February 10, 2025 • 37 mins
Today's episode: you guessed it! Today we are talking about the grammys and everything in between from performances, to best dressed, to the winners down to the best speeches and moments. Tune in to hear my thoughts on this year's awards.
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Hey, welcome to the Overshare pamphlet.
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My name is Rob and I'm the host of this one-line show coming to you every Monday, 6am UK time.
So today, I know I promised I would do another episode during the week about the Grammys,
but I failed miserably because your girl is busy.
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It's already hard enough to record one episode per week.
So, don't cover me.
So yeah, today we're going to talk about the Grammys basically.
That's the main point of my episode, is to go over the infamous Grammys.
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So let's, you know, I'm just going to like basically in general go over who won, probably
going to give you my favorite moments of the night, favorite dresses, I guess, favorite
fashion moments, favorite performances, just a lot of, you know, and my general thoughts
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on like the winners, I guess.
That's the main point.
So, and I guess also in general, like a commentary on like what the Grammys are in this moment
for the culture, I guess.
Like I've noticed something interesting about the Grammys this year, definitely more entertaining
than usual, but I can see them going in another direction that is very interesting.
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So, but I'll get into the whole thing when we get to the actual, you know, part of the
episode.
But first, as usual, let's just get into like a songs of the week, you know, extravagance
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as usual.
So I have these songs, as I always say in every episode, in the playlists of the month
that I make.
And so each song of the week is going to be in that month, specifically, a specific monthly
playlist and you can simply search them on Spotify under the name of the Overshore pamphlet
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Songs of the Week dash whatever month we're in.
So this year, this month is going to be February 2025.
So we already started with the previous episode.
So there's really a lot to go over.
But first of all, my vibe check for the week is that I've fallen into the rabbit hole of
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synth pop music, just in general, like I know it was a big, big thing in the early 2000s
as well.
I discovered so many artists from back in the days that I was not well, very familiar
with because also was not even sentient yet.
But yeah, so artists like Glass Candy, Hot Chip, Desire.
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And I guess like, well, I guess you can still find modern synth pop artists like, you know,
Purdy Drops, I guess is a good one.
And I always come to mind or like Ali X, for example, she her latest album Girl with No
Face was sort of also a node to synth pop or like even Magdalena Bay.
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I think most of her tracks are very, very synth pop oriented.
So there's definitely a lot of influence from those years.
And I think synth pop in a way is also very 80s.
So I think it's more of an 80s thing.
But I think early 2000 are a lot of interesting explorations of that.
And we'll get into the songs.
Well, first off, I want to talk about Don't Call by Desire.
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And it's from their EP or first album, Desire.
This song is just like, I would explain myself why they're falling into this whole situation
with synth pop is that I really enjoyed that production aspect the most from these songs.
I mean, not necessarily the lyrics.
Some of the lyrics are cool, I guess, but I don't really, I guess, I wasn't seeking
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the songs specifically for the lyrics, let's just say, but more so for the production.
I really like that synthy production, synthy bass as well.
It's just so good.
And it has a bit of that 80s vibe, I guess, into it.
I think the originating interest, I guess, for these songs comes from Sweet Dreams Are
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Made of This by Eurythmics.
So that's sort of like what really, I guess, introduced me to the genre when I was younger,
I guess, and really has been on my mind ever since.
So that's definitely a song.
I'm not sure how well, on Spotify, it seems like it's at least decently popular.
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The song has 68 million streams, which is very, very cool.
Yeah, so I definitely think, well, I was always surprised to see that the song is on it.
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So actually, I think I lied.
Did I put the songs in the January playlist?
I can't remember if I really made one.
But in any event, this is going to go into the playlist for February.
So that was the vibe.
One of the first songs I literally found that I really was interested in.
Also, please remember, I literally been out the entire weekend.
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And Friday was out drinking and doing stuff.
What did I do on Friday?
I can't remember.
Oh yeah, a birthday party.
And then Saturday, yesterday, I was also out.
Another birthday party, double birthday party, and also went out and also went dancing.
And then I slept in my, I crashed at my friend's place, came back home at like, what, 11 or
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something and I'm still recovering and I'm still going to go out tonight because tonight
is the Super Bowl.
I don't know why I'm going on a tangent, I guess, but it's just for, I guess to explain
myself because probably I don't know how like, you know, how endearing my voice is going
to sound with this raspiness, but maybe it will be your thing.
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So if it is, girl, you're welcome.
But anyways, so yeah, I was very much into this synth pop wave, let's just call it.
And I really enjoyed it so much that I found so many songs.
Another one I want to talk about is digital versicolor.
Girl, what kind of title is that?
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So it's by Glass Candy.
And that is also very synth pop, very 80s influenced.
But it's just like, it's just like, when you think about, you're gonna have to listen to
these songs, I guess, but if you picture, I guess like Sweet Dreams are made of this,
that very like very memorable synth melody in the back.
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That's the, that's the thing, right?
That's the thing.
And that's the synth pop in it, right?
So all these songs have some sort of like production that is in that area and like very
bass oriented, very synth 80s oriented.
So that's another great example of this beautiful wave.
And also, I think it's also from the early 2000s.
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So yeah, like pretty much just like, I literally didn't know anything about these two artists,
but I have explored a genre and now I can report that I am actually a fan of both.
So yeah.
Anyways, next, Cats on the Ceiling by Ruel.
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I have to be honest, it seems like I am actually a fan of Ruel then, because like I don't even
check his stuff out that much, but whenever one of his songs comes on, I'm always like,
oh, this song is good, this song is good.
It's like, then the other day I went to the track and I actually have quite a few songs
by Ruel Sade.
So I guess I am a Ruel stan.
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And rightfully so, he makes very, very, very, you know, interesting pop music, like very,
you know, catchy songs.
And this one specifically is like very good vibes.
Production wise, it's like very guitar, acoustic guitar oriented.
Reminds me a bit of the production, the riff, I guess, the chord progression, reminds me
a bit of One of Your Girls by Choice Van.
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But yeah, and it's about, you know, I guess the song is specifically about being very
much in love with someone.
Like literally, Cats on the Ceiling, the four birds are breathing, and I can't believe that
I have ever lived without you.
So you know, it's like, you know, coming to a realization that you really kind of live
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without someone's presence in your life, very cute stuff.
And it's not necessarily like, it can be about anyone to be fair, so it's not necessarily
about like a partner, but it can be about your friends or, you know, anyone.
