Grammy nomimations announced

On Wednesday night, the Grammy nominations were revealed through the traditional Grammy Nominations Concert. The show is meant to announce the nominations for the four big awards: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist, but it is mostly an hour-long concert.

It is interesting that they only announce four categories when they have a total of 78 categories.

However, once the concert is over, they release a complete list of the nominees on their website.

I need to clear up the debate between Record of the Year and Song of the Year. For the longest time I had no idea what the difference was between the two categories; the same songs are normally nominated in both categories yet the winner of Record of the Year normally doesn't win Song of the Year.

Song of the year is awarded to the songwriters (pretty straight forward), and Record of the Year goes to the performing artist, the producer, recording engineer and/or mixer for that song.

When the dust settled, Kanye West led the pack with seven nominations. However, he did get shut out of two of the big three, Album and Record of the year. Ironically his best friend, Taylor Swift was also shut out of all the big categories, which is somewhat of a shock especially since her album "Speak Now" was one of the best-selling albums of the year.

Now I'm not going to sit here and say that I'm not a fan of Taylor Swift because, unfortunately, I am. I don't know what it is, but her songs are just so damn catchy. Although, these snubs by the Grammys may be what she needs. She has been an unstoppable force at the awards these past few years, and now she can sit in her seat and watch better artists win the awards they deserve.

The big story is, of course, Adele; she received six nominations in the major categories: Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for "21," Record and Song of the year for "Rolling in the Deep," Best Pop Solo Performance for "Someone Like You" and Best Short Form Music Video for "Rolling in the Deep." She should win all six and has a strong chance to actually do it.

One of the reasons I love the Grammys is because it has categories for soundtracks and comedy albums, which allow some artists to be nominated when they aren't necessarily singers. Kathy Griffin picked up her third nomination for Best Comedy Album for "Kathy Griffin: 50 and Not Pregnant." Tina Fey scored a nomination in Best Spoken Word Album for "Bossypants."

All will be revealed at 8 p.m. Feb. 12 when the Grammys are broadcasted on CBS.