home 5 awards and delivered an electrifying, politically answerable achievement that rocked the gala.
The top prizes on the music industry’s bigger night mainly went to boilerplate chart-toppers, with Swift demography the Anthology of the Year cost for “1989” and the awakening affair canticle “Uptown Funk” acceptable Almanac of the Year.
Swift, who has adapted from country prodigy to pop superstar, won three prizes on the night, all for plan off “1989,” which was one of the acknowledged US albums of the able decade.
The 26-year-old, who has ancient herself as a feminist campaigner, batten to her legions of babe admirers as she accustomed her additional Anthology of the Year award.
“I wish to say to all the adolescent women out there — there are traveling to be humans forth the way who will try to attenuate your success or yield acclaim for your accomplishments or your fame,” Swift said.
“But if you just focus on the plan and you don’t let those humans apprehend you, anytime if you get area you are going, you will attending around, and you will apperceive that it was you and the humans who adulation you who put you there,” she said.
In 2010, Swift aswell able a above accomplishment if she won Anthology of the Year for “Fearless,” acceptable the youngest artisan to yield the cost as she recorded it if she was 20.
Swift has aswell created after-effects in the music industry by acceptable the pre-eminent foe of Spotify, the arch alive service, which she accuse is arbitrary by acceptance a chargeless tier.
The Recording Academy, which runs the Grammys, acclimated the civic advertisement to appetite bigger advantage for artists, while endlessly abbreviate of criticizing any aggregation in the fast-growing alive industry.
– Answerable account by Lamar –
While Swift won the top award, the a lot of Grammys went to Lamar, whose anthology “To Pimp a Butterfly” offered an avant-garde brain work on chase relations with infusions of applesauce and announced word.
Lamar, whose song “Alright” has become an actionable canticle for protesters adjoin badge abuse, took 5 awards out of 11 nominations — the a lot of nods for a individual artisan in one night aback Michael Jackson becoming 12 afterward his massive “Thriller.”
In a politically answerable yet genre-spanning appearance, Lamar confused assimilate date as allotment of a chain-gang as a applesauce saxophone alloyed with a abundant guitar on “The Blacker the Berry.”
As his achievement transitioned to “Alright,” Lamar — his face corrective with a abrasion — metaphorically absolved aback to his African roots in a achievement with adroit dancers in acceptable apparel afore a firepit.
“This is for hip-hop,” the 28-year-old Lamar said, accepting the accolade from gangsta rap fable Ice Cube. “We will reside always — accept that.”
Uptown Funk’ triumphs
Record of the Year went to “Uptown Funk,” a ball clue with echoes of aboriginal Prince by Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars.
Ronson, a longtime ambassador from Britain who has conspicuously formed with superstar Adele, begin aberrant success in his own appropriate with “Uptown Funk,” which spent a abreast almanac 14 weeks at the top of the US Billboard singles chart.
The 40-year-old Ronson, who aswell put on a well-received achievement at endure week’s Super Bowl, said he was still accepting acclimated to his success.
“I would be just as blessed and appreciative if I produced it,” he said of the song, which aswell won the Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance.
“I’m a almanac producer, not a pop star,” he said.
English accompanist and guitarist Ed Sheeran won for Song of the Year, which recognizes songwriting admitting Almanac of the Year looks at all-embracing singles, for “Thinking Out Loud” — a bald adulation carol that has become a admired at weddings.
Meghan Trainor, 22, won addition key award, Best New Artist, afterwards the advance success of “All About That Bass,” her tongue-in-cheek do wop yield on weight struggles and self-acceptance.
Trainor bankrupt down in tears as she accustomed the award, thanking Epic Annal controlling L.A. Reid who active her afterwards audition her accomplish “All About That Bass” on ukulele.
Alabama Shakes, the bluesy indie bedrock bandage authentic by Brittany Howard’s clap voice, won three Grammys — Best Alternative Music Album, Bedrock Song and Bedrock Performance.
Alabama Shakes barrage from the baby boondocks of Athens, Alabama area Howard was a postal supply woman afore the bandage fabricated it big on a cruise to New York.
Lady Gaga transforms into Bowie
The Grammys aswell paid accolade to a amount of artists who afresh died — arch a part of them the bedrock figure David Bowie.
Lady Gaga appeared to transform on date into Bowie, her face amalgamation into his arrow logo, adjoin a three-dimensional accomplishments of amplitude adumbration befitting the Star man.
She sang a assortment of hits including “Space Oddity,” “Changes” and “Let’s Dance” to guitar by Nile Rodgers of Chic fame, a longtime acquaintance and assistant of Bowie.
Other performers included British accompanist Adele, whose anthology “25” has burst aboriginal sales annal but came out too aboriginal for Grammys contention.
Adele sang her able new carol “All I Ask,” although her achievement was bedridden by a abstruse annihilate if a microphone fell and she drifted out of tune.
“The piano mics fell on to the piano strings, that’s what the guitar complete was. It fabricated it complete out of tune. Shit happens,” she tweeted.
One non-performer was the R&B superstar Rihanna, who canceled at the endure minute, citation articulation problems due to illness.
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