In the fourth Grammy of his career, Weird Al Yankovic won best comedy album for “Mandatory Fun,” which last year became Mr. “I just showed up for work for 35 years, and this is what happened.” “There are second acts in American life,” Ms. Her song “A Feather’s Not a Bird” took best performance and best song, and “The River & the Thread” took best Americana album. Rosanne Cash, the singer-songwriter whose father was Johnny Cash, won three prizes in the American roots field, her first Grammys since 1986. Corea took best improvised jazz solo for “Fingerprints” “Trilogy,” the album from which that track was taken, also won best jazz instrumental album. The jazz keyboardist Chick Corea won two Grammys, bringing his total career take to 22 - tying Mr. “Frozen,” the smash Disney soundtrack, had been shut out of the major awards, but took two in the visual media field: best compilation soundtrack, for the album, and best song written for visual media, for its ubiquitous hit, “Let It Go.”
It had slick production values, but many artists still failed to appear. In an attempt to jazz it up a bit - and get more artists to show up - the organizers rechristened it the Grammy Premiere. For years, this segment, known unceremoniously as the “pretel,” was a rather drab exercise plagued by artist no-shows. Those included the pop singer and songwriter Meghan Trainor and Hozier, whose real name is Andrew Hozier-Byrne.Īll but 9 of the 83 prizes were handed out in a nontelevised ceremony at the nearby Nokia Theater here.
Williams led an expansively staged version of “Happy” and Madonna, dressed in red and black matador-style lingerie, sang “Living for Love” as dozens of horn-masked dancers writhed around her like characters from the film “Eyes Wide Shut.”Īmong those who went home empty-handed were a cohort of fresh faces up for their first Grammys. Later, Katy Perry followed a testimonial by a survivor of domestic violence by performing her “By the Grace of God” dressed in a white gown and cape, as a shadow pantomime unfolded behind her.Īt the other end of the spectrum, Mr. Kanye West, dressed in a velvety red jumpsuit and a thin gold chain, was barely illuminated by a low spotlight as he sang “Only One,” his voice warped by electronics. The night was also full of eye-catching performances of newer songs, in stark colors or elaborately colorful scenes. Sheeran, 23, joined the reunited Electric Light Orchestra for their 1970s number “Mr. After singing his song “Thinking Out Loud,” Mr. Beyoncé sang the gospel hymn “Precious Lord, Take My Hand,” dressed in diaphanous white and surrounded by a company with outstretched hands.Īnnie Lennox of Eurythmics joined Hozier, a 24-year-old Irish singer-songwriter, for his song “Take Me to Church” and then sang an intense version of Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’s 1957 song “I Put a Spell on You” that seemed to grip the stars in the front rows.
Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga sang “Cheek to Cheek,” an 80-year-old song by Irving Berlin their album by that title also won best traditional pop vocal album. It opened with AC/DC, the indomitable Australian arena-rock stars, who - now in their 50s and 60s - strutted and duckwalked across the stage to their new song “Rock or Bust” and its 1979 hit, “Highway to Hell.” Vincent’s self-titled release took best alternative album.Ĭhocked with 23 performances over three and a half hours, the night was a mixture of old and new. Paramore’s “Ain’t It Fun” won best rock song, and the singer St. In the rock categories, Jack White took best performance for his album “Lazaretto,” and the comedy-rock duo Tenacious D beat out Anthrax, Motörhead, Mastodon and Slipknot for best metal performance. Lambert’s prize for best album, Glen Campbell’s “I’m Not Gonna Miss You” took best song, Carrie Underwood’s “Something in the Water” won best solo performance and the Band Perry took home best duo or group performance for “Gentle on My Mind.” No clear winner emerged in the country field, either. Lamar, a fast-rising young star who had walked away empty-handed last year, took best performance and song this year for “I.” Eminem won best rap album for “The Marshall Mathers LP 2” and shared best rap/sung collaboration with Rihanna, for “The Monster.” Kendrick Lamar and Eminem split the four rap trophies. Miranda Lambert, accepting the prize for best country album, for “Platinum,” thanked her record label and “all the people who get it to the fans.” That sentiment of treasuring the attention of fans and all the ways to reach them was echoed by a number of stars. “I’d like to say thank you to my Beyhive,” she said.
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