- The Grammy Awards shall be handed out February 4, 2024 at Crypto.com Arena in LA
It is the most important night time of the yr for the music trade, with entertainers eager to seize consideration (in addition to awards) for his or her daring outfits and raucous antics.
The Grammy Awards has by no means been brief on stunning moments, with wardrobe malfunctions, on-stage gaffes, stage storming and controversial attendees usually taking the highlight off the winners.
Last yr’s ceremony served up an array of shock moments – together with IT couple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck exchanging terse phrases, unaware they had been on digicam.
Elsewhere, Bonnie Raitt’s shocked face grew to become a meme after the music legend beat artists together with Taylor Swift and Beyonce to Song of the Year on the 2023 Grammys for her observe Just Like That
Making their mark in awards present historical past, Milli Vanilli gained the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1990 – however it was later revoked after it emerged they did not truly sing on their songs.
Fashion moments that took the ceremony by storm embrace Lopez’s iconic plunging inexperienced Versace silk chiffon costume on the 2000 ceremony, whereas Madonna flashed her posterior on the 2015 awards.
As we sit up for a glittering ceremony, DailyMail.com displays on probably the most attention-grabbing Grammy moments that shocked the world…
JENNIFER LOPEZ SNAPS AT BEN AFFLECK IN VIRAL MOMENT – 2023
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck shocked followers worldwide once they had been inadvertently captured having a really tense chat throughout the 2023 Grammys
The tense second begins with Affleck whispering into his spouse’s ear, just for her to seemingly snap at him in response
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck shocked followers worldwide once they had been inadvertently captured having a really tense chat throughout the 2023 Grammys.
In a viral clip J-Lo was seen seemingly berating her husband – earlier than realizing the digicam was on them and rapidly smiling for the digicam.
DailyMail.com’s lipreader revealed Lopez was ordering Affleck to make extra of an effort throughout the Grammy Awards – snapping on the actor and demanding he faux to be having fun with himself.
Lopez and Affleck, who ceaselessly appears strained and offended when in public, had been seen exchanging tense phrases throughout the ceremony, proper as host Trevor Noah sat down subsequent to them.
‘Stop,’ Lopez tells him. ‘Look extra pleasant. Look motivated.’ Affleck replies: ‘I’d.’
Lopez appears on serenely as a red-faced Affleck challenges her. She refuses to answer his aggressive posturing, which appears to annoy him additional.
The tense change started with Affleck whispering into his spouse of six months’ ear – just for her to jerk away and seemingly snap at him in response.
He frowns, straightens up his vest and his posture, earlier than it rapidly dawns on them it was caught on digicam.
Affleck appears livid, as Lopez tries to maintain her calm within the clip filmed on the Grammys
Their expressions flip clean as soon as they understand their interactions had been on digicam
Frosty-faced Lopez tried to cowl up the second, although her husband had a vacant expression all through the night.
TiokayTookay customers watching the second on the platform instantly flooded the feedback part with their observations.
‘Jennifer Garner at house consuming popcorn like …. ‘Girlllllll he is your drawback now,” one stated.
‘The Grammy producers are so messy for this however I adore it,’ one other wrote.
‘HER FACE WHEH SHE SAW THE CAMERA LOL,’ one other chimed in.
BONNIE RAITT LEFT IN SHOCK OVER SONG OF THE YEAR WIN – 2023
Bonnie Raitt was a shock winner of the Song of the Year award on the Grammys – prevailing in a star-studded subject of nominees that included Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Beyonce and Adele
Her victory marked the primary time a track penned by a solo songwriter had been victorious because the traditional Rehab from the late Amy Winehouse gained in 2008
Raitt had her palms full with the Grammys for Best Americana Performance, Best American Roots Song and Song of the Year on the occasion
Bonnie Raitt was a shock winner of the Song of the Year award on the Grammys – prevailing in a star-studded subject of nominees that included Taylor Swift, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Beyonce and Adele.
