Styles, who also won for Best Pop Vocal Album, discussed the continuity of creating the album, which debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 chart when it was ...
“So we are always writing and like to attempt to have the same intention behind what we are making.” “The atmosphere that is created in live music and the experiencing of that... Playing for an amazing group of people every night is my favorite, favorite thing to do.” And in reality I very much feel like the fans create that atmosphere for me, and the room is this energy that almost feels like it’s too magical for me to take any responsibility for,” he said. “It’s amazing to see the way songs that mean so much to me, to see how much they mean to other people when you're playing for them. “More than anything, it just kind of feels like validation that you're on the right path,” said Styles in the press room after his win.
Even as gender and masculinity are more fluid than ever, it can still rankle when male stars co-opt traditionally gay codes and styles.
Queer, in this era, means what you say it means: It can mean “I haven’t, but I’d try it” or “I don’t see myself as traditionally heterosexual” or “I don’t want anybody to think I lack imagination” or “My sense of my own sexual identity or tastes is that they’re out of the mainstream” or “I would, but only with Harry Styles” or “I don’t know yet.” “Queer” is one-size-fits-all; there is no entrance requirement. [tweet](https://www.billboard.com/culture/pride/omar-apollo-shuts-down-queerbaiting-rumors-nsfw-tweet-1235178135/), he refuted the charge explicitly (in both senses of the word) with a concise reply saying, “No I b [participating in a common consensual same-sex activity described in two words that this publication would be perfectly OK with you Googling] fr [for real].” It’s great when it’s that easy. “Queer” is used by some gay men interchangeably with “gay,” and you can just as easily identify as queer and lesbian, queer and bisexual, queer and trans. The first is “Straight; heterosexual and cisgender; a Kinsey zero.” The second is “Anything other than that.” “Queer” has come to stand in for option number two, and it has created a tent so big that some of the people inside it aren’t completely comfortable with the company they’re keeping. (And what someone deciding whether to hire an actor is entitled to ask about that actor’s sexuality is, for very good reasons, also nothing.) The price of a ticket entitles you only to good work — if you’re lucky; it doesn’t buy you the promise that you’re going to be witnessing embodied personal history. The idea that homosexuality can be teased in flourishes and gestures recalls a much more repressive era (five decades ago) in which gay performers like Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly couldn’t do more than occasionally throw a plausibly deniable smirk to their “if you know, you know” gay fan base if they wanted to remain employable. And what about his role in last year’s period drama “ [My Policeman](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/movies/my-policeman-review.html)” as a gay British cop in the 1950s prevented from living his truth by a stultifying and bigoted world? And at least one version of Styles is very [maybe-something-else](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/arts/music/pop-men-harry-styles-jack-harlow-bad-bunny.html): the one posing in a dress on the cover of a women’s fashion magazine. And in truth, “L.G.B.T.” has always been an imperfect portmanteau, since its first three letters are shorthand for “Who I’m attracted to” and its fourth is a shorthand for “Who I am.” Today, for many very young people eager to discover and announce their identities long before they’ve had any sexual experience with another person, the designation they select is much likelier to connote “This is me” than “This is what I do.” And the idea here is laudable: Nobody should have to go through life, especially adolescent life, experiencing the loneliness that comes with feeling that there’s not even a word with which they can describe themselves. A quick primer, for those of you who, like me, are over a certain age and may be more familiar with the term “gay baiting”: This is one of those squirmy evolving-language things in which, faster than you might ever imagine, a phrase comes to mean almost exactly the opposite of what it once meant. How many of you know what that label cost people to obtain?” Not that the label itself carries much weight with Zoomers; the term “L.G.B.T.,” first coined more than 30 years ago, is now seen by many young people as a relic, little more than a makeshift beta test undertaken by their parents’ generation. Right now, the most charged queer-baiting discussion is about men — not a surprise, since any trace of sexual ambiguity in a male star has always excited an intense degree of interest, suspicion and paranoia about the perceived undermining of masculinity.
Not only did the singer take home two Grammy Awards on Sunday evening, but he also served up some of the ceremony's most talked-about outfits.
Taking the stage to scoop up the coveted Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for "Harry's House," he looked dapper in a cropped white suit jacket and wide-legged tan-colored pants. Others dubbed the look an example of "clowncore," while the singer also drew comparisons — both favorable and disparaging — to two of Britain's most flamboyant pop icons: Elton John and David Bowie. The former One Direction star began the night in a plunging technicolor jumpsuit that revealed a collection of butterfly and bird tattoos on his otherwise bare chest.
