Grammy nominees

Sigh.

Nominations for the 40-somethingth Annual Grammy Awards are available online here.

Once again, a baffling mix of far left field choices and down-the-pipe mediocrity. Why, for the love of god, would you nominate Death Cab's "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" from an album that has "What Sarah Said" and "Brothers on a Hotel Bed" on it? Not that "I Will ..." is a bad song, but I don't think it's half the song of either of those other two.

In good news, Lupe Fiasco's "Kick, Push" was nominated for best rap song (and also possibly track--any kind of categorization that has to make clear that the best rap album must be an album on which at least 51% of the content is people rapping is clearly indicative of a necrotic system). He deserves to win. But he won't.