If we could all be as cool as Paul McCartney the world would be a better place

What I learned watching the Grammys last night:

1. Adele can sing. REALLY sing.

2. LL Cool J is charming. He needs to host the Oscars.

3. The Foo Fighters remind me more and more of Nirvana everyday. (Which is totally okay.) Also, Dave Grohl's acceptance speech was the best of the night. One can only hope his point was received by teen rocker wanna bes everywhere.

4. Glen Campbell deserved this moment and I'm glad they gave it to him while he could still appreciate and remember it.

5. Chris Brown can dance but I was unimpressed by his singing. Also, nice to see that the Grammys will love you forever even after you beat the crap out of your girlfriend. (And all those tweets from women offering to be beaten by him are just downright horrible.)

6. Bruce Springsteen. Yes.

7. While I am a big fan of the Decembrists and also appreciate Mumford and Sons, someone needs to explain to me how they are considered Rock performers. How do they end up in the same category as The Foo Fighters? Can't they just move the Americana category to the main telecast and let Rock be Rock?

8. Adele can sing. (It bears repeating.)

9. The clip of Whitney proved that she can sing better than 99% of the new acts out there today. (Don't even get me started on Katy Perry. Or Rhianna or the Nicki person.)

10. Bonnie Raitt! Indie.Arie!

11. Taylor Swift is cute and can sing but please - "Mean" is a teenage girl song. It's a nice little song but country song of the year? This was especially odd after hearing The Civil Wars sing the hell out of their 60 seconds. More of that duo, please.

12. I wonder if anyone learned anything by seeing Adele win based just on having a killer voice? What do you think? SIGH.

13. And finally, the man of the night - the performer who truly blew everyone away - was Sir Paul McCartney who at 69 years old was stronger and cooler than pretty much everyone else put together. He's back in such a big way, Thank God.