47th Grammy Awards show

Despite concerns to the contrary, the Grammy winners were quite positive | Gene Edward Veith

The 47th Grammy Awards were supposed to push the envelope this year, with nominations dominated by controversial rappers, but when the envelopes were all torn open, the results were surprisingly positive.

Even rap came out positive, with best song and best album going to Kanye West for "Jesus Walks," a gritty song with some bad words about life's evils that emphasizes the need for salvation through Jesus.

Best pop performance by a group went to Los Lonely Boys, a three-brother group with a pleasant sound blending Hispanic, country, and rock. Their winning song "Heaven" is actually a prayer to God anticipating that better place.

The best rock performance went to U2 for "Vertigo"—that song on the iPod commercials—from the album How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, hailed as the group's most explicitly Christian album yet.

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February 26, 2005, Vol. 20, No. 8

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