Harry Styles winning over Beyoncé didn't sit well for many online, and one guy in the building wasn't pleased either -- screaming in indignation ... and ...
and he continued to express his outrage after posting his scream video -- throwing up another clip that shows people filing out of the building during the final performance (post-Harry win). He also wrote this, "Off to the #GRAMMYs after-party I go. Turns out, the Beyoncé superfan's a journalist from Philly. but now, the fella has ID'd himself -- posting a video from the nosebleeds, where he was sitting, which shows the moment he made his protest. However, the outrage clearly made its way into Crypto.com Arena ... and outing himself as the yeller. They exploit diverse talent for ratings only for them to play these games." [Kanye West](https://www.tmz.com/people/kanye-west/) taking the microphone away from [Taylor Swift](https://www.tmz.com/people/taylor-swift/) during the 2009 VMAs and sticking up for Beyoncé in passionate terms -- albeit, from a distance and perhaps without so much theatrics. There's also a lot of noise about the fact that Harry said this type of thing doesn't usually happen to "people like me" -- with the Internet collectively scratching their heads. If TV award shows die after this, I wouldn't be surprised. Clearly, Owens wasn't happy with who the biggest award of the night went to ... [Harry Styles](https://www.tmz.com/people/harry-styles/) winning over [Beyoncé](https://www.tmz.com/people/beyonce-knowles/) didn't sit well for many online, and one guy in the building wasn't pleased either -- screaming in indignation ...
Harry Styles took home two Grammy Awards Sunday night, including Album of the Year, but many took to social media to criticize his "cringe" speech.
[Beyoncé made history](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/05/beyonce-breaks-grammy-record-most-wins-ever/11172776002/) with the most Grammy wins – ever. [one user wrote](https://twitter.com/_MrsDamiano/status/1622586979505393665). The "Break My Soul" singer brought her 22-year-total to 32 on Sunday, topping the 31 statues claimed by legendary Hungarian conductor Georg Solti and making her the all-time awards champ of the Recording Industry Association of America. [All the best (and worst) performances](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/05/grammys-2023-brutally-honest-reviews-every-performance-ranked/11193018002/) I'm trying not to be too emotional. While his win is no surprise on the basis of his talent (he's [won 3 Grammys with 9 nominations](https://www.grammy.com/artists/harry-styles/287522)), his speech was confusing to many who expected the award to go to Beyoncé. Please." "Harry said things like this don't happen to people like him. The Grammys exist for people like you.." "No one can take that away from him. This doesn't happen to people like me very often." [Harry Styles](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/05/grammy-awards-2023-live-updates/11170771002/) took home two more [ Grammy Awards](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/05/grammys-2023-brutally-honest-reviews-every-performance-ranked/11193018002/) – including the biggest prize of the night – for his 2022 album "Harry's House."
Taylor Swift and. Harry Styles reunited at the 2023 Grammys, where she supported his wins for best pop vocal album and album of the year. Watch.
[Grammys](https://www.billboard.com/t/grammys/) two years ago, when it was Swift who was honored with album of the year for Folklore. It’s been more than a decade since Harry Styles and Taylor Swift dated and called it quits, leaving millions of heartbroken fans But at the [Grammy Awards](https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/2023-grammys-winners-list-1235211974/) Sunday night (Feb. It remains to be known what their brief conversation was about, but whatever it was, they were all smiles throughout. 5), the two singers proved that, though long [broken up](https://www.billboard.com/lists/harry-styles-talks-about-taylor-swift-timeline/), Mom and Dad are on great terms, taking time to chat and support one another during the ceremony. In an onsite video captured during Steve Lacy’s performance of “Bad Habit,” Swift can be seen making her way over to Styles’ table in her glitzy, midnight-blue two-piece gown.
Harry Styles' acceptance speech after he won the Grammy award for album of the year caused an uproar on social media Sunday night.
Styles was up against Beyoncé and eight other artists, including Bad Bunny, Lizzo, Adele and Kendrick Lamar. Thank you very much,” Styles said, before handing the microphone off to his co-writers Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson. “I think on nights like tonight it’s important for us to remember there is no such thing as ‘best’ in music.
