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Music Industry's Best and Brightest on Best Behavior
Aired February 09, 2004 - 08:25 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: This year's Grammy Awards probably will be remembered more for what didn't happen than what did. The music industry's best and brightest were on their best behavior last night in Los Angeles. And just in case anybody had any ideas about misbehaving, broadcaster CBS was prepared.
Kendis Gibson has this report from Los Angeles.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KENDIS GIBSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The sights, the sounds, the threat of censorship. The 46th Annual Grammy Awards offered them all. The fallout from Janet Jackson's revealing Super Bowl flash prompted CBS to air the Grammy Awards using what the network calls a new enhanced tape delay system. Now, instead of just seconds, network censors had several minutes to alter any offensive sounds or sights that might occur on stage.
But everyone behaved themselves. In a statement, CBS said, quoting here, "Ms. Jackson and Mr. Timberlake were invited to participate in the show as long as they agreed to apologize on the air for what happened during the network's broadcast of the Super Bowl half time show. Ms. Jackson declined the invite. Mr. Timberlake accepted."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM THE GRAMMY AWARDS CEREMONY)
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: What occurred was unintentional, completely regrettable and I apologize if you guys were offended.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GIBSON: With her outfit, best female pop vocal performance winner Christine Aguilera had to be careful.
CHRISTINE AGUILERA, BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL: I don't want to have the same thing happen that Janet had done.
GIBSON: Despite the week long concerns of what might happen on stage, the music stole the spotlight, and not the network's new censoring system.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM THE GRAMMY AWARDS CEREMONY)
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: I love the way you move.
(END VIDEO CLIP) GIBSON: The contagious sounds of Outkast had them dancing in aisles. The rap duo walked with three Grammies, including the night's big prize, album of the year, for "Speaker Box: The Love Below."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM THE GRAMMY AWARDS CEREMONY) BEYONCE KNOWLES: Dangerously in love.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GIBSON: R&B queen Beyonce tied a Grammy record with her five wins, including best R&B song, "Crazy In Love." Evanescence took the best new Grammy and got a 50 Cent pat on the back to boot. The record of the year went to Coldplay's "Clocks."
All well behaved on stage. But before the night was over, something did get by the censors, a topless Outkast performing their runaway hit "Heya!"
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM THE GRAMMY AWARDS CEREMONY)
OUTKAST: Shake it like a pony ride. Heya! Heya!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GIBSON: Well, there's always next year.
Kendis Gibson, CNN, Los Angeles.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: Traditional musicians weren't the only ones who took home Grammy hardware. Former President Bill Clinton and former Russian -- and Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev won in the spoken word album for children category. Easy for me to say. Their voices were featured, believe it or not, on a recognized of "Peter and the Wolf."
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Aired February 9, 2004 - 08:25 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: This year's Grammy Awards probably will be remembered more for what didn't happen than what did. The music industry's best and brightest were on their best behavior last night in Los Angeles. And just in case anybody had any ideas about misbehaving, broadcaster CBS was prepared.
Kendis Gibson has this report from Los Angeles.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KENDIS GIBSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The sights, the sounds, the threat of censorship. The 46th Annual Grammy Awards offered them all. The fallout from Janet Jackson's revealing Super Bowl flash prompted CBS to air the Grammy Awards using what the network calls a new enhanced tape delay system. Now, instead of just seconds, network censors had several minutes to alter any offensive sounds or sights that might occur on stage.
But everyone behaved themselves. In a statement, CBS said, quoting here, "Ms. Jackson and Mr. Timberlake were invited to participate in the show as long as they agreed to apologize on the air for what happened during the network's broadcast of the Super Bowl half time show. Ms. Jackson declined the invite. Mr. Timberlake accepted."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM THE GRAMMY AWARDS CEREMONY)
JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE: What occurred was unintentional, completely regrettable and I apologize if you guys were offended.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GIBSON: With her outfit, best female pop vocal performance winner Christine Aguilera had to be careful.
CHRISTINE AGUILERA, BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL: I don't want to have the same thing happen that Janet had done.
GIBSON: Despite the week long concerns of what might happen on stage, the music stole the spotlight, and not the network's new censoring system.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM THE GRAMMY AWARDS CEREMONY)
UNIDENTIFIED GROUP: I love the way you move.
(END VIDEO CLIP) GIBSON: The contagious sounds of Outkast had them dancing in aisles. The rap duo walked with three Grammies, including the night's big prize, album of the year, for "Speaker Box: The Love Below."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM THE GRAMMY AWARDS CEREMONY) BEYONCE KNOWLES: Dangerously in love.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GIBSON: R&B queen Beyonce tied a Grammy record with her five wins, including best R&B song, "Crazy In Love." Evanescence took the best new Grammy and got a 50 Cent pat on the back to boot. The record of the year went to Coldplay's "Clocks."
All well behaved on stage. But before the night was over, something did get by the censors, a topless Outkast performing their runaway hit "Heya!"
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM THE GRAMMY AWARDS CEREMONY)
OUTKAST: Shake it like a pony ride. Heya! Heya!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GIBSON: Well, there's always next year.
Kendis Gibson, CNN, Los Angeles.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: Traditional musicians weren't the only ones who took home Grammy hardware. Former President Bill Clinton and former Russian -- and Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev won in the spoken word album for children category. Easy for me to say. Their voices were featured, believe it or not, on a recognized of "Peter and the Wolf."
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
