Bruno Mars dominated the 2018 Grammy awards, in a ceremony that highlighted both the #MeToo movement and the attacks on Manchester and Las Vegas music fans.
While Kanye West smiled and waved to the crowd but never actually interrupted Beck’s speech during the awards, his comments in an after-show interview showed that he was not making a joke at all.
Sam Smith was the big winner at the 2015 Grammy Awards in the US, scooping four prizes including record of the year, song of the year, and best new artist.
Given their sonic ownership of last summer with Get Lucky, it seems apt that Daft Punk collaborators dominated the Grammy Awards this year. They had a total of seven wins, including Album of the Year for Random Access Memories and Record of the Year for that ubiquitous single. But for all the evident popularity of the enigmatic French duo amongst younger audiences and the perennial hipness of collaborator Pharrell Williams, theirs was ultimately a victory for old school approaches to music.
French dance duo Daft Punk were the big winners of this year’s Grammys taking five awards including best album for Random Access Memories and best record for Get Lucky featuring Pharrell Williams.