Hillary Clinton at the Grammy awards
New York - Dozens of Grammy Award performers and attendees wore or held white roses Sunday to support of the Time's Up movement.
Published: Mon 29 Jan 2018, 5:43 AM
Last updated: Mon 5 Feb 2018, 8:38 AM
Bruno Mars on Sunday won the Grammy for Record of the Year for his party anthem "24K Magic," the first time the funk revivalist has won the US industry's award for top song on his own.
"24K Magic" is the title track of the Hawaiian-born singer's third album, which revives his mix of fun-loving retro funk but adds touches of 1980s-inspired synthesizers.
Winning his fifth award of the night, Mars addressed his father from the podium: "Look at me, Pop, look at me! I'm at the Grammys right now!"
Taking on the braggadocious style of a rapper in the song, Mars addresses "playas," "hustlas" and "gangstas" as he describes arriving at a party where the sight of hot women is "waking up the rocket" in his pants.
Mars, explaining the song in an interview, said he saw his mission as bringing good times in an often difficult world.
"For me, 95 percent of music is about love. That's why cavemen were hitting stones - to get everybody around the fire and get them feeling sexy," he told Britain's NME.
Mars previously won Record of the Year two years ago as the featured artist on Mark Ronson's equally giddy "Uptown Funk." He was nominated three previous times in the category without winning.
He beat out the global sensation "Despacito" as well as songs by rappers Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar and Childish Gambino.
Here's the full list of winners of the 60th Grammy Awards
Best Pop Solo Performance: Ed Sheeran, Shape of You
Best Pop Vocal Album: Ed Sheeran, Divide
Best New Artist: Alessia Cara
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance: Portugal. The Man, Feel It Still
Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Various Artists; Dae Bennett, producer, Tony Bennett Celebrates 90
Best Dance Recording: LCD Soundsystem, Tonite
Best Dance/Electronic Album: Kraftwerk, 3-D The Catalogue
Best Music Video:HUMBLE, Kendrick Lamar
Best Music Film:The Defiant Ones
Best Rap/Sung Performance: Kendrick Lamar featuring Rihanna, LOYALTY
Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Jeff Lorber Fusion, Prototype
Best Rock Performance: Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker
Best Metal Performance: Mastodon, Sultan's Curse
Best Rock Song: Foo Fighters, Run
Best Rock Album: The War on Drugs, A Deeper Understanding
Best Alternative Music Album: The National, Sleep Well Beast
Best R&B Performance: Bruno Mars, That's What I Like
Best Traditional R&B Performance: Childish Gambino, Redbone
Best Urban Contemporary Album: The Weeknd, Starboy
Best R&B Album: Bruno Mars, 24K Magic
Best Rap Performance: Kendrick Lamar, HUMBLE
Best Rap Song:HUMBLE, Duckworth, Asheton Hogan and M. Williams II, songwriters (Kendrick Lamar)
Best Country Solo Performance:Either Way, Chris Stapleton
Best Country Duo/Group Performance:Better Man, Little Big Town
Best Country Song:Broken Halos, Mike Henderson and Chris Stapleton (Chris Stapleton)
Best New Age Album:Dancing on Water, Peter Kater
Best Improvised Jazz Solo:Miles Beyond, John McLaughlin, soloist
Best Jazz Vocal Album:Dreams and Daggers, Cecile McLorin Salvant
Best Jazz Instrumental Album:Rebirth Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album: Bringin' It
Best Latin Jazz Album:Jazz Tango
Best Contemporary Christian Music Album:Chain Breaker, Zach Williams
Best Roots Gospel Album:Sing It Now: Songs of Faith & Hope,Reba McEntire
Best Latin Pop Album:El Dorado, Shakira
Best Tropical Latin Album:Salsa Big Band
Best American Roots Performance:Killer Diller Blues, Alabama Shake
Best American Roots Song:If We Were Vampires, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Best Americana Album:The Nashville Sound, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Best Bluegrass Album:Laws of Gravity and All the Rage
Best Traditional Blues Album:Blue & Lonesome, The Rolling Stones
Best Contemporary Blues Album:TajMo - Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo'
Best Folk Album:Mental Illness
Best Regional Roots Music Album:Kalenda - Lost Bayou
Ramblers Best Reggae Album:Stony Hill, Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley
Best World Music Album:Shaka Zulu Revisited: 30th Anniversary Celebration, Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Best Children's Album:Feel What U Feel, Lisa Loeb
Best Spoken Word Album (Includes Poetry, Audio Books and Storytelling):The Princess Diarist, Carrie Fisher
Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media:La La Land
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media:La La Land
Best Song Written for Visual Media:How Far I'll Go
Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals:Putin
Best Album Notes:Live at the Whisky A Go Go: The Complete Recordings - Lynell George
Producer of the Year, Non-Classical:Greg Kurstin
Best Remixed Recording:You Move (Latroit Remix)
Best Surround Sound Album:Early Americans
Best Engineered Album, Classical:Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio
Producer of the Year, Classical: David Frost
Best Orchestral Performance:Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5; Barber: Adagio
Best Opera Recording:Berg: Wozzeck
Best Choral Performance:Bryars: The Fifth Century - Donald Nally, conductor (PRISM Quartet and The Crossing)
Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance:Death & the Maiden - Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Best Classical Instrumental Solo:Transcendental, Daniil Trifonov
Best Classical Solo Vocal Album:Crazy Girl Crazy, Barbara Hannigan
Best Classical Compendium:Higdon: All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto
Best Contemporary Classical Composition:Viola Concerto
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Hillary Clinton appearance among Grammys political moments
One-time Grammy winner Hillary Clinton made it back to the awards show Sunday night in a role she no doubt relished.
