Metallica is playing with Lady Gaga at the Grammys it seems!

It was the most heavy metal moment of the night, in my personal opinion. Not that it was any competition. The way they just roll on despite technical difficulties and fucking turn that award show upside down with that performance was just really professional, good - and that's what Metallica is to me. A fucking steamroller (couldn't think of a better word, I'm tired) of a band who does not care, do whatever they want, and is spured on by shit like that happening - and just play better and faster. Show must go on.

Regardless of the mic incident this was THE performance that would and should be talked about for days to come, possibly even weeks. And they managed that, so what if it came with some bad publicity? Every bit of publicity helps. Yeah, it was over the top, but far from embarrassing.

Everybody is entitled to their opinion that it was cringy, but I think they take the mic incident too much into consideration, or the mix, or Lady Gaga or whatever. Some people in the audience had probably never heard anything like it before, and I bet they were more impressed than standing in a corner cringing. Shit happens, beside micgate it was the best performance of the night by far.

Saying that, they probably won't do a Grammy performance again. But this is Metallica, so we will never know exactly what is going to happen next year or the year after that and so on.

Yeah I think there was an interview with Lars that was posted in which he said they were hanging out and thought of the idea to play together.

Regardless of how much input they had in the actual idea, they did give it the green light. It's not like they walked on stage without a single clue of what was going on

And again, if they really hated it, they could have nixed it.

Anyways, regardless of what we all may think of the quality of the production, I'll never rag on them for giving it the old college try.

Who said anything about Metallica being forced into it or that they didn't enjoy it?

I'd be willing to bet that the song and flames were Metallica's idea. And the dancers and mosh pit were Gaga's. And the Grammys suits went, "Alright then." And then they "forgot" to plug in Hetfield's mic in case he decided to sing Last Caress again.

Or maybe everything was Hetfield's idea and he adamantly refused to perform unless there were choreographed background dancers. Until Hetfield comes out and says, "I wasn't entirely cool with those dancers, yepsure knows me best," we have no way of knowing.

As far corporate, what about when they played for the Salesforce CEO? Or for the launch of Call of Duty? The Grammys thing may be contrived, but I wouldn't say it was soulless corporatism.

I'll bet Kirk went back to his hotel and pounded some vodka and heroin and passed out instead of jacking off like he originally intended to do. I'll keep updating reddit to see what they find.

Yeah, same here.

Even if the mic was plugged in it still would've sucked.

Lady Gaga's dancing alone gave me diarrhea.

So basically, AM here (as well as there) is just for praising Metallica or face strawman arguments, red herrings and ad hominems until you eventually crack and get banned or delete your account?

Hahaha.

God damn!

Another issue for me is that Moth into Flame basically describes the plastic lifestyle of celebs like Gaga. The irony...

Not a coincidence I think.
I think it was a similar kind of thinking to what was behind having Marianne Faithfull in The memory remains.
That's another reason why I think this concept just works.

I actually thought that Moth might be about Amy Winehouse. Just feels like a suitable fit.

I haven't seen that on the MetBB AM.