The42nd Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 23, 2000, at theStaples Center in Los Angeles, California. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the year 1999. Nominations were announced on January 4, 2000.[1]Santana was the main recipient with eight Grammys, tyingMichael Jackson's record for most awards won in a single night. Santana's albumSupernatural was awarded a total of nine awards. FormerMouseketeers and Americanteen singers (at the time),Britney Spears andChristina Aguilera, were both nominated forBest New Artist, ultimately won by Aguilera.[2]
Kristian Lundin,Max Martin,Rami Yacoub,Robert John "Mutt" Lange,Stephen Lipson, Timmy Allen, Mattias Gustafsson, Edwin "Tony" Nicholas & Eric Foster White, producers; Kristian Lundin, Max Martin, Bo Reimer, Daniel Boom, Rami Yacoub, Chris Trevett, George Spatta, Adam Barber, Heff Moraes, Dawn Reinholtz, Devon Kirkpatrick,Mick Guzauski,Stephen George, Adam Blackburn, John Bates & Carl Robinson, engineers/mixers;Tom Coyne, mastering engineer
The design of the 42nd GRAMMY AWARDS logo, was commissioned to Mark Deitch and Associates. The actual design was conceived and executed by Raoul Pascual of WYNK Marketing. Michael Green of the Recording Academy stipulated that the logo should encompass all forms of musical genre and (whatever the design) the GRAMMY logo had to be prominently featured. Raoul's concept was to represent music with some of its major instruments: the clarinet for woodwinds, the piano for percussion, the guitar for strings plus a microphone:
"I imagined all the instruments emanating from behind the logo. My problem was how to translate that into a visual. I designed black and white icons of the instruments using a vector program. I was working overtime and I was getting desperate. I was moving the different icons around the GRAMMY logo but none of the combinations seemed to work. As I picked up the guitar icon, I decided to pray and make a deal with God. I said 'if you bless me with a winning design, I will give you the glory every time I share how I designed the GRAMMY logo.' Suddenly, I inadvertently released my hold of the icon and it fell on top of the GRAMMY logo. I stared at the image on my screen and I saw my solution. I added the other icons and curved them to suggest movement from behind. Eureka! That was it!"
With suggestions from the staff and the people at the Recording Academy in the course of several weeks, the design underwent an evolution from a 2 dimensional rendering into 3D.
A silk chiffon dress identical to that worn byJennifer Lopez to the 42nd Annual Grammys, this version exhibited at theFashion Museum, Bath, as part of their Dress of the Year Collection.
In January 2015,Google's presidentEric Schmidt cited the massive attention tothe dressJennifer Lopez wore to the 42nd Annual Grammy Awards as the motivation for the creation ofGoogle Images search.[3] In 2000,Google Search results were limited to simple pages of text with links, but the developers worked on developing this further, realizing that an image search was required to answer "the most popular search query" they had seen to date: Jennifer Lopez's green dress.[3][4]
Designed byDonatella Versace, the dress has been described as "jungle green", "sea green" or "tropical" green, a green dress with touches of blue to give an exotic appearance. It is a see-through silk chiffon dress with a tropical leaf and bamboo pattern, with acitrine-studded crotch.[5] The dress "had a low-cut neck that extended several inches below [the] navel, where it was loosely fastened with a sparkly brooch and then opened out again," exposing Lopez’s midriff and then cut along the front of the legs like a bath robe.[6] The dress then drooped behind her on the floor, open at the back.[6][7]
