The Grammy Awards

Cool heads have prevailed when it comes to any annoying nods toward forced virality that might have been considered. ... Some of the performances felt quite ordinary, a casualty of the reigning sensibility that artists’ biggest songs should be performed. ... Mulling over that enduring puzzler [Beyoncé not winning album of the year], versus the pleasures of seeing Salt N Pepa, Public Enemy and friends in the flesh, together, in an all-timer of a set— maybe the glass is still more than half-full. Sins of omission and all.