Grammy Awards 2013 THE ROLLING STONES Interview GRAMMY ANNUAL 2013

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http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/10/sho... • Grammy Awards 2013 - THE ROLLING STONES Interview GRAMMY ANNUAL 2013 • Grammy Awards 2013: This year it's more about the song than the artist • The change reflects the dominance of downloading; top contenders include Frank Ocean, Mumford Sons, Black Keys, fun., Taylor Swift and more • Have the Grammys gone bipolar? This year, it's looking that way. • If you scan the nominees in the three top categories — the ones that nab the next day's headlines — you'll see two distinct types of contenders. • On the one hand, there are the oh-so-serious album artists, the sort of singers and musicians better known for a long body of work, and for sustained personas, than for individual songs. • On the other hand, we've got pop figures better identified with hits — in some cases, just one of them. • This year, substantial stars like the Black Keys, Jack White, Mumford Sons, and even the ample new Frank Ocean, square off against potential one-hit wonders like Gotye, Carly Rae Jepsen and Ed Sheeran. • Even stars with several, or many, hits to their name — like Kelly Clarkson, fun. and Taylor Swift — most likely earned these nominations more through the undeniable popularity of their latest singles than for those songs' innate profundity. • In years gone by, you'd see something very different. Grammy pets — like U2, Paul Simon, Kanye West or Radiohead — would be nominated across the top categories, even if their albums alone had the greatest resonance, not the individual songs that end up clogging the top Song and Record slots, regardless. • The shift doesn't necessarily represent a dumbing down of the voters' choices. Rather it more accurately reflects the way people listen to music now. In the downloading era, when people increasingly choose to play select tracks over whole albums, it makes sense that lone songs would stand on equal ground with more sustained works. • While some might bitch that shooting-star-artists like Gotye, fun., Sheeran and Carly Rae will likely too soon turn up in a game of where are they now, at the moment their songs have real resonance. And the Grammys exist to reflect the music of the day, not to shape it. • Of course, all this makes predicting this year's winners that much more of a chore. • Because a rash of individual songs held such sway this year — more than any single artist of the hour — it's possible that tonight a confusing split of people will trot off with the top awards. Rather than a headline writer's dream year — when artists like Santana, Eric Clapton, or Adele took everything — tomorrow's winner's photos could look mighty crowded. • In fact, only one act has a shot at a sweep this time: fun. has bids in the top troika: Album, Song and Record of the Year. They've even got a chance at the fourth most prized trinket: Best New Artist. If they bag them, they'll be this year's Adele, who swept 2012. • Then again, many a multinominated act has marched into the Grammy-cast with arms outstretched, only to slink home without a single statue to clutch. Are you listening, Mariah, Tracy Chapman and Kanye? • Unlike 2012 when only an act of God could have prevented Adele from taking every prize, this time several acts have a good chance of upsetting the fun. The Black Keys, Frank Ocean and Kelly Clarkson each have bids in two of the top three slots (and two outta three ain't bad). • If you pull the camera back further, and look at the total list of 81 (!) categories, the Keys' Dan Auerbach, Frank Ocean, Jay-Z, Kanye and Mumford Sons each boast six bids overall. • Naturally, none of this will prevent us from venturing a rash of predictions. Here's a look at the most likely winners in this year's top 10 categories, to be announced tonight, starting at 8 on CBS.

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