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Now that Super Tuesday has proven inconclusive on all fronts, let’s engage in some unfounded speculation: Might any of the presidential candidates show up at Sunday’s Grammy Awards?
The Repubs will likely stay home -– despite Mike Huckabee’s electric bass skills and Burt Bacharach’s reported fondness for John McCain, their support among pop stars is generally thin. Ron Paul can claim only Arlo Guthrie. (You can check out who’s supporting whom here.)
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, however, are still vying for the pop star vote as well as the popular one. A quick and dirty survey of Grammy nominees reveals Clinton with six nominated stumpers — Madonna, Tony Bennett, Jon Bon Jovi, 50 Cent, Timbaland and Barbra Streisand -– and Obama with five — Ne-Yo, Usher, Harry Connick Jr., Win Butler of Arcade Fire and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco.
Will.i.am, Obama’s most active pop pal of late, didn’t earn any noms for his commercial flop of a solo album, but he’ll likely be on hand to pop the cork with Fergie if she takes a statue home. We could definitely see the irrepressible Black Eyed Pea pulling Barry onstage for a chorus of Fergie’s “Glamorous.”
And Hillary should really dump that Celine campaign song for an all-American medley of her pal Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ on a Prayer” and “(You Want to) Make a Memory.” Although seeing her do the freak with Justin during 50’s “Ayo Technology”…. OK, that seems unlikely. But hey, there’s always Timbaland. He did wonders for Nelly Furtado. He could get the uber baby-boomer candidate out of her cultural rut!
In the meantime, check out Oh! Industry’s excellent roundtable of dedications to favorite candidates.