What did Harry Styles mean when he said "people like me" at the Grammys acceptance speech? People are taking issue with the comment.
I feel like when you look, when I look at this category, it’s all people who have inspired me at different times. Online commenters zeroed in on Styles' mention of “people like (him),” suggesting that he was not acknowledging his privilege as a white man with that line. “I don’t think you can look at any of the nominees and not feel like they’re deserving. The article argues that the U.K.’s entertainment system is more entrenched in nepotism than the U.S.’s due to class privilege. In a 2017 profile for Meanwhile, a Black woman hasn’t won in the category since Lauryn Hill in 1999. “This is so, so nice. “This is so, so kind. “To a UK ear, when Harry Styles says ‘things like this don’t happen to people like me’ — this is what he means,” she Clearly, confusion about what Styles really meant, as this tweet points out: “can harry styles elaborate what he means by “this doesn’t happen to people like me very often” like cough it up, what do you MEAN?” another person “Harry styles said ‘this doesn’t happen to people like me very often’ and I gotta be honest I can’t think of a type of people this happens for more,” another person [ tweeted](https://twitter.com/jazz_inmypants/status/1622458638878101505).
After taking home Album of the Year, Harry Styles' ill-advised acceptance speech only highlighted the Recording Academy's worst instincts.
Seminal MC Gangsta Boo was snubbed from an In Memoriam segment the same year hip-hop luminaries gathered to honor the [50th anniversary](https://www.avclub.com/grammys-hip-hop-tribute-artists-1850076552) of the genre. His point has some merit: he sold out [fifteen straight nights](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/harry-styles-madison-square-garden-banner-raising-1234597708/) at Madison Square Garden, tapped into a certain ubiquitous liquid gold with “As It Was,” and has far and away proven himself to be the most enduring and interesting member of One Direction a decade on. The Recording Academy relishes in lauding white, male artists who approach queerness and diversity the same way a Target display does during pride month: as something to be sanitized, perfected, and mass-distributed. The fact is, “this” happens to guys like Harry Styles all the time. [local bakery](https://secretmanchester.com/harry-styles-bakery-holmes-chapel/). Despite the outrage it fostered, most didn’t categorize Styles’ win as anything close to a surprise—at this point, some sort of egregious fuckery is as essential to the ceremony as a Trevor Noah hosting spot.
Beyoncé lost Album of the Year for Renaissance at the Grammys, for a fourth time, to Harry Styles's album Harry's House. Why did Harry Styles win the top ...
In [the new Songwriter of the Year award](https://www.vulture.com/2022/11/songwriter-of-the-year-grammy-why-it-matters.html), two of the five nominees had cuts on Styles’s album, including the eventual winner, Tobias Jesso Jr. (It’s a little surprising “As It Was” didn’t earn any hardware, but the wins for Harry’s House seem to be recognition of the album as a body of hits.) After the Academy was criticized for giving Jon Batiste’s We Are, an album without a single top-40 hit, AOTY last year, Styles’s project gave them the opportunity to be on the pulse, at no expense of its perspective. [Shania Twain](https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/harry-styles-late-night-talking-boyfriends-shania-twain-coachella.html)) and present ( [Lizzo](https://www.vulture.com/2022/04/harry-styles-lizzo-i-will-survive-coachella-surprise-guest.html)). As it faded out, Styles and his team teed up hits-in-waiting “Late Night Talking” and “Music for A Sushi Restaurant,” both of which hit the top ten. Styles had a hold on the charts as well, with “As It Was” logging a record five separate runs atop the Hot 100, from its No. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, or Lizzo stole votes from her, why didn’t the same happen to Styles with ABBA, Adele, or Coldplay?) It also feels beside the point to argue whether Styles deserved AOTY over Beyoncé — [we’ve done that with her past two snubs for Beyoncé and Lemonade](https://www.vulture.com/2017/02/what-more-does-beyonc-have-to-do-to-win-album-of-the-year.html), and the answer remains a resounding yes. Beyoncé, on the other hand, added a fourth snub for the top honor to her career, this time for [Renaissance](https://www.vulture.com/2022/08/beyonce-renaissance-review.html), a spectacular, holistic project celebrating Blackness and queerness that [many critics](https://www.vulture.com/article/best-albums-2022.html) had already declared the record of 2022. Then when the record came out in May — logging over a half-million units, the second biggest week of the year behind Taylor Swift’s debut for Midnights — Styles hit the road. [took Best New Artist](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/grammys-2023-samara-joy-best-new-artist.html) (the second jazz BNA win in less than 15 years, if you can believe it). [On Sunday evening](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/grammys-2023-recap-best-worst-performances-winners.html), it was a different British pop star who stood between her and her first Grammy for Album of the Year: Harry Styles. Anyone other than Bey winning would’ve been met with some level of vitriol — especially after the Grammys spent the entire night hyping AOTY, and especially after [she became ](https://www.vulture.com/2023/02/beyonce-most-grammy-awards-history.html)the winningest artist in the Recording Academy’s history earlier in the ceremony. Styles won on his first AOTY nomination, for his third (solo) album [Harry’s House](https://www.vulture.com/2022/05/harry-styles-harrys-house-album-review.html), a pleasant but too-comfortable set of songs influenced by ‘80s synthpop and classic rock.
