Grammys 2014: Imagine Dragons Beat Bowie, QOTSA, Jack White in Rock Shocker

In the Grammys 2014 pre-telecast, Imagine Dragons claimed the Grammy award for Best Rock Performance for their smash single “Radioactive,” beating out Jack White, David Bowie, and Queens of the Stone Age in a rather shocking upset. The radio darlings are universally enjoyed, but the maniacally devoted fanbases of all other nominated artists suggested a different result. 

Watch Daft Punk & Stevie Wonder’s collaboration performance from Grammys 2014

Meanwhile, Led Zeppelin won Best Rock Album for Celebration Day, despite no original songs. They topped Bowie, Sabbath and Queens of The Stone Age, reminding us that the Grammy judges have absolutely no understanding of what the hell they’re doing. Nor do producers, who deemed an alarming number of prominent awards unworthy of the live telecast, opting instead for a Cyndi Lauper-driven stream-of-consciousness mess of missed cues and absentee winners as we learned that  Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories beat out Disclosure to win Best Dance/Electronica Album, and also won Best Engineered Album. We also caught the news that Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, the Cinderella story of this year’s awards, swept the rap and hip-hop categories, winning Best Rap Album for The Heist.

Need further evidence? No problem: Vampire Weekend won Best Alternative Album for Modern Vampires of the City. They beat out Nine Inch Nails, The National, Tame Impala, and Neko Case.

Daft Punk wins Album of The Year Grammy – read our tribute to ‘Random Access Memories’

Watch NIN/QOTSA/Lindsey Buckingham/Dave Grohl close out the 2014 Grammy Awards

 

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