So anyone you feel, you know, particularly attached to in that sense, a very cute song.
Really, really like it.
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And that was also very interesting, you know, interesting thing.
And next, I guess, is also an interesting song, very old, well, very not very old, maybe
like 10 years ago, could be.
No, not 10, maybe like nine or eight or seven.
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This is Luna, Odd Eye Circle.
I know we shouldn't be streaming the Cursed Company's versions, but that's just what we
have on Spotify.
So Uncover by Luna, Odd Eye Circle.
I am so obsessed with the song right now.
I don't know why I never even like listened to it ever before, because it's one of those
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like B-side tracks that I never really got into, I guess.
Or maybe I heard it once, but I wasn't really vibing with it.
I don't know why, but this song is so good.
It definitely has that Odd Eye Circle, if you know, if you know, you know, I guess,
but it has that Odd Eye Circle, Luna, like melodies and all that.
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But also it feels, I'm not really sure if it's like R&B, but it kind of sounds like
a bit R&B in that sense.
And you know how my girls Luna literally pioneered that very popular now new jeans aesthetic,
right?
Those were the good days where no one really cared about, well, no one, well, Luna has
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a big fandom, I guess, but no one really jumped on the trend because, you know, you had Blackpink
doing everything and more with the Girl Crush concert, which was very popular at the time.
So yeah, but they literally did the shit.
And this is right up new jeans aria, I would say.
Production is just immaculate.
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So captivating, very chill track, to be fair, but very intricate in production, I would
say, like very well honed and just a great vibe overall.
So I'm impressed.
What can I say?
I literally am so fucking impressed.
So if you haven't heard a song, I know it's like an old one, but if you haven't heard
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it, if you are familiar with it, you will probably know what I'm talking about.
If you haven't, give it a try.
I'm sure you actually enjoy it.
And I would recommend listening to it with your headphones on because you really want
to get that full immersion in a track and like in the production, because it's really,
really worth it, I would say.
So yeah.
But again, these are the tracks of the week.
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You can find them on the playlist that I will be making because I completely forgot about
it.
But yeah, let's dwell into the main topic, which is the Grammys 2025.
And so I want to pick up where I left off basically at the intro of the episode when
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I was saying that the Grammys this year have been quite entertaining and quite surprising,
I guess, in terms of quality and everything else and the conversation.
Everyone seems to be very happy with the, generally happy, I would say, with the outcome
of the Grammys this year because it's been the least.
Well, first off, I think the choices that were made for the winners made sense, but
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also were the least controversial or like didn't really go against any of the main pop
girlies that were nominated.
So for the big categories, they actually went for a neutral choice, which was Kendrick Lamar.
Neutral as in like, you know, he doesn't have toxic fandoms that would like, you know, tear
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the strats, the Grammys.
But also I think it's a big, big step forward in terms of diversity because I think this
is the first actual Grammy session where its voter spool has been diversified after last
year's fiasco and previous year's fiascoes when they've been called out multiple times
about it.
So this year is definitely, you could definitely feel that they've been diversifying their
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voters pool in that sense.
And so you've got people like Beyonce winning album of the year and Kendrick Lamar winning
record and song of the year.
And that's really important to acknowledge and to, I guess, support as well.
As long as it's not done as a token situation, like you just reward the token artists of
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color, I guess, or like from a minority just because of that, because no one would want
that.
Not even people from that minority group would want that to be fair.
But I think this year is definitely well deserved for both artists specifically.
So yeah, I am very much happy and content with the win, went about with the wins and
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everything.
But also, I mean, I had my preferences, I guess, which I already talked about in my
predictions, but I'm happy to see at least all the new main pop girlies receiving the
attention it deserves.
Charlie Won best electronic and dance album.
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And for Brat, so that's very much well deserved.
She didn't take home any of the main big, you know, the big award, but that's still
a very big award, I would say.
And also first Grammy for her.
So well, that's incredible.
So very much worth celebrating and incredible stuff.
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So that's one.
And for the song of the year and the well, I would say like actually before we get into
that, Sabino Carpenter, I was rooting for her to get at least record of the year, like
overall as a package, the song, the production and everything, like the entire moment, the
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writing and all that.
I think we could all argue that that probably is the actual song that was played and appreciated
the most.
And I think what's even more interesting is that even among her peers, this song is beloved
to the max.
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House down boots.
They love it down at the Grammys or every other performance.
You can see the actual people enjoying, like loving the song so much.
So I think they could have done that to Sabino.
They could have given her that record of the year and then given song of the year to Kendrick
and then album of the year to Beyonce.
But that's if I just want to be nitpicky, that's the only thing I would have changed.
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But that's so fine because she won pop vocal album with Short and Sweet and that's major.
That's also major and also one of the first wins for Sabino Carpenter.
So incredible, incredible stuff.
A lot of first winners that this award, this award, this world is Grammys.
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So yeah, I literally am like so impressed with how it went down and I am, you know,
very much impressed with Sabino's accomplishments in such a short time.
So it's like that we have the girl, we have to talk about Chapel Roman as well.
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I think she got the most, I guess, support for the win that she got because I think she
really deserved it.
I think that was the award made for her specifically.
Well, let's say that it is because like, you know, the best new artist thing wasn't made
for her specifically, but you know, this year she was the one who deserved it the most.
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And I would say that she is just a very important figure also for not simply as a new artist,
but also a great example for all future new artists as well.
They're going to come after her because she's really setting a beautiful example of how
to be still yourself while entering this very scary, you know, entering an industry that
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is just like very exploitative.
And her speech, we're going to get into the speeches in a bit, but was really a big signifier
of that and a big example of how important it is that she won actually that award.
So it is definitely a great honor and I am very much impressed with what happened there.
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So let's get into, well, I just want to touch upon like the, you know, album of the year
winner situation.
I think Beyonce really deserved this win.
I think it's actually a very good choice and a very, you know, well deserved and well overdue
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award.
I am okay with her winning it for this album, even though I would say like, again, it's
not an album that I'd really play and spin a lot compared to other albums by Beyonce,
but I still think it's critically one of the best albums she's made.
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And it's very interesting that she managed to win this with this type of genre.
And it's even more impressive because, you know, the entire project was about reclaiming
the roots of the country genre.
She is the first black artist period to win this award.
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And it's insane.
I am so astonished and so proud of, of course, of what she's accomplished.
