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|GRAMMYs/Feb 5, 2024 - 02:11 am

Billie Eilish turned Crypto.com Arena into her very own dollhouse with a performance of "What Was I Made For?" at the 2024 GRAMMYs.

Dressed in a very Barbie-chic tweed coat, pink head scarf and cat-eye sunglasses straight out of the 1960s, Eilish was flanked by brother FINNEAS on the piano and a five-piece string section as she delicately questioned, "Takin' a drive, I was an ideal/ Looked so alive, turns out I'm not real/ Just something you paid for/ What was I made for?"

Featured as the emotional cornerstone of last summer's Barbie, Eilish's beautiful, existential pop ballad — which she co-wrote with FINNEAS — earned five nominations at this year's ceremony, including nods for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Music Video. Ahead of her performance, the pop star had already taken home the GRAMMY for Best Song Written For Visual Media, beating out three other songs from Barbie the Album and Rihanna's "Lift Me Up" from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever in the blockbuster-packed category.

Additionally, Eilish scored one other nomination this year for "Never Felt So Alone," her 2023 collaboration with Labrinth, which was up for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance but lost to "Ghost in the Machine" by SZA featuring Phoebe Bridgers. 

The superstar's six latest nominations bring her career total to 25 in just half a decade, ever since she made history by sweeping the General Field Categories back in 2020 by taking home the golden gramophones for Best New Artist, Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year and Song Of The Year (as well as Best Pop Vocal Album) in the wake of her acclaimed debut, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO? and its smash single "bad guy."

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|GRAMMYs/Feb 5, 2024 - 06:01 am

At the 2024 GRAMMYs, Joni Mitchell proved that It’s never too late for firsts.

The 80-year-old icon and 2022 MusiCares Person Of The Year performed at the 2024 GRAMMYs — her first time as a musical act on Music's Biggest Night. Mitchell graced the audience with her soul-stirring hit "Both Sides Now."

After a passionate introduction by Brandi Carlile, who called her the "matriarch of imagination," Mitchell appeared onstage in an ornate, throne-like chair with grand chandeliers. Accompanied by a backing band — comprised of Carlile, Allison Russell, Sistastrings, Lucius, Jacob Collier, and Blake Mills — Mitchell’s voice radiated throughout Crypto.com Arena while delivering the song’s bittersweet, introspective message: "I've looked at life from both sides now, from win and lose and still somehow… I really don't know life at all." Her lyrics resonated with members of the audience, who teared up before offering a deserved standing ovation.

"Both Sides Now" was originally released as part of Mitchell’s 1969 album Clouds. The song also appears on her 2023 live album, Joni Mitchell At Newport, which took home the golden gramophone for Best Folk Album this year. The LP immortalizes her surprise set at the Newport Folk Festival in 2022, where she played a selection of her greatest hits with help from Brandi Carlile and co. It was Mitchell’s first performance in 20 years.

"We had so much fun at that concert and I think you can feel that on the record," Mitchell said of the LP during her acceptance speech. "It's a very joyous record because of the people that I played with and the spirit of the occasion was very high… Even the audience sounds like music."

Read more: 10 Lesser-Known Joni Mitchell Songs You Need To Hear

While 2024 marks Mitchell’s first time performing at the GRAMMYs, the singer/songwriter is already a highly decorated figure within the world's leading society of music people. 

Prior to this year, she had been nominated 18 times and won nine — including her first golden gramophone in 1970 for Best Folk Performance (Clouds), and most recently in 2022 for Best Historical Album (Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967) ). In 2002, she earned the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2022 was honored as MusiCares’ Person of the Year. Carlile was one of many artists who performed covers of Mitchell’s songs during the tribute concert. Three of her albums (Blue, Court and Spark, and Clouds) have been inducted to the GRAMMY Hall of Fame.

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|GRAMMYs/Feb 5, 2024 - 04:44 am

Miley Cyrus has won Record of the Year at the 2024 GRAMMYs for her hit “Flowers.”

Accepting the award with her production team, Cyrus was irreverent and self-effacing, especially after having already won her first ever Golden Gramophone for Best Pop Solo Performance earlier in the evening.

“This award is amazing, but I really hope it doesn’t change anything, because my life was beautiful yesterday,” Cyrus said.

