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Adele: ‘What the f— does Beyoncé have to do to win Album of the Year?’
Jessica Goodman,Entertainment Weekly Mon, Feb 13 8:47 AM EST
When Adele accepted Album of the Year at the Grammys on Sunday for 25, she dedicated the win to Beyoncé, who was also nominated in the category for her 2016 album, Lemonade. And when Adele went backstage after the ceremony to answer questions about her win, the singer further explained her reasoning for giving thanks to Beyoncé during her speech.“My album of the year is Lemonade,” Adele told reporters. She went on to explain that the first song she fell in love with was Destiny’s Child’s “No No No” when she was 11 years old. “The way I felt when I first heard ‘No No No’ was exactly the same as when I heard Lemonade last year,” Adele continued. “I felt like it was her time to win. My view is what the f— does she have to do to win Album of the Year? That’s also how I feel. I felt this album — I said this earlier — I felt this album was a different side of her that we haven’t seen. I felt blessed to be brought into that situation. Obviously the visual is very new and the Grammys are very traditional, but I thought this would be the year they went with the tides.”
The comments echoed her sentiments during the awards show. After taking the stage, Adele said, “I can’t possibly accept this award. And I’m very humbled and I’m very grateful and gracious, but my artist of my life is Beyoncé and this album to me, the Lemonade album, was just so monumental, Beyoncé. It was so monumental and so well thought out and so beautiful and soul-baring and we all got to see another side to you that you don’t always let us see, and we appreciate that. And all us artists here adore you. You are our light.”
Adele went five for five on Sunday night, picking up every award for which she was nominated. She walked away with statues for Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Pop Solo Performance. She beat Beyoncé in four of those categories. (Lemonade was not nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album.)Though Beyoncé was up for nine awards and was the most nominated artist of the night, she only won statues in two categories: Best Music Video and Best Urban Contemporary Album. During her televised acceptance speech for the latter, Beyoncé spoke about the importance of confronting “issues that make us uncomfortable.”
“It’s important for me to show images to my children that reflect their beauty so they can grow up in a world where they look in the mirror, first through their own families, as well as the news, the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the White House, and the Grammys, and see themselves, and have no doubt that they’re beautiful, intelligent, and capable,” she said. “This is something I want for every child of every race, and I feel it’s vital that we learn from the past and recognize our tendencies to repeat our mistakes.”
Beyoncé also gave one of the most explosive performances of the night, performing “Sand Castles” and “Love Drought” off Lemonade while pregnant with twins and dressed as a queen goddess.
Read Adele’s full backstage comments below.
The reason why I felt the need to say something is my album of the year is Lemonade. She is my icon of my whole life. I was 11 years old and I was i school. I was in year six, so I was 11 before I moved up to my high school. And I was with some girlfriends and we were practicing a song for an assembly with our friends and for our family. My recommendation was we do a Spice Girls song and they’re like have you heard “No No No” and I was like “no no no, I haven’t!” and they played it for me. Literally, I remember it so clearly how I felt hearing her voice, hearing all their voices, but hers so specifically and then I got home and just started getting into . I fell in love immediately with her. That was when I was 11 and I’m 28 now. The way I felt when I first heard “No No No” was exactly the same as when I heard Lemonade last year. For an artist… the only other people that made me feel like that, they’re all dead. So I’m living off of music that they made when they were alive. For her to be making such relevant music for that long of a period and still affect all of us — it’s not just me — there are friendships that are completely defined and us being complete Beyoncé stans. I don’t take any f—ing s— when it comes to anyone not liking Beyoncé. You can’t be in my life. You simply can’t. So I felt the need to do it. I felt like it was her time to win. My view is what the f— does she have to do to win Album of the Year. That’s also how I feel. I felt this album — I said this earlier — I felt this album was a different side of her that we haven’t seen. I felt blessed to be brought into that situation. Obviously the visual is very new and the Grammys are very traditional, but I thought this would be the year they went with the tides.