So I think it's very well deserved, very well overdue.
And now, you know, I'm excited to see what's going to happen next with the Renaissance
project, I guess.
So yeah, country rock and roll winning record and song of the year.
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I honestly like love the song.
And it's just very interesting.
I just find it actually quite, I mean, I guess the Grammys don't really care about the content
specifically or the context of the of the songs, because the song is literally like
a full like drag to Drake.
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So I am so impressed with this song and it must be so embarrassing for Drake to have
this as the song that won song of the year and record of the year.
So forever tainted by that.
So people will always remember that this song won and it is about him.
So crazy stuff.
But yeah, also very happy to see that Nigro winning best producer for the year.
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Definitely deserved with the Chappell and the Olivia situation, like producing for them.
And I am happy with that.
Happy with that.
Now, the big conversation I guess in the room was Billie Eilish not winning any awards and
the fans going absolutely ballistic over that and started talking Beyonce and all that stuff.
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And some people were alleging that she was Billie was crying during the acceptance speech
of Beyonce's award because she thought she thought that, you know, she was supposed to
win or something.
I don't know.
But if you know anything about Billie Eilish, she's a huge, huge Beyonce fan.
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And she respects that woman so much.
So I 100% I can put my hand on the fire and say that that she was that she was crying
because she was very emotional for her.
You know, so Beyonce literally won album of the year and best country album of the year.
So like, that's a huge moment.
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I just had like a very historical moment as well.
So I don't know.
Also, I personally didn't really I mean, Hit Me Hard is not my favorite album of Billie
Eilish's simply because I think it's like very similar to what she was already done
multiple, multiple times.
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And I honestly don't really spin it as much.
But I can acknowledge the fact that the album was one of the most streamed albums of the
year for sure.
But that doesn't mean necessarily it's going to win any award.
And I think this is also very reflective of the Grammys.
I think we've said this so many times, if you know anything about the Grammys, is that
they don't award sameness, let's just say like they really try to award people for changing
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and for evolving their sound and like stepping forward in terms of writing and producing
and all that stuff.
So again, Hit Me Hard itself is not anything new for Billie.
It's like very much safe territory for her.
And so and also she's been awarded already so many times in the past few years.
And I don't really think it's a big deal.
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She'll be so fine.
Don't worry about that.
This album definitely had a lot of streams.
But I think, again, the Grammys didn't want to like first off, play down or downplay,
sorry, Beyonce's accomplishments.
And also, I think, again, Billie needs to do something a bit different.
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She needs to like start evolving a bit and maybe start bringing in new collaborators
apart from Finneas.
And that would probably and signify, I guess, a bit of a change in the sound department,
I guess, of the of her catalog.
So yeah.
Anyways, great stuff.
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So Taylor Swift didn't win anything, but we've been known.
She took home last year a lot of major awards, so they wouldn't do it again this year.
You know what I mean?
So it's not going to happen.
Not going to happen.
And again, I'm so fine with it.
Like I love Torch of Voids now, but I think it was a bit too complex of an album for the
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critics and for the general public.
So then it was very a bit too a bit less polished, let's just say.
But it's just the way it is.
That's the beauty of that.
That's the entire purpose of the album to be like very chaotic and very lyrically all
over the place in that sense.
But definitely not something that the Grammys would want to award, if that makes any sense.
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Like usually whenever she wins at the Grammys is when she puts out an album that is like
very cohesive sound wise and vibe wise and like writing wise.
So for example, Midnight's very cohesive album.
What is it?
Folklore.
Very cohesive album.
Every single track fits on the album like a glove.
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Then she won for 1989, which is the epitome of like the most polished album ever made
by Taylor Swift.
And then also Fierce, which was very, very pivotal for her.
So yeah.
But yeah, Taylor was literally there to have a giggle.
And I was so happy to see her like having fun dancing with Margaret Jack Antonoff as
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well.
Just you know, having a blast.
She was dressed beautifully.
Like her red dress was incredible.
Red is a perfect color for Taylor Swift.
Like it literally fits her so well.
And you know, I'm sure the girl has more to offer.
So she's not done 100%.
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So don't worry.
Don't worry about her.
Don't worry about her.
She's that's how the game goes.
You know, you can always win and she's done.
She's accomplished already so much.
So that's so fine for her.
Yeah.
So let's just talk about like maybe the best moments from the night.
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I would say in terms of speeches, for example, I really enjoyed.
I think that my favorite one was definitely Chappell-Rownes' speech about new artists
and demanding basic access to insurance and all that stuff, health insurance, and for
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new artists that are signed to a label.
And this definitely created a huge conversation and started having multiple artists get involved
because apparently people from the Hollywood Reporter, maybe I think it was, started writing
very bad articles about her saying that she's an ungrateful person.
And the specific writer was just not making any sense.
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They're saying like she could have asked her fans to donate one dollar to her and she would
have already enough money to cover her insurance or whatever.
And contracts are what they are and artists shouldn't complain about that when they sign
willingly to these things.
Like that's not the point.
The point is that the contract should be different.
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You know, there's no other choice for these artists.
And literally they should like that's the main problem.
And so I've seen Halsey coming to her, you know, defense and Jordy XCX and Noah Cannon
also coming to her rescue.
They also all donated 25k and showing to support like new, you know, creating this fund for
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new artists and all that stuff.
So that was very, very, very good stuff.
Really enjoyed it.
And her speech was just impeccable, like very earnest and very genuine.
Jordy from her notebook, it was very cute, very.
She was very nervous when she was speaking about she really drove the point home and
she was so right about that.
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And I can see like I saw the reaction.
What really captured my attention the most was like the reaction from all of her peers
because now she's part of that.
Like those are her peers.
They were all in full support of her.
It was just incredible.
Like just love this so much.
It was definitely my one of my highlights, I guess, for tonight.
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I also loved Taylor introducing, well, announcing the Beyonce Country album of the year win
in that sense.
So that's very fitting.
Literally when I think Taylor won that for Fearless, I think it was, at the VMAs, Beyonce
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was the one who gave her the award or whatever.
So it's a very full circle moment and also Taylor being from the country roots.
So it's just full circle.
Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
I really enjoyed that.
In terms of performances, I really enjoyed.
I really enjoyed Chappell's performance.
I really enjoyed Charlie's.
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I think I cannot complain at all about these performances.
They've been all really good.
Sabrina's was impeccable as well.
So good.
