Bonazelli: Doesn't it seem like Missy should win something, though?
Matos: She should win something. "Is she going to?" is another question.
Outkast, up for record of the year.
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Cassidy: So are we thinking OutKast is gonna sweep?
Matos: I wouldn't be too surprised if they did sweep, but I think it's gonna be more like across the board. Though last year, funnily enough, I actually predicted the Norah Jones sweep. I thought, "The only reason she's nominated for all those categories is that she's gonna win them."
Producer of the Year
(Non-classical)
Nigel Godrich (Radiohead); Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (Mya, Beyoncé, et al.); the Matrix (Liz Phair, Hillary Duff, et al.); the Neptunes (Snoop Dogg, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, et al.); OutKast (Killer Mike, OutKast)
Bonazelli: How could the Neptunes lose that?
Matos: Obviously, the Neptunes should get it. But you know what? I bet the Matrix does.
Bonazelli: You're kidding.
Matos: They'll give it to them for Avril Lavigne, even though she's not one of the people they're nominated for. They had enough juice, enough chart muscle, everybody is following suit, and I think that's something that'll be paid tribute to.
Bonazelli: But that [Avril] album fucking sucks after like four songs—that's the incredible thing. After four songs, it's like a trash heap.
Best Rock Song
Evanescence ft. Paul McCoy, "Bring Me to Life"; Train, "Calling All Angels"; Warren Zevon ft. Bruce Springsteen, "Disorder in the House"; the White Stripes, "Seven Nation Army"; Nickelback, "Someday"
Matos: [Reading] ... "Calling All Angels" by Train ...
Cassidy: That's a rock song?
Matos: ... "Disorder in the House" by Warren Zevon and Bruce Springsteen ...
Cassidy: Oh, God!
Bonazelli: You know that?
Cassidy: No, but it's, like, one and a half dead people. I mean, I like some Bruce Springsteen songs, but come on.
Bonazelli: I don't know why Nickelback isn't nominated for all of these categories. I hope Nickelback slaughters everyone they come into competition with. That's not my objective opinion, but I hope they fucking destroy the White Stripes and all these other bands. I mean, it's not going to happen, but ...
Matos: Why do you want that to happen? 'Cause you're a smartass?
Bonazelli: They impress me in a way that I can't quite verbalize. Let me just defer to the words "deeply touching." I can't believe they're even nominated— I mean, that's astonishing to me.
Matos: You're rooting for the underdog- cum-overdog, aren't you? They're so overdog they're almost the underdog. They're such a behemoth that they have to be nominated.
Bonazelli: I hope so. I hope they've already ascertained that status after two albums.
Matos: I have to ask: Who is Paul McCoy?
Bonazelli: Paul McCoy is the vocalist from this crazy Christian rock band, 12 Stones, and he's the one who does the "Wake me up," you know, he's the one who adds the kind of flavor to it.
Matos: So he's the hook man, like when a hip-hop song has a hook girl?
Bonazelli: Yeah, he's a hook man—that's what he is.
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