Harry Styles

Harry Styles and Lizzo both won top prizes while Beyoncé became the most decorated artist in Grammy history at the 2023 Grammy Awards.

[transphobic](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/netflix-employees-supporters-walkout-dave-chappelle-the-closer-1245366/) [jokes](https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/dave-chappelle-statement-the-closer-controversy-1246445/). Styles also won Best Pop Vocal Album for Harry’s House, Willie Nelson was awarded Best Country Album for A Beautiful Time (the legend also took home Best Country Solo Performance for “Live Forever”), and Adele picked up Best Pop Solo Performance for “Easy on Me.” [sauntered through](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/trevor-noah-2023-grammy-opening-1234674242/) the crowd during his opening monologue. The superstar was up for four awards Sunday, including Song of the Year for “All Too Well (10 Minute Version).” But while that didn’t go her way, Swift is now able to call herself an Meanwhile, British upstarts Wet Leg bested indie and alt vets like Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Björk, Arctic Monkeys, and Florence and the Machine to win their first Grammys, Best Alternative Music Album (Wet Leg) and Alternative Performance (“Chaise Longue”). And arguably, the most moving moment of the night [belonged to Kim Petras](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kim-petras-becomes-first-trans-women-to-win-grammy-1234674280/), who became the first trans woman to win Best Pop Duo/Group Collaboration for her smash with Sam Smith, “Unholy.” And Nigerian star Tems picked up her first Grammy, sharing Best Melodic Rap Performance with Future and Drake (who In many ways, this year’s Grammys were also extremely online (even if the winners didn’t always line up with the way the show presented itself). ](https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/louis-c-k-grammys-sexual-misconduct-1331976/)for the second year in a row, though?) Brandi Carlile’s [tear-the-house-down performance of “Broken Horses”](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/brandi-carlile-2023-grammys-performance-broken-horses-1234673537/) featured an introduction from her wife, Catherine Shepherd, and their two children. Riding that wave, it seemed Beyoncé was finally going to pick up another long-awaited major prize (she’s only won one, Song of the Year in 2010 for “Single Ladies”), if not all three. After paying tribute to “transgender legends” who came before her, like Sophie, as well as LGBTQ advocates like Madonna, Petras said, “I grew up next to a highway in Germany,” she said.

During the 65th Grammy Awards on Sunday, actress Viola Davis won the final award needed for her to achieve an EGOT and Beyoncé broke the record for most ...

Song Of The Year: “abcdefu,” Gayle; “About Damn Time,” Lizzo;“All Too Well (10 Min. [Beyoncé Dominates 2023 Grammy Nominations—Will Face Off With Adele Again](https://www.forbes.com/sites/marisadellatto/2022/11/15/beyonc-dominates-2023-grammy-nominations-will-face-off-with-adele-again/?sh=222efe0b3226) (Forbes) [Adele Vs. Record Of The Year: “Don’t Shut Me Down,” ABBA; “Easy On Me,” Adele; “Break My Soul,” Beyoncé; “Good Morning Gorgeous,” Mary J. I love you, I always have, and I always will,” Adele said. Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: “Don’t Shut Me Down,” ABBA; “Bam Bam,” Camila Cabello feat. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar; Special, Lizzo; Harry’s House, Harry Styles (WINNER)

There's probably a party over at Harry's house on Sunday night because Harry Styles took home the trophy for album of the year at the Grammy Awards.

“Without You” was released in January in honor of Takeoff, with the lyrics speaking to Quavo’s grief for his loved one and collaborator. She also acknowledged the LGBTQ artists who inspired and directly contributed to “Renaissance.” [Rapper Quavo](http://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/entertainment/quavo-takeoff-tribute-grammys-in-memoriam-cec/index.html) took the stage with gospel group Maverick City Music for a moving performance of “Without You,” honoring his nephew and fellow Migos member Takeoff during the in memoriam tribute. [Takeoff,](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/entertainment/quavo-takeoff-tribute-grammys-in-memoriam-cec/index.html) who was one-third of the platinum-selling rap group Migos, was shot and killed in November 2022 in Houston, Texas. Petra’s “Unholy” collaborator, and fellow Grammy winner, Smith also donned red, wearing a long red coat, with a matching red tophat, cane and gloves. Petras walked the red carpet in her red hot ruffled dress that included a matching red veil. [ Christine McVie](https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/entertainment/christine-mcvie-obit/index.html), who died in November. (An EGOT is an artist who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and a Tony Award in their career.) At the end of the medley, each artist that performed gathered on the stage for the grand finale. “Hip-hop is a global platform today,” LL Cool J said, adding “we’re celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop… This year, the 2023 ceremony featured a number of performances that nodded to celebrating music itself. “I’ve been so, so inspired by every artist in this category with me at a lot of different times in my life,” Styles said as he accepted his award.

