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My music tastes range from pop to metal, so I’ll make this brief with a top five list of songs that I’ve been obsessing over for the past month on my iPod.

5. “Bottom of a Bottle” by Smile Empty Soul

A song released in 2003 with a 90’s grunge sound? Of course that’ll make my top five!

4. “Ohio Is For Lovers” by Hawthorne Heights

A powerful understanding song about a broken heart is what we all need sometimes, especially set to this teen punk energetic beat.

3.  “99 Red Balloons” by Nena

Such an upbeat 80s classic, yet with such meaningful lyrics.

2. “We Belong” by Pat Benatar

Another 80s classic, so precisely performed with emotion and a good kind of simplicity.

1. “Cold (But I’m Still Here)” by Evan’s Blue

A dominant, powerful hard rock tune, with perfectly combined vocal styles. Haven’t been able to stop listening to this for at least a month so far.

Rather than just focusing my opinions on this year’s grammy awards, I’d like to address my overall opinion on them over the years. I feel as if these awards lack categorization and do not include enough genre specific awards, i.e. as Dr. Baumer’s sample blog post states that african american musicians are overlooked, or in my opinion metal is also slightly overlooked. I feel like culture is least accepting of anything but plain hip hop music, which, sure, maybe it deserves an award for the talent they exhibit. But I feel as if others’ talents should be recognized. For example, last year the Grammy’s awarded one of my favorite bands, Ghost. But the applause for them was minimum and the thank you speech they gave was followed by awkward silence. I think sometimes the audience is disrespectful and even though maybe they aren’t happy about the artist nominated that they can take the time to applaud in a respectful manner.

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