Harry Styles said 'this doesn't happen to people like me very often' and I gotta be honest I can't think of a type of people this happens for more.”
i need you to be so fcking fr it only ever happens to ‘people like you,’” one person hit back. Particularly considering that the overwhelming majority of Album of the Year winners since 1959 have been white cis men, just like Harry. “don’t get me wrong i like harry styles i just don’t know why he said that specifically? “Absolutely Love Harry Styles and lots of his music. “I think on nights like tonight it’s important for us to remember there is no such thing as ‘best’ in music,” he said. And so, when Harry’s name got called out, it looked like he was just as shocked as everyone else.
Harry Styles' backup dancers reveal that their Grammys performance did not go as they had rehearsed it because of on-stage technical problems.
“To switch all of those patterns around on the spot [without] having even walked in that direction?… “12 of us were on the turntable and we rehearsed for 10 days getting down these beautiful formations and sliding off the turntable… The dance number, reminiscent of the song’s official music video, saw Styles and the dancers deliver elaborate moves atop a revolving turntable.
Harry Styles' dancers during the 2023 Grammy Awards revealed that while on live TV the set turntable began to spin in the wrong direction.
We get on stage for the performance, the performance starts and the turntable starts going the wrong way.” According to another dancer, Dexter, Harry and his team practiced the choreography for 10 days leading up to the Grammys. “We rehearsed for 10 days getting down these beautiful formations and sliding off the table in a roll-off and just making this incredible, morphing, cool artistic shit and Harry did such a good job integrating into it,” Dexter shared in a TikTok video. In real time, we had to troubleshoot and try to do a complete piece in reverse. Freaking all of us out on live television, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. Harry Styles Grammys Dancers Say Set Malfunction Forced Them to ‘Reverse’ Performance Live
The stage itself proved a challenge during Harry Styles performance of "As It Was" at the Grammys.
The staging for it was a spinning turntable, featuring Harry and his dancers on the platform. [B](https://uproxx.com/pop/harry-styles-love-on-tour-chicago-recap-review/)ut it was not a perfect moment. [Harry Styles](https://deadline.com/tag/harry-styles/), who took home the coveted Album of the Year award and five other trophies at the 65th annual [Grammy Awards](https://deadline.com/tag/grammy-awards/).
Harry Styles took home the award for 'Album of the Year' at the Grammy Awards, but his acceptance speech has prompted criticism from viewers accusing him of ...
‘This doesn’t happen to people like me’ is what the guy whose dad got him the job says when he gets that bullshit award at work." "'This doesn’t happen to people like me' is the most white privilege-iest thing to ever be uttered at an awards show ever for all time," tweeted NPR journalist Sam Sanders. "Don't get me wrong i like harry styles i just don't know why he said that specifically?"
And yet the 29-year-old pop star has been widely accused of claiming to be a member of an underclass during the Grammy awards on Sunday night. “This doesn't ...