Read Adele’s full backstage comments below.
The reason why I felt the need to say something is my album of the year is Lemonade. She is my icon of my whole life. I was 11 years old and I was i school. I was in year six, so I was 11 before I moved up to my high school. And I was with some girlfriends and we were practicing a song for an assembly with our friends and for our family. My recommendation was we do a Spice Girls song and they’re like have you heard “No No No” and I was like “no no no, I haven’t!” and they played it for me. Literally, I remember it so clearly how I felt hearing her voice, hearing all their voices, but hers so specifically and then I got home and just started getting into . I fell in love immediately with her. That was when I was 11 and I’m 28 now. The way I felt when I first heard “No No No” was exactly the same as when I heard Lemonade last year. For an artist… the only other people that made me feel like that, they’re all dead. So I’m living off of music that they made when they were alive. For her to be making such relevant music for that long of a period and still affect all of us — it’s not just me — there are friendships that are completely defined and us being complete Beyoncé stans. I don’t take any f—ing s— when it comes to anyone not liking Beyoncé. You can’t be in my life. You simply can’t. So I felt the need to do it. I felt like it was her time to win. My view is what the f— does she have to do to win Album of the Year. That’s also how I feel. I felt this album — I said this earlier — I felt this album was a different side of her that we haven’t seen. I felt blessed to be brought into that situation. Obviously the visual is very new and the Grammys are very traditional, but I thought this would be the year they went with the tides.
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Adele Refuses to Accept Her Album of the Year Award
Sally Holmes,Elle 3 hours ago
From ELLE
Adele just won Album of the year for 25, beating out Justin Bieber's Purpose, Drake's Views, and Beyoncé's Lemonade. The singer, who'd just been on the stage to accept the award for Song of the Year, was overcome with emotion, thanking everyone again, but saying that ultimately she couldn't accept the award because, Beyoncé:
Five years ago, when I was last here, I was so―I was pregnant, and I didn't know. And I was awarded that shortly after, I found out shortly after, which was the biggest blessing of my life. And in my pregnancy, becoming a mother, I lost a lot of myself. I struggled and I still do struggle being a mom. It's really hard. But tonight winning this kind of full circle.
But I can't possibly accept this award, and I'm very humbled and very grateful and gracious but my life is Beyonce, and the album to me, the "Lemonade" album, Beyonce, was so monumental, and so well thought out. And so beautiful and soul bearing and we all got to see another side of you that you don't always let us see, and we appreciate that. And all us artists adore you. You are our light. And the way that you make me and my friends feel, the way you make my black friends feel is empowering, and you make them stand up for themselves. And I love you. I always have. And I always will. I appreciate it.
The
academy, I love you, my manager, my husband, and my son. You're the
only reason I do it. Thank you so much. Thank you very much to
everybody.
Beyoncé was visibly touched by Adele's words.
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Beyoncé and Adele Are Perfectionists in Their Own Way—and We Need Both Types of Role Models
Glamour Mon, Feb 13 12:10 PM ESTGrammys 2017: 5 Reasons Why Adele Won Album of the Year Instead of Beyonce
Rolling Stone Mon, Feb 13 6:09 PM GMT+1
Even Adele, who won Grammy Awards in all the major categories, couldn't believe it. "I thought it was her year," she said of Beyoncé, whose acclaimed album Lemonade dominated
critical discussion in 2016 yet was shut out last night. "What the fuck
does she have to do to win album of the year?"Lemonade did win a lesser category, Best Urban Contemporary Album, which was akin to Michael Jackson grabbing Best Male R&B Vocal Performance even though Off the Wall lost to Billy Joel's 52nd Street for Album of the Year. (Slighted, MJ resolved to make an album that no award voter could ignore, ever, and set to work on Thriller.) It's too bad Beyoncé, whose sole top-category Grammy was 2010's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" for Song of the Year, has to deal with the same old story. Here are some theories on why.
