"and had to be gently called back by host Trevor Noah. Then she forgot that she had to open the "Grammy goes to ..." envelope. And when she did, seeing that the text on the card said " Luther " by Kendrick Lamar and SZA, she announced happily that the winner was Luther Vandross (er, "Luther Grandross"), who of course died back in 2005."
"To be fair, Lamar and SZA's hit track is partly a tribute to Vandross, built on a sample of his music, a fact Lamar graciously used in his acceptance speech to soften the embarrassment. But for viewers, it served as a rare outbreak of reality, a sense that something was actually happening-reminiscent of the 2017 Moonlight-La La Land Oscar mixup or John Travolta's surreal 2014 blunder calling Idina Menzel " Adele Dazeem." (Cher's fellow legend Joni Mitchell had her own "senior moment" during the afternoon awards presentations, which thankfully far fewer people witnessed.)"
"With events in Minnesota looming in the background, many participants were wearing "Ice Out" pins on their lapels or gowns. After about 90 minutes, Bad Bunny became the first to say it out loud, while accepting the Best Música Urbana award, in remarks worth repeating: "We're not savage. We're not animals. We're not aliens. We are humans, and we are Americans. ... I know it's tough not to hate on these days, and I was think"
Bad Bunny won Album of the Year amid an otherwise generally lackluster Grammys broadcast. Cher, 79, wandered offstage after receiving a lifetime achievement award and had to be called back by Trevor Noah; she then forgot to open the envelope and mistakenly announced that Luther Vandross had won Record of the Year. Kendrick Lamar and SZA's "Luther" partly samples Vandross, and Lamar referenced that connection during his acceptance speech to ease the moment. Joni Mitchell experienced a separate onstage confusion earlier in the afternoon. Many attendees wore "Ice Out" pins, and outspoken acceptance speeches injected unexpected political and humanizing spontaneity.
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