I loved it so much.
That was so nice.
Favorite performance, I would say, I don't know if I can pick one because I really enjoyed
all of them.
I would have loved for Charlie to have like a better, a longer stage maybe.
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She deserved to have that moment, but she did the best with what she had, which was
so country as well.
Loved seeing Alex and Sani as well as usual.
Sabrina's performance was so, so funny.
She really embodied that comical side, doing a bit of that cabaret moment was so funny.
I literally love.
She's in her bag.
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She's on her bag.
That's literally so very short and sweet, humorous performance.
It was just so good.
And she really took it out of the park.
And then Chappell's was just beautiful vocals, beautiful sets.
They just really went off with the sets this year.
I really noticed that.
It was so, so good.
And yeah, best dressed, I guess, on the carpet.
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On the right carpet, I would say it would have to be Sabrina to me.
Like that's literally so good.
She got that old, the old Hollywood look, the little Marilyn Monroe type of vibe in
her and she really, you know, went for it.
She had that piece, like I think it was Pearls maybe on the back of, like on her back going
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from the neck down, down her back.
It was so good.
I think that's definitely one of my favorite looks of the night.
So chic and very short and sweet coded as well.
She went for that color, color scheme and everything.
Like very, very cool stuff.
I enjoyed it quite a bit, I have to be honest.
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And it was just beautiful for the eyes.
But yeah, I think everyone has just been super happy with the Grammys this year because already
for awarding the right people, first of all.
But also I think in general, the VMAs for example, this year haven't been, they've been
okay, they've been good, they've been talked about and everything, but they've not been,
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I don't know, like you haven't had proper interactions between celebrities at the VMAs
per se.
And again, especially from the big ones, but here I think you could like literally, you
had in the room like so many important people.
You had Beyonce, you had Gaga, you had Bruno Mars, you had Taylor Swift, you had Sabrina,
Chappell, Charlie, so many interesting artists.
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They were all sort of interacting with each other.
You had Olivia Rodrigo speaking to Sabrina Carpenter, which is like historical, incredible
stuff and I wonder what they talked about.
They were hugging and stuff, interesting stuff.
So yeah, and I was saying like after watching that, after seeing the reaction, it really
feels like the Grammys are now like holding the spot that once was held by I guess the
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VMAs.
I mean, the Grammys are still supposed to be like higher tier in that sense, like higher
classier events, I guess, but I think the amount of money put into the production and
the moments that the interactions and everything else, it's really giving VMAs like in the
early 2000s and 2010s.
The VMAs have been flopping for ages, but this seems to be, you know, this was a moment
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for everyone to talk about, you know?
So I really got that feeling the other night.
So I really enjoyed that.
I'm glad that it went this way.
So yeah, I don't have any complaints to be fair about any of the wins.
You know, like I really think it was fair.
Again, the only thing I'd like to say is just Sabrina should have won record of the year,
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I think, in my opinion, but overall, very satisfied, very, very good and happy for Beyonce,
happy for all the new girls.
And it's just incredible.
I mean, again, I think it gives also a nice spin to like the future of music and how female
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oriented it is, and it really feels like a full circle moment.
I think we're re-establishing who are the main pop girls.
The new blood that's come to the Grammys has just been rewarded and it's just, you know,
a big sign of what's to come next.
Also Dochi, of course, I mentioned Dochi, but her performance was crazy.
Her winning best rap album, I think it was, the third moment to ever win it, incredible
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stuff.
That was insane, man.
Like her performance was so good.
I really liked her speech as well.
She was very vocal about, you know, racial discrimination, of course, and everything
else.
Oh, and I forgot to talk about this.
I couldn't stop the episode without talking about this.
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Lady Gaga's new song, Abra Gabra, came out literally during the Grammys.
She had an ad, well, her spot, the MasterCard ad was basically her music video.
So the music video was so fucking good.
Like I cannot, that's literally critical of Gaga, like the famed master, born his way
a bit, like so freaking good.
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I loved it so much.
I still need to like understand what's the story behind these past two music videos,
but incredible.
And the song itself is giving Gaga, but it's also giving Brat.
It's giving like, well, for the rest of the song, the majority of the song is giving Gaga
100%, like very old school Gaga.
But then the post-chorus is very Brat-coded and is very like rave-y in a sense, like very
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rave music.
Love it so much.
So good.
Gaga is about to give us like a dark pop, dark, well, dance pop studio album.
I cannot wait.
I am a big disease, uh, stamp.
So to see people now finally also rediscovering that song, I'm just like, you know, and then
Apricot Abra coming in and was just incredible.
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Visually, Gaga is just so interesting as well.
I just don't think there's any other artists out there that would like her.
It's just excellence.
I'm a little monster again.
Thank you very much.
I was losing, you know, I lost touch and I think I just wasn't really into her ever since
Joanne, I think.
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Even Chromatic I liked, but it wasn't really giving me Gaga, Gaga, you know, like, I don't
know the Gaga I fell in love with, but this was, you know, nice.
That's where she thrives the most, you know, like that's her element.
Like, you know, they're very theatrical, very exaggerated, very weird and disgusting.
It's sort of, you know, visuals as well.
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Just impeccable.
I'm very excited for the album.
I'm seated.
I want to know what's next.
I am just prepared for the best album of the year and we'll see what happens.
Oh yeah, this has been the episode.
I hope you guys enjoy it and I will talk to you guys in the next episode, coming next
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Monday.
Hopefully a Super Bowl won't kill me.
I hope not.
I'm literally having like here it's going to be at 11 p.m. and I'm going to have to
be up the entire like night basically.
I'm going to be coming home at like 5 a.m. or something, so I'm not going to go to sleep.
Yeah, insane stuff.
But the things we do for the fans, for the fanzies, for the stories.
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Yeah.
Also, big disclaimer, I may or may not have been on the lookout for this book called 2666
by Robert Bolano, Roberto Bolano.
It seems very interesting.
I read some bits and pieces online and on PDF and I am sort of interested in buying
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it, so I think I will buy it.
It's a massive book, like almost what, like 900 pages or something.
But I do want to read it and if I do buy it and I do read it, best believe your girl is
going to give you a review.
So just putting it out there.
Maybe I won't buy it, but I think I will.
I know it myself.
I think I will buy it, but just need to like, you know, find the right moment to start reading
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it, which is probably going to be very soon.
So yeah, anyways, enjoy your weekend.