1. Grammy voters are white. And male ...
Perhaps not coincidentally, Beyoncé chose the Year of Trump to make her most explicit statement on African-American pride, particularly in "Formation," in which she sings: "I like my Negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils." Numerous Republicans hated her fantastic Super Bowl performance of the song last year – one congressman called Beyoncé "pro-Black Panther and anti-cop." Although record-industry folks tend to be more liberal than the population at large, they're still heavily white and male. People of color are traditionally better represented in the Grammys than in the Academy Awards – Chance the Rapper did win Best New Artist last night – but it's not hard to envision a campaign similar to #OscarsSoWhite.
2. ... and old.
One Grammy voter had predicted to Rolling Stone that the not-quite-cutting-edge nature of the electorate could favor Adele over Beyoncé. "Beyoncé should win because her song was more culturally significant and more innovative. Adele – we feel like we've seen that show before," the voter said. "But I would not underestimate the average age of Grammy voters, and the chance that the sort of 'elder median age' could put Adele in." The Grammys have a post-nominations panel designed to avoid embarrassing gaffes, like Jethro Tull's defeat of Metallica in the Infamous Hard Rock Upset of 1988. But giving an Album of the Year award to Adele? Seems safely in the "not a gaffe" category.
3. The 25 LP was simply more popular than Lemonade.Grammy voters were far more likely to have actually heard the Adele album (which has nearly 20 million sales worldwide, including more than 9 million in the U.S.) than Lemonade (not even 2 million). Although Beyoncé was more culturally important than Adele in 2016, swinging a baseball bat in an indelible image in the Lemonade video album, playing a Hillary Clinton rally in Ohio and grossing more than $256 million on tour, Adele was more visible. Her tour hit just $168 million in sales, but she played 107 shows to Beyoncé's 49, according to Pollstar.
4. Adele put out 25 the old-fashioned way.
For all the Spotifys and Pandoras, CD and digital-album sales still generate the most cash for record labels. Adele refused to stream 25 for months after it came out in late 2015 – and her strategy worked, racking up nearly 7.5 million sales by the end of the first year. Beyoncé, by contrast, streamed Lemonade exclusively through Tidal for its early weeks, in a deal that shut out Spotify and Apple Music users and, most likely, benefited Beyoncé more than her label. By year's end, so many stars, from Drake to Rihanna, were doing these kinds of streaming exclusives that the world's biggest label, Universal Music, announced an outright ban on the practice. Could label types, who vote in the Grammys, have punished Beyoncé for this business move, or at least favored Adele? Probably not explicitly, but it's certainly plausible.
5. The vote may have been split.
Vox theorizes that Lemonade, Justin Bieber's Purpose and Drake's Views split the pop and hip-hop vote, leaving Adele to compete among the biggest slice of the electorate against Sturgill Simpson's extreme dark horse A Sailor's Guide to Earth. This was almost certainly the explanation for Beck's 2015 Album of the Year victory, when Morning Phase beat out pop albums by Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Pharrell Williams. This year the argument is not as persuasive: Adele is pop, and she and Beyoncé are reigning divas. They could have easily split the vote themselves, allowing Drake or Bieber to slip in an underdog victory. But it didn't happen.
From Cosmopolitan
Adele arrived at the Grammys on Sunday night in a
beautiful green Givenchy gown, but clearly the most important part of
her outfit is the lemon brooch she's wearing on her right shoulder. If
that's not a nod to her fellow diva Beyoncé and Lemonade, then I
guess Adele just really likes citrus fruit a lot. Adele has long been a
fan of Mrs. Carter, but maybe the pin is a sign that she's rooting
against herself in categories like Album of the Year, Record of the
Year, and Song of the Year, where both women are nominated.
