Adele walked the Grammy red carpet early and I was like “why is this happening?” but it was because she had to get inside and prepare to open the show with “Hello.” I loved Adele’s red carpet dress though – she chosen a rich green Givenchy with a beautiful, flattering cut. Usually Adele wears black, so it was amazing to see her in a color. Her hair looked great too.
Adele performed twice – she opened the show with “Hello” and then she did the George Michael tribute. She stopped the performance because the music was f–ked up.
#GeorgeMichael Adele didn't want to alter George's lyrics. Bless you Adele. You honored George even more by starting over. pic.twitter.com/B0b7ldRI7E
— Devotion (@_Devotions_) February 13, 2017
Adele ended up winning Best Song, Best Album and Best Record. Let me be completely clear: I love Adele and I’m always happy to see her win. I would have been fine with Adele winning many of the Grammys she was up for. I just think that in a side-by-side comparison, Beyonce’s Lemonade was a lot stronger than Adele’s 25, and that it was wrong that Adele swept ALL the big awards at the Grammys. Adele knew that too – she’s a card-carrying member of the Beyhive. She worships at the Church of Beyonce. She and Beyonce are good friends and Beyonce did not seem upset to see Adele pick up those Grammys. I seriously doubt there are any hard feelings between the two women, but the fandoms might be a different story. Still, Adele wanted everyone to know that she agrees and that Beyonce deserved a lot of those Grammys. She even said in the press room that she voted for Lemonade. Which is amazing.
PS… I’m pretty sure Adele’s brooch was a sparkly lemon, in honor of Bey’s Lemonade.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Nope, not a good dress. I love the color and the overall shape, but the cross-over cutting on top is really unflattering – it looks like the dress is choking her. It would have been perfect if it wasn’t for that crossover thingy.
The crossed straps give the same line as a raglan sleeve. That visually widens her upper arms. It’s couture malpractice.
The color is so flattering. Not sure the checkerboard bodice is.
I loved the black outfit she wore during the GM tribute.
If you see the original Givenchy dress, it is sleeveless, with the bodice crossed like that, it makes sense. Adele added sleeves, and added the same sleeve fabric into the skirt. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4205816/Adele-looks-regal-olive-green-gown-Grammy-Awards.html
And yes, that’s a lemon pin ☺http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4218148/Adele-leads-best-dressed-Brits-59th-Grammy-Awards.html
That dress is a godawful snot coloured mess.
I like the skirt part of the dress, but not the top part.
Adele and Beyonce are both fine artists who produced fine albums, but Beyonce stretched herself on “Lemonade,” while “25” was not much of a conceptual or musical stretch beyond “21.” That was the tiebreaker for me for album of the year, anyway.
But I’ve given up on the GRAMMY’s ability to do it right, so I can’t say that I’m surprised. They’re giving out awards for the set who takes them seriously, a group that simply can’t relate to Beyonce being a mainstream artist.
I think adele’s music is much better than Beyonce’s and she is a much better singer. However, Beyonce’s album was a powerful social commentary at a time when we need these desperately. I think she should have won for Album of the Year for that reason. Adele’s was a good album, but not earth shattering. Won’t be remembered the way Lemonade will be.
@Sarah
100% agreed. Love Adele’s dress though.
I’m with Sarah. Adele is a better singer and her music was better written, although Beyonce’s album had a strong social message and the visual album was STUNNING. Beyonce deserves the VMAs more than the grammy though.
“…but Beyonce stretched herself on “Lemonade,” while “25″ was not much of a conceptual or musical stretch beyond “21.” Exactly. Lemonade was more of a ‘wow’ than 25, because of the work itself and because of the messages. I was really hoping for Beyoncé to get album of the year for this, but at least she lost to Adele and not, say, Taylor Swift. That would have been a lot more irritating.
Her hair and makeup are lovely, and the cut of the dress is very nice, but the colour and pattern are ugly. This poop coloured green wouldn’t look good on anyone, let alone on someone as pale as Adele.