The singer’s Just Like That staved off competitors from Taylor Swift (All Too Well (10 Minute Version), Lizzo (About Damn Time), Harry Styles (As It Was), Steve Lacy (Bad Habit), GAYLE (abcdefu), Beyonce (Break My Soul), Adele (Easy On Me), DJ Khaled (God Did), and Kendrick Lamar (The Heart Part 5) to take house the prize.
The Burbank, California-born performer shocked when she was named the winner and made her manner out on stage.
‘I’m so shocked, I do not know what to say,’ she stated. ‘I do not write lots of songs however I’m so proud that you just recognize this one. I’m completely humbled.’
Raitt was introduced the award on the present by First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.
Her victory marked the primary time a track penned by a solo songwriter had been victorious because the traditional Rehab from the late Amy Winehouse gained in 2008.
Raitt was pictured with Taylor Swift on the ceremony in LA on Sunday
She additionally paid tribute to the late singer-songwriter John Prine, who died of coronavirus in April of 2020.
Raitt described her victory within the loaded class as an ‘unreal second’ in honor of the observe, which she stated was impressed by organ donors, and the late singer-songwriter Prine.
Raitt additionally cited songwriters in her speech, describing them because the ‘soul-digging, hard-working individuals who put these concepts to music.’
Raitt, throughout the Grammy Premiere ceremony earlier within the night, additionally gained the Best Americana Performance for Made Up Mind and Best American Roots Song for Just Like That.
LADY GAGA ARRIVING IN AN EGG – 2011
Say what? The Born This Way singer, now 36, made considered one of her most weird pink carpet entrances but as she arrived on the Grammys hid in an enormous egg in 2011
Born: She later ‘hatched’ in a spectacular manner for her efficiency of Born This Way
The Born This Way singer, now 36, made considered one of her most weird pink carpet entrances but as she arrived on the Grammys hid in an enormous egg.
The star had been barely seen by an opaque shell as she was carried on a sedan chair by 4 scantily-clad attendees on the occasion.
‘She’s in an embryonic state and will not be born till the efficiency,’ defined considered one of her assistants. The egg was fitted with an oxygen tank and a fan.
Ryan Seacrest informed E! viewers that the singer has been contained in the egg for 3 hours moving into character forward of her efficiency of the observe tonight with solely her Blackberry for firm.
She later ‘hatched’ in a spectacular manner for her efficiency of Born This Way.
Wearing a sheer gold coloured skirt and cropped high, along with her hair tied up in a mode harking back to Madonna‘s Blonde Ambition tour period, the singer danced her manner by the quantity.
At one level, she performed on a dramatic organ with disembodied heads balanced on high.
Gaga bagged three awards and was nominated for a complete of six gongs.
The yr earlier than, Gaga had brought about controversy by turning as much as the MTV Video Music Awards in a costume made out of meat.
ADELE FLUBS HER LYRICS AND HAS TO RESTART GEORGE MICHAEL TRIBUTE – 2017
Not once more! Disaster struck for Adele when she sang a pared-down model of the late singer’s hit, Fast Love – however was pressured to restart on dwell TV
Disaster struck for Adele when she sang a pared-down model of the late singer’s hit, Fast Love – however was pressured to restart on dwell TV,
After a wobbly begin Adele unintentionally sang the uncensored model of the road ‘all this bulls**t dialog,’, which utterly threw her off, and she or he referred to as for a re-do.
As an in depth up of her face was proven on display screen, the distraught singer then clearly muttered the phrase ‘f***.’
But, with rousing help from the gang, she gathered herself and began from the highest, this time acing the dissonant, slowed-down model of the Wham legends disco observe.
Tears welled in her eyes as she completed, in a mirror of final yr’s efficiency which was plagued with technical difficulties.
Oh expensive: After singing the road ‘all this bulls**t dialog,’ the Brit appeared to immediately realise she hadn’t censored herself, which utterly threw her off… and she or he referred to as for a re-do
A manufacturing supply informed People journal that Adele was ‘tremendous nervous’ earlier than the present even started.
‘She was tremendous nervous going into tonight. She cleared out the stadium for her rehearsal however it went rather well,’ they informed the publication.
Her fear was comprehensible – finally yr’s ceremony, her rendition of All I Ask was embarrassingly hit by sound points, by no fault of her personal.
