Grammys

Harry Styles' picked up the coveted best album prize, Viola Davis completed an EGOT, and Beyoncé became the most decorated artist in Grammy history. Here are ...

but there was a glaring absence from Drake and Eminem, both of whom are boycotting the Grammys, saying it sidelines hip-hop from the major categories. "And ever since, we've gone everywhere," "This is just a magical evening. The newly-married Mr J. A deep and affectionate dive into black and gay dance culture, it was the most critically-acclaimed release of 2022. I felt on the outside looking in. Because it seems to be: "Stop being so impressive and write music we feel comfortable with". It's a sentiment that's not entirely out of character. This time Harry Styles took the crown. But for all that love, the big prizes have eluded her. This was at a time when positive music and feel-good music wasn't mainstream and I felt very misunderstood. "When we lost Prince I decided to dedicate my life to making positive music.

Viola Davis accepts the award for best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording for “Finding Me: A Memoir” at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, ...

"I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola, to honor her, her life, her joy, her trauma, everything," Davis said. The actor gave an emotional speech and emphatically said "I just EGOT" after she marched on stage to collect her award. "It has just been such a journey." "I don't think I could be here without Madonna," Petras said. Sam Smith and Kim Petras won best pop duo-group performance for their song "Unholy." Veteran singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt shrugged off big-name rivals like Adele, Swift and Beyoncé to win the song of the year award. She has released two albums as a lead artist and also won the Grammy for best jazz vocal album earlier in the night. She added four trophies to her collection for her album "Renaissance." Now, I look around and see these songs are about loving your body and feeling comfortable in your skin and feeling good." It feels really nice to feel like 'Oh, that's the right thing to do.'" "It feels like validation that you're on the right path," said the singer backstage. "I'm trying not to be too emotional," the superstar said after her historic win as her husband Jay-Z stood and applauded her.

Harry Styles showed up bare-chested, Mary J. Blige exposed her hips, while Lizzo, Sam Smith and Taylor Swift turned heads with stunning colours.

Continuing the monochrome theme that spontaneously took over the red carpet, Fat Joe wore a custom hot pink suit from 5001 Flavors, a boutique in Harlem. “Cleopatra meets Goldfinger 2023” is how Laverne Cox described the sleeveless reptile skin dress by Kim Kassas that she wore while interviewing guests on the red carpet. The orange Dolce & Gabbana cape that covered the singer’s head in flowers was both maximal and elegant. The singer’s unhinged Harris Reed pantsuit might have been the most unforgettable look of the night. Blige bared her hips, and singer Gayle wore a dress that revealed a lot more, including the stars covering her nipples. Roughly one hour after celebrities started arriving on the Grammys’ red carpet, the Styles reporter and critic Guy Trebay had an observation.

The queen of pop broke records – though not for the big gongs, again. But if the Recording Academy has a history of unexpected choices, this year's wins for ...

[Harry Styles](https://www.theguardian.com/music/harry-styles)’s Harry’s House beating Renaissance to album of the year doesn’t feel the same as Beck’s Morning Phase triumphing over [Beyoncé](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/13/beyonce-album-first-review) in 2015, nor does it feel the same as if, say, Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres had won this year. [Beyoncé](https://www.theguardian.com/music/beyonce) has only ever won one of them once – song of the year in 2010 for Single Ladies – which seems a fairly inexplicable state of affairs: you don’t need to be a rabid member of the Bey Hive to know that she’s had an immense cultural and commercial impact over the last 20 years. Under the circumstances, Samara Joy – a hugely gifted jazz vocalist, gradually emerging as a significant songwriter as well as an adept interpreter of standards – feels like a worthwhile choice: rooted in tradition, but too soulful to qualify as easy listening. The weirdest success was Bonnie Raitt’s [Just Like That](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skd0XR3twCA) winning song of the year, at least from the perspective of the UK, where the album it’s from didn’t even make the charts. Certainly they’re one of the biggest-selling groups in a field where several of the nominees didn’t even seem particularly new: Molly Tuttle’s first album came out in 2006; Tobe Nwigwe’s first EP six years ago; Muni Long is 34 and released her debut album, albeit under her real name, Priscilla Renea, in 2009. Without wishing to cast shade on those doughtily toiling away in the areas covered by the best score soundtrack for video games and other interactive media and best new age ambient or chant album categories, the Grammys are ultimately about four awards: album of the year, record of the year, song of the year and best new artist.

