Not long ago I got an email telling me about a great opportunity for unsigned artists from the Grammy's. The email goes on to tell me that this year the Grammy's will select 1 unsigned artist to perform with Justin Timberlake at this years Grammy awards telecast. It then goes on to tell me that in order enter into this contest I need to send a video of myself singing from a (provided) list of previous Grammy winning songs.
Most all of them are R&B songs. I showed this email to Kathy (whom I write songs with). She read it and said "Basically they want an R&B singer to perform with Justin Timberlake". Then she added: "Basically this is Grammy Idol".
It's not surprising that the Grammy's are going to attempt their own version of A.I. since American Idol keeps beating the Grammy's in the ratings each year. Now there's nothing wrong with finding an unknown R&B singer to perform with Justin, but wouldn't it have been awesome if they had found an unknown artist instead. Someone who is a great songwriter, a great musician, a great performer, and just let them showcase their talent to the world? Imagine if they had decided to discover and present us with what could potentially be the next Bruce Springsteen, or U2, or Beck?
But that would be to innovative. Of course now the real kicker to all of this is that the real news about this years Grammy's is not going to be about an unknown singer performing with Justin. Instead it's (the recently revealed) fact that The Police are re-uniting and will be performing at this years Grammy telecast! I have long since stopped caring who wins these things but the live performances have always knocked me out year after year. But this year......This year The Police are getting back together! Nuff said.