Back in 2015, Adele told TIME magazine that her "main priority in life" besides her son is Beyoncé, and at a concert last year, she raved about how much she loved Lemonade during one of her tour stops. “How is it even possible that she only ever gets better?” she said. “How is that possible? She is Jesus fucking Christ."
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All told the Grammys turned in a pretty respectable
night last night. The performances ranged from the mind-melting
theatrics of Beyonce to the largely forgettable duet between Lukas
Graham and Kelsea Ballerini, but no one was outright bad and the show
was largely enjoyable overall. You can’t go around spouting off mild and
vague positivity on the internet, though. Ours is a land where nothing
makes sense until it’s been broken down, categorized and ranked. So with
that in mind, here’s a rundown of the best performances of last night’s
ceremony, starting with the “meh” and going on to the performances
everyone will be discussing for at least the next week.
Check it out below:
16. Lukas Graham and Kelsea Ballerini – “Peter Pan” and “7 Years”
This mash-up performance — side note: we’re still
doing those? — failed to be memorable, through no fault of Kelsea
Ballerini’s. Lukas Graham’s “7 Years” racked up plenty of nominations,
but that doesn’t stop it from being bland aural wallpaper and a
cartoonishly cynical grab for the same backwards-reaching Millennials
who made the 21 Pilots’ superior “Stressed Out” a mega-hit. So, it’s
fair that more people will be talking about that group’s acceptance speech than will remember this performance. We all owe this great country upstart an apology.
From Harper's BAZAAR
Adele took home the Grammy for Album of the Year (along with four other awards), but she nearly refused to accept it, since she believed Beyoncé deserved to win. "My album of the year was Lemonade, so a piece of me did die inside, as a Beyoncé fan," she said in the press room after her big win, according to the New York Times.
She gave a touching tribute to Bey in her acceptance speech:
"But I can't possibly accept this award, and I'm very humbled and very grateful and gracious but my life is Beyoncé, and the album to me, the Lemonade album, Beyoncé, was so monumental, and so well thought out. And so beautiful and soul-bearing and we all got to see another side of you that you don't always let us see, and we appreciate that."
To prove she meant what she said, Adele broke her Grammy award in half on stage (which the broadcast didn't show) and seemed to offer one part to Beyoncé, who was seated in front of her:
She was super excited about it:
But unfortunately she had to deal with the consequences backstage:
For all the Spotifys and Pandoras, CD and digital-album sales still generate the most cash for record labels. Adele refused to stream 25 for months after it came out in late 2015 – and her strategy worked, racking up nearly 7.5 million sales by the end of the first year. Beyoncé, by contrast, streamed Lemonade exclusively through Tidal for its early weeks, in a deal that shut out Spotify and Apple Music users and, most likely, benefited Beyoncé more than her label. By year's end, so many stars, from Drake to Rihanna, were doing these kinds of streaming exclusives that the world's biggest label, Universal Music, announced an outright ban on the practice. Could label types, who vote in the Grammys, have punished Beyoncé for this business move, or at least favored Adele? Probably not explicitly, but it's certainly plausible.
5. The vote may have been split.
Vox theorizes that Lemonade, Justin Bieber's Purpose and Drake's Views split the pop and hip-hop vote, leaving Adele to compete among the biggest slice of the electorate against Sturgill Simpson's extreme dark horse A Sailor's Guide to Earth. This was almost certainly the explanation for Beck's 2015 Album of the Year victory, when Morning Phase beat out pop albums by Beyoncé, Ed Sheeran, Sam Smith and Pharrell Williams. This year the argument is not as persuasive: Adele is pop, and she and Beyoncé are reigning divas. They could have easily split the vote themselves, allowing Drake or Bieber to slip in an underdog victory. But it didn't happen.