[queerbaiting](https://theweek.com/briefing/1016362/is-harry-styles-queerbaiting)”, or pretending to be LGBTQ+ in order to get attention ( [a debate that has resurfaced](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/t-magazine/queer-baiting-harry-styles-bad-bunny.html) since the Grammys controversy). That he once had a part-time job in a bakery and went to a state school ( [a very good one!)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_Chapel_Comprehensive_School) hardly makes him working class. Let the man wear his [“clowncore” jumpsuits](https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/harry-styles-grammys-red-carpet/index.html) in peace. [on this point](https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/dec/10/huge-decline-working-class-people-arts-reflects-society), but it’s hard to see how Styles figures in that conversation. Cue [confusion and uproar](https://www.today.com/popculture/awards/harry-styles-people-like-me-grammys-acceptance-speech-backlash-rcna69332) as people pointed out that white men win awards rather often. There is certainly a lot to be said
Harry Styles' Grammys acceptance speech has received backlash after saying that the achievement "doesn't happen to people like me very often".
i love you harry but that was NOT IT. the Grammys are defo rigged Im sorry but Harry styles did not deserve that grammy over the others plus wtf was his speech? “I love me some Harry Styles,” another wrote, “but ‘This doesn’t happen to people like me very often’ was such a WILD thing to say. Thank you very much.” [February 6, 2023]
Two of Harry Styles' dancers have said they had to quickly adapt their Grammy Awards routine after the stage started spinning in the wrong direction.
"But it's important for us to remember that there's no such thing as the best in music. "So, to switch all those patterns on the spot, having not even walked in that direction... "This whole time we're practicing with the turntable counter-clockwise. "There was nothing we could do to stop it. But when the turntable started turning the wrong way on the night, Da Rocha said the dancers tried to "get the attention of the technician", but it was live TV and they "couldn't yell" so the technician didn't hear them. "The moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning in reverse, backward,"
Harry Styles sang "As It Was" at the Grammys Sunday with background dancers who now allege a stage malfunction caused the awkward performance.
"Styles swapped his eye-popping jumpsuit from the red carpet for a frilly, metallic ensemble, hopping and darting across a giant turntable with his street clothes-clad backup dancers," Ryan wrote. "When the turntable went the opposite direction, dancers tried to subtly get the technician's attention to no avail. [ including Harry Styles, Sam Smith and Stevie Wonder](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/05/grammys-2023-brutally-honest-reviews-every-performance-ranked/11193018002/) "There was nothing we could do to stop it. [Why it's sparking backlash](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/06/harry-styles-grammys-2023-win-people-like-me/11195704002/) [Harry Styles](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/06/harry-styles-grammys-2023-win-people-like-me/11195704002/) has been the talk of the [2023 Grammy Awards](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/05/grammy-awards-2023-live-updates/11170771002/) between his [album of the year win](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/02/06/beyonce-album-year-snub-proves-grammys-still-ignore-her-impact/11179647002/) for " [Harry's House](https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/05/16/harry-styles-harrys-house-album-review/9783009002/)" and his performance of "As It Was."
If Harry Styles and his backup dancers looked a little out of it during their performance at Sunday's Grammys, there's good reason.
In real time, we had to troubleshoot and try to do a complete piece in reverse. Freaking all of us out on live television, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. “What you don’t know is that the moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning in reverse,” Mathis said in an Instagram story. “We rehearsed for ten days … But the night of the show, “we get on stage for the performance, the performance starts and the turn table starts going the wrong way.” At dress rehearsal, it was “spotless, beautiful,” Dexter said, explaining that making the patterns while on a moving stage and having “all this spacial awareness is a wild challenge.”
Harry Styles has been praised by his backup dancers for continuing his Grammys performance amid a technical glitch that saw the stage spin the wrong way.
Styles and the crew were forced to dance the “As It Was” routine backwards while “freaking out on live television,” said one dancer.
Fronted by Styles in a silver tinsel onesie and staged on a giant turntable, the elaborate routine had been rehearsed to a tee for ten days, choreographer Dexter Da Rocha said on [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@dexdexrevolution/video/7197146011641548078?_t=8ZfI9XUpTUA&_r=1) (per [Variety](https://variety.com/2023/music/news/harry-styles-grammys-malfunction-performance-dancers-1235515010/amp/)). Luckily we worked together and did our best and got to one cool formation in time for the overhead shot, but had to change the rest.” [Harry Styles](https://pitchfork.com/artists/33815-harry-styles/) and his dancers had to [perform](https://pitchfork.com/news/watch-harry-styles-perform-as-it-was-at-the-2023-grammys/) their “As It Was” routine in reverse at Sunday’s [Grammys](https://pitchfork.com/topics/grammys/) when the stage rotated in the wrong direction, the singer’s dancers and choreographer have revealed on social media.