But her four victories didn't come in the major, all-genre categories — album, record and song of the year. (Those went to Harry Styles, Lizzo and Bonnie Raitt.) ...

[breaking the Grammy record](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/arts/music/beyonce-grammys-win-record.html) for most awards. [“Without You,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uS8QRe2qfE&ab_channel=QuavoHuncho) a tribute to his nephew and [Migos group mate Takeoff](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/arts/music/takeoff-migos-atlanta-rap.html), who was killed as [an innocent bystander](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/arts/music/takeoff-migos-murder-arrest.html) to a shooting in November, was almost too much. [Bonnie Raitt](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/31/arts/music/bonnie-raitt-grammys-just-like-that.html), who had just joined a memorial for Christine McVie singing “Songbird,” was surprised when the Grammys chose “Just Like That” as song of the year. By the time she did step to the microphone for a proper [acceptance speech](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/arts/music/beyonce-grammys-win-record.html), having taken the all-time Grammy record and also opted not to perform, Beyoncé had made her priorities clear: She [posted to Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/CoTgYsmLl7G/) about her Grammy wins before actually showing her face at the Grammys. She is one of the mature singers and songwriters who have been relegated to formats like “Americana” and “Legacy.” But Raitt had learned from the best — notably John Prine — how to tell a sad but uplifting story with a voice and a small band. They shared a Temptations hit co-written by Robinson, “The Way You Do the Things You Do.” Robinson himself joined Wonder for a song they wrote together (along with Hank Cosby), “The Tears of a Clown”; then Wonder performed his own “Higher Ground” with the country hitmaker Chris Stapleton, and the music finally took off. [Beyoncé broke the record](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/arts/music/grammy-awards-beyonce-harry-styles.html) for most wins in the event’s history. [a rough draft of a hip-hop chronology](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/arts/music/grammys-hip-hop-50th-anniversary-performance.html) that was a cavalcade of dozens of performers onstage, most spitting a memorable line or verse, and a few — like a forthright Queen Latifah and a speed-tongued Busta Rhymes — getting more valuable seconds to show off. His performance — a medley of “El Apagón” (“The Blackout”), a tribute to Puerto Rican culture amid adversity, and “Después de la Playa” (“After the Beach”), a come-on — was a carnival and a dance party. ( [The-Dream](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/arts/music/the-dream-muni-long-grammys.html), one of her fellow writers, spent a few seconds onstage instead.) And when Noah, after blaming Los Angeles traffic, eventually did find Beyoncé at her table, bringing her the trophy she had won, the singer just nodded politely, giving him — and the show that would go on to both celebrate and disrespect her, again — basically nothing. Stan service gone wild was on full display during the misleading — and often humiliating — interstitial segments that showed (alleged) superfans of the 10 artists nominated for album of the year spouting P.R. [“Un Verano Sin Ti,”](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/06/arts/music/bad-bunny-un-verano-sin-ti.html) the year’s most streamed album and a Billboard No.

Jill Biden got the dress code memo. As the first lady walked onstage at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles toward the end of the 65th Grammy Awards — one ...

[50 years of rap history into 15 minutes](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/arts/music/grammys-hip-hop-50th-anniversary-performance.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-grammys&variant=show®ion=MAIN_CONTENT_1&block=storyline_top_links_recirc). Being part of the most dominant fashion trend of the night is a very specific form of outreach, the planting of a visual earwig. Biden and Machine Gun Kelly (in a reflective silver foil Dolce & Gabbana suit) look as if they are in the same universe? When it comes to curtain-raisers, you don’t get much better than that. The first lady knew the constituency she was speaking to, and she fit right in. (Haider Ackermann used it in his recent couture show for Jean Paul Gaultier.) Halipour, currently in Iran awaiting trial and charged with disseminating propaganda against the regime and inciting violence, that made the political point. Especially one recognizing the legacy of energetic context, the Grammys is not a bad way to do it. Especially one in which Dr. Not to mention the tinsel-spangled silver Gucci jumpsuit Harry Styles wore to perform his number. Michelle Obama appeared, in 2019, but her husband had left office by then;