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Adele's Grammys Outfit Is All About Beyoncé
Eliza Thompson,Cosmopolitan Mon, Feb 13 7:57 PM GMT+1From Cosmopolitan
Adele arrived at the Grammys on Sunday night in a
beautiful green Givenchy gown, but clearly the most important part of
her outfit is the lemon brooch she's wearing on her right shoulder. If
that's not a nod to her fellow diva Beyoncé and Lemonade, then I
guess Adele just really likes citrus fruit a lot. Adele has long been a
fan of Mrs. Carter, but maybe the pin is a sign that she's rooting
against herself in categories like Album of the Year, Record of the
Year, and Song of the Year, where both women are nominated. Back in 2015, Adele told TIME magazine that her "main priority in life" besides her son is Beyoncé, and at a concert last year, she raved about how much she loved Lemonade during one of her tour stops. “How is it even possible that she only ever gets better?” she said. “How is that possible? She is Jesus fucking Christ."
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How Many Total Grammys Has Adele Won In Her Career? Plenty
Phil Hornshaw,The Wrap Mon, Feb 13 6:33 AM GMT+1
Adele won five times at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards, but that wasn’t even her best showing at the annual music honors
All The 2017 Grammys Performances, Ranked
Alex Galbraith,UPROXX Mon, Feb 13 7:00 PM GMT+1
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Check it out below:
16. Lukas Graham and Kelsea Ballerini – “Peter Pan” and “7 Years”
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15. The Weeknd and Daft Punk – “I Feel It Coming”
Who knew cocaine could be so boring?
The Weeknd’s performance of “I Feel It Coming” was aided by a laser light show and Daft Punk but it left our decidedly less-addled minds as soon as the performance was over. Maybe they should have played “Starboy” instead of going for the fake out?
14. Adele – “Hello”
No microphone troubles this time. Adele kicked off the 2017 Grammys
with a song that we’ve been hearing since 2015. But given Adele’s
ability to transcend such silly human measuring sticks like years and
typical album sales, it made a strange sort of sense. And fans off music
should never pass up an opportunity to hear Adele blow the roof off
with her pipes.
But undeniable technical skill aside, Adele’s performance was pretty dry. Just a few minutes of standing and singing and nowhere near big enough for the biggest night in music. So, it comes in toward the bottom.
13. The BeeGees Tribute
All due respect to Demi Lovato (and so much
respect to the Brothers Gibb) but this star-studded look-back
celebrating 40 years of the Saturday Night Fever is the third
least-remarkable tribute of the night.
12. Keith Urban & Carrie Underwood – “The Fighter”
Keith and Carrie’s duet from inside the cover
artwork of a Joy Division album wouldn’t be recognizable as country
music to any time travelers who landed in the Grammys audience, but
that’s okay because what it was was a whole lot of fun. Urban’s voice
was a little rough in the beginning, but Carrie saved this performance of their hit duet “The Fighter” when she came roaring out onto their set cribbed straight from The 1975’s most-excellent video.
11. Ed Sheeran – “Shape Of You”
It shouldn’t be possible to hold this audience with so little equipment and set design. But Ed Sheeran took the entirety of the Grammys to an open mic night while he looped his way through his new song “Shape Of You.” Like most of his gambles, it worked.
10. Katy Perry – “Chained To The Rhythm”
Who knew that Katy Perry could be so
political? Well, anyone who actually listened to her sneakily dystopian
new track for one. Sure, you don’t go looking for politics in songs
featuring a member of the Marley clan (Bob’s grandson, Skip) that are debuted via disco balls, but its there if you open your ears. Perry made the isolation of the song’s white picket fences extremely literal while
a series of projections kept things interesting. And given the content
of the song, we shouldn’t have been surprised when those projections
switched from crashing waves to a larger-than-life version of the U.S.
Constitution while Perry shouted “No hate!”
9. William Bell And Gary Clark Jr. – “Born Under a Bad Sign”
Gary Clark Jr. is probably one of the top
three coolest MF-ers on the planet. And watching this performance of the
classic blues track “Born Under A Bad Sign”, it’s clear that he learned
it from watching Bell. That this performance came on the night when
Bell finally took home a Grammy after 50 years in the music business only made this brief throwback intermission sweeter.
