The Grammy's is a music award spectacle that attracts millions of viewers around the world every year. This past Sunday, in its 60th anniversary, the Grammy's was highly anticipated, especially with the current social and political climate and the diverse nominations list that they had released at the end of last year. As a viewer, I was also excited to see what the show and artists would bring to the table to reflect what happened in the music industry in 2017.

Unfortunately, my first gut reaction to the entire show was pure disappointment. The entire program felt slow and some parts were pulled out longer than necessary. The performances, besides two (yes, I counted), were all somber and of course, beautiful, but nonetheless, outright depressing.

I've always enjoyed the Grammy's through and through, yet I was looking forward to this one to end. The only time I had comical and joyful relief was during Bruno Mars and Cardi B's pumped 90s performance of "Finesse" and beautiful Rihanna and hype man DJ Khaled's "Wild Thoughts"

And that was it. The rest of the songs were all articulate ballads and there was a great imbalance between hopeful and downright pessimism with the latter greatly overpowering.

I understand the need to make tributes, to respect the victims of the unfortunate events of last year and the current disturbing administration, but watching that over and over again became redundant and the wonderful, dream-like entertainment aspect of the three-and-a-half hour music awards was sucked out. The harsh backlash and the drastic drop in their ratings prove the public's frustration with the stylistic, as well as winner, choices that the Grammy's board made this year and the failure of their political and social message to get across.

After the show finally ended, however, I reflected on the entire program of the Grammys and came to the conclusion that although the show was quite a disaster, the entire show was an accurate depiction of 2017. A chaotic, mushy mess of events that were unfortunate, saddening and backward. The intentions were genuine and the Grammys did attempt to address many issues at once, but that process backfired by forgetting the essence of a music awards show: the magical power of music and this form of entertainment. The depressing nature of the entire show made me realize the extent of how crazy sad 2017 was.

I do hope that this once-amazing award show will make things right by being progressive, instead of looking back and reflecting next year in 2019 to win back the 20% that they lost in ratings this year. And hopefully 2018 has a more positive outcome for the committee to base the music industry on in all aspects of the current US.