The Recording Academy, which organises the Grammy's, has been trying to diversify its membership amid criticism.

He performed his single As It Was during the ceremony, decked head to toe in silver lame. I am trying just to receive this night,” Beyonce said at the ceremony on Sunday. “I am trying not to be too emotional.

The pop star beat the Hawes Bay electronic musician for Best Engineered Album - Non Classical.

You can follow Stuff’s live coverage of the ceremony from 11:30am. *

Baynk just pipped by the Watermelon Sugar singer - but it was always a "shot in the dark".

It was just a shot in the dark.” Packing up in London to return home about the time his placing as a finalist was announced in November, he told Hawke’s Bay Today he had been nominated for a “multitude” of categories, but added: “But I wasn’t expecting anything. A finalist in the Engineered Album, Non-Classical category, he had to bow to the claims of global music sensation Harry Styles, who was expected to be among the headliners at the 65th annual awards in Los Angeles.

Styles, who also won for Best Pop Vocal Album, discussed the continuity of creating the album, which debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 chart when it was ...

“So we are always writing and like to attempt to have the same intention behind what we are making.” “The atmosphere that is created in live music and the experiencing of that... Playing for an amazing group of people every night is my favorite, favorite thing to do.” And in reality I very much feel like the fans create that atmosphere for me, and the room is this energy that almost feels like it’s too magical for me to take any responsibility for,” he said. “It’s amazing to see the way songs that mean so much to me, to see how much they mean to other people when you're playing for them. “More than anything, it just kind of feels like validation that you're on the right path,” said Styles in the press room after his win.

Though his North American tour just wrapped last week and he's jetting off to Australia at the end of the month, Harry Styles is "always writing."

During a heartfelt speech after winning album of the year, Styles said he’s been “so inspired by everyone in this category with me.” So we’re kind of always writing and try to have the same intention behind what we’re making.” “We’ve always tried to not really stop writing,” Styles said coyly of he and his “Harry’s House” co-writers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Harry Styles won album of the year at Sunday's Grammy Awards , taking home the top honor on a night that Beyoncé dominated and became the ...

The actor gave an emotional speech and emphatically said “I just EGOT” after she marched on stage to collect her award. "I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola, to honor her, her life, her joy, her trauma, everything," Davis said. The touching performances included Kacey Musgraves singing “Coal Miner’s Daughter” in tribute to Lynn; Quavo and the Maverick City Music hit the stage to honor his nephew Takeoff with the song “Without You;” and Sheryl Crow, Mick Fleetwood and Bonnie Raitt performed “Songbird” to remember McVie. … I would like to thank the culture for allowing me to evolve in order to make this. Thank you.” She has released two albums as a lead artist and also won the Grammy for best jazz vocal album earlier in the night. A who’s who of hip-hop royalty took the stage for an epic, rousing 15 minute tribute to the genre’s 50th anniversary. Veteran singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt shrugged off big-name rivals like Adele, Swift and Beyoncé to win the song of the year award. The New Yorker was virtually in tears when she collected the award and noted that her little brother was her date. “It feels like validation that you’re on the right path,” said the singer backstage. “I’m trying not to be too emotional,” the superstar said after her historic win as her husband Jay-Z stood and applauded her. The singer thanked her late uncle, her parents, Jay-Z and her children for supporting her. But the superstar was a constant presence throughout the night, even when she wasn't in the room, especially once she won her 32nd award and surpassed late composer Georg Solti in all-time wins.

Follow along as we update our collection of the best looks at this year's Grammy awards, both on the red carpet and on stage.

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All of you are so inspiring to me.” So to be with you, born and raised in the Bronx, New York, my family here. “I listen to everyone in this category when I’m alone.

