There is little else dominating post-Grammys chat than Gotye’s impressive three-for-three victory on Monday. Taking out every award that he was nominated for, including the coveted Record of the Year, making Wally de Backer the first Australian to take home multiple awards for the one release.
The 32-year-old multi-instrumentalist strolled to Staples Centre podium with ‘Somebody That I Used To Know’ duetting partner Kimbra for wins in the Pop Duo/Group Performance category for his world-beating hit, as well as its parent album Making Mirrors earning a nod in the Best Alternative Album category.
Later, once the Grammys went live to air, Gotye made his wins three for three, winning the Record of the Year award, with the Purple One himself, Prince presenting the award to the Melbourne-based musician and proclaiming “I love this song.”
Amidst the buzz of hometown glory however, one mustn’t forget the other big winners on the music industry’s night of nights. Though they lost to Gotye on one count, Ohio rockers The Black Keys went home with three golden gramophones too, including Best Rock Song, Rock Performance, and Best Rock Album for “Lonely Boy” and El Camino respectively.
Arguably the biggest award, Album of the Year went to Mumford & Sons for Babel. Hearing frontman Marcus Mumford speak rendered shock from many American viewers, as NME reported that their British nationality wasn’t common knowledge to American viewers.
Hearing frontman Marcus Mumford speak rendered shock from many American viewers.
Convinced that they were a bluegrass outfit from the deep south, confused Americans took to Twitter on the night, expressing that the idea of foreigners who can play the banjo is “mind blowing.” This sort of reaction isn’t unheard of in Grammys past, with “Bonnie Bear” (Bon Iver) causing confusion and ire with his Best New Artist win in 2012, and Arcade Fire eliciting a similar response the year before.
Not letting an awards ceremony controversy pass him by, Chris Brown stayed true to dickhead form in not standing up during the standing ovation for Frank Ocean, who (deservedly) beat him in the award for Best Urban Contemporary Album.
As The Herald Sun reports, British songstress Adele was seen visibly scowling and shaking her head at Brown’s despondence, and was later spotted exchanging ‘stern words’ with the 24-year-old singer giving Brown a piece of her mind.
Adele is one of many who Brown is on bad terms with, after the domestic violence perpetrator threatened to shoot Ocean in January. Brown’s seated protest could also be a childish reaction to the full auditorium remaining silent when his name was announced as a nominee, as the Hollywood Reporter stated.
As Nick Drewe and Tom Knox did for Triple J’s Hottest 100 with their Warmest 100, Spotify made their own predictions about the night’s proceedings based on data analysis of their users’ streaming habits, looking at the the highest number of song and album streams in each major category.
Many of their predictions paid off, including their tips for Album of the Year and all of Gotye’s gongs. There were some misses too, as Fun., not The Lumineers, were named Best New Artist, and Best Pop Solo Performance went to last year’s big winner, Adele, and (thankfully) not Carly Rae Jepsen.
Gotye’s three Grammys will sit in what is by now a very full trophy cabinet, after “Somebody That I Used To Know” took the world by storm. As well as being 2012’s highest selling single in the USA, he went home with four ARIAs in November, three APRA Music Awards, and the MTV Europe Music award for Best Australia and New Zealand act.
The long list of Grammy Award winners is below (via The LA Times):
The 55th Grammy Award Winners 2013
Record of the Year
Somebody That I Used to Know,” Gotye and Kimbra
Album of the Year
“Babel,” Mumford & Sons
Song of the Year
Jack Antonoff, Jeff Bhasker, Andrew Dost and Nate Ruess (“We Are Young,” Fun. and Janelle Monáe)
New Artist
Fun.