I thought 25 was mediocre and can’t believe it even got nominated. Album of the year? You have to be kidding me.
THANK YOU. Got in a disagreement with a friend today about 25 being good. Adele regressed musically and played it as safe as possible. It shouldn’t have been nominated, if only to make her do better next time.
“As ‘pale’ as Adele?” Adele is NOT pale. She has clearly been tanning.
That mediocre album sold over 8 million copies, number one selling album of the year.
My favorite Adele moment was when she let her co winner speak first when they won Record of the Year and said “last time you cut him off” while throwing a side eye. I was feeling bad for the guy so it was a relief to me to see her do that.
Who are all those people on stage with her, she has like 30 of them, co writters, technicians,???seems a tad excessive, thought she wrote and produced a lot of her material.
Haha, no, she doesn’t. That’s always a fun argument when people are fawning ove Adele. Again, I really like her as a person, but I don’t get it that people feel the need to elevate her music beyond the level it’s actually at.
She doesn’t write anything by herself, those were her co writers and producers.
She writes just not alone and she doesn’t actually produce anything.
Each of the songs on her records are usually produced by a different set of folks.
All pop music is done that way…
Needless to say, I think she is a pitchy singer with boring music and I am well not surprised but saddened that she won all of these awards that really she didn’t actually deserve.
Scotchy
You 100% cannot claim Adele to be pitchy
I am classically trained and her pitch is excellent – far far far beyond the scope of most singers
I LOVE Adele, and I love the dress, but 25 beating Lemonade for best album? No. Just no. Lemonade is one of the best albums I have ever heard. 25 was a great album and any other year I would have been fine with it winning, but this year? Why? Why did they do this?
I read the lyric to the songs on Lemonade…expectations for songwriting has changed in the last 20 years. The bar for songwriting talent has dropped considerably since Joni Mitchell wrote her album Blue..
That’s true. I really enjoy listening to both Beyonce and Adele, but I don’t quite get why the record of the year race was between the two of them. Lemonade is a good social commentary and it’s quite powerful in the movie form as Beyonce’s voice and charisma are outstanding, but the lyrics are pretty weak (even though they were written by multiple songwriters) and Adele’s songs are wonderfully sung cliche heartbreak tunes. For me David Bowie’s Blackstar, Radiohead’s A Moon-Shaped Pool, Angel Olsen’s My Woman, and lyric-wise – Leonard Cohen’s You Want it Darker were far superior albums of 2016. I’d also put Solange’s album much higher on the list than those two.
I love how Beyonce wrote her words. I love how Bono and the gang wrote New Years day, or walk away, but most of all, sunday bloody sunday. I don’t like Joni Mitchell. I don’t think Gaga’s songs are something special.
Art resonates in people differently.
style of writing changes. I suspect Shakespeare wouldn’t approve of Tolstoi, you know? That is nothing new, and today it’s even more obvious because styles change more quickly and they can even coexist inthe same mainstream space-that’s result of technology and quicker pace of life.
For the life of me, I can’t get how we can crticise Beyonce’s songwriting, and not say anything about Songs Adele sings-army of men and women wrote it, and Hello basically has…5 sentences?
I agree (though I don’t think 25 would be a great album any year).
I feel like Adele writes the same song over and over and over again, is always musically sad, and yells at me with her singing. Unpopular opinion: I don’t like her music at all, and I think she’s overrated as an artist.
That said, she has a stunning voice, and she was extremely gracious when she acknowledged Beyoncé.
I agree on all points. Despite the gorgeous voice, this album was a yawn, seemed almost lazy to me. I do not deify Beyonce, but I think Lemonade was far more inventive and more of a creative risk. I don’t get why Adele won a single award.
Adele even managed to turn GM into Adele.
I am not fan of Beyonce or Adele, they both can sing, but Beyonce made important record. It was far more interesting than just same old, same old.
If anyone else acted and said the things Adele did, they would be crucified.
i agree, milla.
