“I used to watch the Grammys and now I’m here and I get to sing on the stage.” Actress and recording artist Cynthia Erivo reflected on her creative journey over the years on the Grammys red carpet.
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Taylor Swift arrives at the 67th Grammys, where she is nominated for six awards.
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A-listers including Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter, Billie Eilish and Teddy Swims walk the red carpet at the Grammy Awards in LA. (Feb. 2)
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Beyoncé acepta el premio al álbum del año por “COWBOY CARTER durante la 67ª entrega anual de los premios Grammy el domingo 2 de febrero de 2025 en Los Ángeles. Blue Ivy Carter mira desde la derecha. (Foto AP/Chris Pizzello)
It’s rare to see Beyoncé these days without Blue Ivy Carter, and vice versa.
The 13-year-old star of “Mufasa” posed with her mother on the red carpet at the film’s premiere, and then just weeks later performed alongside the superstar during Netflix’s NFL halftime show on Christmas Day. So it was fitting that Blue took the stage with Beyoncé to accept the award for the album of the year.
She stood with her hands clutched as her mother accepted the award before hugging her onstage during the emotional culmination of Beyoncé’s storied Grammys career.
- She’s the first Black woman to win album of the year in 26 years, since Lauryn Hill’s “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.”
- “Cowboy Carter” is the first country album to take the top award since Kacey Musgraves’ “Golden Hour” in 2019.
- The 11 nominations for “Cowboy Carter” tied Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” for the most for a single album.
Charli XCX brought her BRAT rave to the Grammys with all her effortlessly cool internet it girlfriends. The singer danced to her hit song “Von Dutch” as fans swarmed around her before strutting back onstage to perform among a throng of friends including Julia Fox who she wished a “happy birthday” too.
“I’m going to perform the least Grammy-appropriate songs,” she said in a clip before her performance.
In light blue underwear, Charli XCX sang “Guess” a song all about guessing the color of Charli’s underwear. Like her music video for the song, a caption flashed on the screen saying that “all undergarments will be donated to survivors of domestic violence.”
Kendrick Lamar poses in the press room with the award for record of the year, best rap performance, best rap song, best music video and song of the year during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
Beyoncé’s Grammy wins for best country album, best country duo/group performance and album of the year bring her career total to 35, exceeding the previous record, which she herself set.
It’s not unusual for an awards show to run over. And the Grammys only did so by 20 minutes, ending before midnight following a show packed with performances, tributes, historic awards and emotional appeals for wildfire relief.
“I wanna dedicate this to Miss Martell, and I hope we just keep pushing forward, opening doors,” the artist said, referencing Linda Martell, a pioneer for Black artists in country music.
Taylor Swift clinked glasses with Jay-Z in celebration of Beyoncé’s win.
Beyoncé is already the most-awarded artist in Grammy history. And now, the album of the year crown is finally hers for “Cowboy Carter.”
Beyonce accepts the award for album of the year for “COWBOY CARTER during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. Blue Ivy Carter looks on from right.(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Beyoncé skipped the red carpet but showed up in custom Schiaparelli to collect the best country album award. The body-hugger is embroidered in a bandana pattern. It’s covered in sparkling sequins and beads in champagne and cream. Her opera gloves elevate the look.
Her gown is a high fashion take on country-western style. Beyoncé has been doing country couture since her album “Cowboy Carter” was released last March.
Most of the firefighters left the stage.
Earlier, host Trevor Noah announced $7 million had been pledged from viewers of the show.
Members of the County of Los Angeles Fire Department present the award for album of the year during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Members of the Los Angeles County Fire Department are onstage to present the final award of the night, album of the year — the easiest job they’ve done, host Trevor Noah quipped.
It’s an arena-wide standing ovation for the firefighters.
Fire Chief Anthony Marrone said it was “a tremendous honor and privilege to be in the company of such talented music industry professionals.”
After Charli xcx’s performance ended, the group stayed on stage tossing lingerie in the air. After they moved off, stagehands came in with push brooms to clean up.
Charli XCX performs during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
“Happy birthday, Julia Fox.”
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Charli XCX performs during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
When it came to winners this Grammys, not much as Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” won both categories.
But song of the year is a songwriter’s award, while record of the year is broader, recognizing a song for its full production and thus also awarding the artists, producers and engineers involved.
