Here we have "The 59th Annual Grammy Awards" and the title already tells you that we are one year away from a slightly bigger anniversary, but the 59th edition of the greatest music awards ceremony of the world was held on 12th February 2017, so basically 1.5 months in the past from when I am writing this review. Let me start with the positive. I think the Bee Gees tribute had some nice moments and the song chosen for the in memoriam sequence was good too. I wished they'd have played it during the entire sequence. but seeing all the artists that died this year and last year (Prince, Bowie, Cohen, Michael...) it is undeniable that this generation of musicians is just nowhere near on par. Almost all of the performances were utterly forgetting and Adele is racking up awards with nothing that can be considered anywhere near her career-best. O tempora o mores. I like some of Katy Perry's and Beyoncé's older work, but they weren't memorable either. Perry at least had the looks, also makes the blond work, but the highly pregnant Beyoncé was just embarrassing as we were listening to a voice over narration coming from herself while she performs the song. It was cringeworthy how she wanted it to be so important and mesmerizing and she is really way better than this. Adele also lost some respect for me with her constant talk about Beyoncé is her idol etc. Why not use the time to honor some of the people who are unknown and deserve their "indirect" moment in the limelight too. Oh yeah and then we have the Adele tribute for George Michael. Well.. what can I say there. No idea if it was staged to make sure she is the talk of the town the next day, but regardless of whether it was or not her apologies and overacting on many occasions were just too much to stomach. With her wins that night she really did not need to turn this into such a drama early on. Besides, the George Michael tribute could have been much much better like the one for Bee Gees actually. And Leonard Cohen would have deserved his own too. Good to see David Bowie still winning awards more than a year after his death, but it is also evidence of how the current generation of best (or what people consider best) musicians cannot fill the footsteps. Director was Louis J. Horvitz, very experienced in terms of award shows and you cannot blame him for the failure here. Host was James Corden and again if this is one of the defining late show hosts of our generation, then that really sucks. His material wasn't too bad actually at times, but the delivery meh... I want the Lettermans, Lenos etc. back. And what has Corden to do with music seriously? Looks to me as he just wants to become more and more popular without bringing the talent. I am genuinely worried we get him as Oscar host at some point too. Please not. I'd normally have given this a 4 out of 10, but the anti-Trump propaganda on some occasions, especially the Twitter joke from Corden force me to give this an even lower rating. Must have been one of the worst Grammy shows in history. Please let the next ones bet better. I refuse to believe that what we saw in these 2.5 hours (not 3.5 hours) are the best America and the UK have right now. Not that they are bad, they are just very mediocre and forgettable. Do not watch.