They Got Caught In a Bad Romance

Why is everyone so pissed off about the Metallica/Lady Gaga performance at the Grammy’s last night? 

Well, luckily I have a list of reasons here for your review:

01.  Metallica was not introduced, only Lady Gaga

02.  It was a poor impersonation of the raving teens in Nirvana’s music video “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

03.  Lady Gaga looked more like she was hired to dance than to sing during the performance

04.  Hetfield’s microphone didn’t work

05.  No chemistry between Lady Gaga and any of the members of Metallica

06.  Lady Gaga was the star and Metallica was her backup

07.  Lady Gaga looked like Madonna, not a Metallica metal chick

08.  There was a woman wearing a sweater set in the onstage crowd

09.  There was a man wearing a muscle tank in the onstage crowd

10.  People’s main statement to me after the performance has been “Did you see Lady Gaga? I thought she looked good.”

It is all fine and dandy that Gaga was able to put her haters behind her after people started claiming she had a belly at the Super Bowl, but I really couldn’t give a shit about how she looked.  She was the star of the performance!  And how long has she been around?  Well, her first album dropped in 2008.  Metallica’s first album was released in 1983.   Damn, have some respect for Christ’s sake.  And Gaga, no one has ever danced liked that at a Metallica concert (at least without getting some cash thrown her way).  Stop dancing around like a hooker with turrets and head bang like the rest of them.

I really like Lady Gaga which I stated in my last blog post, but I cannot in good conscience let her off the hook.  I felt like these guys were just her puppets and she was their master . . . .you see what I did there?

I don’t watch the Grammy’s anymore as it focuses much more on the “right now” artists than the  “here for the long-haul” artists. 

And with that, I am happy to find that the Metallica 2017 tour announced today did not include Lady Gaga.  She’s got her own tour and perhaps it is best to keep them separate.

Neutral corners, guys, neutral corners.