Monday, February 14, 2011

Hello everybody, as I'm sure you're enjoying or already enjoyed your Valentine's Day.

It was indeed a sweet night as Lady Antebellum owned the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards Sunday picking up three awards including Song of the Year, Best Country Album, and Record of the Year for "Need You Now" while Album of the Year went to Canada's Arcade Fire ("The Suburbs"). Lady Gaga collected Best Pop Vocal Album, but not before she went Gobbledygooker on us, making her grand red carpet entrance inside an egg (look at old YouTube videos for yourself to see what I'm talking about)!

Unfortunately, Grammy night was sour for Justin Bieber, who lost Best New Artist to Esperanza Spalding (which ultimately did not sit well with legions of his fans) to go along with his "Never Say Never" #2 in the box office behind Adam Sandler's and Jennifer Aniston's "Just Go With It." And even with her grandmother as her good luck charm, it was bad luck as Katy Perry also went home empty handed.

An Aretha Franklin tribute kicked things off, as 26.5 million viewers were focused on Christina Aguilera just one week after verbally stumbling at the Super Bowl. However, at the end of her performance, she physically stumbled off the stage as the cameras pulled away.

As I tweeted earlier today, my best dressed belonged to Katy Perry, Lea Michele, Eva Longoria, Heidi Klum, and leggy Jennifer Lopez; Nicki Minaj, Natasha Bedingfield, and Justin Bieber should've looked at their mirrors before they left.

But of course...before music's biggest night, it was Egypt's biggest night last Friday as Hosini Mubarak finally stepped down after 30 years of rule. On Thursday, Mubarak made a speech in which we thought the time would come, but the ever increasing crowd at Tahrir Square in Cairo weren't holding on to his words and they were chanting "Get out!" in Arabic while holding a shoe in their hand. Anger became jubilation in a span of 24 hours as the scene was reminiscent of New Year's Eve in Times Square with fireworks and dancing throughout. All that was missing was Dick Clark to sink it all in.

But during those eighteen days, the scene was nothing but chaotic, as journalists including CNN's Andersoon Cooper was caught in the crossfire and they had to find their own way to get out of dodge and into safety.

So...what now as the old Egypt is already no more and the new Egypt has begun under military control? For one thing, there is a lot of straightening out to do as the parliament have all but completely dissolved. It may be the power of the social network that led to the beginning of the end of the Mubarak regime, but with the Academy Awards now less that two weeks away, we have already heard the last king's speech. So long and stay strong.

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