This year’s Grammy Awards will feature Aerosmith as the requisite old-ish rock band that will perform alongside newer and more relevant artists, giving old-ish viewers at home a chance to recognize something before Billie Eilish and Lizzo take the stage (“Why does that girl have green hair?” They’ll say. “Bring back Joe Perry!”). They won’t be alone, though: Aerosmith will be bringing along classic remix buddies Run-DMC.
This comes from Variety, which makes the bold step of theorizing that this means the two groups will be performing their joint version of “Walk This Way.” Variety also says that Run-DMC probably won’t be onstage for Aerosmith’s whole show, so that most likely means the band will be doing a big medley rather than just “Walk This Way.” The Grammys will be held on January 26, with Alicia Keys hosting once again.
25 Comments
“Why does that girl have green hair?”
Green hair is fine. Hell I had a bright purple spiked mohawk when I was 16.It’s the face tattoos that weird us out.
You say that, but when you kill someone in prison you’ll understand.
A tasteful, understated face tattoo can be quite charming, but I still can’t get used to the earlobe gauges.
It’s career motivation. There’s no plan B when your face is inked.
Yeah, people who were teens when Aerosmith and Run DMC did Walk This Way will have zero issues with green or any colored hair. Have they seen 80s Cyndi Lauper?
Was it really necessary to put the one picture with Kid Rock in it, the human equivalent of an above ground swimming pool?
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
I’m picturing something like this but with the added dimension the pool is infected with Hep C
I came here to say this.
I was trying to decide if I should comment on that or not. Kid Rock is one of the most garbage humans in the country. He built his career on the backs of black folks and now that he’s got his he flipped the switch to full MAGA-confederate flag waving guy.FUCK KID ROCK.
Remember when your personality couldn’t just be regurgitating jokes you found on the Internet? You suck as bad as Kid Rock.
I remember this joke
Surely Aerosmith and Run-DMC are there to ensure there is at least some decent music played.Oh, got to run, they are serving tea and fruit cake in the activities room.
Aerosmith and Run-DMC are serving tea and fruit cake in the activities room?
Run -DMC are. Aerosmith are too busy playing bingo.
Are Penn & Teller opening?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5IHVhWj0
Ah, Aeorosmith, the one of the far too numerous, knee-heigth, sagging, old-man ballsacks of rock and roll fame.
I would rather watch an hour of rosebud porn than a second of that fucking woo-hoo bullshit.People keep lamenting the artists we lost too soon, I think we should instead focus on the fuckers who just won’t fucking die and go away.
Just three more greatest hits compilation records named after a slang term for big tits. Just three more. They promise.
Aerosmith is a tale of two bands. The self-titled debut up through Rocks are straight-ahead blues-infused hard rock albums and the mid-80s live albums are stone classics. The next two were all fucked up because Tyler and Perry were borderline useless thanks to drug addiction. Permanent Vacation forward was where they started in with the silly gimmick songs that most people know them for today. The Walk this Way collaboration w/ Run DMC took place around the time of that transformation.
This! Aerosmith is a perfect example of why bands may need expiration dates. RHCP would be the 90’s example that comes to mind. I also imagine there is a good overlap between the two fan bases.
That Kid Rock/JMJ/Run-DMC/Aerosmith medley at the MTV Music Awards fucking BANGED.(Yeah, I know nobody ever liked Kid Rock. I liked his rapping, so whatever.)
I have a feeling Kid Rock got paid more for holding that can of Coors Light than than he did for appearing at that show.
Either that or it’s permanently fused to his hand, like Ellen Barkin at the end of Drop Dead Gorgeous.
Steven Tyler still looks like a crazy aunt who has a houseful of cats.
They Might Me Be Giants wrote a song by watching the Aerosmith/Run-DMC video. It’s perfect.