AWARDS SHOW WATCH 2010: THE GRAMMY AWARDS

What up, music fans? You have been waiting for it all year. It's time to honor the best music of this past year and watch performances from your favorite artists and bands. It's the 52nd annual Grammy Awards from the Staples Center in Los Angeles!

First, I will mention the winners then I will critique the performances.

The Winners:

Song of the Year: "Single Ladies (Put A Ring on It)"-Beyonce

Best Country Album-"Fearless"-Taylor Swift

Best New Artist-Zac Brown Band

Best Rap Song Collaboration-"Run This Town"-Jay Z, Rihanna & Kanye West

Best Female Vocal Performance-"Halo"-Beyonce

Album of the Year-"Fearless"-Taylor Swift

Best Comedy Album-Stephen Colbert "A Colbert Christmas"

Record of the Year-"Use Somebody"-Kings of Leon

Best Rock Album-"21st Century Breakdown"-Green Day

If you want to see a complete list of the winners, go to http://www.grammys.com/

Performances:

Opening Number--Duet with Sir Elton John & Lady Gaga

What a way to open the show, Lady Gaga was on the top of her game. She rocked in an out of this world space outfit. When she came out with Elton on the piano, the number won the crowd over. Good performance, great entertainment. A performance that everybody is talking about today. Her outfits were outrageous.

Stephen Colbert's monologue

He was funny. He mocked Susan Boyle--well, at least he could have mocked Adam Lambert. He wanted to prove to his teenage daughter who was in the audience that he is cool. She was happy that her dad won a Grammy for Best Comedy Album. He even plugged Apple's newest product the I-PAD. I don't get it. I don't even own an I-PHONE, an I-POD, and an I-MAC.

Green Day and the Broadway cast of "American Idiot"

Good performance and why would the rock band Green Day want to produce a show on Broadway. The crowd was impressed.

Beyonce-"If I Were A Boy"

What's up with the space outfits? Beyonce blew us away with her performance. Why would she write a song titled "If I Were A Boy"? If a guy sang "If I Were A Girl", it would be strange. Weird title for a song but overall good performance. Great dancing from the backup dancers and the backup band is all female....they sounded good.

Pink

Her performance was like something out of Cirque Du Soleil. She did a high wire performance that was awesome. Did Pink perform in a circus before she became a recording artist? We hope that Pink will include the high wire in her future concerts

Black Eyed Peas

They performed two songs " I Am A Be" & their hit rocking party anthem "I've Gotta Feeling"--can't enough of that song. The backup dancers dressed as robots. Again, why are we bombarded with what everybody will be wearing in the year 2050? They stopped the show. For real. Fergie was her usual bad girl self.

Leon Russell & Zac Brown Band

The performance was alright. Leon Russell looked like one of the guys from ZZ Top.

Taylor Swift & Stevie Nicks

Taylor Swift got to perform with one of her favorite Idols, Stevie Nicks from the band Fleetwood Mac. Taylor & Stevie were both pitchy in some parts of the performance. Taylor was either singing or talking in her songs. I wished that Kanye West would have waltzed in during the performance and then he embarassed Taylor and got the show to a stand still.

Michael Jackson Tribute

The 3-D tribute to the "King of Pop" was incredible even though I didn't get my 3-D Glasses. Celine Dion, Carrie Underwood, Jennifer Hudson, Usher and Smokey Robinson sang a Michael Jackson song that no one has never heard before. They nailed the song...the audience was wearing the 3-D glasses. Michael kids, daughter Paris & son Prince accepted the tribute Grammy on behalf of their late father. The audience gave a standing ovation to the Jackson family. Paris and Prince look grown up and did not cry during their speech.

Bon Jovi

The fans voted on which song the band should play at the Grammys. The song "Living on a Prayer" rocked the house. They got help from Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles. The performance was awesome.

David Foster, Mary J. Blige & Andrea Bocelli

They performed the song "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" to help benefit the earthquake victims in Haiti. The performance was emotional. Wyclef Jean, who is from Haiti, introduced the performance. I can't speak one word of Haitian but my prayers and thoughts to the families and victims of the devastating earthquake in Haiti last month.

Maxwell & Roberta Flack

The performance was like waiting for paint to dry.

Les Paul Tribute

The tribute performance was awesome. Jeff Beck's guitar work couldn't match the amazing guitar skills of the late Les Paul. Les may be gone but his music and best selling guitars will live on forever.

Travis Barker, Drake, Eminem and Lil Wayne

The performance was good but they kept bleeping the lyrics. Was there an audio problem or CBS bleeping the profane lyrics in the song?

That's it for this year's Grammys. Don't forget tomorrow is Groundhog Day. Will there be 6 more weeks of winter or the early arrival of spring.