This is foreign correspondence, reporting from an alien time and space, on the Grammy Awards.
The music industry seems to have been infiltrated by the Tea Party as the multiple winner is Lady Antebellum, a white-bread trio looking like well-behaved children of old Nashville who could make Sarah Palin’s “A” list.
Even CBS, which telecast the event, is caught off guard with a 60 Minutes feature on the outrageous Lady Gaga, who did not have a good night at the awards.
The past was very much present, too: 69-year-old Bob Dylan (“his voice shredded,” says a report) looking wan and weak, upstaged by an electrifying Mick Jagger, 67, showing that being past Social Security is no bar to wowing a crowd (despite a spitefully timed statement by Marianne Faithfull on his private parts).
In the quest for historical continuity, the producers may have reached back too far by unearthing the co-stars of the third and worst version of “A Star Is Born,” Kris Kristofferson, 74, and the unsinkable Barbra Streisand, 68.
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