I just watched Lady Gaga's tribute to David Bowie from the Grammys last night, and that just did not work for me at all. I would post the video here, but I don't think anyone should subject themselves to watching that. Ymmv though...
Agree completely. Her Vegas style presentation that crammed nine different songs into five minutes didn't do justice to any of the songs. I'm not really a fan of hers but I think that if she wanted to she could have pulled off something good. I think that with Bowie a lot of people get so focused on the alter-egos, fashion, costumes, makeup and genre-hopping (not that all of that wasn't totally awesome) that they miss the fact that underneath all of that was a whole bunch of incredibly well crafted songs. I think Gaga's presentation highlighted all of the former stuff and undermined the latter. Too bad. David certainly deserved better. Stevie Wonder's tribute to Maurice White on the other hand, I thought was great.