2.15.16 Grammy Night!!

I think you might have hit on the real issue, that she can't handle the stress. In that NYC concert televised in December she kept getting emotional and blathering on about how she couldn't believe how everyone had stuck with her blah blah blah, and then afterwards she broke down crying. I think I mentioned at the time what an emotional mess she seemed to be. She needs to get a grip on that if it affects her so much on stage. As for her vocal tone (and I'm not a singer so don't know anything beyond what it sounds like to me), I don't mind her voice in her lower range; it's when she gets up higher that it sounds strained and shrill (to me). But whatever, best of luck to her.

In last night's Grammys, Demi Lovato, John Legend, Meghan Trainor and Luke Bryan honored Lionel Richie.
The most common thing they do for major artist tributes is multiple artists, not gender specific.

Many women cover David Bowie's music and tributes are often cross-gender. One of David Bowie's core artist principles in the 1970's was to shatter gender boundaries.

Based on gender, the idea of Lady Gaga performing the tribute to David Bowie was not the bad idea. The whole rest of it was the bad idea.

If you haven't watched it (and I am not recommending it), it may be hard to understand, but it was not really a gender problem. It was not a one artist performing problem. It just did not work.

It felt like Lady Gaga was trying way too hard to be "the Grammy moment." I was rooting for her but not her best night. It won't matter -- she is having a great year and next up, she is nominated for an Oscar.

Personally, I watched the annual Westminster Kennel Club show. I watch it every year and there was nothing else on that attracted me more.

I think one of the big reasons was that this was a CORPORATELY SPONSORED tribute. The corporate sponsor, Intel, wanted to promote it's image of being on the leading edge of innovation, like David Bowie was. And they wanted a star with BIG marketing power who could pull off the innovation message. Can you think of a BIG name male star who could do that? Justin Beaver, Justin Timberlake, Burno Mars, Adam Levine, Ed Sheeran - all too mainstream, even retro. Could you imagine any of them doing something so vastly different from mainstream as GaGa does? Our Adam of course could do it, but he does not have the big name marketing power that Intel wanted.