The show also included a special 3-D tribute to Michael Jackson featuring a video clip he made of “Earth Song” as Usher, Carrie Underwood, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson and Smokey Robinson sang along. Many participants in the program wore red cross buttons in support of Haiti earthquake relief. Rounding out the album of the year category were the Black Eyed Peas’ “The E.N.D.,” Lady Gaga’s “The Fame” and the Dave Matthews Band’s “Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King.” The latter album was the band’s first release since the death of founding member and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. The superstar was nominated for album of the year for “I Am … Sasha Fierce,” along Swift’s “Fearless,” the most popular album of any genre last year.
While Beyonce has won a caseload of Grammys during her career, she hasn’t won album of the year, but that had the potential to change Sunday. Maxwell, up for six awards, also won his first Grammys - best R&B male vocal for the ballad “Pretty Wings” and best R&B album for “BLACKsummers’ night.” The album marked the R&B crooner’s return after an absence of eight years from the music business.
“I just feel like I’m standing here accepting an impossible dream.” The Grammy for best new artist went to the Zac Brown Band, while best rock album went to Green Day for “21st Century Breakdown.” The Black Eyed Peas also had three trophies from the pre-telecast, and other double winners were Jay-Z, Eminem, and Maxwell. “I just keep thinking back to when you’re in second grade and you sing in the talent show for the first time and people joke around and say, ‘Maybe we’ll see you at the Grammys some day.’ But that just seems like an impossible dream,” she said. Though the 20-year-old has won just about every award imaginable over the past year for her best-selling CD “Fearless,” she was wide-eyed when she accepted her trophy for country album. Taylor Swift, who was second to Beyonce in Grammy nominations with eight nods, won three early awards, including best country album. Moments later, she scaled things down a bit - as much as Lady Gaga can - and brought out Elton John as they melded her song “Speechless” and his classic “Your Song” together in a performance that featured dueling pianos, and glitter-painted faces. Lady Gaga, who won two Grammys during the pre-telecast ceremony, kicked off the night with a sequined green leotard with massive shoulders as she sang her Grammy-nominated hit “Poker Face” amid an elaborate stage that included dramatic choreography and pyrotechnics. Lady Gaga delivered the early show-stopper with an eye-popping performance with Elton John. She won the songwriting trophy along with three writers for her omnipresent anthem “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It).” The superstar also won best R&B contemporary album for “I Am … Sasha Fierce” among her other awards, and still had the opportunity to win the evening’s remaining top award - album of the year.īeyonce wasn’t on hand to accept her early trophies: She was preparing for her dramatic onstage rendition of “If I Were A Boy,” one of several hits from her top-selling third CD.
Singer Caleb has mentioned in a YouTube video that at the time he wrote the lyrics of this song, he had not fully recovered from medication following a surgery. The production is also credited to record producers J. The composition of “Use Somebody” is credited to all members of Kings of Leon.
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