Not only did the singer take home two Grammy Awards on Sunday evening, but he also served up some of the ceremony's most talked-about outfits.

Taking the stage to scoop up the coveted Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for "Harry's House," he looked dapper in a cropped white suit jacket and wide-legged tan-colored pants. Others dubbed the look an example of "clowncore," while the singer also drew comparisons — both favorable and disparaging — to two of Britain's most flamboyant pop icons: Elton John and David Bowie. The former One Direction star began the night in a plunging technicolor jumpsuit that revealed a collection of butterfly and bird tattoos on his otherwise bare chest.

Beyonce may have set a new record at the Grammys but she couldn't break her own losing streak where the biggest award of the night is concerned.

With four new prizes tonight, the megastar has now won more Grammy Awards than any other artist in the prizes' 65-year history. She has now won 32 Grammys.

"I want to thank all the incredible transgender legends before me so I could be here tonight," she added, shouting out the late trans pop artist SOPHIE in her speech, as well as Madonna and her mother for inspiration. The night was filled with a number of excellent live performances, from longtime Grammy favorites to new-comers to the stage. [Kendrick Lamar](https://www.npr.org/artists/166009689/kendrick-lamar) took home the Grammy for best rap album for his Mr. The 23-year-old cried through her whole acceptance speech, marveling that she won one of the Grammy's biggest prizes "just by being myself." "Sam graciously wanted me to accept this award because I'm the first transgender woman to win this award," Petras said in her speech. Bonnie Raitt won the song of the year prize for "Just Like That." A half an hour into the show, Beyoncé — who was reportedly late to the awards thanks to LA traffic — tied the all-time record for most Grammys won when she and a team of co-writers won best R&B song for "Cuff It." Lizzo took song of the year for "About Damn Time." Later, she gave credit to her forbearers and inspiration, adding: "I would like to thank the queer community for your love, and for inventing the genre," referring to the house music that grounded RENAISSANCE. "This is so kind," Styles said of the album of the year award, as Beyoncé gave him a standing ovation. (Adele took home took home best pop solo performance for her song "Easy on Me." Beyoncé has now captured more Grammy awards than any other artist, thanks to a quartet of trophies for her album RENAISSANCE.

The queen of pop broke records – though not for the big gongs, again. But if the Recording Academy has a history of unexpected choices, this year's wins for ...

[Harry Styles](https://www.theguardian.com/music/harry-styles)’s Harry’s House beating Renaissance to album of the year doesn’t feel the same as Beck’s Morning Phase triumphing over [Beyoncé](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/13/beyonce-album-first-review) in 2015, nor does it feel the same as if, say, Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres had won this year. [Beyoncé](https://www.theguardian.com/music/beyonce) has only ever won one of them once – song of the year in 2010 for Single Ladies – which seems a fairly inexplicable state of affairs: you don’t need to be a rabid member of the Bey Hive to know that she’s had an immense cultural and commercial impact over the last 20 years. Under the circumstances, Samara Joy – a hugely gifted jazz vocalist, gradually emerging as a significant songwriter as well as an adept interpreter of standards – feels like a worthwhile choice: rooted in tradition, but too soulful to qualify as easy listening. The weirdest success was Bonnie Raitt’s [Just Like That](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skd0XR3twCA) winning song of the year, at least from the perspective of the UK, where the album it’s from didn’t even make the charts. Certainly they’re one of the biggest-selling groups in a field where several of the nominees didn’t even seem particularly new: Molly Tuttle’s first album came out in 2006; Tobe Nwigwe’s first EP six years ago; Muni Long is 34 and released her debut album, albeit under her real name, Priscilla Renea, in 2009. Without wishing to cast shade on those doughtily toiling away in the areas covered by the best score soundtrack for video games and other interactive media and best new age ambient or chant album categories, the Grammys are ultimately about four awards: album of the year, record of the year, song of the year and best new artist.

Harry Styles' acceptance speech after he won the Grammy award for album of the year caused an uproar on social media Sunday night.

Styles was up against Beyoncé and eight other artists, including Bad Bunny, Lizzo, Adele and Kendrick Lamar. Thank you very much,” Styles said, before handing the microphone off to his co-writers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson. “I think on nights like tonight it’s important for us to remember there is no such thing as ‘best’ in music.