See you all next week.
Bye.
Bye.
Hey, welcome to the Overshare pamphlet.
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My name is Rob and I'm the host of this one-line show coming to you every Monday, 6am UK time.
So today, I know I promised I would do another episode during the week about the Grammys,
but I failed miserably because your girl is busy.
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It's already hard enough to record one episode per week.
So, don't cover me.
So yeah, today we're going to talk about the Grammys basically.
That's the main point of my episode, is to go over the infamous Grammys.
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So let's, you know, I'm just going to like basically in general go over who won, probably
going to give you my favorite moments of the night, favorite dresses, I guess, favorite
fashion moments, favorite performances, just a lot of, you know, and my general thoughts
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on like the winners, I guess.
That's the main point.
So, and I guess also in general, like a commentary on like what the Grammys are in this moment
for the culture, I guess.
Like I've noticed something interesting about the Grammys this year, definitely more entertaining
than usual, but I can see them going in another direction that is very interesting.
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So, but I'll get into the whole thing when we get to the actual, you know, part of the
episode.
But first, as usual, let's just get into like a songs of the week, you know, extravagance
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as usual.
So I have these songs, as I always say in every episode, in the playlists of the month
that I make.
And so each song of the week is going to be in that month, specifically, a specific monthly
playlist and you can simply search them on Spotify under the name of the Overshore pamphlet
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Songs of the Week dash whatever month we're in.
So this year, this month is going to be February 2025.
So we already started with the previous episode.
So there's really a lot to go over.
But first of all, my vibe check for the week is that I've fallen into the rabbit hole of
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synth pop music, just in general, like I know it was a big, big thing in the early 2000s
as well.
I discovered so many artists from back in the days that I was not well, very familiar
with because also was not even sentient yet.
But yeah, so artists like Glass Candy, Hot Chip, Desire.
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And I guess like, well, I guess you can still find modern synth pop artists like, you know,
Purdy Drops, I guess is a good one.
And I always come to mind or like Ali X, for example, she her latest album Girl with No
Face was sort of also a node to synth pop or like even Magdalena Bay.
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I think most of her tracks are very, very synth pop oriented.
So there's definitely a lot of influence from those years.
And I think synth pop in a way is also very 80s.
So I think it's more of an 80s thing.
But I think early 2000 are a lot of interesting explorations of that.
And we'll get into the songs.
Well, first off, I want to talk about Don't Call by Desire.
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And it's from their EP or first album, Desire.
This song is just like, I would explain myself why they're falling into this whole situation
with synth pop is that I really enjoyed that production aspect the most from these songs.
I mean, not necessarily the lyrics.
Some of the lyrics are cool, I guess, but I don't really, I guess, I wasn't seeking
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the songs specifically for the lyrics, let's just say, but more so for the production.
I really like that synthy production, synthy bass as well.
It's just so good.
And it has a bit of that 80s vibe, I guess, into it.
I think the originating interest, I guess, for these songs comes from Sweet Dreams Are
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Made of This by Eurythmics.
So that's sort of like what really, I guess, introduced me to the genre when I was younger,
I guess, and really has been on my mind ever since.
So that's definitely a song.
I'm not sure how well, on Spotify, it seems like it's at least decently popular.
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The song has 68 million streams, which is very, very cool.
Yeah, so I definitely think, well, I was always surprised to see that the song is on it.
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So actually, I think I lied.
Did I put the songs in the January playlist?
I can't remember if I really made one.
But in any event, this is going to go into the playlist for February.
So that was the vibe.
One of the first songs I literally found that I really was interested in.
Also, please remember, I literally been out the entire weekend.
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And Friday was out drinking and doing stuff.
What did I do on Friday?
I can't remember.
Oh yeah, a birthday party.
And then Saturday, yesterday, I was also out.
Another birthday party, double birthday party, and also went out and also went dancing.
And then I slept in my, I crashed at my friend's place, came back home at like, what, 11 or
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something and I'm still recovering and I'm still going to go out tonight because tonight
is the Super Bowl.
I don't know why I'm going on a tangent, I guess, but it's just for, I guess to explain
myself because probably I don't know how like, you know, how endearing my voice is going
to sound with this raspiness, but maybe it will be your thing.
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So if it is, girl, you're welcome.
But anyways, so yeah, I was very much into this synth pop wave, let's just call it.
And I really enjoyed it so much that I found so many songs.
Another one I want to talk about is digital versicolor.
Girl, what kind of title is that?
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So it's by Glass Candy.
And that is also very synth pop, very 80s influenced.
But it's just like, it's just like, when you think about, you're gonna have to listen to
these songs, I guess, but if you picture, I guess like Sweet Dreams are made of this,
that very like very memorable synth melody in the back.
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That's the, that's the thing, right?
That's the thing.
And that's the synth pop in it, right?
So all these songs have some sort of like production that is in that area and like very
bass oriented, very synth 80s oriented.
So that's another great example of this beautiful wave.
And also, I think it's also from the early 2000s.
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So yeah, like pretty much just like, I literally didn't know anything about these two artists,
but I have explored a genre and now I can report that I am actually a fan of both.
So yeah.
Anyways, next, Cats on the Ceiling by Ruel.
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I have to be honest, it seems like I am actually a fan of Ruel then, because like I don't even
check his stuff out that much, but whenever one of his songs comes on, I'm always like,
oh, this song is good, this song is good.
It's like, then the other day I went to the track and I actually have quite a few songs
by Ruel Sade.
So I guess I am a Ruel stan.
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And rightfully so, he makes very, very, very, you know, interesting pop music, like very,
you know, catchy songs.
And this one specifically is like very good vibes.
Production wise, it's like very guitar, acoustic guitar oriented.
Reminds me a bit of the production, the riff, I guess, the chord progression, reminds me
a bit of One of Your Girls by Choice Van.
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But yeah, and it's about, you know, I guess the song is specifically about being very
much in love with someone.
Like literally, Cats on the Ceiling, the four birds are breathing, and I can't believe that
I have ever lived without you.
So you know, it's like, you know, coming to a realization that you really kind of live
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without someone's presence in your life, very cute stuff.
And it's not necessarily like, it can be about anyone to be fair, so it's not necessarily
about like a partner, but it can be about your friends or, you know, anyone.
So anyone you feel, you know, particularly attached to in that sense, a very cute song.
Really, really like it.
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And that was also very interesting, you know, interesting thing.