She was a surprise guest in a skit by host James Corden, supposedly auditioning for the spoken word recording of Michael Wolff’s best-seller on President Donald Trump’s administration, “Fire and Fury.”
She followed John Legend, Cher, Snoop Dogg, Cardi B and DJ Khaled, all of whom Corden found wanting. The final “auditioner” lowered the book from in front of her face to reveal it was Clinton. Corden said she got the job and was a sure winner.
“You think so?” Trump’s 2016 election opponent said. “The Grammy’s in the bag?”
Clinton is already a Grammy winner from 1997, for reading her book, “It Takes a Village.”
Not everyone was a fan of the moment. United Nations Ambassador Nikki Halley tweeted that the moment ruined the Grammy-watching experience for her.
Dozens of Grammy Award performers and attendees wore or held white roses Sunday to support of the Time's Up movement, in an awards season where every awards show has confronted sexual misconduct in show business.
"My message on this is for everybody to treat each other like we want to be treated," said Reba McEntire, winner for best roots gospel album. "It's the golden rule."
Singer-songwriter Ledisi, who had three nominations and who performed at the Women's March in Las Vegas last weekend, had this thought: "It's important for us to call out this madness."
Most stars wore black and a Time's Up pin in support of the movement at the Golden Globes earlier this month. Fewer wore roses at the Grammys, but there was still a sober and serious air in the air.
"I was just saying to someone that it's so commonplace that most of the time women don't even know they've been harassed," said Andra Day, nominated for two R&B Grammys.
"So I think talking about it and changing the narrative about how we should be treated, particularly in this business but across all industries, is important. It's exciting. We're on a precipice right now."
The sexual misconduct scandals that have rocked politics, media and Hollywood haven't so far upended the music industry. Inside the auditorium, the acceptance speeches largely avoided the issue as the show reached its midpoint.
Record mogul Russell Simmons is perhaps the biggest industry name accused of sexual misconduct. Former Epic label head L.A. Reid has also faced accusations and Kesha, the pop singer, has been at war with her former mentor and producer Dr. Luke, who she claims raped and drugged her.
Songwriter Diane Warren predicted that a reckoning will come to the music industry. "It's going to," she said. "One hundred percent. It's the worst."
Ever a rocker, Warren skipped the rose on the red carpet but wore two white gloves - one with the word "girl" and one with "power.
"I didn't want to wear the rose. I'm a rebel," she said.
The Time's Up movement supports women with legal and financial help who raise sexual misconduct complaints. While female musicians from every background and genre - from country to rock and rap - spoke in favor of it, many men made a point of wearing the pin.
Dan Reynolds, lead singer of rock-rappers Imagine Dragons, said his three daughters are aspiring artists and he wore a Time's Up pin in their honor.
"I want a different industry for them than there is right now," he said, adding that he saw his wife suffer neglect and abuse in the music industry.
"It's time to talk about that and confront it and to change that landscape. That's all I can hope as a dad - for my daughters, it's a different landscape.
The white rose was chosen in part because it could be done quickly but also because the color has been long used as part of the women's suffragist movement
The men included Justin Paul, who with Benj Pasek, won a Grammy for his cast album of "Dear Evan Hansen." He wore a pin in support of "all of the brave women, and men as well, who have spoken up."
Allen Hughes, the director of "The Defiant Ones," actually came to the Grammys wearing two small roses on his lapel.
"I'm a feminist," he explained.
Wayne Sermon, from left, Daniel Platzman, Dan Reynolds, Ben McKee of Imagine Dragons arrives at the 60th annual Grammy Awards at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, in New York.AP
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