By Oscar Holland of CNN. Harry Styles had a night to remember. Not only did he take home two Grammy Awards on Sunday evening, but he also served up some of ...

Harry Styles has left fans baffled after making a seemingly innocent comment during his Grammys acceptance speech. The As It Was singer took out one of the ...

A third person said, “’This doesn’t happen to people like me often’ - “We beg to differ, Harry. Renaissance was once again a testament to Beyoncé's…everything and the academy loves to mess with her.” One person said, “‘this doesn’t happen to people like me often’ who, white British men?” while another tweeted, “Harry Styles said ‘this doesn’t happen to people like me very often’ and I gotta be honest I can’t think of a type of people this happens for more.”

Even as gender and masculinity are more fluid than ever, it can still rankle when male stars co-opt traditionally gay codes and styles.

Queer, in this era, means what you say it means: It can mean “I haven’t, but I’d try it” or “I don’t see myself as traditionally heterosexual” or “I don’t want anybody to think I lack imagination” or “My sense of my own sexual identity or tastes is that they’re out of the mainstream” or “I would, but only with Harry Styles” or “I don’t know yet.” “Queer” is one-size-fits-all; there is no entrance requirement. [tweet](https://www.billboard.com/culture/pride/omar-apollo-shuts-down-queerbaiting-rumors-nsfw-tweet-1235178135/), he refuted the charge explicitly (in both senses of the word) with a concise reply saying, “No I b [participating in a common consensual same-sex activity described in two words that this publication would be perfectly OK with you Googling] fr [for real].” It’s great when it’s that easy. “Queer” is used by some gay men interchangeably with “gay,” and you can just as easily identify as queer and lesbian, queer and bisexual, queer and trans. The first is “Straight; heterosexual and cisgender; a Kinsey zero.” The second is “Anything other than that.” “Queer” has come to stand in for option number two, and it has created a tent so big that some of the people inside it aren’t completely comfortable with the company they’re keeping. (And what someone deciding whether to hire an actor is entitled to ask about that actor’s sexuality is, for very good reasons, also nothing.) The price of a ticket entitles you only to good work — if you’re lucky; it doesn’t buy you the promise that you’re going to be witnessing embodied personal history. The idea that homosexuality can be teased in flourishes and gestures recalls a much more repressive era (five decades ago) in which gay performers like Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly couldn’t do more than occasionally throw a plausibly deniable smirk to their “if you know, you know” gay fan base if they wanted to remain employable. And what about his role in last year’s period drama “ [My Policeman](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/movies/my-policeman-review.html)” as a gay British cop in the 1950s prevented from living his truth by a stultifying and bigoted world? And at least one version of Styles is very [maybe-something-else](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/arts/music/pop-men-harry-styles-jack-harlow-bad-bunny.html): the one posing in a dress on the cover of a women’s fashion magazine. And in truth, “L.G.B.T.” has always been an imperfect portmanteau, since its first three letters are shorthand for “Who I’m attracted to” and its fourth is a shorthand for “Who I am.” Today, for many very young people eager to discover and announce their identities long before they’ve had any sexual experience with another person, the designation they select is much likelier to connote “This is me” than “This is what I do.” And the idea here is laudable: Nobody should have to go through life, especially adolescent life, experiencing the loneliness that comes with feeling that there’s not even a word with which they can describe themselves. A quick primer, for those of you who, like me, are over a certain age and may be more familiar with the term “gay baiting”: This is one of those squirmy evolving-language things in which, faster than you might ever imagine, a phrase comes to mean almost exactly the opposite of what it once meant. How many of you know what that label cost people to obtain?” Not that the label itself carries much weight with Zoomers; the term “L.G.B.T.,” first coined more than 30 years ago, is now seen by many young people as a relic, little more than a makeshift beta test undertaken by their parents’ generation. Right now, the most charged queer-baiting discussion is about men — not a surprise, since any trace of sexual ambiguity in a male star has always excited an intense degree of interest, suspicion and paranoia about the perceived undermining of masculinity.

Harry Styles took home two Grammy Awards Sunday night, including Album of the Year, but many took to social media to criticize his "cringe" speech.

