We are sadly in the full swing of award show season, and Sunday night the Grammys held their annual bacchanalia and anti-fashion extravaganza. The event was capped off with the devil performing live onstage.

Now, I was under the mistaken impression that the Grammys was about music awards. So naturally, you would expect musicians to show up. Nope, the evening’s tone was set when Dylan Mulvaney, who is Joe Biden’s favorite “woman” (not that Joe knows what a woman is anymore) showed up to show off his new surgically altered feminized face.

Dylan Mulvaney on the #GRAMMYs red carpet.

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— Pop Base (@PopBase) February 5, 2023

And the comments are just gushing and raving about how glamorous “she” looks. Dude, those hips don’t lie. The patriarchy is truly winning when the most “glamorous” of women are the men. And it didn’t get much better from that point on. I could spend a lot of time pointing out the strange sartorial choices at the Grammys by celebrities that I don’t know much about – I will say that Harry Styles looks like he ran through a tinsel factory on the way to the stage – but it’s the cultural implications that truly are showing how degenerate we have become.

The biggest example of just how the culture has changed so radically is typified in Sam Smith. I had never even heard of this guy before this week, and frankly, I think I was better off that way. Apparently, Sam Smith believes that we are in Year Zero, and he is the first queer artist to ever exist. He apparently says he is non-binary now (because being gay is apparently too boring and passé for 2023), and released a new album last week.

Smith’s latest album, “Gloria,” was released on Friday and is a departure from his quintessential ballads and heartfelt love songs. In his new album, Smith opts for an edgier sound which the artist said they “fought so hard for.”

“Gloria” features singles like the smash hit, “Unholy,” which earned him his first number one single in the U.S.”

Smith said there was “lots of fear” around the release of “Gloria.”

“I think that you can’t blame people for thinking something’s not beautiful sometimes. Some people just didn’t like it, but it was a case where I had to sit there and be like, ‘Wait, maybe you don’t like that because you don’t understand it.'”

“The music industry is just not used to queer artists,” Smith added.”

Smith said the biggest risk on the album was “the element of sex.”

Did I mention that Sam Smith is a narcissistic moron?

"The music industry isn't used to queer artists"….IS SMITH ON DRUGS?

Some of the most beloved musicians of all time were LGBTQ the only difference is they didn't act like clowns.

Freddy Mercury, David Bowie and George Michael need to come back from the dead to kick Sam's ass. https://t.co/DEZNE2ejlc

— Dragonslay3r94 (@Dragonslay3r94) February 3, 2023

But never mind that, Smith is fully committed to the bit. His new music video is apparently a porn romp, and his performance at the Grammys last night was pretty much a devil worship tribute show.

Sam Smith dresses as the devil in Satanic performance of “Unholy” during The Grammys. pic.twitter.com/87UG92oUvM

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 6, 2023

But but but Smith is so edgy and sang the song with a transwoman, so of course they won an award.

And the crowd claps like the trained politically correct seals that they are.

Now, as much as I would like to say that this crap can be ignored and we can all just wait for an asteroid to hit Los Angeles and call it a day, we can’t. You see, this stuff, like this number one song (seriously, read the lyrics and then tell me you want your teenagers singing that) is permeating the culture. Sam Smith proclaims himself “non-binary” and “queer” because being gay just isn’t enough in this cultural moment. “The element of sex” was his big risk on the album, as if Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” wasn’t released in 1984. Oh, see, here’s the problem – Sam Smith was born in 1992. Sex in music existed well before Sam Smith was born or thought of, not that he has the brains enough to actually research that for himself.

Smith knows that he is just the most recent retread of what has been going on in music for decades. His sole goal is attention, and if that means calling himself “non-binary” and dressing up like Satan to perform under red lights and with fire at the Grammys, then that’s what he’ll do. The sad part is that apparently, he was quite talented. But talent, in today’s music industry, does not equal attention. Doing what Sam Smith is doing does get attention, the way singers like Madonna and Lady Gaga and others have gotten attention in the past. We used to care about the quality of music and talent. There’s a reason that movies are still being made about Queen and Elvis. Now, all we need is a catchy beat, sung so loudly that no one can hear the quality of voice or the trashy lyrics, and devil horns. And don’t forget that men make the best women. Our cultural betters have decreed it to be so.

So the Grammys has had a full-out demonic performance this year. I wonder if the ratings, which have continued to be poor, will improve any with Sam Smith cosplaying Satan.

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