During the efficiency, a microphone fell on the strings of the piano which brought about the sound to briefly reduce out and because of this a distraught Adele’s voice drifted out of tune throughout the remainder of the track.
The Recording Academy, which organizes the music trade’s premier awards night time, took duty for the snafu.
JENNIFER LOPEZ MAKES FASHION HISTORY IN VERSACE DRESS – 2000
Wow: J-Lo cemented her place as a popular culture icon when she donned the very racy inexperienced silk and chiffon robe, which flaunted her cleavage, as she attended the ceremony alongside then-beau Diddy
J-Lo cemented her place as a popular culture icon when she donned the very racy inexperienced silk and chiffon robe, which flaunted her cleavage, as she attended the ceremony alongside then-beau Diddy.
The plunging robe brought about such a stir on the time that it impressed the launch of Google Images.
Jennifer lately reminisced about her well-known jungle robe in a video posted to her Youtube Channel, saying: ‘All of a sudden you begin listening to a little bit murmur. I’m pondering, it is the Grammys.
‘It needs to be any individual well-known behind us. It was a frenzy. The flashes began getting in a manner that it isn’t normally. There was an additional kinetic power there. I used to be like what the hell is occurring? I had no concept it was about this costume.’
Referencing her arrival on-stage to current an award with David Duchovny, she added: ‘Me completely unsuspecting, stroll out and as I stroll out my costume, the wind hits it. It blows open barely, so now I’m like naked right here and naked right here! All of a sudden, once more, a sluggish murmur and everyone begins clapping.
‘We get an ovation for simply standing there! In that second, that costume grew to become one thing that individuals nonetheless reference.’
RIHANNA AND CHRIS BROWN REUNITE AT 2013 CEREMONY – FOUR YEARS AFTER HE ASSAULTED HER
Shocking: The musicians despatched shockwaves all over the world as they fortunately posed up collectively contained in the awards ceremony in 2013 – 4 years after he brutally attacked the pop star, leaving her bloodied and bruised after a pre-Grammys celebration
The musicians despatched shockwaves all over the world as they fortunately posed up collectively contained in the awards ceremony – 4 years after he brutally attacked the pop star, leaving her bloodied and bruised after a pre-Grammys celebration.
The pair embraced each other within the viewers, with Rihanna sporting what seemed to be a diamond ‘engagement ring’ on her wedding ceremony finger.
The look got here after a combat erupted between the pair when he got here clear about his sexual previous with a lady who as soon as labored for him.
Chris claimed that the confession got here as a shock to the Barbadian singer after he had beforehand informed her they had been by no means romantically concerned – inflicting their relationship to show violent
The notorious night time began after the girl Chris confessed about appeared at a Clive Davis celebration, the place each he and Rihanna had been attending.
He claimed he had requested the girl previous to the celebration to cease going to locations he could be at.
‘That modified my life,’ he stated as he seemed again on the night time.
‘Sh*t, I’m not ever attempting to place my palms on any feminine,’ Chris continued.
‘I felt like a f**king monster,’ he stated within the clip.
Doomed: Rihanna discovered it onerous to maneuver on from her past love, breaking in tears when quizzed about their unstable relationship on Oprah’s Next Chapter in 2012 (pictured 2008)
‘She begins going off, she throws the telephone, “I hate you!”, no matter, no matter, she begins hitting me, we’re in a little bit Lamborghini, you realize she’s combating me.’
He says he pleaded along with her that he was telling the reality however claimed she continued to hit him
‘Like I keep in mind she tried to kick me, identical to her beating sh*t, however then I actually hit her. With a closed fist, like I punched her, and it busted her lip, and once I noticed it I used to be in shock, I used to be “f**k, why did I hit her like that?”
‘So from there she’s…spitting blood in my face, it raised me much more. It’s an actual combat within the automotive, and we driving on the street.
Following the incident, Chris plead responsible to at least one depend of felony assault and served probation for the crime.
Rihanna discovered it onerous to maneuver on from her past love, breaking in tears when quizzed about their unstable relationship on Oprah’s Next Chapter in 2012.
