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Three Grams Please Best Dance Recording "Harder
Better Faster Stronger" "Ready For
The Floor" "Just Dance" "Give It
2 Me" "Disturbia" "Black &
Gold"
Best Electronic/Dance Album New York City Alive 2007 Bring Ya To The
Brink X Last Night Robyn
"Closer" "Electric
Feel" "4 Minutes" "Just Fine" "The Longest
Road" This is a really difficult category
for me to pick because my two favorite tracks of the bunch, "Just
Fine" and "Closer," were already such strong songs
in their original album versions, it could be argued that the
remixers really didn't have much to do. I can't really go with
"4 Minutes" because I think there were stronger remix
efforts of this song that deserved to be nominated ahead of the
Junkie XL treatment. So I thought maybe one of the hottest
artist/remixer in dance music this past year, Deadmau5, might
get the nod. Well, I was wrong again as it looks like the three
pop remixes may have split the vote, thus allowing Justice to
get in there to grab the trophy for their work on Electric Feel
by MGMT. |
Well, that time of
the year has come and gone again, when the music industry gets
together at its Grammy Awards to celebrate the achievements of
the previous year in a large
number of categories. The 51st edition of the Grammys recently
took place, airing on CBS, and among the various awards presented
were three of particular interest to me and many others involved
in the global dance music industry: the Dance Grammys for Best
Dance Recording, Best Electronic/Dance Album; and Best Remixed
Recording, Non-Classical. Let's take a look at the nominees
for these categories and whether my choices matched the actual
winners.
This
is an interesting category that includes two pop superstars,
the a legendary electronica group (Daft Punk), an underground
dance act that is no longer underground 
(Lady
Gaga), and two very hot global dance artists that haven't quite
yet caught on with gay clubbers (Hot Chip and Sam Sparro). While
I thought "Just Dance" was the most deserving, Daft
Punk picked up the Grammy. The sad thing is that this song
won probably due in large part to a hip-hop artist, Kanye West,
sampling it on his latest hit single and album. 
Despite
Robyn's very successful return to the dance music world, and
Moby proving once again he has true skills and talent, this was
thought to be a 2-horse race between Kylie and Cyndi, two faves
of the GLBT community who both produced excellent dance albums.
I would have gone with Lauper, because the album really is very
good, but the Daft Punk lifetime achievement recognition continued
with their second Grammy win of the night. 