Well, that was fairly painless. Last night was the 55th Annual Grammy Awards, and the big awards went to Gotye (Record of the Year), Mumford & Sons (Album of the Year), fun. featuring Lena Dunham (Song of the Year and Best New Artist), the Black Keys (Best Rock Song and Best Rock Album), and Jay-Z, Kanye West, and Frank Ocean (Best Rap Performance, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration, and Best Rap Song, which are apparently thee different categories). No real surprises there, though Song of the Year probably, definitely should have gone to “Adorn” by Miguel, whose voice makes me feel the way 13-year-old girls do about Justin Bieber’s. You can relive the best and worst moments from our live blog last night. We were… not kind to LL Cool Beret.
There were a fair number of GIF-able moments throughout the evening, 15 of which we’ve included after the jump. It was very tempting to just copy and paste “Prince strutting with a cane” 15 times, but we resisted. (Banner via)
All Prince everything.
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Frank Ocean won Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “No Church in the Wild.” Chris Brown was not impressed.
He later performed “Forrest Gump” dressed up as Richie Tenenbaum.
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Jay-Z joined Justin Timberlake for a performance of “Suit & Tie.”
Thank you.
JT also performed a great new song, “Pusher Love Girl.”
Taylor Swift took acid, watched a surrealist French film, and came up with this idea.
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The guy dressed as a character from 1984 went home and had sex with Lena Dunham, probably.
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Jack White killed a peacock and wore its feather as an outfit.
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Ellen eye-scissored Katy Perry.
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This is how T-Swift listens to reggae.
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#illuminati
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Someone mashed up Frank Ocean’s performance with Carrie Underwood’s.
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Dr. John wore a Mardi Gras Indian getup, and people called him an ewok.
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Rihanna shrugged, which was a pretty decent impression of the public’s reaction to the Bob Marley tribute…
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…though a loose collar works, too.
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Mumford & Sons won Album of the Year.
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LL Cool Beret licked his lips a lot.
And Adele laughed at his misery.