And next, I guess, is also an interesting song, very old, well, very not very old, maybe
like 10 years ago, could be.
No, not 10, maybe like nine or eight or seven.
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This is Luna, Odd Eye Circle.
I know we shouldn't be streaming the Cursed Company's versions, but that's just what we
have on Spotify.
So Uncover by Luna, Odd Eye Circle.
I am so obsessed with the song right now.
I don't know why I never even like listened to it ever before, because it's one of those
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like B-side tracks that I never really got into, I guess.
Or maybe I heard it once, but I wasn't really vibing with it.
I don't know why, but this song is so good.
It definitely has that Odd Eye Circle, if you know, if you know, you know, I guess,
but it has that Odd Eye Circle, Luna, like melodies and all that.
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But also it feels, I'm not really sure if it's like R&B, but it kind of sounds like
a bit R&B in that sense.
And you know how my girls Luna literally pioneered that very popular now new jeans aesthetic,
right?
Those were the good days where no one really cared about, well, no one, well, Luna has
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a big fandom, I guess, but no one really jumped on the trend because, you know, you had Blackpink
doing everything and more with the Girl Crush concert, which was very popular at the time.
So yeah, but they literally did the shit.
And this is right up new jeans aria, I would say.
Production is just immaculate.
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So captivating, very chill track, to be fair, but very intricate in production, I would
say, like very well honed and just a great vibe overall.
So I'm impressed.
What can I say?
I literally am so fucking impressed.
So if you haven't heard a song, I know it's like an old one, but if you haven't heard
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it, if you are familiar with it, you will probably know what I'm talking about.
If you haven't, give it a try.
I'm sure you actually enjoy it.
And I would recommend listening to it with your headphones on because you really want
to get that full immersion in a track and like in the production, because it's really,
really worth it, I would say.
So yeah.
But again, these are the tracks of the week.
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You can find them on the playlist that I will be making because I completely forgot about
it.
But yeah, let's dwell into the main topic, which is the Grammys 2025.
And so I want to pick up where I left off basically at the intro of the episode when
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I was saying that the Grammys this year have been quite entertaining and quite surprising,
I guess, in terms of quality and everything else and the conversation.
Everyone seems to be very happy with the, generally happy, I would say, with the outcome
of the Grammys this year because it's been the least.
Well, first off, I think the choices that were made for the winners made sense, but
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also were the least controversial or like didn't really go against any of the main pop
girlies that were nominated.
So for the big categories, they actually went for a neutral choice, which was Kendrick Lamar.
Neutral as in like, you know, he doesn't have toxic fandoms that would like, you know, tear
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the strats, the Grammys.
But also I think it's a big, big step forward in terms of diversity because I think this
is the first actual Grammy session where its voter spool has been diversified after last
year's fiasco and previous year's fiascoes when they've been called out multiple times
about it.
So this year is definitely, you could definitely feel that they've been diversifying their
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voters pool in that sense.
And so you've got people like Beyonce winning album of the year and Kendrick Lamar winning
record and song of the year.
And that's really important to acknowledge and to, I guess, support as well.
As long as it's not done as a token situation, like you just reward the token artists of
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color, I guess, or like from a minority just because of that, because no one would want
that.
Not even people from that minority group would want that to be fair.
But I think this year is definitely well deserved for both artists specifically.
So yeah, I am very much happy and content with the win, went about with the wins and
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everything.
But also, I mean, I had my preferences, I guess, which I already talked about in my
predictions, but I'm happy to see at least all the new main pop girlies receiving the
attention it deserves.
Charlie Won best electronic and dance album.
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And for Brat, so that's very much well deserved.
She didn't take home any of the main big, you know, the big award, but that's still
a very big award, I would say.
And also first Grammy for her.
So well, that's incredible.
So very much worth celebrating and incredible stuff.
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So that's one.
And for the song of the year and the well, I would say like actually before we get into
that, Sabino Carpenter, I was rooting for her to get at least record of the year, like
overall as a package, the song, the production and everything, like the entire moment, the
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writing and all that.
I think we could all argue that that probably is the actual song that was played and appreciated
the most.
And I think what's even more interesting is that even among her peers, this song is beloved
to the max.
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House down boots.
They love it down at the Grammys or every other performance.
You can see the actual people enjoying, like loving the song so much.
So I think they could have done that to Sabino.
They could have given her that record of the year and then given song of the year to Kendrick
and then album of the year to Beyonce.
But that's if I just want to be nitpicky, that's the only thing I would have changed.
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But that's so fine because she won pop vocal album with Short and Sweet and that's major.
That's also major and also one of the first wins for Sabino Carpenter.
So incredible, incredible stuff.
A lot of first winners that this award, this award, this world is Grammys.
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So yeah, I literally am like so impressed with how it went down and I am, you know,
very much impressed with Sabino's accomplishments in such a short time.
So it's like that we have the girl, we have to talk about Chapel Roman as well.
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I think she got the most, I guess, support for the win that she got because I think she
really deserved it.
I think that was the award made for her specifically.
Well, let's say that it is because like, you know, the best new artist thing wasn't made
for her specifically, but you know, this year she was the one who deserved it the most.
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And I would say that she is just a very important figure also for not simply as a new artist,
but also a great example for all future new artists as well.
They're going to come after her because she's really setting a beautiful example of how
to be still yourself while entering this very scary, you know, entering an industry that
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is just like very exploitative.
And her speech, we're going to get into the speeches in a bit, but was really a big signifier
of that and a big example of how important it is that she won actually that award.
So it is definitely a great honor and I am very much impressed with what happened there.
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So let's get into, well, I just want to touch upon like the, you know, album of the year
winner situation.
I think Beyonce really deserved this win.
I think it's actually a very good choice and a very, you know, well deserved and well overdue
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award.
I am okay with her winning it for this album, even though I would say like, again, it's
not an album that I'd really play and spin a lot compared to other albums by Beyonce,
but I still think it's critically one of the best albums she's made.
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And it's very interesting that she managed to win this with this type of genre.
And it's even more impressive because, you know, the entire project was about reclaiming
the roots of the country genre.
She is the first black artist period to win this award.
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And it's insane.
I am so astonished and so proud of, of course, of what she's accomplished.
So I think it's very well deserved, very well overdue.
And now, you know, I'm excited to see what's going to happen next with the Renaissance
project, I guess.
So yeah, country rock and roll winning record and song of the year.
