Bruno Mars wins Grammy for “Uptown Funk”

In a weird choice for the closing act, rapper Pitbull, whose album Dale won Best Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album, sang with Robin Thicke, who not only has no nominations, but has also not released anything significant of late.

Less than a week after West drew backlash for his song Famous, in which he suggested that he made Swift famous by crashing the stage during her 2009 MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech, the pop star indirectly responded to his diss. Accepting album of the year for her blockbuster 1989, Swift took a moment to address “the young women out there”.

The Shake It Off singer became the first female to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice when she scooped the award for 1989 in Los Angeles on Monday (15Feb16).

“Someday when you get where you’re going”, Swift said, “you’ll look around and know that it was you and the people who loved you who put you there”.

However, the loss of Lamar’s widely acclaimed album “To Pimp a Butterfly” to Swift’s bestselling pop opus will likely re-awaken criticism of the Recording Academy’s voting membership, which has consistently declined to hand top honors uncompromising rap in the general-field categories.

Uptown Funk, which won Record of the Year, is Ronson’s single with Bruno Mars, who is of Puerto Rican- Filipino descent.

He gave special thanks to his parents, who were in the audience, saying that they come to the show every year. She was accompanied with a piano behind her, but the audio sounded off and appeared to throw off her performance. EWF – whose surviving members presented the album of the year trophy – was honored with a 2016 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, announced before White’s death on February 4.

The Grammys featured a number of performances, including touching tributes: Lady Gaga was in David Bowie-inspired makeup and gear as she ran through 10 of the icon’s hits, including “Space Oddity”, “Changes”, “Fame”, “Let’s Dance” and “Heroes”.

– Best rap performance: “Alright”, Kendrick Lamar.

The sheer rarity of seeing middle-aged men rap in eighteenth-century garb was an entertaining break from performances by mainstream artists on the Staples Center stage.

Swift wanted fans and her fellow celebrities to know that she’s not afraid to speak out.

Swift’s show-opening performance of “Out of the Woods” was marred by sound problems of the sort that later bedeviled Adele and Alice Cooper.

Though Adele can hold an audience without the need of any fancy stage set up or backup dancers, the simplicity of her performance highlighted an overt audio glitch. “The soonest I could get online was a Sunday matinee in 2018”, he joked from New York’s Richard Rodgers Theatre, where he later introduced creator/star Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of the hip-hop musical.