The Grammys Come on 2019 Again
The 2019 Grammys are officially wrapped. Kacey Musgraves and Childish Gambino were among the night's big winners. The country singer won album of the year, while the rapper likewise known as Donald Glover took home song and tape of the twelvemonth. Fifteen-time winner Alicia Keys hosted the show for the first time, and pulled out all the stops. In addition to performing, she besides welcomed a slew of special guests at the start of the testify, most namely former Showtime Lady Michelle Obama. But while the prove may exist over, there's still plenty to come from backstage. Brush upwardly on the full winners list, and scroll through for other big moments and performances from the evening..
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Childish Gambino is a no-bear witness at the Grammys, does a Google advert instead
Kittenish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, took home two of the pinnacle prizes at Lord's day's Grammys, winning record and vocal of the twelvemonth for "This Is America." However, the histrion-rapper was a no show at the anniversary, at which he declined to perform when invited by the Recording University. Instead of the Grammys, he opted to do a Google advertisement. Watch it below.
Grammys say farewell to Aretha Franklin, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow and more
No figure towers over the pop music of the 20th century like Aretha Franklin, so information technology was no surprise that she warranted a significant tribute at this year's Grammys. Just it was a little strange that a ceremony that made time for Jennifer Lopez, of all people, to atomic number 82 a Motown tribute, Aretha only got a short version of "(Y'all Make Me Experience) Like a Natural Woman." Yeah, Andra Twenty-four hours, Fantasia and Yolanda Adams were immaculate. And yes, Aretha had her own extensive Grammy tribute in 2011 with Adams, Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, Martina McBride and Florence Welch. But the Grammys' barometer for tributes was a little weird this yr. Dolly Parton, immortal as e'er, deserved every second of hers.
But how strange to take Diana Ross in the audience (after performing her own medley), and then much phenomenal blackness vocal talent sharing one Aretha track while J. Lo, who has to rank in the lower quintiles of Motown-influence of all the artists onstage — got to tackle the virtually canonical songbook in American pop music.
No one was surprised that outgoing Recording University president Neil Portnow got a long tribute (the Grammys are gonna Grammy). But the irony of Dua Lipa roasting his infamous "step up" comments just seconds beforehand was pretty rich. Coupled with the now-meme-able face of Kacey Musgraves during Portnow'southward closing comments, it all fabricated for an interesting blend of insurrection and misfired laurels at the ceremony. This was the outset telecast in years without a creeping sense of disappointment. But now that they more or less righted the ship after a stormy twelvemonth of criticism, maybe they can take that energy and better plan how they allot their tributes to the giants of music, and the artists who followed them.
8:45 p.m. | August Brown
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Brandi Carlile proves less is more with audio-visual performance
Brandi Carlile sent a powerful message at the Grammy Awards on Sunday: Sometimes less actually is more.
On a cavernous stage filled with but her ring and the softest of spotlights, the Americana darling brandished an acoustic guitar for an unvarnished version of "The Joke." Its accompanying album, "By the Manner, I Forgive You," scored Carlile three awards in the Americana categories in the pre-telecast anniversary.
For "The Joke," Carlile kept the focus on what made her the most nominated female person artist going into tonight's ceremony. Her lyrics, and her staggering emotional connection to them, stood in stark relief in her operation. Read more.
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Cardi B makes history with rap album win
Cardi B won the Grammy for rap album at the 61st Grammy Awards for her debut LP "Invasion of Privacy." She is the first woman to win the honor as a solo artist since its introduction at the 1996 telecast.
The anthology yielded 2 No. ane singles, Cardi's breakthrough single "Bodak Yellow" and "I Similar It," with J Balvin and Bad Bunny. She's the first female rapper to take 2 No. 1 singles, and all thirteen tracks from the album entered the Billboard Hot 100. The LP earned near-universal critical acclaim.
Cardi was arguably the near influential new artist of 2018, with dominant streaming figures and social media ubiquity (including some salient political commentary). Read more.
