- (FBE) So as you probably know, the 2019 Grammys
just happened recently. - Yes.
- (FBE) So we're gonna show you 10 performances
from the show and you are gonna tell us
what you think and where they rank in your heart.
- Great. Oh, my god. I didn't watch the Grammys.
- This is great because this is the first year
I haven't watched the Grammys.
- I'm really judgy, so I think it'll be a bit easier,
but I might get torn just based off of
a couple of performances.
- (FBE) Billboard put out a list of their rankings
of the best performances, so we're using their top seven
to make up this list, and then the final three
have been voted on by our members. - Okay.
All right. Cool, cool, cool.
- (FBE) You ready for this? - I am.
Let's me be the judge of the rankings.
- ♪ Havana, ooh-na-na ♪
- Oh! I didn't even knew Camila performed.
- Automatically, this gets top spot for me
because this is my song.
- ♪ ...East Atlanta, na-na-na ♪
- It's a nice production. Nice little set.
- I like the house. That's cool.
- The production value of the Grammys is always so great with the stages.
- ♪ (vocalizing) ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ Hey ♪
- She's jammin'. Lady in red! Yes.
- Camila Cabello is really killing it this year.
- Is that Ricky Martin? (laughing) No way!
Oh, my gosh!
- ♪ (singing in Spanish) ♪ - Aah! I love J Balvin.
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
- ♪ Say yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Say, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
- Mmm! This was a performance.
I'm sorry. I'm just reliving all these moments I had
and everyone's like be quiet! It's the Grammys.
We're trying to watch.
- I'm gonna put that right in the middle, like five.
- Seven.
- Three right now.
- I'm not really a fan of Camila Cabello,
but the performance is really good, so I might put her at an eight.
- ♪ (Cardi B rapping) ♪
- I love her!
- Oh, okay. I heard a lot about the Cardi performance.
- (audience cheering)
- (Cardi B) Welcome to the Grammys!
- This is the intro. "Welcome to the Grammys."
Or wasn't that the intro?
She just said "welcome to the Grammys" in the middle of the perf--
(laughing)
- ♪ I was born to flex (yes) ♪
♪ Diamonds on my neck ♪
♪ I like boardin' jets... ♪ - Okay, she looks good!
She just had a baby!
- Is she really playing the piano?
I don't hear any piano in this music at all.
- How much piano is actually being used in this song, though?
- It was so visually pleasing for me.
- I love this song.
I just didn't think it was appropriate for the Grammys.
(laughing) Oh, my god!
- ♪ Get a little bag and take it to the store ♪
♪ Get a little cash ♪
♪ Shake it real fast and get a little more ♪
- That's pretty dope. That's pretty dope.
The outfits are really on point.
You know, it's Cardi B, so she's always gotta add
that Cardi B flare.
- I'll put at number six.
- 10.
- Three.
She didn't really wow me as much as I thought she would.
I was definitely surprised, but she coulda gave me
all little bit more.
- ♪ You hold tight to your umbrella ♪
♪ Well, darlin'... ♪ - Aww, Kacey Musgraves.
- This was the same night?
- ♪ That there's always been a rainbow... ♪
- I don't know where I was when this was on then.
- ♪ ...over your head ♪
- I love these toned-down performances.
- So it's just dressed down, classy.
It's just about the music.
It doesn't have to be about all this glitz and glamor stuff.
- It's so hard to see the first two that I saw and then see this.
- ♪ So tie up the boat, take off your coat ♪
♪ And take a look around ♪
- She's got such a beautiful voice!
Oh, my gosh.
- ♪ 'Cause the skies have finally opened ♪
- This kind of performance shows that you don't need
the super grandeur kind of thing.
Instead, it's okay to have something just focus on the artist itself.
- She's so good.
There's something vulnerable about you and a piano.
I'm gonna put it at number one. She's my favorite.
- For the Grammys, it was a tad bit boring.
A 10.
- I'm gonna do seven.
- A seven.
- I put Kasey at number nine, but she's gonna move to a ten
unless I see something really horrible next.
- ♪ What if nothing... ♪ - I love her so much.
- Oh, she's incredible.
- ♪ Oh, I'm caught between your love and a... ♪
- That's pretty cool, a clear guitar.
- I don't know. I'm not feeling it.
- ♪ Oh, I wish there was a right way ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
- Cool, go off.
- She has vocals, dude.
- ♪ ...in a hard place ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
- I love this!
- ♪ (choir vocalizing) ♪
- ♪ I'm caught between your love... ♪
- That choir-- oh! I've got chills.