Pop Solo Performance
“Set Fire to the Rain (live),” Adele
Pop Performance, Duo or Group
“Somebody That I Used to Know,” Gotye and Kimbra
Pop Instrumental Album
“Impressions,” Chris Botti
Pop Vocal Album
“Stronger,” Kelly Clarkson
Dance Recording
“Bangarang,” Skrillex and Sirah
Dance/Electronica Album
“Bangarang,” Skrillex
Dance Recording
“Bangarang,” Skrillex and Sirah
Traditional Pop Vocal Album
“Kisses on the Bottom,” Paul McCartney
Rock Performance
“Lonely Boy,” the Black Keys
Hard Rock/Metal Performance
“Love Bites (So Do I),” Halestorm
Rock Song
Dan Auerbach, Brian Burton and Patrick Carney (“Lonely Boy,” the Black Keys)
Rock Album
“El Camino,” the Black Keys
Alternative Music Album
“Making Mirrors,” Gotye
R&B Performance
“Climax,” Usher
Traditional R&B Performance
“Love on Top,” Beyoncé
R&B Song
Miguel Pimentel (“Adorn,” Miguel)
R&B Album
“Black Radio,” Robert Glasper Experiment
Rap Performance
“Niggas in Paris,” Jay-Z and Kanye West
Rap/Sung Collaboration
“No Church in the Wild,” Jay-Z, Kanye West, Frank Ocean and The-Dream
Rap Song
Shawn Carter, Mike Dean, Chauncey Hollis, Kanye West and W. A. Donaldson (“Niggas in Paris,” Jay-Z and Kanye West)
Rap Album
“Take Care,” Drake
Urban Contemporary Album
“Channel Orange,” Frank Ocean
Country Solo Performance
“Blown Away,” Carrie Underwood
Country Performance, Duo or Group
“Pontoon,” Little Big Town
Country Song
Josh Kear and Chris Tompkins (“Blown Away,” Carrie Underwood)
Country Album
“Uncaged,” Zac Brown Band
New Age Album
“Echoes of Love,” Omar Akram
Improvised Jazz Solo
“Hot House,” Gary Burton and Chick Corea
Jazz Vocal Album
“Radio Music Society,” Esperanza Spalding
Jazz Instrumental Album
“Unity Band,” Pat Metheny Unity Band
Large Jazz Ensemble Album
“Dear Diz (Every Day I Think of You),” Arturo Sandoval
Latin Jazz Album
“¡Ritmo!,” The Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band
Gospel/Contemporary Christian Music Performance
“10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord),” Matt Redman
Gospel Song
Erica Campbell, Tina Campbell and Warryn Campbell (“Go Get It,” Mary Mary)
Contemporary Christian Music Song
Jonas Myrin and Matt Redman (“10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord),” Matt Redman)
Gospel Album
“Gravity,” Lecrae
Contemporary Christian Music Album
“Eye on It,” TobyMac
Latin Pop Album
“MTV Unplugged Deluxe Edition,” Juanes
Latin Rock, Urban or Alternative Album
“Imaginaries,” Quetzal
Regional Mexican or Tejano Album
“Pecados y Milagros,” Lila Downs
Tropical Latin Album
“Retro,” Marlow Rosada y La Riqueña”
Americana Album
“Slipstream,” Bonnie Raitt
Bluegrass Album
“Nobody Knows You,” Steep Canyon Rangers
Blues Album
“Locked Down,” Dr. John
Folk Album
“The Goat Rodeo Sessions,” Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile
Regional Roots Music Album
“The Band Courtbouillon,” Wayne Toups, Steve Riley and Wilson Savoy
Reggae Album
“Rebirth,” Jimmy Cliff
World Music Album
“The Living Room Sessions Part 1,” Ravi Shankar
Children’s Album
“Can You Canoe?,” The Okee Dokee Brothers
Spoken Word Album
“Society’s Child: My Autobiography,” Janis Ian
Comedy Album
“Blow Your Pants Off,” Jimmy Fallon
Musical Theater Album
“Once: A New Musical,” Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti, artists; Steven Epstein and Martin Lowe, producers; Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, composers/lyricists
Instrumental Composition
“Mozart Goes Dancing,” Chick Corea (Chick Corea and Gary Burton)
Instrumental Arrangement
“How About You,” Gil Evans (Gil Evans Project)
Producer of the Year, Nonclassical
Dan Auerbach
Producer of the Year, Classical
Blanton Alspaugh
Remixed Recording, Nonclassical
“Promises (Skrillex and Nero Remix),” Skrillex, remixer
Opera Recording
“Wagner: Der Ring Des Nibelungen,” James Levine and Fabio Luisi, conductors; Hans-Peter König, Jay Hunter Morris, Bryn Terfel and Deborah Voigt; Jay David Saks, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus)
Classical Instrumental Solo
“Kurtág & Ligeti: Music for Viola,” Kim Kashkashian
Classical Vocal Solo
“Poèmes,” Renée Fleming (Alan Gilbert and Seiji Ozawa; Orchestre National de France and Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France)
Contemporary Classical Composition
“Hartke, Stephen: Meanwhile — Incidental Music to Imaginary Puppet Plays,” Stephen Hartke (Eighth Blackbird)
Short Form Music Video
“We Found Love,” Rihanna and Calvin Harris
Long Form Music Video
“Big Easy Express,” Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show