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I honestly like love the song.
And it's just very interesting.
I just find it actually quite, I mean, I guess the Grammys don't really care about the content
specifically or the context of the of the songs, because the song is literally like
a full like drag to Drake.
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So I am so impressed with this song and it must be so embarrassing for Drake to have
this as the song that won song of the year and record of the year.
So forever tainted by that.
So people will always remember that this song won and it is about him.
So crazy stuff.
But yeah, also very happy to see that Nigro winning best producer for the year.
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Definitely deserved with the Chappell and the Olivia situation, like producing for them.
And I am happy with that.
Happy with that.
Now, the big conversation I guess in the room was Billie Eilish not winning any awards and
the fans going absolutely ballistic over that and started talking Beyonce and all that stuff.
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And some people were alleging that she was Billie was crying during the acceptance speech
of Beyonce's award because she thought she thought that, you know, she was supposed to
win or something.
I don't know.
But if you know anything about Billie Eilish, she's a huge, huge Beyonce fan.
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And she respects that woman so much.
So I 100% I can put my hand on the fire and say that that she was that she was crying
because she was very emotional for her.
You know, so Beyonce literally won album of the year and best country album of the year.
So like, that's a huge moment.
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I just had like a very historical moment as well.
So I don't know.
Also, I personally didn't really I mean, Hit Me Hard is not my favorite album of Billie
Eilish's simply because I think it's like very similar to what she was already done
multiple, multiple times.
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And I honestly don't really spin it as much.
But I can acknowledge the fact that the album was one of the most streamed albums of the
year for sure.
But that doesn't mean necessarily it's going to win any award.
And I think this is also very reflective of the Grammys.
I think we've said this so many times, if you know anything about the Grammys, is that
they don't award sameness, let's just say like they really try to award people for changing
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and for evolving their sound and like stepping forward in terms of writing and producing
and all that stuff.
So again, Hit Me Hard itself is not anything new for Billie.
It's like very much safe territory for her.
And so and also she's been awarded already so many times in the past few years.
And I don't really think it's a big deal.
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She'll be so fine.
Don't worry about that.
This album definitely had a lot of streams.
But I think, again, the Grammys didn't want to like first off, play down or downplay,
sorry, Beyonce's accomplishments.
And also, I think, again, Billie needs to do something a bit different.
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She needs to like start evolving a bit and maybe start bringing in new collaborators
apart from Finneas.
And that would probably and signify, I guess, a bit of a change in the sound department,
I guess, of the of her catalog.
So yeah.
Anyways, great stuff.
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So Taylor Swift didn't win anything, but we've been known.
She took home last year a lot of major awards, so they wouldn't do it again this year.
You know what I mean?
So it's not going to happen.
Not going to happen.
And again, I'm so fine with it.
Like I love Torch of Voids now, but I think it was a bit too complex of an album for the
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critics and for the general public.
So then it was very a bit too a bit less polished, let's just say.
But it's just the way it is.
That's the beauty of that.
That's the entire purpose of the album to be like very chaotic and very lyrically all
over the place in that sense.
But definitely not something that the Grammys would want to award, if that makes any sense.
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Like usually whenever she wins at the Grammys is when she puts out an album that is like
very cohesive sound wise and vibe wise and like writing wise.
So for example, Midnight's very cohesive album.
What is it?
Folklore.
Very cohesive album.
Every single track fits on the album like a glove.
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Then she won for 1989, which is the epitome of like the most polished album ever made
by Taylor Swift.
And then also Fierce, which was very, very pivotal for her.
So yeah.
But yeah, Taylor was literally there to have a giggle.
And I was so happy to see her like having fun dancing with Margaret Jack Antonoff as
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well.
Just you know, having a blast.
She was dressed beautifully.
Like her red dress was incredible.
Red is a perfect color for Taylor Swift.
Like it literally fits her so well.
And you know, I'm sure the girl has more to offer.
So she's not done 100%.
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So don't worry.
Don't worry about her.
Don't worry about her.
She's that's how the game goes.
You know, you can always win and she's done.
She's accomplished already so much.
So that's so fine for her.
Yeah.
So let's just talk about like maybe the best moments from the night.
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I would say in terms of speeches, for example, I really enjoyed.
I think that my favorite one was definitely Chappell-Rownes' speech about new artists
and demanding basic access to insurance and all that stuff, health insurance, and for
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new artists that are signed to a label.
And this definitely created a huge conversation and started having multiple artists get involved
because apparently people from the Hollywood Reporter, maybe I think it was, started writing
very bad articles about her saying that she's an ungrateful person.
And the specific writer was just not making any sense.
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They're saying like she could have asked her fans to donate one dollar to her and she would
have already enough money to cover her insurance or whatever.
And contracts are what they are and artists shouldn't complain about that when they sign
willingly to these things.
Like that's not the point.
The point is that the contract should be different.
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You know, there's no other choice for these artists.
And literally they should like that's the main problem.
And so I've seen Halsey coming to her, you know, defense and Jordy XCX and Noah Cannon
also coming to her rescue.
They also all donated 25k and showing to support like new, you know, creating this fund for
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new artists and all that stuff.
So that was very, very, very good stuff.
Really enjoyed it.
And her speech was just impeccable, like very earnest and very genuine.
Jordy from her notebook, it was very cute, very.
She was very nervous when she was speaking about she really drove the point home and
she was so right about that.
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And I can see like I saw the reaction.
What really captured my attention the most was like the reaction from all of her peers
because now she's part of that.
Like those are her peers.
They were all in full support of her.
It was just incredible.
Like just love this so much.
It was definitely my one of my highlights, I guess, for tonight.
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I also loved Taylor introducing, well, announcing the Beyonce Country album of the year win
in that sense.
So that's very fitting.
Literally when I think Taylor won that for Fearless, I think it was, at the VMAs, Beyonce
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was the one who gave her the award or whatever.
So it's a very full circle moment and also Taylor being from the country roots.
So it's just full circle.
Beautiful, beautiful stuff.
I really enjoyed that.
In terms of performances, I really enjoyed.
I really enjoyed Chappell's performance.
I really enjoyed Charlie's.
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I think I cannot complain at all about these performances.
They've been all really good.
Sabrina's was impeccable as well.
So good.
I loved it so much.
That was so nice.
Favorite performance, I would say, I don't know if I can pick one because I really enjoyed
all of them.