She stated: ‘I misplaced my finest pal – like the whole lot I knew switched in an evening, and I could not management that.
‘So, I needed to cope with that and that is not straightforward for me to know, interpret and it isn’t straightforward to interpret on digicam, not with the world watching.’
The pair would cut up once more for good in 2013.
MADONNA FLASHES HER POSTERIOR ON THE RED CARPET – 2015
Interesting look: Madonna did her finest to seize consideration on the pink carpet when she cheekily lifted up her costume and revealed her bare derriere in 2015
Madonna did her finest to seize consideration on the pink carpet when she cheekily lifted up her costume and revealed her bare derriere.
However, the singer – then 56 – insisted it wasn’t a deliberate transfer to be provocative, however an ‘impressed wardrobe malfunction’ and quipped it was no massive deal as folks have seen her bare earlier than.
She stated: ‘I had an impressed wardrobe malfunction second. As I used to be strolling away, I wasn’t mooning – I simply lifted my costume up. Mooning is like bare butt. Everyone’s seen my bare butt already.’
Indeed Madonna just isn’t shy about exhibiting off her booty and has flashed it on and off stage many instances earlier than.
The Like a Virgin hitmaker – who donned a Givenchy leather-based bodice, gloves and thigh-high boots for the ceremony – insisted she was simply ‘having enjoyable’ and benefiting from the present ‘age of ass’.
She informed KIIS-FM radio host Ryan Seacrest: ‘It’s the age of ass, is not it? It was me having enjoyable and being cheeky, no pun supposed.’
ELTON JOHN AND EMINEM PERFORM STAN TOGETHER – 2001
2001: Sir Elton John defied homosexual proper activists by performing a duet with controversial rapper Eminem, infamous for his homophobic lyrics on the ceremony
Sir Elton John defied homosexual proper activists by performing a duet with controversial rapper Eminem, infamous for his homophobic lyrics on the 2001 ceremony.
The homosexual star had beforehand come underneath strain to not take to the stage for the duet with Eminem, due to the rapper’s popularity.
But Sir Elton stored a pledge to play with the rapper, and carried out the keyboard and backing lyrics to Eminem’s hit Stan, a track about an obsessed fan who murders his pregnant girlfriend and commits suicide and stood beside him with palms joined to acknowledge applause.
Duet: The homosexual star had beforehand come underneath strain to not take to the stage for the duet with Eminem, due to the rapper’s popularity
The collaboration between Sir Elton and the rapper had earlier been condemned by the spouse of US vp Dick Cheney.
Lynne Cheney stated she was “amazed and dismayed” on the homosexual star’s choice to carry out with a person whose lyrics boast about killing homosexuals and ladies.
Eminem later stated of Elton: ‘I did not know he was homosexual. I did not know something about his private life. I did not actually care,
‘But being that he was homosexual and he had my again, I feel it made an announcement in itself saying that he understood the place I used to be coming from.’
MILLI VANILLI WIN BEST NEW ARTIST IN 1990 – BUT AWARD IS RESCINDED
Jaw-dropping: Milli Vanilli was pressured to return their Grammy Award for Best New Artist – after it emerged they did not truly sing the vocals on any of their songs (pictured 1990)
Milli Vanilli fashioned in 1988, and consisted of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. The pair by no means sung a notice on their tracks or dwell performances, with session singers equivalent to Davis stepping in behind the scenes.
They offered thousands and thousands of data all through the late ’80s and early ’90s, earlier than it was found they did not truly sing the vocals on any of their songs.
Consequently, the disgraced act was pressured to return their Grammy Award for Best New Artist.
The duo needed to endure numerous lawsuits after they had been publicly ridiculed when a backing observe they had been miming to began to skip on MTV.
KANYE WEST STORMS ONSTAGE AS BECK BEATS BEYONCE – 2015
At it once more: The rapper ran after Beck as he accepted his award for Album Of The Year in 2015 – beating Beyonce
The rapper ran after Beck as he accepted his award for Album Of The Year – beating Beyonce – in what seemed to be a nod to his 2009 stage ambush on Taylor Swift, when he informed the viewers Beyonce ought to have gained over Taylor on the VMAs.
