At the best of times, the Grammy Awards are garish displays of self-celebration by props Auto-tuned and surgically perfected, who we pretend put out good music. During a pandemic that killed half a million Americans and even more livelihoods, the Grammys have become the sort of trashy travesties that once invited thrown tomatoes from the masses. Luckily for our national sanity, and as a rare sign of our collective good sense, everyone ignored them.

Seriously. What the industry touts as “Music’s Biggest Night” earned just 8.8 million viewers, down 53% from last year. That’s not quite as good as what the average episode of Grey’s Anatomy gets these days (we’re now on season 17) and slightly better than the viewerships of ABC’s The Conners and The Rookie. To translate into political speak, Tucker Carlson was averaging more than 5 million viewers leading up to the 2020 election.