The 58th annual Grammy Awards on Monday celebrated a
young generation of chart-dominating pop stars, with Taylor Swift
winning album of the year for “1989” and Kendrick Lamar sweeping the rap
categories, even as the show devoted much of its airtime to lionizing
musical heroes of decades past.
Although Swift had
been nominated for all of the most prestigious categories, the top
awards were split fairly evenly among a crop of young stars. Mark Ronson
won record of the year for “Uptown Funk,” the upbeat, retro dance song
featuring Bruno Mars that dominated radio last year and that they played
at the Super Bowl. Ed Sheeran, the cherubic British singer-songwriter,
won song of the year for his soul-inflected ballad “Thinking Out Loud,”
sharing the prize with his co-writer, Amy Wadge.
And
Kendrick Lamar, the rapper whose complex songs about black identity and
racial strife have dazzled critics and become touchstones of the Black
Lives Matter movement, took a total of five prizes and delivered a
confrontational medley of his songs “The Blacker the Berry” and
“Alright.”
Accepting her trophy for album of the
year, Swift said she was the first woman to win the prize twice and made
a statement that was a firm affirmation of her own celebrity, as well
as what many viewers interpreted as a response to Kanye West, who
recently released lyrics referencing their on-and-off feud.
“All
the young women out there,” she said, “there are going to be people
along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for
your accomplishments or your fame.” “If you just focus on the work,”
Swift continued, “and don’t let those people sidetrack you, someday you
will get where you are going. You’ll look around, and you will know that
it was you and the people who love you who put you there, and that will
be the greatest feeling in the world.”
Source:- The Hindu, 17-Feb-2016
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