2010 Grammy's go mainstream

This year’s Grammy awards and nominations were no surprise given to what is popular in mainstream America.

Anything that was played on radio stations, like KIISFM or POWER 106, are examples of the mainstream music choices.

Nominations and awards were selected by 12,000 music professionals and members of the Recording Academy.  Recordings and music videos released from October 2008 to the end of August 2009 were submitted for consideration. 

The members this year seemed to follow the trend of biggest-selling and most well-known pop faces.

Beyonce started the night off with the most nominations and won six out of 10, setting the record for the most any female performer has won in a single year.

Given Beyonce’s fierce performances, evidently demonstrated in her performance that night, she deserved to win a Grammy. Everyone is not only familiar with her female empowering song, “Single Ladies”, but also the famous dance that goes along with it.  With all this popularity, it would have been more of a shock had she not won.

However, the number of wins she collected that night was a bit much.  It was as though the only factor that played into the decision was how marketable the artist was to one specific group and genre: teeny bopper music.

Another big winner of the night was Taylor Swift, with four awards. For the 20-year-old, this was probably the biggest night of her life.  Although it is hard to say she deserved all four wins with her simple teenage lyrics, her innocence makes it difficult to criticize her. 

Plus, after Kanye West’s rather rude remark at the 2009 MTV video music awards, the sweet girl deserved some collateral.

As for Kanye West, who won only one award that was for collaboration with Jay-Z and Rihanna, he was  missing-in-action that night, for reasons only one can assume.

Despite the popular choices of the 2010 Grammy Awards, it was nice to see winners such as Kings of Leon, Phoenix, and Michael Buble.

Their songs weren’t necessarily always being played on every radio station, but are definitely deserving of recognition.