Grammy Predictions – Pop Categories

This year more than ever the Grammy’s went pop. Which makes this genré the most important of them all and will prove as the descision point for the Big Four categories. See what we pick, and comment below, who do you think will take home the pop trophies?

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

▪ “King of Anything” – Sara Bareilles
▪ “Halo” (Live) – Beyoncé
▪ “Chasing Pirates” – Norah Jones
▪ “Bad Romance” – Lady Gaga
▪ “Teenage Dream” – Katy Perry

ANALYSIS:

Of the pop categories, this one had the weakest selection of all. Beyoncé’s Halo should not be eligible as it won this category last year, and Chasing Pirates is an obscure song both lyrically and melodically and failed to crack any pop chart this year. And isn’t that what Pop music stands for? Popular. On the contrary the other three nominees are all perfect picks for this year; King is a simple traditional pop song, Romance is a high production smash hit, and Teenage Dream is a fun, summer, song (and this is one of the few categories where that is acceptable).

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OUR FAVORITE:

Teenage Dream by Katy Perry has great production and a killer dance beat, perfect for a pop song.

OUR PICK:

Bad Romance was the biggest snub in both Record and Single of the Year the academy will likely award Gaga for her groundbreaking, heavy synth tune.

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

▪ “Haven’t Met You Yet” – Michael Bublé
▪ “This Is It” – Michael Jackson
▪ “Whataya Want from Me” – Adam Lambert
▪ “Just the Way You Are” – Bruno Mars
▪ “Half of My Heart” – John Mayer

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Glee planning Justin Beiber Episode

MJ’s Big Blog is reporting that the FOX television show Glee is planning a Justin Beiber themed episode following in the likes of Madonna, Britney Spears, and Journey.

The details seem a little sketchy, but the worst thing is that producer Ryan Murphy would be abondoning any chance of Glee transforming into a mature show, aimed towards adults and with a decent plot.

Plus, how many songs does the Beibz have? After One Time and Baby what more can you do?

THIS SUCKS!

What do you think? Would you watch a Justin Beiber episode of Glee?

GWYNETH AND CEE-LO COLLAB ACTUALLY HAPPENING!

This is by far the highlight of our day!

While promotiong for her new movie “Country Strong” our favorite Glee guest-star of all time (sorry Brit) will be hosting Saturday Night Live on January 15. The Oscar-nominated actress is hillarious so it would be an amazing episode regardless…

BUT IT GETS BETTER!

Rapper Cee-Lo Green will be the episode’s musical guest, which means we may get the Cee-Lo/Gweynth collaboration we have heard so much about. I hope they do Forget You together!

What do you think? Are you excited for SNL?

Lea Michele and Susan Boyle Duet?

If Lea Michelle gets her way that may be what happens!

Glee’s Lea Michele has recently said which singer she would love do to a duet with on the Fox hit show, and its none other that the great Susan Boyle. She says:

“Oh my God, I have no idea! It would be so incredible to sing with her. She had a hidden talent which was then discovered, which is what happened to so many of us from Glee. Look at Amber Riley and Chris Colfer – they’re incredible and thanks to Glee the world gets to see them.

We’d really like that! Its too bad though, she already did I Dreamed A Dream on Glee.
Wasn’t SuBo supposed to star on Glee as the lunchlady or something? When do we get that?

What d you think? Would you like a Lea/SuBo collab?

Swift Ranks Supreme on Billboard 200

Taylor Swift is atop the Billboard 200 this week after sales of her new album Speak Now were at 277,000 an increase from last weeks sales.
Although most industry executives may attribute the increase in sales to last minute Christmas shopping, it may have to do with the amount of MP3 players and iTunes giftcards found under the tree.
Susan Boyle’s The Gift was at No. 2 and Glee’s The Christmas Album was at No. 3.
Jamie Foxx’s The Best Night of My Life was the highest new release of the week; it debuted at No. 6.
Later on the list was Keyisha Cole’s Calling All Hearts which debuted at No. 9 with 128k albums sold, and Keri Hilson who opened at No. 11 with 104k copies of her new album No Boys Allowed.
Those are good numbers for Hilson whose last album opened with 96k.
Thoughts on this week’s charts?