- This is such a nice middle of their production
because there's extra elements going on here,
but the focus is on H.E.R.
- Four.
- Number five.
- Eight. Her voice didn't necessarily grab me
and it wasn't more exciting than Cardi B.
- ♪ You get discouraged, don't you girl ♪
- This is more my music.
- ♪ And it's your brother's world... ♪
- Should I know this person?
- I've never listened to Brandi Carlile's stuff.
- ♪ You gotta dance with the devil on a river ♪
♪ To beat... ♪ - So, you know, this one
I could use some more glitz and glamour,
and something. I'm just bored.
- The whole simplistic performance, it makes you really focus on
what's going on musically and it's like... it's nice.
- ♪ To call you weak and then displace you ♪
♪ After carrying your baby on your back across the desert ♪
- This is good. I appreciate the sparkles.
- I am so biased because I am personally not a fan
of county music. I'm gonna put Brandi Carlile
at number 10.
- Number seven.
- Boring! Putting that at number nine.
- I'd like to give her the 10, but I already put Kacey there,
so let's put Brandi at nine.
- ♪ That's just the way you make me feel ♪
- (gasping) Oh, Janelle Monáe!
- There's nothing that she can do that isn't just impressive.
- Mm-hmm. I like this already.
- Oh, look at that moonwalk!
- (laughing) Now this is a performance.
- (audience cheering)
- They look like storm troopers.
- I-- she's getting it! I love it.
- See, now this is a performance.
- ♪ Black girl magic, y'all can't stand it ♪
- Whaaaaat? (laughing)
Yes!
- ♪ (singing continues) ♪
Let the vagina have a monologue!
- [Bleep] yeah!
- ♪ That's just the way that I feel ♪
♪ Good God! ♪
♪ I can't help it ♪
- All right, I'm having second thoughts
about my ranking right now.
- God! She can't do anything wrong. I'm in love with her.
- That does take me back to a Prince, Michael Jackson, and Janet Jackson
type performance, which I absolutely loved.
- I'll put that at number two.
- A six.
- She's going number one.
The vajayjay always wins.
- ♪ There go all my defenses ♪ - Oh, Kacey's back.
Oh! Is this the one with Miley and Dolly Parton and stuff?
- Katy Perry?
- ♪ You messin' with my mind and fillin' up my senses ♪
- ♪ Here you come again ♪
♪ Lookin' better... ♪
- See, Dolly, she just came out by herself.
Dolly does everything.
- She can still sing. Like, that's the cool part.
- ♪ Joleen... ♪ - (gasping)
(singing along) ♪ Joleen, Joleen, Joleen ♪
(sighing)
- You all remember when Dolly Parton played
Hannah Montana's aunt? Good stuff, huh?
- ♪ Your beauty is beyond compare ♪
♪ With flaming locks of auburn hair ♪
♪ Ivory skin... ♪ - Damn, Miley looks good.
- I love Miley so much.
And then Dolly Parton is like... it's Dolly.
- [Bleep]! Now Monáe's maybe not a number one.
- I love Dolly Parton.
She's so iconic! I love Dolly Parton.
- Dolly's a true performer.
She outshined all three of them put together.
I'm gonna have to go with the six.
- I'll put that at number eight.
- Nine.
- Number seven.
- Five.
- I'm building from the bottom up because I'm like,
I'm hoping these are gonna get better.
- (FBE) Here are the ones we spoke about earlier
that our members voted on. - Oh, okay.
- ♪ (vocalizing) - I messed up already,
so any place is.
- ♪ (vocalizing) ♪
- I love her but I don't like her new music.
- ♪ (holding one note) ♪
- (singing along) ♪ I'm off the deep end ♪
She's such a performer!
- ♪ I'll never meet the ground ♪
- Her outfit almost has a KISS vibe to it,
with the platforms and everything.
- ♪ ...the surface ♪
♪ Where they can't hurt us ♪
♪ We're far from the shallow now ♪
- Wow, that wasn't long enough.
- She's such an amazing performer and she's an an amazing vocalist.
Like, just artist in general. This is tough!
- I only saw a little bit of that, but imagine watching the whole thing.
Now, that is great entertainment. Gaga at number one, bruh.
- Five.
- I'd give her the number six spot.
- Eight.
- Two.
Oh, god, I only have nine and ten left.
- ♪ I'm trying to find a way to chill... ♪
- Oh, that's right! Shawn Mendes and Miley Cyrus performed.
