Grammy previews

My part of this year's Grammy mania package at Newsday:

Mariah, pariah no more: Grammy voters are very serious about comebacks -- from Tina Turner and Bonnie Raitt to Ray Charles and Tony Bennett. And few comebacks in pop-music history have been as spectacular as Mariah Carey's rise-fall-and-return in the past five years.

Who should win? Who will?: A. (1) Other people, mostly. (2) Mariah.

5 to root for: Kelly Clarkson, Bruce Springsteen, Nigel Godrich, LCD Soundsystem, Ramones' "End of the Century."

Photo: Island Records