Adele made a hilarious cameo in Lizzo's up-close video of Harry Styles winning album of the year at the 2023 Grammys. Watch here.
[speculation](https://twitter.com/MediumSizeMeech/status/1622628613727174659) has it that Adele, a self-proclaimed super fan of Beyoncé, was one of many Beyhive members to be disappointed that the “Break My Soul” artist had lost album of the year for [a fourth time](https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/grammys-beyonce-2023-wins-losses-1235213705/). As the “As It Was” singer climbs onstage, Lizzo pans her phone camera over to zoom in on Adele, who remained in her seat even as the immediate crowd around her gave Styles a standing ovation. When a photo of her taking a video of Styles during his big win started circulating on And, after teasing fans that she might, the 34-year-old songstress has posted the up-close video — and it features a hilarious cameo from [Adele](https://www.billboard.com/artist/adele/), who was seated right next to her. In the clip, posted to TikTok two days after the Sunday night (Feb. [Harry Styles](https://www.billboard.com/artist/harry-styles/) was announced as the winner of this year’s Grammy album of the year award, his good friend and fellow nominee [Lizzo](https://www.billboard.com/artist/lizzo/) could be seen on live TV filming him with a big smile on her face as he walked up onstage to accept.
Harry Styles performed As It Was at the 2023 Grammys, and now some of his dancers are speaking out about a technical issue with the turntable.
2022 was a major success for Styles, with his album "Harry's House" hitting the top of the charts. [taking home two Grammys](https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/how-many-grammys-does-harry-styles-have-49013390) — including album of the year — for his 2022 album "Harry's House." Styles has not commented on the performance. and Harry did such a good job integrating into it and had a beautiful duet," Da Rocha said in the video posted on 6 Feb., according to Da Rocha said the dancers tried to signal tech to fix the issue, but it continued. Styles's live rendition of the song [mimicked the music video for the track](https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/mathilde-lin-harry-styles-as-it-was-video-48774878), with him and a group of dancers performing on a turntable.
Two backup dancers for Harry Styles say their live Grammys 2023 performance was almost ruined by a major malfunction with the spinning stage.
[since-expired Instagram story](https://www.tiktok.com/@mickjaggerharry/video/7197141199378156846?_r=1&_t=8ZfJ8GrG7BK) where they claimed the revolving turntable where 12 dancers and [Harry](https://www.teenvogue.com/tag/harry-styles) were standing spun "in reverse" as soon as the performance started. "[It freaked] all of us out on live television, and there was nothing we could do to stop it," Mathis recounted, per [Entertainment Weekly](https://ew.com/awards/grammys/harry-styles-grammys-2023-performance-turntable-went-wrong-way/). During Sunday's ceremony, the British singer took to the main stage of Los Angeles's Crypto.com Arena to perform his hit song "As It Was" [to mixed reviews](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/grammys-2023-best-moments-speeches-performances). At dress rehearsal, it was gorgeous; it was amazing. We get on stage for the performance, the performance starts, and the turntable starts going the wrong way," Da Rocha shared. “In real-time, we had to troubleshoot and try to do a complete piece in reverse.
Harry Styles had to improvise in real time after a technical glitch occurred during the singer's performance of "As It Was" at the 65th Grammy Awards.
However, given the circumstances, Styles might have needed all his energy to stay steady during the mishap. Variety reports that choreographer Dexter Da Rocha said in a since-deleted TikTok, "12 of us were on the turntable and we rehearsed for 10 days getting down these beautiful formations and sliding off the turntable … There was nothing the performers could do other than improvise in the moment – Styles included. But the translation from rehearsal to real thing had nearly disastrous results. [album of the year](https://www.today.com/popculture/awards/2023-grammy-winners-list-rcna68826), for his 2022 record "Harry's House," Styles took to the stage midway through the awards show to perform the biggest hit off the album, "As It Was." [Harry Styles](https://www.today.com/popculture/awards/harry-styles-shirtless-swarovski-jumpsuit-grammys-red-carpet-rcna69240) and a crew of dancers unexpectedly found themselves rotating the wrong way during [a live performance](https://www.today.com/popculture/awards/harry-styles-grammys-performance-as-it-was-rcna67760) at this year's Grammy Awards.
Two months after the BBC cover, Styles flew down to Miami during Super Bowl weekend to hop onstage with Lizzo during her performance at the SiriusXM and Pandora ...
