Like any young couple in love, Brittany Pennington and Sally Beaver wanted to get married in a way that they would never forget. Some couples go big by renting a horse and buggy, skydiving out of an airplane, or getting married in Las Vegas by Elvis (hey, don't knock it till you try it). But Pennington and Beaver did…
Pharrell is auctioning off the 30-gallon hat he wore at the 2014 Grammys, the same hat which basically caused the Internet to explode that night.
Confirmed 17-year-old Lorde is doing pretty well these days. Fresh off her two wins at the Grammys, the New Zealand native headed back to her homeland for a performance. But not before taking a moment to hand-write a gracious and pretty cute thank you note published in the New Zealand Herald for her kiwi fans.
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Last night, a wealthy young duke with a face gentle and soft like rolled-up sleeping bag shocked everyone by winning several Grammys for the art of rapping. His name was Macklemore, he hailed from a far-away, mystical land called Seattle (pronounced: "See-YAW-tehl") and he often wore fancy, intricate coats that made him…
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Last night, in the big finish of a performance at the annual Straight White People Give Each Other Awards for Doing Black Music About Gay Rights Better Than You Convention, Madonna shuffled weirdly out on stage with a bejeweled cane like a Country Western Barbie Yaga. She belted her way gamely through a few choruses of …
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Award shows present the average Joe/Jane Twitter with the opportunity, from the comfort of their own midpriced sweatpants, to talk shit about celebrities who make commercially successful art-products that are not to the tastes of said Joe/Jane Twitter, and last night's Grammy awards telecast was no exception. But while …
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Last night, the 56th annual Grammys took place. It is an event in which golden cornucopias are handed out to famous singers and music-creators, but mostly it is meant to facilitate Taylor Swift's dancing.
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I will freely admit that I was not the biggest Pink fan when she debuted more than a decade ago with "There You Go." But wow, has she completely grown on me over the years, and it's largely due to the amazing performances she does at awards shows like the Grammys yesterday.
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With a few notable exceptions, most everything that happened on stage at the Grammys was the most boring thing I've ever witnessed. Behind the scenes, though, things were far more interesting.
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The 2014 Grammy Awards featured a mass wedding of about 34 couples, a first in the award show's long history.
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Let's not forget the legendary Nile Rodgers, the funky glue that held it all together. This mashup — which includes Pharrell's "Get Lucky," Chic's "Freak Out," and Stevie Wonder's "Another Star" — got the whole crowd standing up. Beyoncé was dancing, Yoko Ono was getting down, Steven Tyler busted out some disco moves. It…
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Here is Katy Perry channeling a little American Horror Story:Coven meets Striptease. God, that sounds like it would be absolutely fucking awesome, doesn't it?
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In case you missed it: Beyoncé opened the Grammy Awards with a super sexxxy performance of "Drunk In Love." Queen B had a black lacquer rotating platform, wet hair and a chair (a la Flashdance) and as soon as she started grindin' on that "surfboart," her husband materialized to spit some verses, walk her down the stairs…
Can we talk about the terrifying clown walking the #ERedCarpet at the #Grammys?! http://t.co/G27th5wkiC pic.twitter.com/oPbt4NERBp
— E! Online (@eonline) January 26, 2014
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The Grammys are here! The music! The awards! The outfits! The people I don't recognize at all! (It's like I live under a rock. A literal, goddamn rock. Where the hell is Duran Duran? Howard Jones? Klymaxx? Nu Shooz? Hellloooo??? )
Join us tonight at 8:00 pm sharp to watch the Grammy Awards and commiserate about how undeserving the eventual winners are. So. Much. Macklemore.
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When Frank Ocean won for the Grammy for Best Urban Contemporary Album, everyone in the audience gave him a standing ovation. Well, everyone except for Chris Brown. Not surprising, seeing as the two hate each other because Chris Brown is such a terrible human being.
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This might be the best picture ever taken, or it's at least a contender. In case you hadn't heard, CBS said it wouldn't allow exposed breasts, butts, or genitalia at the Grammys, and several stars are in direct violation. However, nobody more egregiously than Perry, who looks like she arrived from the set of Boogie…
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Burn, Jake Gyllenhaal. Or John Mayer. Or Harry Styles. Whatever, this was all of us when we were 15. Don't pretend that you didn't hum along and/or fall asleep. One of those two things is true. Also, are top hats the next big thing? Because I'll kill myself and then all of you.
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It's the Grammys! When famous people get drunk and then collect awards for being pretty, and the musicians who wrote their songs watch on the TV in Sweden. JK, it's a bunch of talented, attractive people hugging it out. And you never know what could happen, remember Adele's Rolling in the Deep performance last year?…