[Beyoncé made history](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/05/beyonce-breaks-grammy-record-most-wins-ever/11172776002/) with the most Grammy wins – ever. [one user wrote](https://twitter.com/_MrsDamiano/status/1622586979505393665). The "Break My Soul" singer brought her 22-year-total to 32 on Sunday, topping the 31 statues claimed by legendary Hungarian conductor Georg Solti and making her the all-time awards champ of the Recording Industry Association of America. [All the best (and worst) performances](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/05/grammys-2023-brutally-honest-reviews-every-performance-ranked/11193018002/) I'm trying not to be too emotional. While his win is no surprise on the basis of his talent (he's [won 3 Grammys with 9 nominations](https://www.grammy.com/artists/harry-styles/287522)), his speech was confusing to many who expected the award to go to Beyoncé. Please." "Harry said things like this don't happen to people like him. The Grammys exist for people like you.." "No one can take that away from him. This doesn't happen to people like me very often." [Harry Styles](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/05/grammy-awards-2023-live-updates/11170771002/) took home two more [ Grammy Awards](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/05/grammys-2023-brutally-honest-reviews-every-performance-ranked/11193018002/) – including the biggest prize of the night – for his 2022 album "Harry's House."

Beyoncé lost Album of the Year for Renaissance at the Grammys, for a fourth time, to Harry Styles's album Harry's House. Why did Harry Styles win the top ...

In [the new Songwriter of the Year award](https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/songwriter-of-the-year-grammy-why-it-matters.html), two of the five nominees had cuts on Styles’s album, including the eventual winner, Tobias Jesso Jr. (It’s a little surprising “As It Was” didn’t earn any hardware, but the wins for Harry’s House seem to be recognition of the album as a body of hits.) After the Academy was criticized for giving Jon Batiste’s We Are, an album without a single top-40 hit, AOTY last year, Styles’s project gave them the opportunity to be on the pulse, at no expense of its perspective. [Shania Twain](https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/harry-styles-late-night-talking-boyfriends-shania-twain-coachella.html)) and present ( [Lizzo](https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/harry-styles-lizzo-i-will-survive-coachella-surprise-guest.html)). As it faded out, Styles and his team teed up hits-in-waiting “Late Night Talking” and “Music for A Sushi Restaurant,” both of which hit the top ten. Styles had a hold on the charts as well, with “As It Was” logging a record five separate runs atop the Hot 100, from its No. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, or Lizzo stole votes from her, why didn’t the same happen to Styles with ABBA, Adele, or Coldplay?) It also feels beside the point to argue whether Styles deserved AOTY over Beyoncé — [we’ve done that with her past two snubs for Beyoncé and Lemonade](https://www.vulture.com/2017/02/what-more-does-beyonc-have-to-do-to-win-album-of-the-year.html), and the answer remains a resounding yes. Beyoncé, on the other hand, added a fourth snub for the top honor to her career, this time for [Renaissance](https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/beyonce-renaissance-review.html), a spectacular, holistic project celebrating Blackness and queerness that [many critics](https://www.vulture.com/article/best-albums-2022.html) had already declared the record of 2022. Then when the record came out in May — logging over a half-million units, the second biggest week of the year behind Taylor Swift’s debut for Midnights — Styles hit the road. [took Best New Artist](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/grammys-2023-samara-joy-best-new-artist.html) (the second jazz BNA win in less than 15 years, if you can believe it). [On Sunday evening](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/grammys-2023-recap-best-worst-performances-winners.html), it was a different British pop star who stood between her and her first Grammy for Album of the Year: Harry Styles. Anyone other than Bey winning would’ve been met with some level of vitriol — especially after the Grammys spent the entire night hyping AOTY, and especially after [she became ](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/beyonce-most-grammy-awards-history.html)the winningest artist in the Recording Academy’s history earlier in the ceremony. Styles won on his first AOTY nomination, for his third (solo) album [Harry’s House](https://www.vulture.com/2022/05/harry-styles-harrys-house-album-review.html), a pleasant but too-comfortable set of songs influenced by ‘80s synthpop and classic rock.

Grammy Award winner Harry Styles has been slammed online for his acceptance speech for the Album of the Year accolade, in which he beat out fellow nominees ...