1 hit “About Damn Time.” The feat made Lizzo the first Black woman since Whitney Houston in 1994 to win the award, something she later pointed out and celebrated on … Every time I see him, I’ll be like, [inhales] “‘You smell like soap!’ ‘Cause he really do, he smell fresh and clean.” The singer appeared on the show and covered Styles’ “Adore You” off his recent album Fine Line. The duo, of course, performed “Juice” together. In February 2020, Styles and Lizzo attended the BRIT Awards, and were seated at tables next to each other, but sitting back-to-back. last night was amazing— @harrystyles is a treasure, gods gift to rock n roll, the light that comes from him is real and infinite.. “My favorite British import would be Harry Styles,” she joked during the fan Q&A portion of the interview. And he turn up real chill-like, you know what I’m saying? “So the funny part is, is when y’all were asking me, I thought about Harry,” she confessed. “Harry smells very good; he smell like soap!” she said emphatically. Our first glimpse of Hizzo all started when Styles visited the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, where he covered Lizzo’s smash hit, “Juice.” “She’s exactly what you want an artist to be… “You know what this means right….?” she
At the Grammy Awards on Sunday, Harry Styles set the internet alight—not with his jumpsuits or his performance, but with his acceptance speech for album of ...
We see people’s privileges—usually the ones we don’t have—and cannot bear the idea that there’s still struggle, that their elevated end of the playing field isn’t completely rock-free. [yacht-summering](https://www.vogue.com/article/harry-styles-olivia-wilde-yacht-pda), Grammy Award-wining singer and [part-time Hollywood actor](https://www.vogue.com/article/2022-was-the-year-of-harry-styles#:~:text=Every%20year%20is%2C%20for%20me,the%20cultural%20landscape%20of%202022.) has struggled—it’s that they can’t quite believe anybody who looks like Styles, any homogenous white guy, especially such a conventionally beautiful one, has the audacity to publicly signal a lack of privilege outside the value of his (white) face. We’re all working out where we fit in the social and economic pecking order; how we’re perceived, what we’ve been handed, what we’ve inherited, and what we’ve actually earned on our own. (It feels like trouble just saying this out loud.) It’s a bit like Sam Smith There are myriad reigning supremacies on this planet—some you see and some you don’t—and most of us are aware of how far we deviate from the cis, white, straight, and male (to say nothing of the European or thin or tall). Harry Styles wore a [harlequin jumpsuit](https://www.vogue.com/article/harry-styles-egonlab-grammys-jumpsuit); he later dressed as a human firework.
"We had to troubleshoot and try to do a complete piece in reverse," one of the dancers said. "Talk about professionalism."
His singing sounded off-key at times, and some pointed out that he looked [tired](https://twitter.com/prettiestfruit/status/1622420577096028160). Even with the technical difficulties everyone remained calm and delivered," dancer Zach Greene [wrote](https://www.instagram.com/p/CoU-1phpaWU/) on Instagram that they "held it DOWN in the face of major** technical issues." [Album of the Year](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniesoteriou/harry-styles-heckled-beyonce-taylor-swift-grammys), was [criticized by viewers at home](https://www.buzzfeed.com/mychalthompson/harry-styles-grammy-performance) for parts of the performance. Talk about professionalism," Mathis added. [wrote on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/CoV31APp8Tk/).
Dancers from Harry Styles' Grammy performance say they had to do the routine backwards when the rotating stage went the wrong direction.
So, luckily we worked together and did our best and got to one cool formation in time for the overhead shot but had to change the rest.” “What you don’t know is that the moment the curtain opened, and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning in reverse. [Harry Styles](https://movieweb.com/person/harry-styles/) performed "As It Was" with his group of dancers at the [Grammy Awards](https://movieweb.com/tv/the-grammy-awards-1959/), broadcast live on CBS and Paramount+. Choreographer Dexter Da Rocha explained on TikTok that despite the ensemble rehearsing to a tee for 10 days, on the night of the performance, the stage rotated in the wrong direction. One of the dancers, Brandon Mathis, echoed the choreographer's story saying on his Instagram story, [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/music/pop/harry-styles-dancer-2023-grammy-awards-stage-moved-wrong-direction-1235238885/) reports that, according to the dancers, the stage actually rotated in the wrong direction, which forced the dancers to do the entire, elaborate routine backwards.