8:27 p.m. | August Brown
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Dua Lipa and St. Vincent tag-squad for 'One Buss'
The tag team functioning by British dream pop singer Dua Lipa and St. Vincent – teased during a commercial interruption as "two heady artists sharing one Grammy moment" — saw them connecting as if mirror images of each other. With matching black bobs, they moved through a medley of St. Vincent'southward Masseduction and Lipa'due south hit with Calvin Harris, "One Kiss," and did so as if hoping to mass-seduce all 25 million or so viewers.
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The backlash to Jennifer Lopez's Motown tribute is fast and fierce
Those who weren't on social media for the Motown medley during the Grammy Awards might have still registered the backlash. And so lukewarm was the reaction prompted by Jennifer Lopez leading the celebration of one of America's most important labels that the haters couldn't resist. Which is to say, Jennifer Lopez is hardly known for her vocal range, and in leading a medley that included songs such as "Tears of a Clown," "War (What Is It Good For)" and "Please Mr. Postman" the production seemed to demand response.
Those complaints were perchance best captured by Twitter user Kevin O'Keefe, who captioned a photograph of Diana Ross watching the functioning with, ""Yeah, they're proverb J. Lo is doing the Motown tribute? I don't know. I don't get it either." Read more than.
8:05 p.thou. | Randall Roberts
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The Grammy stage can't contain Travis Scott — and that's a proficient thing
The Grammys couldn't go Donald Glover or Kendrick Lamar to perform tonight, but Travis Scott got enough guests for the both of them to back-trail his performance. Scott'southward up for rap album, rap vocal and rap performance tonight, with plenty of formidable competition in each. Scott's mini-medley started regally, with haunting guest vocal turns from James Blake and Philip Bailey (of Globe, Wind & Fire) for Scott'south "Stop Trying to Be God." Only before long enough, dozens of dancers rushed the phase to either head-bang and circumvolve-pit or climb a mesh cube, where Travis rapped "No Bystanders" ferociously from the within.
Nigh of the performances have been rigorous so far this night, but Scott's was in line with his moshing, racket-driven solo sets where he artfully translates that basement-show energy onto arena stages. He makes aggression poignant, and melancholy melodies feel all-consuming. No box tin can comprise him, and this ane didn't either. At the end, he too scaled the cube and pigeon off the side to crowd-surf. If the Grammys couldn't state many of rap's biggest names tonight, Scott did his best to help behave the genre on his ain shoulders.
7:fifty p.thousand. | August Brown
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Ally, who? Lady Gaga goes full popular diva on 'Shallow'
Lady Gaga delivered another emotional rendition of "Shallow," from the Oscar-nominated film "A Star Is Born," at the Grammy Awards on Lord's day.
The duet, which she performs in the film with director and costar Bradley Cooper, was all Gaga within Staples Center. The singer returned to her tearing pop roots in front of a backing ring that included fellow songwriters Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt.
Dissimilar her film alter ego, Gaga did not shy away from the camera. Instead she embraced the extreme shut-ups and dance elements of the vocal, opting for glitz on the smoke-filled stage rather than the usual stripped-downward performance of the single. Read more than.
7:40 p.thousand. | Nardine Saad
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Drake gives Grammys the rebuff (again) during acceptance spoken language
Drake's relationship status with the Grammys keeps getting more than complicated. Later famously declining an invitation to perform on Sunday's show — despite being the second-most-nominated artist of the dark — Drake gave the Recording Academy the brushoff again when he won the laurels for rap vocal for "God'southward Plan." Drake took his opportunity at the mic to explain why the honour doesn't affair.
"This is a business where sometimes y'all know, its up to a bunch of people that might not understand, yous know, what a mixed-race kid from Canada has to say or what a fly Spanish girl from New York or anybody else," he said. "The indicate is you've already won. If you have people who are singing your songs discussion for word. If you're a hero in your hometown. Look, expect, if there's people who take regular jobs who are coming out in the rain, in the snowfall spending their hard-earned coin to buy tickets to come to your shows, you don't need this correct hither. I hope you. You've already won."
