Surprise! The Best Grammys Ever

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Last night was the best Grammys show ever, by an absurd margin — no 'Music's Biggest Night' hype, just a night of great music. Rob Sheffield on why the Grammys should never go back.

are used to stealing the Grammy show — even when they’re only on camera for a few seconds, as when singing with Lil Nas X last year, or dancing to Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” the year before that. But they finally got their long-overdue showcase, the Number One hit “Dynamite,” beaming in from a Seoul rooftop in a performance practically exploding with joy. “Cup of milk, let’s rock & roll,” indeed.

— that guy was basically born for the Grammys, and he didn’t fail last night. He and Anderson Paak debuted their excellent new project Silk Sonic, in the spirit of old-school 1970sR&B romance. “Leave the Door Open” was their gorgeous Delfonics tribute, so lovingly precise in every detail — leave it to Bruno to nail those distinctive Delfonics drum fills. Later in the show, Bruno and Anderson gave it up to Little Richard, banging out “Good Golly Miss Molly.

The Grammys always have an In Memoriam tribute, but after a year ravaged by the pandemic, it was fitting to approach it a different way. Lionel Richie honored his old friend Kenny Rogers, singing the hit he wrote for him, “Lady.” Brandi Carlile did a phenomenally moving acoustic version of John Prine’s “I Remember Everything.” Brittany Howard belted a rapturous “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” with Chris Martin on piano.

When Harry Styles won Best Pop Solo Performance for “Watermelon Sugar,” he looked downright humbled. They bleeped out the part of his speech where he praised his fellow nominees, saying, “All these songs are fucking massive.” But the camera caught a touching detail — when Harry won, Taylor was the very first to leap to her feet to applaud. It was almost like the rest of the world was in black and white … but they were in screaming color.

Billie Eilish won Record of the Year for “Everything I Wanted,” just as she won last year for “Bad Guy.” And just like last year, she spent her big speech graciously saying it should have gone to one of her music heroes — last year it was Ariana Grande for Album of the Year, this year it was Megan. It’s proof that she’s a true-blue music fan before everything else.

 

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Rolling Stone is no longer relevant with articles like this. Best ever? Please....

NO it wasnt at all.. that is why the ratings were lower than any other Grammys.

...I love the Grammy show this year. I love the performances and tje surprises that ended the happy days of the sore losers and crybabies in the industry. Keep it up Grammy. Show them where they are supposed to place themselves.

You can puff them up all you want. I saw a bunch of bad lip-synching to lame songs, for the most part.

You're being sarcastic, right ? This is sarcasm, RIGHT ?

jamesrfee_fee Grammy's suck. Always have. Get rid of them. They are worthless.

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Why do you all care about this sham of a show lol

Totally agree with it being similar to BBCLater and much the better for it RecordingAcad all about the music and not everything that surrounds it

I. Agree... Totally!

Also, the Grammys should be about music not two women simulating sex acts on national television. Yeesh.

Delete your account.

EddieTrunk

It sucked

I will never support your illustration as it seems ok to you to push porn on live tv! And the EVH not even a small bit of education as to why he made music different? For a song with words up up up repeated to win THATS NOT TALENT

“ever”...........

Sounds about white 😐

Is this tweet a joke? ....... omg, I thought u were better than this. 🤮🤮🤮

Agreed. Finally a good show, lots of music, lots of artistry.

Taylor best dress Best performance

Best Grammy’s ever?! That is mind blowingly stupid!

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I agree. Many great performances, no zoom, no tight script, no stupid comedy bits, it all felt more natural and relaxed. 100% will re-watch a lot from the show again. Great job GRAMMYs !!!

That 15 second ode to EVH was super poignant. Fuck the Grammys.

FUCK THE GRAMMYS FucktheGrammys RespectZayn RespectBts zaynmalikislovedparty ZaynMalik BTS scammys

THE FVCK.

Keep benwinston at the helm..

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“Music’s biggest night” 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

Nope

The show itself was good, but the results were super disappointing. Taylor and Billie have enough awards already 🙄

Harry saved the Grammys

Is this The Onion?

Sure, whatever, just keep the camera on Harry Styles

THE RACISM ? THE SUICIDE JOKE ? THE FEMINISM JOKE ? LAUGHING AT PEOPLES NAMES ? JOKES ABOUT RACE ? ALL THE INSULTS TRASH LMAO DO BETTER

the main show was good but they need to work on the preshow part of it

April fools 🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh no it is still March lmao

wtf? only corporate shill would give props to a night that dropped ball by not giving a substantial trib to the GOAT-evh. what a disgrace they can go to hell

No. But I can see how you might think that, IF you blissfully ignore the shut-outs, the xenophobia & racism. Grammys RecordingAcad is willfully poisonous.

2021 Grammys was the best! I could have watched for 3 more hours! No bs, just great music! LOVED the multi-staged opening & rotating performers through the small stage area gave a chance to see everyone up close. Grammys2022 keep it small, viewable & musician/singer focused!

Scammys

Pre show was definitly the worst and then it got only worse 🥴

If I wanted to watch a bunch of semen guzzling hoes I’d watch porn ....pure trash last night bring kiss or Ozzy or AC/DC to play live

100 except missing rocknroll

Did you do your research well. Did you take in the view account? Not bashing you, just want you to fully understand what you are writing about.

Best grammys your fuckin ASS. the only good thing that happened was bts’s performance and taylor’s win

Best Grammy show ever ,my a$$. The only best things that happened in last night was Taylor getting AOTY and BTS Dynamite performance!!

While I do like the concept, they need to fix the premiere ceremony and make sure it is respectful of all music artists. Yesterday's had many flaws

You know what is the best show? This😌

It was a sht show, super boring

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It's not April 1st yet.. settle.

THIS ARTICLE OWNS MY HEART💕

And look what he said on ARMYs objections because he using BTS for clout ⤵️ i wish he can read better

Yeaahh.. thanks to the closing act BTS_twt that keeping the show alive till the end.

Sorry but I think y’all were watching a different show.....

Leaving most of the poc artist moms for the pre-show,ya best Grammy my a$$

Guess we watched 2 different shows because in my opinion that was the worst Grammys show ever

best grammys ever YOUR ASS

robsheff I gotta disagree, 'Music's biggest night' was unable 2 PROPERLY honor EVH and have been disgraceful 2 rock for too many yrs.

Agreed best show in memory

i wanna be rob sheffield when i grow up

I’d have to agree!

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That part where the chick sang about wap for 5 mins and than thanked the lord. Pure class

it's actually true, he did a great job (maybe make the presenter talk a little less next time)

augustlover7 Yes I was kept entertained throughout the show. They really did THAT this year GRAMMYs 🤍

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Ya... Great one! Loved how Cardi B acknowledged the metoomovement by her classy song and dance! Pure trash

Taylor is a role model for young girls and teens

Ditto!

Also the awards were fairly and deservedly given to the winners. The number of snubs and surprises are quiet lesser this year compared to the past years

Um........ no!

Agreed. It was a great show from start to finish.

What Grammy show where you watching?

Ah pooey. It focuses on music I don't listen to.

I agree. Pretty much all award shows have sucked for closer to a decade... but last night was something different. Ppl will complain about anything, but Ben Winston did his research and created the first true covid proof ceremony

Agree. Leaving the awards aside, the focus on performances and the quality of the live music was great.

Not without jt bsb or jobros do better next time this year's not impressed.

a night of great music excl. dynamite

Period

i mean sure it was like a giant concert but I do miss the awards part of it..

Is this a joke ? The Cardi B performance exhibit A of cultural trash

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