Were the Grammys on?

From being the gov't plant who is going to brainwash Bud Light-boycotting America to vote against Donald Trump to breaking Stevie/Paul/Frank's record for most AOTY wins. I'm truly getting allegiance whiplash

Joni was great, even knowing she could still deliver it from the Newport videos

do we know if Joni is playing anywhere other than the Hollywood Bowl?

taytay gets given aoty purely so she can announce her next album in her acceptance speech. good job well done everyone we won

That's not the order in which it happened.

didn't feel like lana needed the pity walk either! thanks a lot, "friend".

i think i was just in a bad mood when i watched last night. tracy and joni were fine legendary postage stamps. other than that it was snooze-city.

Nutbags are calling Annie Lennox a Hamas asset

yeah it was weird bringing lana up there though she did guest on the album I guess.

trevor noah has also reached unfathomable levels of annoying

Yeah, dragging Lana up there was really awkward as she clearly didn't want to be on that stage even for a second.

Apart from some great performances (Dua Lipa, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Billie Eilish) the clear highlight of the night was Jay-Z's speech. Calling out the academy for not giving Beyonce album of the year, saying "you don't need to clap for everything", "forget about the Grammys", and some artists don't belong in the category's they're nominated in was really fun to watch. I bet they regret bringing him up there.

And apologizing by saying when he gets nervous he "tells the truth," which is just a magnificent twist of the knife

"trevor noah has also reached unfathomable levels of annoying"

whenever he stopped saying unfunny ass-kissing stuff and just stood there with that sick fixed smile on his face...you wondered if someone was holding his family hostage.

xpost Of course he's complaining about who deserve a stupid fucking Grammy

lol Jay has beefed over dumber things than that. I liked the line about people not belonging in the category because it was a little glimmer of Hova up there, little reminder of who they were giving an award to.

Reaction shots of Beyonce during his speech prove she's got the demeanor of one of the great diplomats of our time

killer to killer

I thought it was pretty lame to give JayZ an honorary award in a year when her very good album got 100% snubbed in nominations, so I'm glad he hinted at it.

The snub was last year, when she lost AOTY to Harry Styles

oh i can't keep my years straight any more

That's not the order in which it happened.

Correct – it was after her first win that she declared her fans were responsible, and here’s a surprise for them…

It was after her AOTY win that she didn’t even bother to make eye contact w Celine Dion (or acknowledge her congratulations) and she grabbed the award out of her hands…

i personally am sad that Jay's comments have created such a distraction from the solemnity and importance of the Dr Dre Global Impact Award

aw man is Dre still impacting people?

Thought Dua Lipa was great, Joni was awesome, Billie, Tracy, and Burbank Boy as well. I don't think U2 was actually live...that almost looked like CGI. Travis Scott was a big zero. Cool to see boygenius win. Was hoping they'd sneak Mimi Parker into the memoriam but that was so unlikely.

Bono's voices sounded like they were AI-ed.

Imma let you finish

I was trying to explain the Kanye-Taylor controversy to my 9 yo this morning and it felt like giving a lecture about the Cuban Missile Crisis or something.

It still inspires me, the way JFK bravely stood up to Kanye.

Wait no

JFKanye

Would be a tidier joke. Apologies

Kanye Interrupts Speech At Grammies?

Kanye interrupting Taylor leading to her winning a fourth (and, next year, a fifth) album of the year is a true butterfly effect

Kanye goes back in time to fix his mistake out of spite and instead goes to the wrong year and accidentally interrupts Jamiroquai

It was the VMAs, just to keep you historians honest

A team of time traveling Swifties come back to stop Kayne only to find out that Taylor's VMA speech was going call for a race war

I watched the clip. I don’t like defending Taylor Swift but the internet is being overtly dramatic as usual. Yeah Lana del Rey seemed like she didn’t want to go with her and she was probably torn about her album or nominated songs not getting the deserved recognition m, but whatever they’re friends irl and Lana did participate in the album. If it weren’t for the recent rule changes she’d have won a grammy for the album too. I don’t see Taylor being terrible for bringing her along.

The Celine Dion thing is also being dramatized and Taylor was clearly overwhlemed, but it does seem like misfire for someone who is usually so calculated and in control of her image.

Still not as bad as it seems. I think there has been so much overexposure of her in the past year that backlash for any little mistake is inevitable at this point.

I seemingly agree with the losing nominees that announcing your new album during your is pretty eyeroll worthy. Just tweet the announcement after the show ffs.

Agreed, it's pointless to get mad at her for the LDR or Celine things. Get mad at her for being a bad actress trying to appear surprised that she won the award at all

Her heart will go on, I suspect

I hadn't read any commentary... are ppl saying she shouldn't have brought Lana up(?) Glad others picked up on the Celine thing, though...

Lana Del TayTay

I seemingly agree with the losing nominees that announcing your new album during your is pretty eyeroll worthy. Just tweet the announcement after the show ffs.

GO BIG OR GO HOME

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DgPXY71UEAIl3wO.jpg

and taylor had to mention how old lana was on stage. i'm sorry, i mean call her a "legend in her prime". ouch!

xp Lol, who is that(?)

wait, does the album come out of her butt?

that's macy. from the old days.

i'm pretty forgiving w/ Taylor, but even i think announcing the album during an award speech is cringey - especially for someone at her level. can't really fault someone for whom the platform actually matters w/r/t getting the word out, but that's not her, obviously.

Yes, not to clutch pearls at violating the sanctity of the Grammy Awards, but it felt remarkably class-less

and, to Eric H.'s point, awkward. like she knew she really shouldn't / didn't want to do it.

but, of course, as WGW would say, "wgas" ultimately

I only saw the Travis Scott performance and I want apology from anyone who has ever told me the musical tastes were "annoying"

are ppl saying she shouldn't have brought Lana up(?)

lana was nominated for her own album in the category and just lost. was weird