And tbh, it’s ironic how Grammy guys proved how important and necessary Lemonade is and was. She spoke up, in her speech, against just the thing Grammy did to her. Taylor Swift has teo albums of the year, and Beyonce none?! I didn’t know they always put her in Urban Contemporary, never for album of the year? That’s discrimination by the book.
And then they dole out her Grammy to a simbol of mediocre white girl tiniest violin album.
Ugh.
More power to Adele for saying what everyone is thinking – this is the ONLY way to hold these awarding bodies accountable, when the winners start calling them out.
She looks great but I did not find her attitude that amazing.
If Taylor Swift behaved that way, she would have been called a try-hard.
When Kanye West, also a fan of Beyonce, got on stage to defend her, Bey looked embarrassed and everyone started throwing shit at Kanye.
And enough with the song interruptions and the swearing, they are beginning to be parts of the show. There were lots of artists that did not have interruptions during their performances. Why was that?
Sorry, I just don’t get why so much understanding for Adele. She is fine but why is she amazing?
I think Adele gets a pass because she seems genuine. She doesn’t sound condescending (like Taylor did with Nicki Minaj). Plus she has always been a fan of Beyoncé, so I believe her when she says Bey should have won.
Well, Adele is not the only one who worked on that album so I agree that her attitude was crap. It’s nice she thinks Beyoncé deserved it more but the other people who worked hard on that album and who ARE proud of their art and the long process it took to create (yeah Adele, it takes many people to make 1 star) are just as much deserving so really it wasn’t in her place to be given away any award or donating half symbolically.
And nah Adele isn’t amazing but considering she had over half less producers working on her album, she can write a decent song and her album was more cohesive however bland, she was more deserving strangely enough.
I realised that listening to Lemonade has not got much of a big impact compared to watching it. Lemonade NEEDS visuals whereas Self-Titled does not. And honestly, 1 song has like 6 producers and it’s not even 3 minutes long, add to the fact that a bunch of white hipsters basically wrote a ‘personable’ black anthem/feminist/heartbreak album and I’m like this is what you get for giving white people too much control. Beyoncé really needs to start playing an instrument and write her own music because over time, Lemonade actually fell short. 4 and Self-Titled are much better, cohesive and interesting overall. Without the visual, Lemonade is a hodgepodge of genres, feelings and messages that don’t work together as a whole.
I don’t like Adele or her depressing boring music and her grammy wins were not deserved but it’s the world we live in, even in music award shows.
I think Adele has a messed up attitude. Had that been someone like Miley Cyrus cursing she would have been ripped apart and called classless.
Also Mattalica’s James Hatfield mic went out but he carried on without using profanity.
I wholeheartedly agree. Metallica is Metallica, even if I’m more Iron Maiden girl myself. But that’s a working attitude of a past era.
I do think that Adele is turning slowly into a full blown diva ala Mimi. And I don’t care for her type of “artistry”.
Agree with everything you said 100%. Although, I do need to make clear that I still think she is incredibly talented, but her attitude is not necessarily that great. Other artists would have been criticized for the same behavior.
Loopy, your comment reminded me of Jesse Williams speech at the BET awards last year. This part especially;
“we’re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil – black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is though… the thing is that just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real.”
Its time for that boycott. We got some itsy bitsy progress from the Film Academy Awards when they agreed to evaluate how they recruite voting members. We need to demand a complete overhaul of the Grammy Academy. Everyone carries an inherent bias so lets have a more even number of inherent biases and I bet you we’ll see more black and latino winners. Anyway, BOYCOTT NOW.
As it was said this was the night Adele Kanye’d herself by saying. Imma let myself finish but Beyonce had the album of the year.
Even Adele knew Bey should have won. I guess Bey album was too political for them. Adele music is so mediocre. I would rather see Arianna Grande win, no joke.