Alicia Keys defended diversity, shouted out female producers and gave props to her award’s namesake when she accepted the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award.
“Tonight is a beautiful, powerful thing we’re cultivating,” she said.
Keys said she was honored to be recognized in part for her work as a producer because women so rarely are.
“This is for all the ladies that know the magic that they bring to the room.” From there she spoke up for broader inclusion.
“This is not the time to shut down the diversity of voices,” she said. “We’ve seen on this stage talented hard-working people from different backgrounds and it changes the game.”
“DEI is not a threat it’s a gift, and the more voices the more powerful the sound.”
And she gave “big love to my brother Dr. Dre,” who covered his face and appeared to be tearing up.
Returning to the stage to accept the song of the year Grammy for “Not Like Us,” Kendrick Lamar hailed presenter Diana Ross.
Diana Ross, right, presents the award for song of the year for “Not Like Us” to Kendrick Lamar during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
She picked up the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award wearing a royal gold and black look from Dolce & Gabbana.
From the brand’s Sardinia collection, it includes a black silk cady gown paired with a gold filigree corset belt and a headpiece Dolce & Gabbana describes as “headdress earrings.”
Queen Latifah, left, presents the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award to Alicia Keys during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. Genesis Ali Dean looks on from right.(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
“DEI is not a threat, it’s a gift. And the more voices, the more powerful the sound. When destructive forces try to burn us down, we rise from the ashes like a phoenix.”
Alicia Keys
While Shakira was busy performing for the crowd, perhaps she was owed a song of her own — for her birthday. The star posted on Instagram that she was coming back to the stage on her birthday.
Kendrick Lamar is having a week unlike the rest of us.
He’s won four Grammys so far, including record of the year for “Not Like Us,” taking his career total to a whopping 21.
And he’ll be heading to New Orleans where next Sunday he’ll join the elite club of Super Bowl headliners with a halftime show at the game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs.
The Grammys are supposed to wrap at 11:30 p.m. Eastern / 8 p.m. Pacific. But it might overshoot that goal.
Still to go as of 8:11 p.m. Pacific is the presentation of the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award to Alicia Keys, song of the year, a Charli xcx performance and the grand finale of album of the year. It’s anyone’s guess when this show actually ends.
Correction: This post originally said the Grammys were slated to end at 11 p.m., not 11:30 p.m.
The Grammy winner’s performance was prefaced by a video package in which she talked about her separation and her greatest fears coming true. But the Colombian superstar was triumphant tonight, winning best Latin pop album and delivering a characteristically show-stopping, belly dance-filled performance of “Ojos Así” and her massive hit “BZRP Music Sessions Vol. 53.” The latter opened with a dramatic choral performance before shifting into high gear.
After a change from her black leather red carpet look, Cyrus presented the record of the year award in a softer gown.
“I’m here for two very important reasons tonight. No. 1, look at this gown. How can I tell my custom Alaïa that she had nowhere to go?”
Miley Cyrus presents the award for record of the year during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
“We’re going to dedicate this one to the city,” L.A.’s son said, accepting the record of the year Grammy and rattling off places around L.A., from his hometown of Compton to Long Beach.
This isn’t the first time Lamar has used the Drake diss track to bring the region together. In June, he turned his Juneteenth “Pop Out” concert into a cathartic livestreamed celebration of Los Angeles unity.
“Y’all ain’t gon’ let nobody disrespect the West Coast. Y’all ain’t gon’ let nobody imitate our legends, huh,” he said during the concert, referring to Drake’s use of an AI tool to mimic 2Pac’s voice on one of his diss records.
Tonight, he used the win to draw attention to the devastation from the wildfires in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena.
“We won, Beyoncé,” Miley Cyrus said, opening her presentation of record of the year. Cyrus and Beyoncé picked up a Grammy earlier in the day for best country duo/group performance for “II MOST WANTED.”
Miley Cyrus presents the award for record of the year during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars made their acceptance speeches to each other as they accepted best group/duo performance for their duet, “Die With a Smile”
Mars told Gaga, “I’m so honored to have a small part in your giant musical legacy and I really truly believe that God gave us this song to sing together.”
Gaga went just as big with her kudos, saying, “Bruno you are an incredible human being, you’re a musician for the ages.”
