Fantasia Wins Her First GRAMMY And Still Manages To Lose

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Despite winning her very first GRAMMY Award, Fantasia Barrino was noticeably absent from the ceremony this past weekend. No, she wasn't plotting on another marriage to destroy. However, she did pass on the ceremony due to her exclusion from the Aretha Franklin tribute that opened the show. Instead, Jennifer Hudson, Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch, Yolanda Adams, and Martina McBride, rocked the stage, and Fanny stayed home, cooking. She told Terrence and Rocsi while phoning into 106th & Plantation:

"I'm going to be very honest with you. You know I wasn't at the GRAMMYs last night. I'm kind of going through my own little thing... Last night they were honoring someone who is my idol, Aretha Franklin, and there is no way I could have sat there and not got the happy feet and wanting to jump on the mic because she is my favorite so I felt like, you know, at the end of the day I should have been on that stage so, I kind of did my own little thing last night.

I watched CeeLo's performance, I love CeeLo, love Gaga, watched Gaga, and I love Rihanna's performance, but I kind of cooked and did my own thing last night and was in my own world and was hoping that I won. I have this feeling, like every year I go, I feel like they always look over some of the good singers that are still around and I'm not trying to be funny but that's just the way I felt."

So let me get this straight. Rather than greasing up her face to strut down the red carpet in an ill-fitting bedazzled potato sack, she shucked peas with her daughter and watched the entire ceremony at home, reacting from her couch, in an attempt to shun the GRAMMYs by not accepting an award that wasn't even televised? All of this, after being nominated eleven times previously, and after recording her album with the primary goal of finally winning her first GRAMMY. All because she was denied the chance to do her Patti LaBelle 2.0 shoe-kicking, freed slave sprints across the stage during an otherwise classy, subdued tribute? Oh, okay.

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After the year she's had, press-wise?

You are winning, Fantasia. Winning at losing. How prophetic the song title was: "Bittersweet" indeed.

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Fool.

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