Wednesday, December 10, 2008

all fillers

Full list of The Annual 51st Grammy Awards Nomination available here, which is where i got the gist of the following post.

Red: my prediction for winner
Pink: if red doesn't win, pink will


Record Of The Year

Chasing Pavements
Adele

Viva La Vida
Coldplay

Bleeding Love
Leona Lewis

Paper Planes
M.I.A

Please Read The Letter
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss


Album Of The Year

Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Coldplay


Tha Carter III
Lil Wayne

Year Of The Gentleman
Ne-Yo

Raising Sand
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

In Rainbows
Radiohead


Song Of The Year

American Boy
Estelle Featuring Kanye West

Chasing Pavements
Adele

I'm Yours
Jason Mraz

Love Song
Sara Bareilles

Viva La Vida
Coldplay



Best New Artist

Adele

Duffy

Jonas Brothers (D: nononononono)

Lady Antebellum

Jazmine Sullivan


Best Female Pop Vocal Performance

Chasing Pavements
Adele

Love Song
Sara Bareilles

Mercy
Duffy

Bleeding Love
Leona Lewis
(but Duffy's my first choice)

I Kissed A Girl
Katy Perry (srsly? lyk, srsly? Oh wait. it's the pop category)

So What
Pink


Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals

Viva La Vida
Coldplay

Waiting In The Weeds
Eagles

Going On
Gnarls Barkley


Won't Go Home Without You
Maroon 5

Apologize
OneRepublic (this would be my second choice but i find apologize really annoying and overplayed)


Best Dance Recording
Harder Better Faster Stronger
Daft Punk


Ready For The Floor
Hot Chip


Just Dance
Lady Gaga & Colby O'Donis



Give It 2 Me
Madonna
(this deserves the award, simply becos its title says so! haha. kidding. well produced and much less commercialised than Just Dance. But i suspect JD will bag this award)


Disturbia
Rihanna (xD)


Black & Gold
Sam Sparro


Best Rock Album

Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Coldplay
(Go Sejukmain!)

Rock N Roll Jesus
Kid Rock

Only By The Night
Kings Of Leon

Death Magnetic
Metallica (i heard this was not bad)

Consolers Of The Lonely
The Raconteurs


Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

American Gangster

August Rush

Juno
















Mamma Mia! (super trooper kicks butt and you know it)



Sweeney Todd — The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (Johnny Depp? A Grammy? Seriously?!)



Best Score Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

The Dark Knight
James Newton Howard & Hans Zimmer, composers (but imho the soundtrack only had screeching sounds and hollow music)

Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull
John Williams, composer

Iron Man
Ramin Djawadi, composer

There Will Be Blood
Jonny Greenwood, composer

Wall-E
Thomas Newman, composer (Remember Hello, Dolly?)


Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media

Down To Earth (From Wall-E)
Peter Gabriel

Ever Ever After (From Enchanted)
Carrie Underwood

Say (From The Bucket List)
John Mayer

That's How You Know (From Enchanted)
Amy Adams
(i pick this cos the scene in the movie is zing-bang-boom)

Walk Hard (From Walk Hard — The Dewey Cox Story)
John C. Reilly



Producer Of The Year, Non-Classical

Danger Mouse

Attack & Release (The Black Keys) (A)
Modern Guilt (Beck) (A)
The Odd Couple (Gnarls Barkley) (A)


Nigel Godrich
In Rainbows (Radiohead) (A)
Johnny Karkazis (Johnny K)
Big Bad World (Plain White T's) (A)
The Illusion Of Progress (Staind) (A)
Light From Above (Black Tide) (A)
3 Doors Down (3 Doors Down) (A)


Rick Rubin [this is the guy who changed the sound of Linkin Park >=(]
Death Magnetic (Metallica) (A)
Home Before Dark (Neil Diamond) (A)
Mercy (Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginary Enemy) (Ours) (A)
Seeing Things (Jakob Dylan) (A)
Weezer (Red Album) (Weezer) (A)


will.i.am (for the song Di Dalam Air, he is my pick)

American Boy (Estelle Featuring Kanye West) (T)
Encanto (Sergio Mendes) (A)
Funky Bahia (Sergio Mendes Featuring will.i.am & Siedah Garrett) (T)
In The Ayer (Flo Rida Featuring will.i.am) (T)
Pick It Up (Fergie) (T)
Picture Perfect (Chris Brown Featuring will.i.am) (T)
What's Your Name (Usher Featuring will.i.am) (T)




Among the funny categories i found are Best Hawaiian, Best Polka, Best Comedy-Oh! Jue Lyn's favourite The Flight of the Conchords is nominated here.



images were googled. nominations obtained from grammy.com



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