After a brief pause, Drake appeared to have to more to say, merely was cut off by producers.
vii:xv p.m. | Kate Stanhope
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Why Post Malone-Red Hot Chili Peppers pairing fabricated total sense
It should accept been easy to rip on the pairing of Mail service Malone and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Right when Grammys are fighting to proceed its relevance among women and immature hip-hop fans, here comes one of the genre'south most divisive white male newcomers paired with a bro-beloved band who is, at this point, a archetype rock human action. Information technology could have been one of the more easily pilloried sets of contempo years.
So what a pleasant surprise that information technology was a perfectly capable forum to become the white guys in and out of the way on the telecast. Post Malone has, shall we say, a mixed tape when it comes to the genre he made his career in. His perfectly sufficient audio-visual guitar talents tin, at times, feel a bit like protesting-as well-much when he feels boxed in as a hip-hop artist, and you tin can read your own subtext into that.
The Chili Peppers would be an virtually comically out-of-touch performer in an era when rock is at its least relevant in the main categories. But they were maybe the only sensible pairing for a guy who cribs from rap, folk and rock. Mail service swung from coffeeshop folkie on "Stay" to backstage lurker on "Rockstar" earlier joining the band onstage, and looked perfectly happy as a rhythm guitarist during the Peppers' "Dark Necessities."
Malone is a hugely pop artist, and the Grammys need all the assist they tin go far keeping the interest of young fans. So peradventure it was actually clever to pair him up with a Gen X rock act with many of his same influences, and go on the prime functioning slots open for women and POC. Janelle Monae and H.Eastward.R. ripped their funk and R&B harder, but now nosotros tin residue soundly knowing this: Mail Malone is indeed the Red Hot Chilli Peppers of the Soundcloud rap era.
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Cardi B brings razzle dazzle with her 'Money' performance
Cardi B shed her clam-and-pearl ensemble on the red rug Sunday dark when she stepped onto the Grammy Awards stage to perform "Money" from her Grammy-nominated album, "Invasion of Privacy."
Flanked by a gaggle of female dancers inspired by "Diamonds Are a Daughter'south All-time Friend," the brazen rapper cheekily reminded viewers of her background as an exotic dancer with moves fit for a Pilates studio and gyrations that would make your grandmother clutch her pearls. Rhinestones, black feathers and leopard print appeared to be a requirement, non a proposition. Read more.
7:00 p.yard. | Nardine Saad
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Later on Postal service Malone and the Red Hot Chili Peppers delivered exactly what was promised in a summit meeting of bro-friendly songcraft, the Grammys paid tribute to a singular artist everyone can concord upon: Dolly Parton.
Parton, who was honored as MusiCares person of the year last night, was first paired with Grammy nominee Kacey Musgraves and Katy Perry on "Here You Come Over again." Perry overreached a bit in trying to stretch her singing vocalism toward the same bodacious ferocity of Parton's original, while the song suited Musgraves perfectly, who came prepared with Music Row-prepare locks worthy of Loretta Lynn before Parton joined.
Miley Cyrus was next to duet with Parton on the ferocious "Jolene," which was some other chance her to flex country roots that returned to the forefront in 2017 with "Younger Now," but the strength of the original remained out of reach. Parton then teamed with Cyrus and Maren Morris for a harmony-rich accept on Neil Immature'due south "Afterwards the Gold Blitz" that provided a welcome reminder of her pairing with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt on her 1995 album "Feels Like Dwelling."
Parton took center stage alongside Little Large Boondocks in "Golden Streets of Glory" before a closing kicking through "9 to 5." Despite the occasional whiff of country cosplaying that came with parts of the functioning, it mostly highlighted how enduring Dolly — and her music remain.
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Kacey Musgraves and Janelle Monáe deliver very unlike, but equally powerful, performances
Kacey Musgraves, dressed in an elegant white dress, walked onto the Grammy stage already a winner. You lot could feel it. She earned iv nominations for work from her breakout anthology, "Gilded Hour," and had earlier in the day won trophies for state song ("Space Cowboy") and country solo performance ("Butterflies"). But she didn't perform either. Rather the singer and songwriter delivered "Rainbow," an uplifting carol in which the vocaliser advised, "You hold tight to your umbrella / Well, darling I'm simply trying to tell ya / That there's always been a rainbow hanging over your head." The rendition was every bit uncomplicated as it was cute, accompanied only by a pianist.