The pop singer beat out Lana Del Rey, Taylor Swift, Jon Batiste, Dua Lipa, SZA, Olivia Rodrigo, and Billie Eilish for the award, which was presented by Mark Ronson and his mother-in-law, the actress Meryl Streep. “Flowers” was a massive commercial hit, debuting at Number One on the Billboard Hot 100 and spending eight consecutive weeks in the top spot.

As she finished her speech, during which she thanked her collaborators, their partners, and her fans, Cyrus said “I don’t think I’ve forgotten anyone, but I might’ve forgotten underwear.”

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|GRAMMYs/Feb 5, 2024 - 04:42 am

Taylor Swift has made GRAMMY history once again.

The pop superstar won the GRAMMY for Album Of The Year for Midnights at the 2024 GRAMMYs, marking her fourth win in the Category — the most Album Of The Year wins of any artist at the GRAMMYs. (She had been tied with Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, and Paul Simon.) 

Swift was shocked as she accepted the award, bringing up her producer Jack Antonoff — who had already won the GRAMMY for Producer of the Year — and collaborator Lana Del Rey, who was also nominated for Album Of The Year for Did You Know There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. She acknowledged both in her acceptance speech, calling Antonoff "a once in a generation producer" and Del Rey "a legacy artist, a legend in her prime right now." 

She continued, "I would love to tell you that this is the best moment of my life, but I feel this happy when I finish a song, or when I crack to code to a bridge I love, or when I'm shortlisting a music video, or when I'm rehearsing with my dancers or my band, or getting ready to go to Tokyo to play a show. For me the award is the work. All I wanna do is keep being able to do this. I love it so much, it makes me so happy." 

The 66th GRAMMY Awards were already a big night for Swift before her Album Of The Year victory. Midnights won Best Pop Vocal Album earlier in the telecast, marking her 13th win; as Swifties know, 13 is Swift's lucky number because of her Dec. 13 birthday.

And at the 2024 GRAMMYs, it was her lucky number indeed: along with making history, Swift used her first win to announce a brand-new album. Swift will release her 11th studio album, The Tortured Poets Department, on April 19.

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|GRAMMYs/Feb 5, 2024 - 04:31 am

At Music's Biggest Night, GRAMMY-winning Afrobeats artist Burna Boy brought a piece of his homeland to Crypto.com Arena.

Decked out in bejeweled threads, the Nigerian superstar danced among throngs of performers and colorful buildings. The joyous performance featured several of his nominated works, including "On Form," "City Boys" and "Sitting On Top Of The World" — the latter featured a special appearance by Brandy and 21 Savage.

His single "City Boys" had a brief moment in the spotlight before Brandy stunned with her divine vocals, showing why her 1998 single "Top of the World" was prime for sampling on Burna Boy’s "Sittin’ on Top of the World." Along with a guest verse from 21 Savage, the trio delivered the updated version in style — as Burna Boy sings: "I pull up in my high fashion, every light flashing."

Burna Boy came into the 2024 GRAMMYs with four nominations, including Best Global Music Album (I Told Them...), Best Global Music Performance ("Alone"), and Best Melodic Rap Performance ("Sittin' on Top of the World"). The powerhouse was also nominated in the inaugural Best African Music Performance Category ("City Boys"), one of three new Categories introduced this year. Burna Boy is a previous Best Global Music Album recipient with his 2020 LP Twice as Tall, making him the first male Nigerian artist to win for an original work.

As one of Afro-fusion’s key contemporaries, Burna Boy is as much a student of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti as he is American hip-hop and R&B. On I Told Them…, he further leaned into the latter’s sounds, bringing in J. Cole, the Wu-Tang Clan’s GZA and RZA, and 21 Savage as collaborators. The LP debuted at the top of the UK Albums chart, marking his first No. 1 album and the first time an international Afrobeats artist has achieved the feat. I Told Them… also topped the UK R&B Albums chart.

Those were only some of the firsts that Burna Boy collected in 2023. In June, he was the first Nigerian artist to headline a US stadium show when he hit New York City’s Citi Field. In July, he was the first African artist to headline a UK stadium show when he sold out London Stadium. 

Before he heads back out on tour next month, Burna Boy is slated to appear on Usher’s upcoming album, Coming Home. 

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