Yeah, Adele’s music bores me to tears, it’s like elevator music. It’s pretty astounding that her mediocre album won over Lemonade, which was pretty groundbreaking. But we all know that white mediocrity will always be rewarded. It’s like the Oscars this year. Yes, the Academy threw POC a bone by giving them some nominations, but LLL, which is the epitome of white mediocrity, is going to sweep the awards. Moonlight is like the Lemonade of the Oscars. Best film I’ve seen in years, truly brilliant in every respect, but of course it’s going to be overlooked :/
Yes, I like Adele as a person, but oh my God, does she bore me to tears with her music! I love Lemonade and where Beyoncé never did a lot for me musically she absolutely had and kept my attention this year. I do think it’s time artists started to stay at home during the Grammy awards. If there is no real seat at the table, why bother.
Oops. double post. sorry.
VforReal
Really?
I always feel like Adele’s music is timeless and so moving. I love her voice more than anything. She has so much control on her voice and she sticks to her guns, she does what she can do best and doesn’t get lost in doing something just for the money.
She can choose wisely and it is not that easy at the level of stardom.
@paolanqar who said
“She has so much control on her voice and she sticks to her guns”
Well she must have lost controlled over it last night because even though she started Fast Love over, she still sounded a mess, so off pitch and boring. And yes she does it for the money. She sticks with a formula that works for her and sell albums. She hasn’t done anything different. It’s the same old boring slow heartbreak songs.
Ariana is gorgeous but problem is her only great song
Really? I actually think ‘Problem’ and most of her faster songs/ most popular singles are pretty ‘meh’ and hope she focuses more on the ballads on her next album.
At least Grande had a fun album and showed musical growth.
WOuld Beyonce be capble of doing for someone what Adele did for her?
I love her and I was so happy to see her win, let me say that I am a huge Beyoncé fan, but I feel like Beyoncé will be around 20 years from now doing her thing and for Adele, I’m just not so sure…plus I think she was the best this year, I didn’t like Lemonade very much…(gasp!)…maybe because I’m old and I didn’t “get” some of it, who knows. I think both women are beautiful and have gorgeous voices, I wouldn’t have been disappointed either way, but I really was happy with this outcome.
I disagree I don’t see Beyonce being around for another 20 years I’m not says she well be done tomorrow, just not 20 years. I can see Adele being around for a longer time because her music is on the classic side, but 20 years??? I’m not sure ether.
I do agree with you about Lemonade. I’m 34 I don’t know maybe I’m to old to get it ether. I think Lemonade really fell short. I feel the same way about 25 and at the end of the day i think both albums were overhyped.
In 2005 I remember having a conversation with my cousin that summer about which singers we thought would still be stars in 20 years. She didn’t think Beyoncé would still have a career in 20 years. So far it’s been 12, so I’m probably going to turn out to be right. I should ask her about Adele.
I am so over Beyonce that I can’t even weite in her own thread. I prefer they giving out an award to someone who at least writes her own songs.
Bey sees the insides of her own behind permanently.
Around the world I think Adele is more known, not only her but her songs too. They are played constantly in the radio, Bey not so much. Where I live I still hear Crazy in Love more than her new songs.
As for her show, ugh. Of course.
Where do you live? I have to disagree. Bey is an international star and she is well known around the world, over Adele. I’m not much of a Bey fan anymore and I didn’t like Lemonade I just wanted her to win over boring Adele.
Both of their performances were boring last night.
Umm Adele is an international superstar too. Your opinion of how you feel about her is getting in the way of just how big of an artist she is.
While I don’t think 25 deserved to win over Lemonade, to act like Adele isn’t as big as Beyoncé with no talent is absurd.
I live in a non English speaking country. I work with young people and I am a lot into social media. Not many are interested in Beyonce among the more mature, consolidated artists. Many know Adele more.
In the radio the whole past year tehy dis not play the new cd. Social media in my country, gossip or news about Beyonce, not much either. Many people donknow about black artists, and of course there are fans of her, but it is not as mainstream or “in”. I’d say she need these antics , the “show” to get her name out, whereas other artists just need their music, their songs, not the whole hoopla. Many people are not on twitter or instagram or in other languages they do not follow her so her media tricks do not have such an impact in other countries, but more where English is spoken.
And yes, she would have successful concerts in big venues, but so have other artists.
