This years, 55th Grammy award held at Staple Centre, Los Angeles, took a different tone compared to the 2012 award where Adele was cleared as the show’s sweetheart, hauling home six gramophone statuettes.
This year’s ceremony couldn’t come up with clear winner as the British sensation, who added to her lifetime total with a win in the “Best Pop Solo Performance” category, but it put a spotlight on artists outside the vaunted pop realm. This year’s show felt like a coming out party of sorts, which arguably included the strongest live performance of the night with “Lonely Boy.” The pair, however, were shut out of the bigger categories of the night, namely “Record Of The Year,” which went to Gotye, and “Album of the Year,” which went to Mumford & Sons’ Babel.
Receiving the award Marcus Mumford and “sons “won the night biggest prize, which even having been nominated 12 times, this turned out to be the second time the band would win award.
“They’re one of my favorite bands ever,” said “Best Country Album” winner Zac Brown (of the Zac Brown Band) about Mumford & Sons. “It’s great seeing real music getting the spotlight.”
For electronic dance music (EDM) genre’s Sonny Moore, better known as Skrillex, swept the traditional EDM categories, winning three awards for “Remix Recording,” “Dance Recording” and “Dance/Electronic a Album.” The number two grossing electronic DJ with revenue of $15 million in 2012, Skrillex is just one manifestation of how the industry has turned its attention from typically pop-focused electronic contributions to “the scene that came out of the underground,” said Moore.
Among the 2012 nominee was Chris Brown, who didn’t receive award because of his out-of-studio antics, he lost out to Frank Ocean in the “Urban Contemporary album”
Other award winners include Frank Ocean, Taylor Swift, Fun and Carrie Underwood.
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