I'm trying to think of something to write...

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I think I've done a few live blogs of the Grammys over the years... mainly because I like award shows yet the fact that the biggest show for music is such a huge joke gave me ample opportunity for me to brag about superiority. Or something like that. I think it's also because I've somehow been bored enough to sit down and watch the damn thing. Which isn't the case tonight.

It kind of puzzles me as to why someone hasn't tried to create an award show that attempts to dethrone the Grammys as "the" music award to have. It doesn't really strike me as difficult... you just get a bunch of music critics and throw them together. Maybe a couple of musicians as well. From what I've heard (on Wikipedia just now), the Grammy voting body is made up mostly of producers and engineers... so since they're the ones responsible for the irrelevancy of the Grammys, leave them out. And voila. You have an award that people might like.

I suppose there's difficulties. The reason why apparently the Grammys aren't that great is simply the number of releases there are per year... which sounds valid, but if you're going to be in the music business, I feel like you should listen to at least the important releases (which I don't believe the current voting body does). I mean, I doubt the Oscar voting body has seen all the direct-to-DVD stuff, but assuredly they've caught the more acclaimed titles of the year. So I would assume that having critics vote on the award would be better... since they're the ones that have to listen to everything. It's not representing everyone in the industry like most of the major awards do, but still.

I guess the main problem would be the prestige factor... and how an award conjured up from thin air would be worth more than any other. And if the awards are trying to be going towards those who deserve them, how would they get people to care and watch if Katy Perry (or whoever is popular nowadays) isn't going to show up.

Not that any of this matters. Maybe no one has recently tried supplanting the Grammys because no one cares... and maybe it's better that way. *I* would like it... simply because I like feeling indignant about something that's ultimately trivial, and the Grammys simply isn't worth caring about. But the world's survived so far...

I'm trying to find something to do with my time, but I'm failing miserably.

I don't like this feeling.