Footage of the One Direction singer, who died in a fall from an Argentina hotel room in October, opened the always-emotional memorial segment. Chris Martin sang “All My Love” as names and faces flashed by.
Chris Martin performs “All My Love” for the In Memoriam segment during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
While accepting her Grammy for best pop duo/group performance alongside Bruno Mars, Lady Gaga took a moment to speak about the LGBTQ+ community.
“I just want to say tonight that trans people are not invisible,” the singer said. “Trans people deserve love. The queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love.”
Before the in memoriam segment, Trevor Noah took a moment to acknowledge the deadly plane disasters in Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia this past week.
- Best pop duo/group performance
- Record of the year
- Song of the year
- Album of the year
In between, expect some more performances, the in memoriam segment, honoring music luminaries who died in the past year, and the presentation of the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award to Alicia Keys.
- “Fly Me To The Moon” by Cynthia Erivo with Herbie Hancock
- “Let the Good Times Roll” by Lainey Wilson with Jacob Collier
- “Bluesette” and “We Are The World” by Stevie Wonder with Herbie Hancock and choirs from schools destroyed in the Southern California wildfires
- “Don’t Stop ‘til You Get Enough” by Janelle Monáe
Kid singers from Palisades Charter High and Pasadena Waldorf School in Altadena backed Stevie Wonder as Herbie Hancock accompanied him on piano. Both schools were damaged during the wildfires.
During the performance, the high-wattage Grammys audience stood and sang along — reminiscent of the all-star cohort behind the original greatest night in pop.
Will Smith, left, speaks while Herbie Hancock plays the piano during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Will Smith introduced the Grammys’ tribute to Quincy Jones calling him “a brilliant, 28-time Grammy Award-winning producer, arranger, film and television composer, conductor, trumpet player recording artist and humanitarian.”
Then he paid personal tribute, saying, “In his 91 years, Q touched countless lives, but I have to say he changed mine forever. You probably wouldn’t even know who Will Smith was without Quincy Jones.”
Jones was a mentor of Smith’s who was essential in helping him land his career-making role on “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air.”
The artist picked up a Grammy with hugs for her stylish boys in matching silver tuxedo jackets. It’s her first U.S. Grammy appearance since 2007.
Shakira shouted out her sons on stage: “I’m so proud of you guys, of your kind hearts. Thank you so much for supporting me the way you do. I love you.”
Milan Pique Mebarak, left, Shakira, center, and Sasha Pique Mebarak embrace after she wins the best latin pop album during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Will Smith arrives at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
He’s still banned from the Oscars after The Slap. But there’s one major award show that’s quite literally rolled out the red carpet for Will Smith.
Smith, who has won four Grammys himself, is presenting a tribute during the prime-time telecast to his late mentor Quincy Jones. But don’t expect the Oscar-winning actor to show up for the Academy Awards in a month’s time. He’s still under a 10-year ban for his slap of Chris Rock during the 2022 awards show.
No one was expecting it. Late last year, André 3000 released his debut solo album, “New Blue Sun,” 18 years after his legendary rap group Outkast’s last studio album, “Idlewild.”
But “New Blue Sun” has “no bars,” he jokes. It’s a divergence from rap because “there was nothing I was liking enough to rap about, or I didn’t feel it sounded fresh. I’m not about to serve you un-fresh (expletive.)”
Instead, he offered up a six-track instrumental album of ambient alt-jazz — with special attention paid to the flute.
“New Blue Sun” is a stunning collection, one that has earned André 3000 three new Grammy Award nominations: album of the year, alternative jazz, and instrumental composition. Those arrive exactly 25 years after the 1999 Grammys, where Outkast received their first nomination — for “Rosa Parks,” from their third album, “Aquemini” — and 20 years after the group won album of the year for “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.”
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“I want to dedicate this award to all my immigrant brothers and sisters in this country. You are loved, you are worth it, and I will always fight with you.”
Shakira
Jennifer Lopez, left, presents the award for best latin pop album to Shakira for “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” during the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Jennifer Lopez got to present the best Latin pop album award to her fellow Super Bowl headliner Shakira. The two rocked the halftime show in 2020.
“Here’s the truth in any language music’s biggest night only gets bigger and better when it brings us the whole world of music,” Lopez said.