However, this time Kanye determined in opposition to addressing the viewers in Los Angeles – which prompted many to suppose he was simply poking enjoyable at himself. But backstage, issues grew to become much more heated.
Speaking to Khloe Kardashian, who was reporting for E!, Kanye launched right into a scathing assault on Beck and organisers of the occasion.
Iconic: This seemed to be a nod to his 2009 stage ambush on Taylor Swift on the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards – the place she beat Beyonce for Best Female Video
‘We ain’t gonna play with them no extra,’ Kanye started. ‘Beck must respect artistry and he ought to have given his award to Beyoncé.’
He continued: ‘At this level – we’re uninterested in it as a result of what occurs is, you retain on diminishing artwork and never respecting the craft and smacking folks within the face after they ship monumental music. You are disrespectful to inspiration.’
Kanye then started to criticise the occasion organisers reducing speeches brief to make manner for business breaks.
‘They run the music over the speeches as a result of they need the business promoting – no we not taking part in with them no extra,’ he added.
JENNIFER HUDSON SINGS WHITNEY HOUSTON TRIBUTE THE DAY AFTER HER DEATH – 2012
Emotional: Jennifer Hudson honored Whitney Houston’s life with an emotional acapella of Houston’s hit I Will Always Love You in 2012
Jennifer Hudson honored Whitney Houston’s life with an emotional acapella of Houston’s hit I Will Always Love You.
A lone highlight beamed down on the American Idol alum after the artists and music trade executives who’ve handed away within the final yr had been paid their respects in a video montage.
After musical luminaries like Amy Winehouse, rapper Heavy D and Etta James had been showcased, Houston was proven sporting a pink costume.
Icon: Houston unintentionally drowned in a bath on the Beverly Hilton lodge in Beverly Hills on February 11 2012, with coronary heart illness and cocaine use contributory components (pictured 2009)
Thunderous applause rang by the viewers earlier than the room went darkish and Hudson’s first clear, robust notes rang out.
Indeed, her model was a precise duplicate of Houston’s personal efficiency on the thirty fourth Annual Grammy Awards twenty years in the past.
Throughout the track she seemed to be blinking again tears, and when she completed, she lastly caved in to her overwhelming emotion.
TWENTY ONE PILOTS ACCEPT GRAMMY IN THEIR UNDERWEAR – 2017
Lol: Twenty One Pilots landed the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for Stressed Out, and picked up the award of their underwear
Twenty One Pilots landed the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for Stressed Out, and picked up the award of their underwear.
After Nick Jonas introduced the winners, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun stood up and promptly dropped their pants earlier than making their option to the stage.
Standing of their boxers as if it was probably the most regular factor on the planet, Joseph then turned again time to the great outdated days and commenced regaling a narrative from their youth in Colombus Ohio, when a bunch of their pals had been all chilling out at house and watching the Grammys.
‘We observed that each single considered one of us was in our underwear,’ he recalled.
‘And significantly, Josh turned to me – and we had been no-one at the moment – and he stated to me: “If we ever go to the Grammys, if we ever win a Grammy, we should receive it just like this.’
So not only is this amazing, but I want everyone at home whose watching to know that you can be next,’ Joseph concluded.
‘So watch out, OK, because anyone from anywhere can do anything. And this is that.’
The duo beat out an impressive nominee line-up of The Chainsmokers and Halsey’s Closer; Lukas Graham’s 7 Years; Rihanna and Drake’s Work; and Sia and Sean Paul’s Cheap Thrills.
Taylor Swift was one of the top nominees at the upcoming ceremony after scoring nods in the coveted Album and Record of the Year categories.
The singer–songwriter, who lately had her largest debut ever with the rerecorded model of her 1989 album, was nominated for six awards, together with Song of the Year and Best Pop Performance classes.
But SZA topped the pack with a formidable 9 nominations after releasing her acclaimed album SOS final yr.
The Grammy Awards ceremony shall be held on February 4 in Los Angeles, with the printed airing at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS and its streaming service Paramount+.