Personally, I think Beyonce is a good artist with nice songs, she is a strong artist, and it us great that AA have such a representative…but much of what she is or thinks she is is created by her and her team, I see her as artificially enhanced, her image too manicured, processed. There are others that are benefiting to a certain degree if such antics, It probably is a sign of the times, reality shows have overtaken everything, even politics right now. Sigh.
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Where I live Single Ladies was the last Beyoncé song I heard on the radio, and that’s including my usual urban, r’n’b and alt stations. I think she’s only had 4-5 real hits post DC here, most of them off her first album.
She’s famous, people know who she is, but not so much for her music anymore, more as just a celebrity. Lemonade only made the top 10 the day it was released, same with self titled, and it looks like 4 and B’Day never even broke the top 30.
On the other hand, going by certified sales, a conservative estimate would have something like 1 in 5 people owning an Adele album here, and 25 is still hitting no.1 regularly between new releases.
@Sam
Where did I say Adele was not an international star. I didn’t say she wasn’t. I just said Bey is an international star. BTW, Bey is well known to the Grammys where winning has nothing to do with which country you’re more popular in. So go ahead and defend boring ass Adele but I never said she wasn’t an international star. But to all of you who responded I’m also sure that Adele being more popular in your country has a lot to do with her being White.
Well since there were 30 guys on stage with Adele obviously she doesn’t write all her songs.
Beyoncé also has a feam of writers so does alot of other artists.
Adele shouldn’t have to feel like she needs to apologize for her success…people on social media need to calm down with the deification of Beyonce. Like, it’s just an award. Calm down.
Adele is the biggest Beyonce stan so don’t blame SM she is the one who claims she worships Beyonce.
Yea, she’s not stupid. Why paint a target on your back.
She know this will make people say well she’s a big Bey fan, so there. She knows it’s best to praise your competition.
Also I hated that she had to say “my Black friends.” She felt a need to let people know that she had Black friends.
Frank Ocean was so vindicated. The neverending technical issues, the different standard for non-white artists, …
Ha, yes!
I gave up watching the Grammys at least 20 years ago. It’s mostly BS. Sometimes the right artist wins but not very often. And this isn’t shade at Adele – I love her. I just like to see the dresses now.
She did wear a lemon for Lemonade she stated that somewhere on the RC. Said it on the other thread but Lemonade changed the game and Adele not only recognized that but also recognized that the album meant a lot for the black community. That was important.
Then she said what we were all thinking when she said “what does she have to do to win AOTY”. She’s holding the system accountable and I’m glad she did in the moment
She looked gorgeous but she often sounds pitchy, at least I’m glad she started back again instead of being pitchy and then blaming it on “technical issues”.
I love what Adele did here. Love it.
I can’t stand Beyoncè because i still believe she is a songs/ideas/coreographies stealing bitch but undoubtedly very very talented.
What Adele did for her and the people of colour was amazing and selfless.
It is so hard not to cry when someone is cutting a pile of onions right in front of a huge fan. Daaamn.
Also Adele looks beautiful. Her make up is great and I love that dress on her.
I’m happy she ignored the note about showing boobs, unlike 90% of the ladies there. She looked classy and incredibly beautiful.
Adele seems like a nice person but I don’t rate her music – she has talent but she isn’t for everyone. And I agree with her – the Beyonce should have gotten best album.
That’s a tough one because she still made it about herself in a way, but…there’s some use of privilege there directed toward betterment by acknowledging non-white artists whose contributions are often overlooked. I mean…I have both “25” and “Lemonade,” enjoyed them both, but between the two of them, the latter is the more culturally relevant one. So…yeah, I think it’s kind of a shame Beyoncé didn’t win? I think this is probably one of the milestones of her career, whereas Adele accomplished that better with “21.”
I was so looking forward to the George Michael tribute only to hear some B side shit Adele decided to sing….imagine if Bruno decided to do that to Prince. We’d all be having a WTF moment this morning. So glad Bruno made the tribute about Prince fans and not about himself. Anyway, I went back to watching “Victoria” when her song started tanking….
