Losing Faith

I've lost all faith in the Grammys. I'm just gonna lay it out there...the Dixie Chicks won...not because of their music, but because of a political stance. Let me preface this by saying that I'm not pro-war, I'm not really a Bush supporter, and I don't really care what Natalie Maines or any other performer thinks about politics. Last night should have been about music. It wasn't, and that's a damned shame. When you consider the fact that this newest album by the Dixie Chicks was considered, by most accounts, a dismal failure in the sales category, you wonder how artists like Justin Timberlake (by the way, I'm not really a J.T. fan, either), Gnarls Barkley (okay you got me...I'm a fan), the Red Hot Chili Peppers and John Mayer were all surpassed for Album of the Year by a group that made mediocre music in a genre and for a demographic that hates them and everything they stand for.

For the love of God...somebody....anybody....PLEASE...put a muzzle on this bitch!!

I'm just very disappointed that the Holy Grail of the music industry has become nothing more than a sounding board for the far left in this country. Hell, I don't want it to be a sounding board for the far right, the middle, or any other group. Is nothing pure any more?

We should be used to this sort of thing. I've witnessed countless actors tout their liberal viewpoints from the podium at the Oscars, and I even cringed two years ago when arguably the best band on the planet today, Coldplay, dedicated their award to John Kerry and proclaimed their hopes that he would be the next U.S. president.

But, I had hoped the judging/voting would always maintain it's integrity and not cave in and show it's political colors. If the Dixie Chicks had had massive sales numbers and had risen again to national prominence with the release of this latest album, "Taking the Long Way", then you and I wouldn't be having this conversation. But, the fact is that the album was not their best, and I think anyone who was being objective about it would agree with that.

I'm jaded now. It's over for me. It's a shame that I can't watch the Grammys any more, because I have, until now, really enjoyed them. But now, they're a complete fraud.

Peace out...