A week following the Oscars and the thunderous slap of Will Smith addressed to Chris Rock, it’s the turn of the Grammy Awards to invite themselves into the news. The music award ceremony is taking place tonight in Las Vegas.
As usual, the evening will be marked by performances that will not go unnoticed. Billie Eilish, BTS, Lil Nas X, HER, Nas and Olivia Rodrigo, the great sensation of the moment. The young Californian walks in the footsteps of Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, Christina Aguilera and Justin Timberlake. Like these, she hails from the Disney stable via the High School Musical series. Tonight, she is nominated in 7 categories including the 4 most important: album of the year, song of the year, recording and revelation of the year. What make a box full as did Billie Eilish two years ago.
At 19, Olivia Rodrigo is a hit everywhere. Last February, she won the Brit Award for international song thanks to her single “Good 4 U”. Last year, it was the prestigious Time magazine that made him the entertainer of the year, in other words, the most outstanding personality in the world of show business and entertainment in 2021. At his age, excuse the bit!
At home, we will recall that his concert on June 19 sold out in just 8 short minutes. The mark of the greats.
Barack Obama for the third time?
Many eyes will also be on Barack Obama. The former president of the United States is in the running for a third Grammy. Already rewarded in 2006 and 2008, he is once once more in the running for the trophy for the best spoken album with the audio version of his memoirs, A promised land. Something to fill the family fireplace which also has a Grammy won by Michelle Obama in 2020 with her audio book Becoming.
The Kanye West threat
Eyes will also be on Kanye West, sorry Ye since it is now his legal name, whose unpredictable mood we know. In 2009, during the MTV Video Music Award ceremony, he had jumped on stage and interrupted the thanks of Taylor Swift who had just been rewarded to say that Beyoncé was to be the winner of the best clip. Since then, between the singer and the rapper-producer, it’s who will throw the most piquant kindness…
At the time, Barack Obama called Kanye West an idiot when he brought up the incident.
Named in 5 categories, Kanye West, sorry Ye!, finds himself this time in competition once morest Taylor Swift for the Grammy for best album. What to fear a new skid …
He won’t be performing on the Grammys stage either, as organizers cut his “disturbing behavior online”. In question: his actions on social networks which earned him a 24-hour ban from Instagram for “harassment, verbal abuse and hate speech” once morest his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her new companion, comedian Pete Davidson, or even vis-à-vis comedian Trevor Noah.
In short, even before the start of the ceremony, there is electricity in the air and everyone fears a blow “à la Will Smith”…