Status: Nothing compares to a quiet evening alone.
Music: Crush - Paramore

It’s Grammy Awards season once again. Although the Grammy never fails to disappoint me every year, I don’t understand why I still get excited when they reveal the list of nominees. Hmmm. Last year, I wanted Mary J. Blige to win the Record of the Year award for Be Without You but it was handed to the Dixie Chicks instead. I love the country trio; they deserved the Song of the Year award and all the others but Record of the Year really should have been Mary’s. Tsk tsk.

Anyway, this year, Kanye West leads the pack again with eight nominations, followed by Amy Winehouse with six. I like them both but it’s just “like.” I don’t go ga-ga over them, no. Here are the nominees for some of the awards together with my predictions:

Record of the Year

  • Irreplaceable - Beyonce
  • The Pretender - Foo Fighters
  • Umbrella - Rihanna featuring Jay-Z
  • What Goes Around… Comes Around - Justin Timberlake
  • Rehab - Amy Winehous

What I want to win: Umbrella (I looove the song. Future classic.)
What might win: Umbrella or Rehab

Album of the Year

  • Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace - Foo Fighters
  • These Days - Vince Gill
  • River: The Joni Letters - Herbie Hancock
  • Graduation - Kanye West
  • Back to Black - Amy Winehouse

What I want to win: Na-uh.
What might win: Back to Black - Amy Winehouse

Song of the Year

  • Before He Cheats - Josh Kear & Chris Tompkins (Carrie Underwood)
  • Hey There Delilah - Tom Higgenson (Plain White T’s)
  • Like a Star - Corrine Bailey Rae (Corrine Bailey Rae)
  • Rehab - Amy Winehouse (Amy Winehouse)
  • Umbrella - Shawn Carter, Kuk Harrell, Terius Nash & Christopher Stewart (Rihanna feat Jay-Z)

What I want to win: Umbrella or Before He Cheats or Like a Star. Shocks. Can’t make up my mind. Haha.
What might win: Umbrella

Best New Artist

  • Feist
  • Ledisi
  • Paramore
  • Taylor Swift
  • Amy Winehouse

Whom I want to win: Amy Winehouse (but I like Paramore, too, haha)
Who might win: Amy Winehouse

Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

  • Candyman - Christina Aguilera
  • 1234 - Feist
  • Big Girls Don’t Cry
  • Say It Right - Nelly Furtado
  • Rehab - Amy Winehouse

Whom I want to win: Nelly Furtado (and Aguilera, hihi)
Who might win: Amy Winehouse or Christina Aguilera, a Grammy favourite

Best Male Pop Vocal Performance

  • Everything - Michael Buble
  • Belief - John Mayer
  • Dance Tonight - Paul McCartney
  • Amazing - Seal
  • What Goes Around Comes Around - Justin Timberlake

Whom I want to win: Michael Buble
Who might win: Justin Timberlake, another Grammy fave

Best Pop Performance by a Group

  • (You Want To) Make a Memory - Bon Jovi
  • Home - Daughtry
  • Makes Me Wonder - Maroon 5
  • Hey There Delilah - Plain White T’s
  • Window in the Skies

Whom I want to win: Daughtry or Plain White T’s
Who might win: Plain White T’s

Best Pop Collaboration

  • Steppin’ Out - Tony Bennett & Christina Aguilera
  • Beautiful Liar - Beyonce & Shakira
  • Gone Gone Gone - Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
  • The Sweet Escape - Gwen Stefani & Akon
  • Give it to Me - Timbaland feat Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake

Whom I want to win: Tony Bennett & Christina Aguilera
Who might win: Tony Bennett & Christina Aguilera, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Best Rock Performance by a Group

  • It’s Not Over - Daughtry
  • Working Class Hero - Green Day
  • If Everyone Cared - Nickelback
  • Instant Karma - U2
  • Icky Thump - The White Stripes

Whom I want to win: Daughtry
Who might win: Daughtry

Best Female R&B Vocal Performance

  • Just Fine - Mary J. Blige
  • When I See You - Fantasia
  • No One - Alicia Keys
  • If I Have My Way - Chrisette Michelle
  • Hate On Me - Jill Scott

Whom I want to win: Alicia Keys
Who might win: Alicia Keys

Best Male R&B Vocal Performance

  • Woman - Raheem DeVaughn
  • B.U.D.D.Y. - Musiq Soulchild
  • Because of You - Ne-Yo
  • Future Baby Mama - Prince
  • Please Don’t Go - Tank

Whom I want to win: Ne-Yo (AS IN!)
Who might win: Ne-Yo

Best Contemporary R&B Album

  • Konvicted - Akon
  • Just Like You - Keyshia Cole
  • Fantasia - Fantasia
  • East Side Story - Emily King
  • Because of You - Ne-Yo

Whom I want to win: Ne-Yo
Who might win: Ne-Yo

Best Female Country Vocal Performance

  • Simple Love - Alison Krauss
  • Famous In a Small Town - Miranda Lambert
  • Nothin’ Better to Do - LeAnn Rimes
  • Before He Cheats - Carrie Underwood
  • Heaven, Heartache and the Power - Trisha Yearwood

Whom I want to win: Carrie Underwood (by a mile)
Who might win: Carrie Underwood (hihi)

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