8. Adele – “Fast Love” (George Michael Tribute)
As crass and candid as he was known to be,
George Michael probably would have loved that Adele started off her
tribute to the him by swearing on broadcast TV. Adele re-started her performance of “Fast Love”
when those pesky sound issues reared their head and you could genuinely
feel her desire to do right by her fellow British icon. Sure, fans
would have liked to hear “Freedom ’90” or “Faith.” And the producers
could have kept some of the big and somber feeling if they landed on
“Father Figure.” But Adele did an amazing job with a song no one was
expecting.
7.Metallica ft. Lady Gaga – “Moth Into Flame”
James Hetfield might have had to find a working mic before this pyrotechnic-filled rendition of “Moth Into Flame”
could really take off. But Lady Gaga’s impressive classic rock wail was
strong enough to carry the song until the Master of Yeeeaahs got could
join. And it’s going to be years before we see another mosh-pit or stage
dive at the Grammys. Her performance at the Super Bowl might have been
more of a spectacle, but their joint performance just ruled so much harder.
6. Bruno Mars – “That’s What I Like”
Bruno Mars is the most reliably consistent
performer currently working. He never fails to slay every stage that
he’s put on and his 24K Magic album was sneakily one of the best albums released last year. The Grammys gave him a chance to show-off why he’s the world’s premiere retro stylist (before letting him actually become Prince later in the night) and he made the most of it, ending the smooth-as-hell segment with an impressive bit of harmonizing.
5. Sturgill Simpson and The Dap-Kings – “All Around You”
The Dap-Kings suffered through the
unimaginable when they lost their frontwoman Sharon Jones late last
year. But bands as good as the Dap-Kings won’t stay down for long and
they teamed up with the similarly unstoppable Sturgill Simpson to tear through an appropriate cut on weathering the storm from Simpson’s A Sailor’s Guide To Earth. And everybody brought it, morphing this performance into a subtle tribute to the electrifying stage presence of a late legend.
4. Chance The Rapper – “How Great” and “All We Got”
Chance The Rapper always sounds rough on big
stages. Any time he’s put in front of a huge audience, he allows himself
to get overwhelmed with excitement that he’s there and he loses control
of his voice. It should be a detriment, but it just ends up making him
more endearing. And it didn’t hurt that during his performance of “How Great” and “All We Got”
he had the unwavering voices of Tamela Mann and Kirk Franklin’s choir
to back him up. Yet again, Chance took us to church. It never stops
being special.
3. Beyonce – “Sandcastles” and “Love Drought”
What can I say that hasn’t already been said by the entirety of the internet? Beyonce’s meeting with the goddess/performance
managed to celebrate the very large and inclusive ideas of femininity
and motherhood while also being a very singular celebration of Beyonce’s
music, her world-stopping aura and her particular brand of
flawlessness. Yes, we all have mothers but only three little people will
get to call Beyonce “mom.” And she’s the only one who could pull off a
spectacle like the one she did here.
2. Prince Tribute ft. Bruno Mars and The Time
Okay, so maybe I’m letting my own peculiar fandoms cloud my judgement but two Ice Cream Castles cuts got played right on the TV
last night. Two! As soon as Morris Day and the Time kicked into “Jungle
Love”, I thought ‘Please, God, let them play ‘The Bird’.’ And they did
and He saw that it was good.
Bruno Mars and the producers seemingly learned their lesson from the somber tributes earlier in the night and they let the singer tear through “Let’s Go Crazy” instead of saddling him with “Sometimes It Snows In April” or “The Cross.” Overall, this tribute was exactly what a tribute to Prince should be. Namely, a hell of a lot of fun.
