{"id":482070,"date":"2019-02-10T22:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=792927"},"modified":"2019-02-10T22:27:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T05:27:45","slug":"grammys-2019-childish-gambino-kacey-musgraves-run-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/grammys-2019-childish-gambino-kacey-musgraves-run-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Grammys 2019: Childish Gambino, Kacey Musgraves Run the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Childish Gambino<\/a> and Kacey Musgraves<\/a> took home the biggest prizes at the 2019 Grammy Awards<\/a>, with the rapper winning both Song and Record of the Year for \u201cThis Is America\u201d and the country musician taking home Album of the Year for Golden Hour<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Both Musgraves and Childish Gambino notched four wins each. Along with becoming the first rapper to win Song and Record of the Year, Childish Gambino also won Best Music Video and Best Rap\/Sung Performance for \u201cThis Is America\u201d but, despite the big night, Donald Glover<\/a> was notably not present to accept any of his trophies. Meanwhile, Musgraves also picked up Best Country Song (\u201cSpace Cowboy\u201d), Best Country Solo Performance (\u201cButterflies\u201d) and Best Country Album.<\/p>\n

From the winners to the performers, much of the 2019 Grammys seemed to be a corrective to last year\u2019s show where \u2014 in the thick of the #MeToo movement \u2014 a strong message of female empowerment was counterbalanced by an overwhelming lack of female winners. Then, following the 2018 Grammys, Recording Academy President Neil Portnow managed to invoke additional ire when he responded to a question about this gender disparity by suggesting that women needed to \u201cstep up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Host Alicia Keys<\/a> happily embraced the task of trying to right last year\u2019s wrongs as much as possible. She notably opening the show with a message about the transformative power of music, delivered alongside Lady Gaga<\/a>, Jada Pinkett Smith, Jennifer Lopez and Michelle Obama. \u201cTonight we celebrate the greatness in each other through music,\u201d Keys said, before glancing at her compatriots and adding the rhetorical question: \u201cExcuse me. \u2026 Who runs the world?\u201d<\/p>\n

As the winners list showed, it wasn\u2019t all talk either. Cardi B<\/a> became the first female solo artist ever to win Best Rap Album for Invasion of Privacy,<\/em> while Musgraves\u2019 Best Country Album win made her the first woman since Miranda Lambert in 2015 to take home the prize. Upon accepting the Grammy for Best New Artist, Dua Lipa<\/a> even made direct<\/a> reference to Portnow\u2019s complaint, quipping, \u201cWhere I want to begin is by saying how honored I am to be nominated alongside so many female artists this year because I guess this year we\u2019ve really stepped up.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of the most historic awards, however, was handed out before the televised show even started: Emily Lazar, a mastering engineer who has worked on albums by everyone from David Bowie and Paul McCartney to Bj\u00f6rk and Destiny\u2019s Child, became the first woman ever to win Best Engineered Album, Nonclassical for Beck\u2019s Colors<\/em>. Keys, however, dutifully shouted out the victory before the night\u2019s final awards were handed out.<\/p>\n

Additionally, women helmed the majority of the night\u2019s performances. Among the show-stoppers were Camilla Cabello\u2019s all-star rendition of \u201cHavana,\u201d H.E.R. capping off a breakout performance of \u201cHard Place\u201d with a bit of guitar shredding and Cardi B gloriously peacocking around stage as she breathlessly ripped through \u201cMoney.\u201d Janelle Mon\u00e1e also offered up a blitzkrieg blast of femme<\/em> funk, tearing through her Dirty Computer<\/em> track \u201cMake Me Feel\u201d while offering up, as a cheeky aside, the most succinct summation of the night\u2019s theme: \u201cLet the vagina have a monologue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, the Recording Academy\u2019s patented \u201cGrammy Moments Machine\u201d kicked, sputtered and churned out a characteristic mix of the sublime, surreal and downright sub-optimal. Among the highlights: Dolly Parton<\/a> effectively hijacking her own tribute and delivering a stunning, mostly a capella cover of Neil Young\u2019s \u201cAfter the Gold Rush\u201d with Miley Cyrus and Maren Morris; Dua Lipa and St. Vincent tag-teaming a searing mash-up of \u201cMasseduction\u201d and \u201cOne Kiss,\u201d peppered with a little bit of Aretha Franklin\u2019s \u201cRespect\u201d; and Diana Ross wishing herself a happy 75th birthday (about one month early) during a dazzling double-shot of \u201cBest Years of My Life\u201d and \u201cReach Out and Touch (Somebody\u2019s Hand).\u201d<\/p>\n

Far less effective, however, was the Jennifer Lopez-helmed tribute to Motown, which managed to be mostly nostalgic flash with very little substance. And the most head-scratching moment of the night undoubtedly belonged to Post Malone and the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who combined for a numbing rap-rock medley of the former\u2019s \u201cStay\u201d and \u201cRockstar\u201d plus the latter\u2019s \u201cDark Necessities.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the 2019 Grammys undeniably made strides towards actualizing the kind of diversity and inclusivity the entertainment industry likes to pride itself on, it was impossible not to feel at times the heavy nudge of a PR push. And despite all the social justice rhetoric, the entire music industry seemed to forget that rapper 21 Savage \u2014 who was nominated alongside Post Malone for \u201cRockstar\u201d \u2014 could not attend the ceremony because he\u2019d been detained by Immigration Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n

If anything, the 2019 Grammys were, in many ways, not so different from previous years. The performances and tributes came fast and furious, and the awards were handed out almost like an afterthought (just nine trophies were presented during the televised show). But even criticism of the Grammys is as much a Grammy tradition as a show that runs well over three-and-a-half hours, and even this truism was well represented Sunday night.<\/p>\n

Upon accepting the Grammy for Best Best Rap Song, Drake threw some not-so-subtle shade at the Grammys, saying, \u201cWe play in an opinion-based sport, not a factual-based sport. You\u2019ve already won if you have people who are singing your songs word for word, if you\u2019re a hero in your hometown\u2026 Look, if there\u2019s people who have regular jobs who are coming out in the rain, in the snow, spending money to buy tickets to your shows, you don\u2019t need this right here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drake then seemed to take a pause before continuing \u2013 but before he could finish, the Grammys did a hard cut to commercial.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Childish Gambino and Kacey Musgraves took home the biggest prizes at the 2019 Grammy Awards, with the rapper winning both Song and Record of the Year for \u201cThis Is America\u201d and the country musician taking home Album of the Year for Golden Hour. Both Musgraves and Childish Gambino notched four wins each. Along with becoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:39:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}