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The 53th Grammy Awards 2011 WINNERS & LOSERS

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Cover of "Need You Now"
Cover of Need You Now

I actually for the first time watched the entire Grammy Award, and I believed it was a pretty great show.  One of the best organized I seen in a while, minor little rough edges, but very smooth.  The 53th Grammy Awards were held on Sunday (February 13, 2011) at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Here is the Links to COMPLETE LIST ALL WINNERS and LOSERS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd_Grammy_Awards

http://www.grammy.com/nominees

 

Here Are Just The Winners (SHORT LIST)

Record of the year: – “Need You Now” – Lady Antebellum
Album of the year: – “The Suburbs” – Arcade Fire

Song of the year: – “Need You Now” – Lady Antebellum

Best new artist: – Esperanza Spalding
Pop performance by a duo or group with vocals: – “Hey, Soul Sister” (Live) – Train
Pop vocal album: – “The Fame Monster” – Lady Gaga
Rock album: – “The Resistance” – Muse
Rap album: – “Recovery” – Eminem
Female country vocal performance: – Miranda Lambert, “The House That Built Me”
Country album: – “Need You Now” – Lady Antebellum
Producer of the year, non-classical: – Danger Mouse
Female pop vocal performance: – “Bad Romance” – Lady Gaga
Male pop vocal performance: – “Just The Way You Are” – Bruno Mars
Pop collaboration with vocals: – “Imagine” – Herbie Hancock, Pink, India.Arie, Seal, Konono No 1, Jeff Beck & Oumou Sangare
Pop instrumental performance: – “Nessun Dorma” – Jeff Beck
Pop instrumental album: – “Take Your Pick” – Larry Carlton & Tak Matsumoto
Dance recording: – “Only Girl (In The World)” – Rihanna
Electronic/dance album: – “La Roux” – La Roux
Traditional pop vocal album: – “Crazy Love” – Michael Bublé
Solo rock vocal performance: – “Helter Skelter” – Paul McCartney
Rock performance by a duo or group with vocals: – “Tighten Up” – The Black Keys
Hard rock performance: – “New Fang” – Them Crooked Vultures
Metal performance: – “El Dorado” – Iron Maiden
Rock instrumental performance: – “Hammerhead” – Jeff Beck
Rock song: – “Angry World” – Neil Young, songwriter (Neil Young)
Alternative music album: – “Brothers” – The Black Keys
Female R&B vocal performance: – “Bittersweet” – Fantasia
Male R&B vocal performance: – “There Goes My Baby” – Usher
R&B Performance by a duo or group with vocals: – “Soldier Of Love” – Sade
Traditional R&B vocal performance: – “Hang On In There” – John Legend & The Roots
Urban/alternative performance: – “F*** You” – Cee Lo Green
R&B song: – “Shine” – John Stephens, songwriter (John Legend & The Roots)
R&B album: – “Wake Up!” – John Legend & The Roots
Contemporary R&B album: – “Raymond V Raymond” – Usher
Rap solo performance: – “Not Afraid” – Eminem
Rap performance by a duo or group: – “On To The Next One” – Jay-Z & Swizz Beatz
Rap/sung collaboration: – “Empire State Of Mind” – Jay-Z & Alicia Keys
Rap song: – “Empire State Of Mind” – Shawn Carter, Angela Hunte, Alicia Keys, Jane’t “Jnay” Sewell-Ulepic & Alexander Shuckburgh, songwriters (Burt Keyes & Sylvia Robinson, songwriters) (Jay-Z & Alicia Keys)
Male country vocal performance: – “‘Til Summer Comes Around” – Keith Urban
Country performance by a duo or group with vocals: – “Need You Now” – Lady Antebellum
Country collaboration with vocals: – “As She’s Walking Away” – Zac Brown Band & Alan Jackson
Country instrumental performance: – “Hummingbyrd” – Marty Stuart
Country song: – “Need You Now” – Dave Haywood, Josh Kear, Charles Kelley & Hillary Scott, songwriters (Lady Antebellum)
New age album: – “Miho: Journey To The Mountain” – Paul Winter Consort
Contemporary jazz album: – “The Stanley Clarke Band” – The Stanley Clarke Band
Gospel performance: – “Grace” – BeBe & CeCe Winans
Gospel song: – “It’s What I Do” – Jerry Peters & Kirk Whalum, songwriters (Kirk Whalum & Lalah Hathaway)
Rock or rap gospel album: – “Hello Hurricane” – Switchfoot
Best contemporary R&B gospel album: – “Still” – BeBe & CeCe Winans
Latin pop album: – “Paraiso Express” – Alejandro Sanz
Traditional blues album: – “Joined At The Hip” – Pinetop Perkins & Willie ‘Big Eyes’ Smith
Reggae album: – “Before The Dawn” – Buju Banton
Spoken word album for children: – “Julie Andrews’ Collection Of Poems, Songs, And Lullabies” – Julie Andrews & Emma Walton Hamilton
Spoken word album (includes poetry, audio books & story telling): – “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Audiobook)” – Jon Stewart (With Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac, Jason Jones, John Oliver & Sigourney Weaver)
Comedy album: – “Stark Raving Black” – Lewis Black

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Lately with the essence of romance in the air, or whenever it decides to come around, I always thought back to my earlier childhood days and philosophy of not wanting to break a girl’s heart.  Heartbreak is a terrible experience especially your first.  Some people may be prepared if counseled by someone who have been through or going through it, but for all others, we unknowingly race full speed ahead into the destruction of our hearts.  I use to say to my friends when dating, if a girl never been in love before, or been broken down within a relationship, I couldn’t date her because I didn’t want to be her first.  Relationships don’t always work out, just as how marriages don’t always work out whether it’s within a month or even 10 or more years down the line, you just never know sometimes what the heart wants.  The heart is such a tricky little machine and holds so much power to our well-being.  So imagine just something called LOVE, can affect our lives forever or changing our way of thinking, and make us do crazy things we couldn’t imagine ourselves doing such as: not eating, not sleeping, crying day and night, walking with a frown everywhere, getting fat, being restless, becoming stalkers, causing other mischiefs, and so much more because of a heartbreak.  Luckily for me I had the will power to overcome my heart breaks and maintain a balance stance with myself, but not everyone is that lucky.

If you are going through a heartbreak, well here are some remedies if applied well, and some goodies of song titles to check out, most notably checking yourself into the HEARTBREAK HOTEL, or some Toni Braxton Unbreak My Heart, or onto listening to some 808’s and Heartbreak via the talented Kanye West.

A few remedies:

1. Keep yourself busy, stay away from crying by placing yourself in places where you can’t cry.  But do try to cry it out your system before keeping too busy, because it might sneak up on you.

2. Share your feelings, confide in a trusted friend and share your views.  Get out a good rant and vent is always a good thing to a new begin and accepting what have happened.

3. Take good care of yourself, don’t abandon yourself, most people place themselves in a dump after a breakup, but avoid that and seek help you to recover and be healthy.  Do things you enjoy and love, and treat yourself well.

If you are not going through a heartbreak, then I bet you can think back on the craziness that you had went through and be happy you are over and above it.  Remember, don’t hold onto pain, just release and let go and be happy.

I guess we must go through it one day in our lives, just as failure, we must overcome and prevail, but I just don’t want to be a girl’s first heartbreak, it would break my heart to hurt her.  I just want to love, and love plentiful.

Thanks for reading
Richardo.

PS: If you liked what you have just read I have much more interesting and creative writings that deserves a peek like these:
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Thanks again…(drop me a comment while you leaving)

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