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By contrast, Janelle Monáe was dressed in black-and-white condom and commanded more than a pianist for her corybantic, mesmerizing take on "Brand Me Feel." Few contemporary artists command a stage as confidently every bit Monáe, and her precisely choreographed performance served as a reminder. She first performed during a Grammys telecast in 2011, when she joined Bruno Mars and B.o.B. for a medley.
She's earned a full of viii Grammy nominations, but has notwithstanding to stand at the podium – though that could change. Her "Dirty Calculator" is up for album of the year, merely her piece of work was underrepresented in the song fields. She came upwards brusk in the music video category for "Pynk." Sang Monáe during "Make Me Feel," "Information technology'southward like I'm powerful with a little bit of tender/An emotional sexual bough/Mess me upward, yep, but no i does it ameliorate/There'southward nothin' ameliorate." The same could exist said of her Grammy set.
5:55 p.g. | Randall Roberts
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Onetime Beginning Lady Michelle Obama makes surprise appearance to gloat 'the unifying power of music'
The one-time first lady appeared alongside Lady Gaga, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jennifer Lopez and host Alicia Keys. Read more well-nigh the opening here, and her remarks here.
Lady Gaga tackles mental wellness in moving acceptance speech
When Lady Gaga won her award for pop duo operation, she devoted her acceptance fourth dimension to a specific cause: mental illness. "If I don't get another risk to say this, I just want to say that I am proud to be a part of a movie that addresses mental wellness bug," she said during her speech. "They're so important. And a lot of artists deal with that, and we got to accept intendance of each other. And then if you see somebody that'southward hurting, don't expect away. And if you're hurting, fifty-fifty though it might be hard, try to find that bravery within yourself to dive deep and go tell somebody and accept them up in your head with yous. Thank you then much."
5:35 p.m. | Randall Roberts
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Camila Cabello and Ricky Martin kick things off with an energetic ode to Latin music
In an boggling year for Latin music, and with all optics on fixing its problems with gender parity, at least the Grammys made i decent call asking Camila Cabello to kick off the telecast. Sure, Cabello's "Havana" was nominated for a late-arriving live version of "Havana" for pop solo performance (she was besides up for popular vocal album). But her zesty, colorful opener was a fine outset for what looks to be a corrective telecast that, last year, took plenty of heat for its lack of female winners.
Cabello started her performance inside a neon-lit bedchamber gear up that, within a minute, dropped her out into a Havana street scene. "Havana'south" been ubiquitous for over a year now, and fifty-fifty though information technology's raining and freezing exterior Staples Center, at that place'southward a never a bad season for Cabello'south vibrant and ebullient breakout hit. She was later joined by the always-immaculately dressed Young Thug for his verse, along with peer J Balvin and standard-begetting Cuban trumpeter Arturo Sandoval.
Merely bonus points due to Ricky Martin, who emerged at the end of her testify with a new rakish mustache and a welcoming nod of recognition from ane Latin-pop crossover hitting to some other, more than newly ascendant 1. Who knows how the Grammys volition shake out tonight in fixing its paradigm every bit a tough place for women who aren't Adele or Taylor Swift to take habitation the large trophies. But the first 5 minutes were an excellent opening statement.
5:xxx p.k. | August Brown
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See Tori Kelly, 'Weird Al' Yankovic and more winners backstage
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Here's what you missed from the pre-telecast awards
Well ahead of their five p.m. start time on CBS, the Grammys kicked things off with a lengthy pre-telecast anniversary where a majority of the awards were handed out. Brandi Carlile is currently in the lead with three awards, and other notable victories include offset-fourth dimension winners Ariana Grande, the tardily Chris Cornell and more. Catch up on the full list of winners so far here, and read more about the early wins and trends here before the show kicks off at 5 p.m.
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