The sixty-fifth annual Grammy awards took place on Sunday, and Harry Styles was the talk of the night. Some even likened the star to David Bowie.
However, not everyone agrees…
At the start of the Grammys, host Trevor Noah, hailed music’s ability to bring people together despite their differences. “Music isn’t just the harmony of sound but the harmony of human beings,” he said. Adding that it is a way of “rejecting division to find moments of joy”.
The biggest prize of the night, Album of the Year, was widely predicted to finally be awarded to Beyoncé. The legendary ‘Break My Soul’ singer has been nominated for this award multiple times yet never managed to take it home, and once again the Academy failed to award it to her.
Instead, it went home with Harry Styles for his third album, Harry’s House.
“I think on nights like tonight it’s important for us to remember there is no such thing as ‘best’ in music. I don’t think any of us sit in the studio making decisions on what is going to get us one of these,” Styles said of the win.
The Beehive were so furious, some even called for Styles to make an apology to the singer after he took home the award.
“Harry Styles had a nice album, however, IT WAS NOT BETTER THAN RENAISSANCE,” one outraged fan said.
A second wrote: “Harry styles’ album wasn’t bad but winning album of the year over beyoncé, adele, kendrick lamar, and bad bunny is ridiculous to me lmao. grammys really manage to do this every year.”
Unfortunately, Harry only added fuel to the fire with his acceptance speech, in which he claimed: “This doesn’t happen to people like me very often.”
One viewer tweeted: “We beg to differ, Harry. Mediocre white men get glamorized, rewarded and awarded over exceptionally talented. amazing Black women like @Beyonce all day, every day.”
While another shared: “Harry Styles saying, ‘This doesn’t happen to people like me very often’ after he’s never claimed the LGBT community and had a gf for the better part of a decade, and it feels like just profiting off looking queer but not actually coming out really rubs me the wrong way.”
But despite that, there were a lot of positive comments, with many gushing over the singer’s recent win.
Some even likened the star to that of music icon David Bowie. But Bowie’s producer, Tony Visconti, quickly shut down those comments.
Since the 1960s, the seventy-eight-year-old record producer, musician, and vocalist has collaborated with many artists, including the late singer David Bowie.
According to the Daily Mail, he was outraged at the comparison, writing: “Someone just told me that Harry Styles is the new Bowie? From what I saw tonight, he’s not worthy of shining his shoes.”
And to add salt to the wound, he added: “There will NEVER be anyone that’s the new David Bowie. He is in a class of his own [and] will always be unique.”