1. A Tribe Called Quest – “We The People”/”Award Tour”/”Movin’ Backwards”
How weird was it to see A Tribe Called Quest taking over the Grammys stage? It might be like 20 years too late, but Tribe finally got their chance to shine and — much like their stunner of a comeback album
— they made the most of it. With helping hands from Anderson .Paak and
Busta Rhymes, the group ran through new songs “We The People” and
“Movin’ Backwards” while still finding time to shout-out their classics
like “Award Tour” and “Can I Kick It?”
The set was also the most overtly political of the night, with Busta sending a shout-out to “President Agent Orange” and all the “evil he’s perpetuating.” And Q-Tip ended the performance by repeatedly imploring everyone within the sound of his voice to resist. Given what the country’s going through, a ceremony without an explicit political statement would have felt like a cop-out. And we’re glad that Tribe weren’t afraid to do it during the best performance of the night.
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The Weeknd’s performance of “I Feel It Coming” was aided by a laser light show and Daft Punk but it left our decidedly less-addled minds as soon as the performance was over. Maybe they should have played “Starboy” instead of going for the fake out?
14. Adele – “Hello”
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But undeniable technical skill aside, Adele’s performance was pretty dry. Just a few minutes of standing and singing and nowhere near big enough for the biggest night in music. So, it comes in toward the bottom.
13. The BeeGees Tribute
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12. Keith Urban & Carrie Underwood – “The Fighter”
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11. Ed Sheeran – “Shape Of You”
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10. Katy Perry – “Chained To The Rhythm”
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9. William Bell And Gary Clark Jr. – “Born Under a Bad Sign”
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8. Adele – “Fast Love” (George Michael Tribute)
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7.Metallica ft. Lady Gaga – “Moth Into Flame”
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6. Bruno Mars – “That’s What I Like”
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5. Sturgill Simpson and The Dap-Kings – “All Around You”
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4. Chance The Rapper – “How Great” and “All We Got”
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3. Beyonce – “Sandcastles” and “Love Drought”
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2. Prince Tribute ft. Bruno Mars and The Time
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Bruno Mars and the producers seemingly learned their lesson from the somber tributes earlier in the night and they let the singer tear through “Let’s Go Crazy” instead of saddling him with “Sometimes It Snows In April” or “The Cross.” Overall, this tribute was exactly what a tribute to Prince should be. Namely, a hell of a lot of fun.
1. A Tribe Called Quest – “We The People”/”Award Tour”/”Movin’ Backwards”
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The set was also the most overtly political of the night, with Busta sending a shout-out to “President Agent Orange” and all the “evil he’s perpetuating.” And Q-Tip ended the performance by repeatedly imploring everyone within the sound of his voice to resist. Given what the country’s going through, a ceremony without an explicit political statement would have felt like a cop-out. And we’re glad that Tribe weren’t afraid to do it during the best performance of the night.
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Adele Broke Her Grammy in Half So She Could Share It with Beyoncé
Erica Gonzales,Harper's Bazaar 3 hours agoFrom Harper's BAZAAR
Adele took home the Grammy for Album of the Year (along with four other awards), but she nearly refused to accept it, since she believed Beyoncé deserved to win. "My album of the year was Lemonade, so a piece of me did die inside, as a Beyoncé fan," she said in the press room after her big win, according to the New York Times.
She gave a touching tribute to Bey in her acceptance speech:
"But I can't possibly accept this award, and I'm very humbled and very grateful and gracious but my life is Beyoncé, and the album to me, the Lemonade album, Beyoncé, was so monumental, and so well thought out. And so beautiful and soul-bearing and we all got to see another side of you that you don't always let us see, and we appreciate that."
To prove she meant what she said, Adele broke her Grammy award in half on stage (which the broadcast didn't show) and seemed to offer one part to Beyoncé, who was seated in front of her:
She was super excited about it:
But unfortunately she had to deal with the consequences backstage:
Adele didn't give a full explanation on why she broke her trophy in half, but her fans were quick to connect the dots:
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