Exactly, such a letdown. She was not the best choice.
I haven’t even watched it.When I heard she was doing a different arrangement I changed the channel.
I’m more about the “tribute” than her AOTY win. That tribute to George was a disaster and Adele’s behavior during it was questionable (if a black woman has done that by the way). Also, nothing for Cohen?
I couldn’t believe they didn’t have Adam Lambert part of the tribute. George was a huge influence for gay artists, and Adam can sing like nobody’s business.
Shame really.
Even Sam Smith would be a better choice than Adele.
I really liked Adele when she came on the scene. I will state my unpopular opinion,: she is not good live and her songs sound always the same…
+1000000. I love that song, it’s so uplifting. She managed to make it sound like a song for a sad movie. It was a big let down.
on the George Michael tribute,
apart from the side eye she deserves for that restart (not so much the restart but how she approached it–the swearing, the woe is me attitude–see Patti Smith at the Nobels for a better example of how to approach a restart respectfully and not make it about oneself),
i wish she hadn’t done what she did to Fast Love. i get that it has a special meaning for her, but if she wants ballads, GM penned soooo many great ballads.
Jesus to a Child might fit, perhaps?
btw George’s Praying for Time is a ballad and a fitting song for the current climate.
+1000
Yes, but Adele couldn’t pull off George’s songs, that’s why the re-mix. It made me realize what a phenom George was. His voice was freaking amazing. Sorry, I like Adele, but she is not the greatest ever…and I’m sad that they didn’t do GM justice. He has an amazing body of work:( I would have rather watch a retrospect of him singing!
It always surprises me a little bit when people are bothered by a famous person swearing.
Wear more color Adele!! That green looks stunning on her!!!
Are people in this comments section for real? Suddenly Adele has no talent and isn’t as big as Beyoncé. Adele is famous because of her voice. Thats her claim to fame. And sure you can argue that Beyoncé is way more famous in the states but internationally Adele is a superstar in her own right. I understand the frustration with Lemonade not winning but taking it out on Adele and belittling her when she literally had nothing to do with it is absurd, in my opinion. Adele handled that the best that she could. The problem is with the recording academy. Not Adele.
Yeah, I don’t get why we’re ripping apart these two women when the problem is the Grammy voters. I’m not even going to sh*t on Adele for the song restart – she was honoring a legend, and this was the SECOND time they screwed up her sound in two years. Both women are talented – Adele just recognized that she wasn’t the one who should have won, which, when you consider how narcissistic these people are, is pretty radical.
totally agree, I love Beyonce but I will be honest and think she deserves awards and acclaim for her work but because of the terrible behavior of the hive I don’t get sad when she loses.
Adele is known not for her dancing, or let looks, or her videos but for her VOICE and her writing of songs that is it. She is a tremendous talent, 25 was a brilliant and perfect album that absolutely deserved to win Record of the year. Lemonade was also amazing and socially relevant and very much transformative for Beyonce and deserved to win Record of the Year. Either woman deserved it both did, I am a little shocked it wasn’t a tie but regardless neither woman deserves to be attacked.
Sad that they both showed so much grace, support and respect for each other but the common listener of their work can’t seem to do so.
I didn’t watch the Grammy’s but I’m wondering did Bey’s sister Solange won anything for A Seat at the Table. To me, that was by far album of the year. What a voice! And the album was incredibly relevant and didn’t need any visuals to work in the way that Lemonade did.
I feel similar to Adele’s music the way I did about Norah Jones when she was popular. Love the voice, but after awhile all of her songs sound the same. I do like Adele as a person. I think she’d be great fun to hang out with at the pub and she has the best laugh.
She did win her first Grammy last night
I thought her tribute to George Michael was awful 🙁
All I’m gonna say is that she’s a class act.
