This morning,
Today sat down for a chat with Delilah DiCrescenzo, the young Olympic hopeful who inspired the Plain White T's "Hey There Delilah" and who'll be attending the Grammys next month as lead singer Tom Higginson's date. Even though she has a boyfriend! Who, she claims in her delay-plagued chat with Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, is actually
completely fine with her going on said date, although one wonders how much he was gritting his teeth when he reiterated that fact. DiCrescenzo is, bless her heart, saying that her Grammy appearance will be a good opportunity for her to humanize track and field before this summer's Olympics in Beijing, although one does wonder if her definition of "humanize" means, in part, "getting a sweet correspondent's gig if the whole running thing doesn't work out come Olympic Trials time."
Today's bit of Grammy-related news that isn't related to the writers' strike: The lead singer of the Plain White T's has a date to the Feb. 10 awards show, and it's none other than the titular lady from the band's inescapable hit "Hey There Delilah." OK, OK, it's not really news per se, but it is a sorta-heartwarming story (as long as you forget about the whole "wait, so he's crossing the picket line too?" thing). But the comment section attached to the USA Today story on the couple's first date has turned into a heated discussion of whether or not Delilah is really going to the Grammys for the right reasons.
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The Plain White T's will stop at nothing to emote, and apaprently they're just getting the sensitive-dude party started. The band is putting out a new album in 2008 featuring such doomed singles as "Not 'Hey There Delilah'" and "Wait, Come Back, We'll Sing 'Hey There Delilah' for You," and Billboard is not afraid to bust out its creakiest music writing for the occasion.
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