Well, that was fairly painless. Last night was the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, and the big awards went to Gotye (Record of the Year), Mumford & Sons (Album of the Year), fun. featuring Lena Dunham (Song of the Year and Best New Artist), the Black Keys (Best Rock Song and Best Rock Album), and Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Frank Ocean (Best Rap Performance, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, and Best Rap Song, which are apparently thee different categories). No real surprises there, though Song of the Year probably, definitely should have gone to "Adorn" by Miguel, whose voice makes me feel the way 13-year-old girls do about Justin Bieber's. You can relive the best and worst moments from our live blog last night. We were... not kind to LL Cool Beret.
There were a fair number of GIF-able moments throughout the evening, 15 of which we've included after the jump. It was very tempting to just copy and paste "Prince strutting with a cane" 15 times, but we resisted. (Banner via)
Frank Ocean won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "No Church in the Wild." Chris Brown was not impressed.
He later performed "Forrest Gump" dressed up as Richie Tenenbaum.
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Jay-Z joined Justin Timberlake for a performance of "Suit & Tie."
Thank you.
JT also performed a great new song, "Pusher Love Girl."
Rihanna shrugged, which was a pretty decent impression of the public's reaction to the Bob Marley tribute...
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Relevant.
I want to go to there
dear God.
robo, take your ass to time out and THINK about exactly what you’ve done here.
oh my….
Mmmmmmmmm
Oh, fuck you John Mayer. For an entirely new reason.
wow i see boobs
Yes please.
For some reason I want a glass of milk.
Dear god Katy Perry, WE GET IT ALREADY.
You have fantastic boobs.
Stop it.
You’re just being mean now.
I’ll be in my bunk
Fuck. Yes.
No Katy, No. Please don’t stop!!
it’s cool to see that LL Cool J took time off from killing cops in LA to attend the grammys
I was sooooo disappointed by Frank Ocean’s performance. There’s a time and a place for a subdued performance like that, but when you are essentially headlining the Grammy performances and most folks who watch the Grammy’s probably had barely heard of you before is not one of them.
Also, that Bob Marley tribute was awful.
Yeah, Frank Ocean took a risk and it did not pay off. Don’t know why he did Forrest Gump, don’t know why he did it as a slow song, don’t know why he did it with sparing instrumentation.
Agree with nipples that Ocean was a little subdued but Sting and Mars at the start of Marley tribute was great!
“The guy dressed as a character from 1984 went home and had sex with Lena Dunham, probably.”
That’s unfortunate
He’s playing guitar for a Grammy nominated band (assuming, no clue who he is), and that’s all he could pull? What hope is there for the rest of us?
That’s what I was thinking. Lena Dunham, while far more famous than anyone I’ll ever have sex with, isn’t exactly some fantastic prize.
Some observations I made last night:
Having Wiz Khalifa present the award for a country record is like having Bill O’Reilly present at the BET awards.
Miranda Lambert is shaped like someone mixed up the top and bottom halves of a Russian nesting doll.
Rihanna has a pretty gnarly scar on her forehead. I bet there’s a helluva story behind that!
Kathy Griffin was sitting with Frank Ocean, which leads me to assume that there’s some kind of gay Illuminati that none of us are aware of.
Kelly Clarkson’s acceptance speech reminded me of how a soccer mom would react if she randomly won a Grammy AND had just pounded two fuzzy navels and a kiwi strawberry wine cooler.
I’ve always assumed that there was at least one person on Earth who found Lena Dunham attractive, not named “Lena Dunham” or “Lena Dunham’s parents” Last night, I found out it was a guitarist from a band who are blatantly stealing Queen’s shtick from 30 years ago, and he wears jumpsuits with the sleeves cut off. Can’t say I was surprised.
I would bet my life that about 50,000 white people googled “Swap Meet” last night.
You should be Embarrassed for trashing the ugly white girl ! They need love too, you know.
skank
I was upset by Chris Brown when Frank Ocean won, thinking he was just being a P.O.S. sore loser, but he never stood for anyone’s awards. So, he’s still a P.O.S., but just a rude P.O.S. who probably shouldn’t have been given a front row seat.
A huge P.O.S. indeed
I personally prefer “NCIS Cool J”, but I’ll accept LL Cool Beret.
Well played
The Taylor Swift/reggae GIF is just unbelievable.
why?
The pucker/”O” face, the faux-conducting arm motions, the brevity of it, and the fact that’s how she is dancing to reggae.
So true Ross- that girl has got nothing going on at all with those boney hips.
I can’t wait to see what dead black person the Grammys will have Bruno Mars honor next year.
Heyyyy- thats just cruel !!
fun. featuring Lena Dunham? I don’t get it.
I hate John Mayer, Jessica Simpson, Katy Perry, and I believe Jennifer Love Hewitt. There is no justice in this world.
Disregard the above my rage made me incoherent in my typing.
Taylor Swift was standing up, dancing around and singing with EVERY performance. Not sure if that was endearing or annoying…Maybe Chris Brown was sore from the car accident he was in while running away from the paparazzi before the Grammy’s. Nah…he’s just a dick.
CBS’ constant camera pans to her were annoying, but I can’t hate her enthusiasm. That’s probably exactly how I would act at an event like that.
I don’t think you can really taunt Jack White’s outfit since it’s almost identical to the one he wears on the cover of “Icky Thump”.
Also, is it just me, or does Taylor Swift seem like a total bitch? I mean, I don’t follow her so I don’t know how many breakup songs about how horrible “x” guy is she has, but I’d consider maybe it’s her.
I *would* think maybe it’s her; but then again, she’s dated John Mayer, who is well known as a total douche; and that Harry-something kid from One Direction, who looks like a douche too. So maybe it’s not her– maybe she’s just got shitty taste in men.
There is apparently a horror show below the belt with TS. They try hard (pun intended) to get on it, then run away after. It must be like catsup on cottage cheese down there.
Dr. John looked like he raided George Clinton’s closet.
how has taylor swift’s schtick not run out yet?
PMSL at number 15, that’s how I’ve always felt.
that was the most doctor john outfit ever.
I don’t get how Mumford could lose Americana album of the year but still win overall album of the year.
No telling what ‘nanner nose Ellen Degenerate would give to go there (Katy’s tits). Bet her wife got jealous…………….
Bet her wife wanted to go there too …….