On Laineys site they mention adele’s acceptance speech for aoty as if it’s a problem that Adele mentions her black friends. Anyone else agree with that? I genuinely thought she was just trying to highlight how important that album was
I thought the “black friends” comment was tacky and out of place. It just left a gross taste in my mouth. I felt like it was a problem. Tactless, thoughtless and a bit white savior-ish..
Gross.
Yes, I wrote this on the Beyonce story…totally cringing for Adele in that moment…so embarrassing!
People are just looking for reasons to be upset. And for those that were “offended” by the comment, are they saying that black lives and white lives are the same also since the derived logic underlying the use of the word distinctions lies there as well? No, it is just people giving into their knee-jerk responsiveness, seemingly equating ANY non-person of color’s mention of black friends as being grounded in racism.
I didn’t imply she was being racist. It just felt unnecessary inappropriate and cringe-worthy. This kind of statement is one I have only heard from white folk in general and this beige woman feels it’s unnecessary. It doesn’t matter who you are. She could have stopped at “my friends” but she didn’t and it was awkward. So very awkward.
I can see how it could be misinterpreted, but at the end of the day Lemonade (the film) celebrated black womanhood and a lot of black women on my social media thought it was “made for us” so I can believe that some of her black girlfriends told her how empowered they felt by the album.
IMO breaking the grammy was the worst part, it felt too try-hard, almost condescending.
I think it was awkward and cringe-y, but I get what she was trying to do by saying the feelings and contributions of non-whites are equally important. She’s not perfect, but that’s fine. She doesn’t have to be perfect. She tried, which is more than what most people would do on stage.
She is amazing but that dress is tragic, it just look like an expensive curtain.
Can I just say… I think the idea of awards shows for music is stupid? I love Beyoncé and Adele equally and I loved both of their albums; it’s silly to have to choose! Music is art and art can’t be judged by a rubric ❤
I was thinking the same. The idea of award shows is stupid, it only has a commercial purpose. Bob Marley never won a Grammy but has huge relevance.
I think the colour of Alele’s dress compliments her very well. I can’t however get past her nails. It’s an instant and passionate hatred.
They all have those disgusting nails!
Yes, whyyyyyy!?!!? I don’t get how those talons have been a thing over the last couple of years.
I know, these nails are everywhere and it’s my personal taste of course, but nothing screams CHEAP more than these (with small drawings and /or rhinestones).
I’d rather have French manicure (not really, that shows only my desperation level)
Not surprised, black artists are always being overlooked. They always give it to the undeserving white artist. This was Beyonce’s year, and everyone knows it. It’s like Oscarsowhite all over again, and the Grammy needs to change their bs ways.
Did it ever occur to you that Beyonce didn’t win because her album couldn’t stand alone without the visuals, and the film is was made the songs.
Also did everyone know it was Beyonce year??? I’m sure their are alot of people would disagree that.
Adele is mediocre but Beyonce is not??? Personally I think they can both sing
Yes, ’25’ was mediocre af. Adele was a mediocre artist in 2015-2016.
Then you believe Beyonce is mediocre because out if the two Adele is the better singer.
She “worships at the church of Beyonce”? Really??
That’s one of the most hideous gowns I’ve ever seen. That pea soup color is nasty.
Her dress is the only thing I liked about last night’s ‘performance’.
She is incredibly over-hyped and demonstrative of the terrible farce that the Grammy awards has become.
Well, Adam Lambert did a better tribute a couple of months ago.
They awarded the mediocre white girl yet again
OMG I hadn’t read the article!
“worships” really????
God, the comments on this story are horrible – people seem to go out of their way to tear both women down.
I thought Adele’s comments about being a Beyonce megafan were genuine and heartfelt. And while I know that it is a requirement of the internet culture these days to nitpick to find something to object to, and the phrase “black friends” has a dodgy, patronising history, I don’t think that is the case here. I think it was just Adele acknowledging that Lemonade has a powerful message for all women, but that it has especially resonated with black women – and she’s not presuming that her experience is the same.
Jeez, with the likes of Trump on the loose, we’ve got to stop picking on people who are on our side and stop looking for every perceived slight and clumsily worded phrase in internet pile-ons!