I would have loved for Charlie to have like a better, a longer stage maybe.
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She deserved to have that moment, but she did the best with what she had, which was
so country as well.
Loved seeing Alex and Sani as well as usual.
Sabrina's performance was so, so funny.
She really embodied that comical side, doing a bit of that cabaret moment was so funny.
I literally love.
She's in her bag.
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She's on her bag.
That's literally so very short and sweet, humorous performance.
It was just so good.
And she really took it out of the park.
And then Chappell's was just beautiful vocals, beautiful sets.
They just really went off with the sets this year.
I really noticed that.
It was so, so good.
And yeah, best dressed, I guess, on the carpet.
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On the right carpet, I would say it would have to be Sabrina to me.
Like that's literally so good.
She got that old, the old Hollywood look, the little Marilyn Monroe type of vibe in
her and she really, you know, went for it.
She had that piece, like I think it was Pearls maybe on the back of, like on her back going
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from the neck down, down her back.
It was so good.
I think that's definitely one of my favorite looks of the night.
So chic and very short and sweet coded as well.
She went for that color, color scheme and everything.
Like very, very cool stuff.
I enjoyed it quite a bit, I have to be honest.
(30:51):
And it was just beautiful for the eyes.
But yeah, I think everyone has just been super happy with the Grammys this year because already
for awarding the right people, first of all.
But also I think in general, the VMAs for example, this year haven't been, they've been
okay, they've been good, they've been talked about and everything, but they've not been,
(31:13):
I don't know, like you haven't had proper interactions between celebrities at the VMAs
per se.
And again, especially from the big ones, but here I think you could like literally, you
had in the room like so many important people.
You had Beyonce, you had Gaga, you had Bruno Mars, you had Taylor Swift, you had Sabrina,
Chappell, Charlie, so many interesting artists.
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They were all sort of interacting with each other.
You had Olivia Rodrigo speaking to Sabrina Carpenter, which is like historical, incredible
stuff and I wonder what they talked about.
They were hugging and stuff, interesting stuff.
So yeah, and I was saying like after watching that, after seeing the reaction, it really
feels like the Grammys are now like holding the spot that once was held by I guess the
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VMAs.
I mean, the Grammys are still supposed to be like higher tier in that sense, like higher
classier events, I guess, but I think the amount of money put into the production and
the moments that the interactions and everything else, it's really giving VMAs like in the
early 2000s and 2010s.
The VMAs have been flopping for ages, but this seems to be, you know, this was a moment
(32:24):
for everyone to talk about, you know?
So I really got that feeling the other night.
So I really enjoyed that.
I'm glad that it went this way.
So yeah, I don't have any complaints to be fair about any of the wins.
You know, like I really think it was fair.
Again, the only thing I'd like to say is just Sabrina should have won record of the year,
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I think, in my opinion, but overall, very satisfied, very, very good and happy for Beyonce,
happy for all the new girls.
And it's just incredible.
I mean, again, I think it gives also a nice spin to like the future of music and how female
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oriented it is, and it really feels like a full circle moment.
I think we're re-establishing who are the main pop girls.
The new blood that's come to the Grammys has just been rewarded and it's just, you know,
a big sign of what's to come next.
Also Dochi, of course, I mentioned Dochi, but her performance was crazy.
Her winning best rap album, I think it was, the third moment to ever win it, incredible
(33:36):
stuff.
That was insane, man.
Like her performance was so good.
I really liked her speech as well.
She was very vocal about, you know, racial discrimination, of course, and everything
else.
Oh, and I forgot to talk about this.
I couldn't stop the episode without talking about this.
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Lady Gaga's new song, Abra Gabra, came out literally during the Grammys.
She had an ad, well, her spot, the MasterCard ad was basically her music video.
So the music video was so fucking good.
Like I cannot, that's literally critical of Gaga, like the famed master, born his way
a bit, like so freaking good.
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I loved it so much.
I still need to like understand what's the story behind these past two music videos,
but incredible.
And the song itself is giving Gaga, but it's also giving Brat.
It's giving like, well, for the rest of the song, the majority of the song is giving Gaga
100%, like very old school Gaga.
But then the post-chorus is very Brat-coded and is very like rave-y in a sense, like very
(34:46):
rave music.
Love it so much.
So good.
Gaga is about to give us like a dark pop, dark, well, dance pop studio album.
I cannot wait.
I am a big disease, uh, stamp.
So to see people now finally also rediscovering that song, I'm just like, you know, and then
Apricot Abra coming in and was just incredible.
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Visually, Gaga is just so interesting as well.
I just don't think there's any other artists out there that would like her.
It's just excellence.
I'm a little monster again.
Thank you very much.
I was losing, you know, I lost touch and I think I just wasn't really into her ever since
Joanne, I think.
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Even Chromatic I liked, but it wasn't really giving me Gaga, Gaga, you know, like, I don't
know the Gaga I fell in love with, but this was, you know, nice.
That's where she thrives the most, you know, like that's her element.
Like, you know, they're very theatrical, very exaggerated, very weird and disgusting.
It's sort of, you know, visuals as well.
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Just impeccable.
I'm very excited for the album.
I'm seated.
I want to know what's next.
I am just prepared for the best album of the year and we'll see what happens.
Oh yeah, this has been the episode.
I hope you guys enjoy it and I will talk to you guys in the next episode, coming next
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Monday.
Hopefully a Super Bowl won't kill me.
I hope not.
I'm literally having like here it's going to be at 11 p.m. and I'm going to have to
be up the entire like night basically.
I'm going to be coming home at like 5 a.m. or something, so I'm not going to go to sleep.
Yeah, insane stuff.
But the things we do for the fans, for the fanzies, for the stories.
(36:32):
Yeah.
Also, big disclaimer, I may or may not have been on the lookout for this book called 2666
by Robert Bolano, Roberto Bolano.
It seems very interesting.
I read some bits and pieces online and on PDF and I am sort of interested in buying
(36:55):
it, so I think I will buy it.
It's a massive book, like almost what, like 900 pages or something.
But I do want to read it and if I do buy it and I do read it, best believe your girl is
going to give you a review.
So just putting it out there.
Maybe I won't buy it, but I think I will.
I know it myself.
I think I will buy it, but just need to like, you know, find the right moment to start reading
(37:17):
it, which is probably going to be very soon.
So yeah, anyways, enjoy your weekend.
See you all next week.
Bye.
Bye.
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