Claiming that Beyonce deserved it more, Adele has apparently turned down the Grammy award for Best Album.
The night's top honor was handed to Adele for her album 25, a multi-million selling record but she told the audience that she "can't possibly accept this award." According to the British pop star, she was "very humbled" and "very grateful" but said "Beyonce is the artist of my life", reported EOnline.
Adele's triumph over Beyonce is sure to lift complaints that the Grammys routinely ignore black artists. Several singers, including Frank Ocean and Kanye West, skirted the current year's function on that premise. Ocean even declined to present his widely praised album, Blonde, for thought, saying the Grammys did not "seem to be representing very well for people who come from where I come from, and hold down what I hold down".
Two years prior, West surged onto the stage in protest when Beck's Morning Phase beat Beyonce's last LP in the best album race. Nonetheless, Adele's 25 was by a wide margin the greatest dealer on the current year's waitlist; beating Beyonce's Lemonade by an element of 10 to 1.
It is unclear if Adele will authoritatively dismiss her honor. On the off chance that she does, it would just be the second time in history that has happened. The latter was in 1990, when Sinead O'Connor turned down best option collection for I Do Not Want What I Have Not Got, asserting the function was as well "commercialized".
Whatever the result, Adele stays one of the night's greatest champs. She won five awards - including three of the main four: Best album, Song of The Year and Record of The Year - the last two both compensating her 2015 rebound single, Hello.
Chicago's Chance the Rapper additionally took three prizes, including best rap collection for his self-discharged record Coloring Book.
"I know people think independence means you do it by yourself, but independence means freedom," he said as he picked up best new act at the start of the ceremony. David Bowie - the Rock icon, won in each of the five classes he was assigned for, including best best alternative album, for Blackstar, and best rock performance, for the album's title track.
What's more, Beyonce wasn't left totally with hardly a penny: she brought home best urban contemporary album and best music video, for the politically-charged Formation, reported BBC. The star, who is pregnant with twins, additionally gave a yearning and strategically complex execution of the tunes Love Drought and Sandcastles, themed around the thoughts of resurrection, recovery and mending,
Wearing streaming, brilliant Egyptian robes and an intricate hood, she committed the execution to parenthood, gladly showing her baby bump as she sang. In any case, while Beyonce's execution was perfect, others were damaged by specialized issues.
Lady Gaga duetted with Metallica on the tune Moth to the Flame, yet vocalist James Hetfield was indistinct all through the first verse. He later sang up close with Gaga, sharing her receiver, however irately tossed his guitar to one of his roadies toward the finish of the performance.
Adele likewise went off-key amid a tribute to George Michael, and mournfully inquired as to whether the tune could be begun once more. It was, and she got an overwhelming applause for her inconveniences.
Respect were paid to Sir George Martin, Leonard Cohen and different artists we lost in 2016, while Bruno Mars respected Prince by playing the star's trademark cloud guitar in a pitch-perfect version of Let's Go Crazy.
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