I forgot about this.
- Wow, Miley really came out for the Grammys.
- ♪ ...are caving in ♪
♪ Sometimes I feel like giving... ♪
- The emotions that I feel when Shawn Mendes sings are not okay.
- ♪ It isn't in my blood ♪
- Ooh, they've got a string section?
Ooh, that was nice harmonies right there.
- ♪ (vocalizing) ♪
- Wow! Okay. Well, I messed up.
- Yeah, it was a nice, classy performance.
- It's so funny because I've always just imagined him
as a kid, you know, and to see this super tall man
out there, rocking it, that was good.
- Four.
- I guess I have to put him at nine.
- Number two.
- That's my baby. He gets number two.
- I'm gonna have to put it seven.
I'm realizing now that I'm in a little bit of a predicament,
where there's so many good artists that I don't know
how I'm possibly gonna end up rearranging this.
- ♪ Call me in the morning... ♪ - Oh, Post.
- Ooh, I really like this song.
- ♪ I'm here... ♪ - Aah, I love Post Malone!
- I really have grown to love Post Malone.
- ♪ Now she acting out of pocket ♪
♪ Tryna grab up on my... ♪
- That's a lot of fog.
- ♪ (singing continues) ♪
- Okay, like, this is good.
I'm definitely not denying his talent, but I also just don't listen
to Post Malone.
- (singing along) ♪ ...poppin' pillies ♪
♪ Man, I feel just like a rock star ♪
- ♪ Dark necessities... ♪
- Oh, he's jamming out with the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
- I don't know how I feel about this.
- All right. Very versatile artist.
- He makes good music. I just don't like this.
- Oh, that's such a good song!
GOSH DANG IT!
You guys have made this so difficult.
- Apparently, that's gonna be a ten.
Clearly, that is not a ten and I messed up here.
- Two for now, but that's changing.
- (FBE) Now that you've watched through all of these,
we're gonna give you a chance to make changes
in case you ended up liking some more than you thought at first.
- Yeah. - (FBE) Let us know
when you're locked. - Okay.
- I am gonna put Camila Cabello at number one
because that's what she deserves!
- [Bleep]! Okay.
Honestly, I'm gonna have to erase all of these.
- I'm swapping Camila and H.E.R.
My top four are not gonna change.
- (FBE) So now that your final answers are locked,
can you walk us through your picks? - Okay, sure.
So I put "Havana" at number one because not only is Camila
very gorgeous and that song was amazing,
I do feel like you definitely want to go all out,
and she did that, so that's exactly what I expect
from the Grammys.
- I feel like every Grammys' moment should have something
that solidifies it and everyone remembers it for,
and I guess maybe this year it was remember
the 2019's Grammys, Gaga? Gaga.
- I'll probably second guess myself for the next few days,
but Kacey Musgraves at number one.
She's one of my all-time favorites and that vulnerable performance.
Janelle Monáe, a throwback to my childhood,
and just such a talented, talented artist.
- Kasey Musgrave, just classy.
It was kinda like that wild factor that Lady Gaga had a year ago
or two years ago when she was just in all white.
Cardi B, not crazy about it.
The spectacle was nice, I guess, but kinda stripped down her song.
Camila, she sold the Grammys for me, hands down.
Every other performance was just like a--
but it wasn't Camila, and that was the whole night.
H.E.R. because, gosh, there is just something so good
about her voice where it's just like aaah.
I mean, I wish there was more to the performance itself,
but because of who she was musically, I was like, you know,
you're up there for me.
- One is Janelle because she was hot to trot
without being nasty.
Two, Cardi B.
She just looked really great. A little nasty, a lot nasty.
- I feel like five up were solid. Five down is where it starts to get
kind of iffy because they're really good
and really talented, too.
- The Grammy performances didn't really change my opinion
of the artist itself.
Like, I still tended to rank my top artists based off of
who I already liked, and then their Grammy performances
just kind of reinforced my opinions of them,
but people like Post Malone or Camila Cabello,
I'm still am not really all that interested in them.
- (FBE) And finally, how did these Grammy performances
stack up to past Grammy performances for you?
- It felt kind of a little lackluster overall.
There wasn't anything that really blew me away.
- It wasn't the worst Grammys I've seen,
and it wasn't the best, so it's probably down the middle.
- It was so theatrical and I was like this is literally what 2018
was in general. There was so much,
so for them to get on that Grammy stage and do it,
it was like, you guys are really trying come for
some of these past Grammys and I see you and I appreciate it.
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