Best musical: Beautiful, the Carole King Musical. Best comedy album: Mandatory Fun – “Weird Al” Yankovic. The amazing Malala Yousafzai can add a Grammy for best children’s album to her groaning awards cabinet, for I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up For Education And Changed the World. Angelique Kidjo won best world music album for Eve and posed splendidly with her prize.
Gwen Stefani is here now explaining that she had to explain to her kids that Pharrell Williams isn’t her boyfriend. How the other half live.
Performing tonight, @gwenstefani hits the red carpet on http://t.co/Q0TDdXFd4Z pic.twitter.com/g3ruuw3MKY
— The GRAMMYs (@TheGRAMMYs) February 8, 2015
She’s also just said there’s some new No Doubt material ready to be released, which is genuinely exciting.
There’s frantic bluegrass courtesy of Old Crow Medicine Show happening on the live stream, suggesting that we’re into the country tranche of awards. Before that, let’s run down some more winners so far. Best score soundtrack: The Grand Budapest Hotel. Best compilation soundtrack for visual media: Frozen.
While we’ve been posting, Beyoncé just got a second gong – Drunk in Love got best R&B song.
"I hate boring fashion." —@charli_xcx #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/7MYd7BLPE7
— Cosmopolitan (@Cosmopolitan) February 8, 2015
Charli XCX is here now explaining her outfit and how much she loves Gwen Stefani. When she’s asked what she loves and hates the most about the business she answers thusly; she hates misogyny, and loves making music. Fair enough.
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Some more of those 83, yes 83 awards. Best music film went to 20 Feet From Stardom. Best music video went to Pharrell’s Happy. Best choral performance went to The Sacred Spirit of Russia. Beyonce has won her first going - for best surround sound album, whatever that may mean. the Tiesto remix of John Legend’s All of Me won best remixed recording. Let it Go from Frozen won best song written for visual media.
Prom king and queen. #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/WbnGyBjLnX
— Cosmopolitan (@Cosmopolitan) February 8, 2015
Seacrest is back with Ariana Grande and Big Sean now. She’s “just excited to be here”, she doesn’t want to say anything about her upcoming tour, but she confirms “SHE IS VERY EXCITED”.
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And the award to the three best & most stylish sisters goes to: @HAIMtheband #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/FamKkQ3C5s
— Yahoo Style (@YahooStyle) February 8, 2015
Haim are here now, even though Danielle was involved in a car accident. They are now sharing an anecdote about how a teacher once told them they’d never get on SNL, and they have, so take that teacher.
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OK, if you want a multiscreen experience (and you live in the States) you can watch the actual awards ceremony on the website and the red carpet on E! Which is what we’re doing.
In terms of the actual awards, let’s do a recap. Joan Rivers just won a posthumous award for best spoken word album, beating an eclectic (to say the least) shortlist including James Franco, John Waters, Jimmy Carter, Gloria Gaynor and Elizabeth Warren. Eminem and Rihanna just won best rap/sung collaboration for The Monster. As we speak, Kendrick Lamar has won best rap song for i. And Eminem has won best rap album, beating Iggy Azalea.
Iggy Azalea has not won the Grammy Award for best rap album. Civilization endures.
— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) February 8, 2015
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Charli XCX has hit the red carpet too and is wearing what looks like a cross between a tracksuit and suit. Fancy (sorry).
oh hello there @charli_xcx #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/6NgQ1j5wmp
— Scoopla (@Scoopla) February 8, 2015
We’re back and Nick Jonas is here talking to Seacrest, and reveals he’s about to tour with Iggy Azalea and Tinashe. He sounds gutted.
Ryan Seacrest, eh? What a guy. Kathy Griffin recently stopped by Letterman and shared and anecdote about our red carpet host and Anderson Cooper. She certainly doesn’t think he’s got much going on upstairs.
Madonna is wearing a quite remarkable outfit. We’re talking veil, thigh-high boots, matador-style shoulder pieces and boobs pretty much out. She looks like Napoleon and Josephine combined. Nas, who’s standing next to her, looks positively terrified. If she’s wearing that just to turn up, what’s her stage outfit going to be like?
Matador + Mad Max = Madonna tonight #Grammys pic.twitter.com/4igYs5ZHpp
— T Magazine (@tmagazine) February 8, 2015
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It’s the Grammy awards 2015
In Los Angeles at the Staples Center they’ve already been dishing out the awards for two hours – we’ll recap some of those awards as we go. You can watch a live stream of the event (might not work in some territories) here. Notable winners so far include Aphex Twin, for best electronic/dance album, and Frozen, which got best soundtrack. As we speak, the stars are promenading down the red carpet. We’ll be watching both that and the ceremony itself, as well as rounding up the reaction on Twitter and elsewhere. Do send us your thoughts, either in the comments below or on Twitter. We’re at @alexneedham74 and @lanre_bakare.
