Additional notes: Sipping a bit of this one for a bit of celebrating. I usually do NOT care about the grammys at all, but this year, I feel like many talented people I’ve admired for years are getting some awards, or at least some mentions: Bettye LaVette, Anderson East, Kendrick Lamar, Janelle Monae (though I’ve loved her earlier albums more), Punch Brothers, and most importantly, for probably my frame-for-frame favorite music video ever, ‘This Is America’ by the talented Donald Glover, Ludwig Goransson, and Hiro Murai. The video is the thing but I think the song won four awards? Yowzas. I instantly loved that video. I don’t even watch music videos and I didn’t even watch the grammys… but this is a tea website so I’ll stop.
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One of my favorite memories of San Francisco was riding the streetcar down Market St when I was having a bad day. I was on my way to the Imperial Tea Court to have some tea. When I got off the streetcar, Janelle Monae was putting on a free outdoor show, I think for Salesforce employees. What a performer! She made the whole crowd boogie. I had already loved the Electric Lady album but was smitten from then on.
Oh my gosh. That must have made your day 1,000% better and you were already a fan, which was even more awesome. Things like that don’t happen around these parts. haha.
Also, Janelle Monae didn’t win album of the year, so I don’t think she won anything last night which is a shame. I think her album should have won out of all of those, even if I like her other albums better. I won’t say anything about some of the other albums in the category, but I do like the Black Panther soundtrack (even if I somehow haven’t seen the movie yet.)
One of my favorite memories of San Francisco was riding the streetcar down Market St when I was having a bad day. I was on my way to the Imperial Tea Court to have some tea. When I got off the streetcar, Janelle Monae was putting on a free outdoor show, I think for Salesforce employees. What a performer! She made the whole crowd boogie. I had already loved the Electric Lady album but was smitten from then on.
Oh my gosh. That must have made your day 1,000% better and you were already a fan, which was even more awesome. Things like that don’t happen around these parts. haha.
Also, Janelle Monae didn’t win album of the year, so I don’t think she won anything last night which is a shame. I think her album should have won out of all of those, even if I like her other albums better. I won’t say anything about some of the other albums in the category, but I do like the Black Panther soundtrack (even if I somehow haven’t seen the movie yet.)