#Grammys: Our Favorite Tweets Of The Night

As a longtime Grammy veteran, it’s hard to say which currently popular activity distracts you from the show you’re ostensibly reporting about more: live-blogging or trying to follow the Twitter barrage, even a not-that-big one. This year we chose the latter tack, and what follows is a completely subjective, often hilarious, hardly definitive selection of our favorite tweets from the show, from a ragtag collection of people in the industry we happen to be following. Consider it an alternate history of the 2011 Grammy Awards: It doesn’t include every major moment but it’s got most of them, and it provides a fun way to remember the show (and will seem completely bizarre to anyone who didn’t see it). The tweets below are in chronological order – they don’t highlight every major moment, but it shouldn’t be difficult to figure out what was going on at the time. Thanks to everyone who unwittingly contributed — and since the Grammys didn’t say it, RIP Guru …

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— Sony Music Global
Checking out @Ricky_Martin on the carpet! Hotttttt #Grammys

— MTV Buzzworthy
Oh dear. Is Ricky Martin in jeans? That is a straight-up Clint Black move. #grammys

— David Carr
That’s a whole lot of diva on that stage. Stay off of each other’s skirts during the Aretha medley. ladies.

— David Carr
Christina, the American viewing public forgives you for the Superbowl anthem.

— Billboard
Ricky Martin: “Yes, I am seriously wearing these pants.” Intro’s @ladygaga . #grammys

— Elliott Wilson
Born this way. Egg. I get it now! #sarcasm

— Kanye West
I didn’t know Howie Mandel was a part of Train

— James Poniewozik by Chris Willman
People can rip on Gaga all they want, but that was a beautiful statement of support for all of us with shoulder horns. #grammys

— Bill Werde
Spoke to a producer who works w eminem. said em wasn’t so sure he’d have a big night. “You really think ppl will vote for me?”

— Greg Kot
Whew, for a minute there I thought I was going to have to go an entire evening without seeing Ryan Seacrest #Grammys

— Jon Caramanica
#BoBsmonocle

— Angelica Cob-Baehler
Earlier this week I hugged @TinieTempah and today I kissed @LennyKravitz… I mean… #ilovemyjob

— idolator dot com
And with one performance, Janelle Monae single-handedly revived the cape industry. #grammys

–Travis Fincher by jerees
She was at the VMAs covered in meat. Now she’s at the Grammys dressed as an egg. Two more red carpets and Gaga will be a Denny’s Grand Slam.

— Nekesa Mumbi Moody
bruno mars and @JanelleMonae killed it at the Grammys … they are amazing! and personally, think they’d make a cute couple. LOL

— Missinfo
Lol, usher 1st told bieber “If its meant 2 b, we’ll meet again”…that’s called “the brush off”

— Kanye West
NINJAS… YESSSSS!!!!!!!

–maura johnston
RT @allyzay: I’m w/@pareene – Usher should’ve come out sitting on an egg, from which Bieber emerged. #grammys #missedopportunities

— Mikey Fresh
Get Ursh the oxygen tank

— Missinfo
Cool, the girl from NCIS wore music notes on her dress to somehow make sense of her being at the grammys

— Chamillionaire
Usher and JB. Wow!! That was ill.

— Chris Willman
Okay, where are the Avett Brother Dancers?

— MTVBuzzworthy
Bob Dylan sounds like he swallowed Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits.

— Charles Aaron
civil war re-enactment folk, y’all! #Grammys

— Jessica Hopper
Bob Dylan’s voice is hitting the prime territory for fronting a death metal band.

— annkpowers
Also, Dylan and Janelle Monae have the same shoes! #grammys

— nathan followill
Watch the Grammys now. You may or may see me onstage in a few minutes. I f–king love Bob Dylan.

— indielabelnews Charlie Dahan
Nice to see Fraggle Rock reunited for the Cee-Lo performance #Grammy. Someone tell Elton, Cee Lo stole his peacock outfit

–MTV Style
Gwyneth Paltrow just got a BILLION street cred points for dancing on a piano in stilettos. #Grammys

— BorowitzReport Andy Borowitz by carr2n
Must be AWKWARD backstage between Katy Perry and the Muppets. #Grammys

— Danyel Smith RT @zoforeman: Cee-lo Green says I will see your Alien and Mortal Kombat themes, and raise you Sesame Street.

— Matador Records
no dis to the currently televised Katy Perry intended. But _this_is a pretty stunning performance [inexplicable link to video of Sonic Youth performing “Flower” in the Mojave Desert in 1985]

— MTV Buzzworthy
I’m all for gender equality, but I just can’t handle a man singing “Jolene.” Unless it’s a drag queen. #grammys #stfuandletnorahjonessing

— Kanye West
I didn’t know Johnny Depp played guitar

— Bill Werde
John Mayer looks a little like a. Enego Montoya from Princess Bride or B. Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean

— drakkardnoir Drizzy Drake
Hilary from Lady Ant looks so right up there!!! I’m very aroused.

— David Carr
Collectively, wan Grammy performers could learn a lot from Eminem’s willingness to show up and try your guts out. A pleasure to behold.

— RapRadarDotCom RT @YOUNGSAFE: If i was the biggest selling artist of the last decade, i wouldn’t be that angry. #JustMe

— Fave by Danyel Smith
BEST NEW ARTIST ESPERANZA SPALDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #GRAMMYS #UPSETOFTHECENTURY

— John DeCicco by indielabelnews
RT @AntDeRosa: Bieber fans are headed to some teen version of Tahrir Square right about now.

— Kanye West
R.I.P to GURU!!!

— Jon Caramanica
Twice RT @armedrobbery: Mick Jagger better spit Guru’s “DWYCK” verse

— Kanye West
Damn… I can’t find the words to explain how I feel about the best new artist award… Don’t wanna say the wrong thing

— Eric Alper
To the Mick Jagger haters: Let’s see how well YOU move when you’re 67. #Grammys

— Jonathan Wald by carr2n
First social media ruins Egypt’s dictatorship, now the Grammys.

— TheRealJordin Jordin Sparks
BABS!! 🙂

— Jon Caramanica
Can’t wait for Travis Barker to come out mid-song and just kill it [during Streisand’s performance]

— Will Hermes
Rihanna MVP #Grammys

— Missinfo
Remember Hov n Bey’s “crazy in love” chemistry? RiRi n Drake r tryin’ 2 tell u something ; )

— Chris Willman
Well, you can say this about the show: There was a lot of pyro.

— Greg Kot
Arcade Fire turn Month of May into an assault that Lemmy would love. Young brother Will screaming like he’s burning alive #Grammys nirvana.

— Eric Alper
#Grammys Album of the Year: Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs. Holy smokes. Oh Canada.

— Merge Records
Congrats Arcade Fire!

— Arcade Fire
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD. Thank you EVERYONE.