Kudos to the 2014 Grammy Awards. We’ve come a long way since 2010, when there was nary a post-nubile woman in sight on stage or in the audience. (Read my full report HERE.) Back then, host Stephen Colbert opened the show by noting that Susan Boyle, who had the biggest album of the year, was not going to be performing. “I mean, (Susan Boyle) accomplished something huge this year. You may have brought the sexy back, but she sent it away again.”
At last night’s award ceremony, both older women and men were unapologetically, no scratch that,, unreservedly featured prominently in the robust intergenerational mix. We’re talking Carole King and Madonna on stage and Yoko Ono in the audience. We had stellar performances from Paul and Ringo, Stevie Wonder and my personal favorite of the night, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson and Blake Shelton’s performance of “Highwayman.”
Is it possible that we are maturing as a society, and that we are getting to a place where the ripe sex appeal of a Beyonce can co-exist in the same show as men and women well past their 50’s demonstrating what it means to live life to the full?
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