Taylor Swift was one of the top artists honored with nominations for the 2024 Grammy Awards. Other artists scoring nods included Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus; pictured November 9 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Impressive: But SZA topped the pack with an impressive nine nominations after releasing her acclaimed album SOS last year; seen November 1 in NYC
Taylor Swift was primarily nominated for her acclaimed album Midnights, as well as its single Anti-Hero, which received some of the best reviews of her career.
The song was nominated for Record of the Year, a category that honors the artists who recorded the song and its producers and engineers, as well as for the Song of the Year category, which honors songwriters.
Taylor and her regular collaborator Jack Antonoff were nominated for Song of the Year for penning Anti-Hero.
She also scored a nod for Best Pop Solo Performance for the single, while her Ice Spice collaboration Karma was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
Rounding out her nominations was one for Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights, as well as one of the top prizes, Album of the Year.
The Eras Tour performer is poised to make history in the Album of the Year category, where’s she’s currently tied for three previous wins with the iconic singers and musicians Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder.
But the 2024 ceremony could make her the first-ever person to win in the category four times if Midnights pulls through.
Antonoff also scored a solo nomination as Producer of the Year for working Midnights, along with his production on The 1975’s Being Funny In A Foreign Language and Lana Del Rey’s Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.
SZA’s critically acclaimed LP SOS was a major nomination grabber with nods for Album of the Year and Best Progressive R&B album.
The singer–songwriter led this year with the most nominations — nine — on the strength of her popular singles.
In the running: Taylor Swift got six nominations, including for Album, Record and Song of the year for her Album Midnights and her single Anti-Hero; seen October 11 in LA
On the precipice: If Taylor wins Album of the Year for Midnights, she will become the first person to win the award four times. She’s currently tied at three with Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder; seen November 9 in Buenos Aires
It’s a hit! SZA’s critically acclaimed LP SOS was a major nomination grabber with nods for Album of the Year and Best Progressive R&B album, while multiple singles were nominated in various categories; seen in August 2022 in San Francisco
Movie tie-in: Billie Eilish was nominated for Record and Song of the Year for What Was I Made For?, her somber ballad featured on the Barbie movie soundtrack; pictured November 4 in LA
Her song Kill Bill was nominated for Record and Song of the Year, plus Best R&B Performance.
But several other songs from her recent output were hits with the Recording Academy’s voting members.
SZA’s single Ghost In The Machine, which features Phoebe Bridgers, was nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance, while Love Language was nominated for Best Traditional R&B Performance, Snooze was nominated for Best R&B Song (which she shared with her co-writers) and Low was nominated for Best Melodic Rap Performance.
Other artists in the running for top awards included Billie Eilish and Miley Cyrus.
Billie was nominated for six awards, including the top categories Song and Record of the Year, for her hit single What Was I Made For?
The somber ballad was one of the singles from the acclaimed soundtrack album to the Margot Robbie–starring Barbie movie, which was co-written and directed by Greta Gerwig.
Despite being a pop powerhouse, Miley Cyrus has never won a Grammy Award, though her luck could change at the 2024 ceremony, where she is nominated for six awards.
She earned nods for Record and Song of the Year (for her song Flowers), as well as for Album of the Year for Endless Summer Vacation.
Her year? Miley Cyrus has never won a Grammy Award, though her luck could change at the 2024 ceremony, where she is nominated for six awards; pictured in March in West Hollywood
In the pack: Another major nominee was the actress and singer–songwriter Olivia Rodrigo, who scored adoring reviews for her sophomore LP Guts; pictured November 3 in NYC
Other categories she was nominated in included Best Pop Solo Performance, Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album.
Another major nominee was the actress and singer–songwriter Olivia Rodrigo, who scored adoring reviews for her sophomore LP Guts.
Both the album and its single Vampire earned multiple major nominations.
Other major nominees include jazz crossover artist Jon Batiste, the trio Boygenius (made up of Phoebe Bridges, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker), Lana Del Rey, Janelle Monáe and Victoria Monét, who was nominated for Best New Artist and multiple awards for her album Jaguar II and its singles.