'I can't possibly accept this award...the Lemonade album was just so monumental'
In scenes reminiscent of Mean Girls, Adele broke her Grammy
for Album of the Year in half on stage at the award ceremony on Sunday
night, a happy accident as she declared it truly belongs to Beyoncé.
Adele, who also won the Song of the Year award, explained at length how she felt Lemonade was a more deserving winner than her own 25.
"I can't possibly accept this award," she said during her acceptance
speech. "The Lemonade album was just so monumental, Beyoncé. It was so
monumental and well thought-out and beautiful and soul-baring... we
appreciate that. All of us artists here adore you. You are our light."
She later added backstage: “I thought it was her year. What the fuck does she have to do to win Album of the Year?”
Beyonce reacts to Adele breaking her Grammy in half to give to her
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The moment brought to mind Mean Girls for a lot of
people, in which Lindsay Lohan’s protagonist Cady Heron breaks her
Spring Fling queen crown into pieces and hands them to the other
contestants. There are only photos of the Adele moment as CBS cut away
before it happened.
It is essentially de rigueur to extol Beyoncé at award shows
by this point, Kanye West having famously intervened during one of
Taylor Swift's VMAs acceptance speeches to point out that B is the more
deserving winner.
Adele won the night’s biggest awards, though there were also multiple
wins for Chance the Rapper and Drake. Beyoncé picked up Best Urban
Contemporary Album for Lemonade.
Solange Knowles appeared to take a shot at the Grammys
on Twitter after her sister missed out on Album of the Year, posting a
link to a Tumblr statement Frank Ocean (who sat out of this year's
Grammys) wrote over the weekend calling them out for being out of touch.
"Waddup Frank," she tweeted alongside the message, which came in
response to Grammy Awards producer Ken Ehrlich blaming Frank's absence
on his "faulty" performance at the 2013 ceremony and saw him admonish
the Grammys for honouring Taylor Swift's 1989 over Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly.
Elaborating on her Beyoncé love backstage, Adele recalled: “I
remember when I was 11 years old, I was with some girlfriends, and we
were practicing a song to do at an assembly. I probably suggested the
Spice Girls, and they said have you heard [Destiny’s Child’s] ‘No No
No’? And I was like, ‘no, no, no.’ I remember how I felt hearing her
voice. I fell in love immediately with her. The way I felt when I first
heard ‘No No No’ was exactly the same as when I first heard ‘Lemonade’
last year. … The other artists who mean that much to me are all dead.”
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