what
Speaker 4: they did.
Speaker 2: Favorite performance over the night was lowly young and I
Speaker 2: was not expecting that. I like the song MESSI that's
Speaker 2: hugely popular, but she slowed it down and did it
Speaker 2: just sitting in front of a piano, just belting that
Speaker 2: song out. If you get a chance, folks, go back
Speaker 2: and look at her performance. That's the number one I
Speaker 2: would recommend. Somber was hilarious. Everybody likes that song twelve
Speaker 2: to twelve. But he came down looking.
Speaker 4: Like go suit, I mean a disco ball suit. Give
Speaker 4: me like a mirror ball.
Speaker 1: Coming from the ceiling. Yes, that was perfect.
Speaker 4: It was really really cool.
Speaker 3: And then our hearts went out to Alex Warren because
Speaker 3: we actually saw him perform twice in jingle Balls and
Speaker 3: he is a powerhouse.
Speaker 4: But he had some issue with his look.
Speaker 3: They have to you have to wear earplugs and you
Speaker 3: get some feedback and so you can make sure you're
Speaker 3: SYNCD up and on key with your music.
Speaker 4: He was having problems immediately out.
Speaker 3: Then he got off the music and you could see
Speaker 3: he was he was spiraling, but he pulled it together
Speaker 3: and he finished strong. But you could see at the
Speaker 3: end how disappointed he was in himself.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well no, yes, technical.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, this was not him. This was not
Speaker 1: his deal. But you saw it.
Speaker 2: And he's so young, he's so new to the scene,
Speaker 2: and we know so much about his story and his
Speaker 2: parents and what Even in concerts he says, yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: the guy who sings about his wife and his dead parents.
Speaker 2: Yeah right, but he gets that's what his music is about.
Speaker 1: Ropes.
Speaker 2: He got to go to the Grammys and perform tonight
Speaker 2: and it didn't go perfectly, and he started fidgeting with
Speaker 2: the earpiece. Yes, and he literally, folks, you hear the
Speaker 2: choir singing the line of the chorus, ordinary he's singing
Speaker 2: a different He's in a different place on the song.
Speaker 1: And that's what happened.
Speaker 2: When you see people fidgeting, why they have those ear
Speaker 2: They have to hear the music because you.
Speaker 4: Can't hear with the way the speakers are.
Speaker 3: It's so it's so precise, and that's why they have
Speaker 3: rehearsals so you know, and you feel confident about it,
Speaker 3: and sometimes things just go wrong. Yeah, we were grabbing
Speaker 3: each other like, oh no, no, but he he did
Speaker 3: get back on the music and he did finish strong,
Speaker 3: but you could see it on his face.
Speaker 4: He was he was not happy.
Speaker 2: Okay, the last one will give we should probably I'm
Speaker 2: not sure as he's doing this what he's going to say,
Speaker 2: but I wish we could hear this.
Speaker 3: Oh, bad Bunny, Well right now, given pause, we'll catch up.
Speaker 2: Bad Bunny is speaking. He just won whatever major award here.
Speaker 3: Way I'm reading here say ice So he's saying ice out.
Speaker 2: He said ice out, he started, he said, before I
Speaker 2: say anything. And now there is a huge applause standing ovation.
Speaker 2: Everybody's clapping, and that's all he said was ice out. Wow, Yes, folks,
Speaker 2: turn it on. It's getting a little more interesting. The
Speaker 2: more artists that are getting up there this evening, the
Speaker 2: performances be damned. I kind of just want to see
Speaker 2: what they have to say.
Speaker 3: Kendrick Lamar also won Best Start Rap Album. He didn't
Speaker 3: say much. He kept it short and sweet and just
Speaker 3: moved on. He was he's a very humble dude up there.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, baby. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're
Speaker 2: not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans. This
Speaker 2: is bad, bunny. As we are in real time, we're
Speaker 2: reading this, I hope they got this.
Speaker 3: Also, I want to say to the people, I know
Speaker 3: it is tough. He knows it's tough not to hate
Speaker 3: on these days.
Speaker 4: And I was thinking, sometimes we get I don't know
Speaker 4: how to say that in English.
Speaker 3: So yes, he's trying to speak English up there that
Speaker 3: you know, can you even imagine?
Speaker 4: I mean he he.
Speaker 3: Performs in Spanish. Obviously Spanish is his first language. But
Speaker 3: to be up on this stage and to make this
Speaker 3: statement and to be doing it in English, that cannot
Speaker 3: be easy.
Speaker 2: He said that hate gets more powerful with more hate,
Speaker 2: and the only thing more powerful than hate is love.
Speaker 2: He is trying to send out a message that appears
Speaker 2: here that we all need to calm things down. Actually
Speaker 2: on both sides, we all need to be different. If
Speaker 2: we fight, we have to do it with love. So
Speaker 2: he clearly has a message and a plan, and he
Speaker 2: is actually wrote he's going a little longer than I
Speaker 2: think some of these speeches. We don't hate them. We
Speaker 2: love our people, we love our family, and that's the
Speaker 2: way to do it. So he didn't go after anybody
Speaker 2: in particular.
Speaker 4: That's so nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he did say ice out and that was
Speaker 2: clear and plain his day, and I think a lot
Speaker 2: of people might have been waiting for that moment tonight.
Speaker 2: So yeah, we went to hop on and give the update,
Speaker 2: and some of this was happening live, So folks, we
Speaker 2: will keep you updated. If not, look for what in
Speaker 2: the morning we're done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'll put one up in the morning to
Speaker 3: wrap up the entire Grammys, but we're going to stay
Speaker 3: up and watch the whole thing. So if you all
Speaker 3: want to go to bed, we got you. We got
Speaker 3: you for the morning. So thank you for listening to us.
Speaker 3: We always appreciate you. I Amy roback alongside TJ home
Speaker 3: and we will talk to you bright and early tomorrow morning.