Harry Styles

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.

We were expecting a Beyoncé vs Adele rematch, but Harry Styles' surprise win showed a deep lack of imagination at the 2023 Grammys, writes Mark Beaumont.

In terms of the fundamental visions involved, they’re in different leagues: Beyoncé pioneers, Styles imitates. The Grammys have a grand total of 91 award categories across a vast array of genres, but most are presented during an unscreened Premiere Ceremony before the main show like one relentless, 90-minute howl of “diverse enough for you, Twitter!?”. So the 2024 Beyoncé Knowles-Carter Robbed Again Award goes to.… Already, Styles had delivered the most lacklustre performance of the night, first spotted wandering about on a revolving stage full of dancers – well, more like loiterers really – before his rendition of “As It Was” was upstaged by his own sparkly yeti outfit. When these two superpowers of female fortitude and redemption last clashed in 2017, the Brit singer swept the board – and expressed her dismay in her [Album of the Year](/topic/album-of-the-year) acceptance speech. It was the second time running that Beyoncé had been robbed of the AOTY gong, having lost out to Beck in 2015.

The queen of pop broke records – though not for the big gongs, again. But if the Recording Academy has a history of unexpected choices, this year's wins for ...

[Harry Styles](https://www.theguardian.com/music/harry-styles)’s Harry’s House beating Renaissance to album of the year doesn’t feel the same as Beck’s Morning Phase triumphing over [Beyoncé](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/dec/13/beyonce-album-first-review) in 2015, nor does it feel the same as if, say, Coldplay’s Music of the Spheres had won this year. [Beyoncé](https://www.theguardian.com/music/beyonce) has only ever won one of them once – song of the year in 2010 for Single Ladies – which seems a fairly inexplicable state of affairs: you don’t need to be a rabid member of the Bey Hive to know that she’s had an immense cultural and commercial impact over the last 20 years. Under the circumstances, Samara Joy – a hugely gifted jazz vocalist, gradually emerging as a significant songwriter as well as an adept interpreter of standards – feels like a worthwhile choice: rooted in tradition, but too soulful to qualify as easy listening. The weirdest success was Bonnie Raitt’s [Just Like That](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skd0XR3twCA) winning song of the year, at least from the perspective of the UK, where the album it’s from didn’t even make the charts. Certainly they’re one of the biggest-selling groups in a field where several of the nominees didn’t even seem particularly new: Molly Tuttle’s first album came out in 2006; Tobe Nwigwe’s first EP six years ago; Muni Long is 34 and released her debut album, albeit under her real name, Priscilla Renea, in 2009. Without wishing to cast shade on those doughtily toiling away in the areas covered by the best score soundtrack for video games and other interactive media and best new age ambient or chant album categories, the Grammys are ultimately about four awards: album of the year, record of the year, song of the year and best new artist.

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 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 gave his Grammys acceptance speech for Album of the Year while being heckled by some fans who shouted “Beyoncé.” Taylor Swift's reaction to ...

Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). [made history](https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a42769926/beyonce-most-grammy-wins-record/) at the Grammys last night as the ceremony’s most decorated artist ever, she has never won Album of the Year. Her not winning for Lemonade or Renaissance were both [major upsets to fans](https://www.elle.com/culture/movies-tv/a42770978/harry-styles-album-of-the-year-grammys-2023-reactions-beyonce/), particularly. Styles acknowledged his Album of the Year win was a surprise to him backstage, as these awards are never predictable. And I always will. Not only did she give him standing ovations during his performance and acceptance speeches, but she even snuck over to his table at one point during the show to talk to him.

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.

Styles also took home the best pop vocal album award for House. And though Queen Bey was thwarted a fourth time in her bid for an AOTY honor, she became the ...

As he was during his acceptance speech at the 2023 Grammy Awards on Sunday night (Jan. At the same press appearance, Styles was asked if he and his co-producers (Kid Harpoon and Tyler Johnson) have begun work on the follow-up to Harry’s House. And though Queen Bey was thwarted a fourth time in her bid for an AOTY honor, she became the [most-decorated artist](https://www.billboard.com/music/awards/beyonce-grammy-record-most-wins-all-time-1235212857/) in Grammy history when she scooped her 32nd trophy for best dance/electronic album on Sunday; her win vaulted the singer over late conductor Georg Solti for most Grammy wins of all-time. Blige (Good Morning Gorgeous (Deluxe), Brandi Carlile (In These Silent Days), Coldplay (Music of the Spheres), Kendrick Lamar (Mr. In a press room interview following the awards, Styles was asked by Billboard about the many headlines going into the night focused on the possibility that [Beyoncé](https://www.billboard.com/artist/beyonce/) would finally score an album of the year prize for her dance-heavy Renaissance collection. “When I look at this category it’s all people who’ve inspired me at different times.

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).

When Harry Styles took home the biggest prize at the 2023 Grammys, one line from his acceptance speech sparked backlash.

[tweeted](https://twitter.com/AshleyKSmalls/status/1622456674819743749?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1622456674819743749%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=about%3Asrcdoc), referencing Lauryn Hill’s 1999 win for The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Out of the category’s 10 nominees, [Lizzo](https://www.glamour.com/about/lizzo) and [Adele](https://www.glamour.com/about/adele) were also major contenders. [Styles](https://www.glamour.com/about/harry-styles) was up against some [pretty stiff competition](https://www.glamour.com/story/grammy-awards-2023-here-are-all-the-nominees) for the coveted award, which many predicted would go to [Grammy record-breaker](https://www.glamour.com/story/beyonce-tears-up-while-accepting-her-record-breaking-grammy) [Beyoncé](https://www.glamour.com/about/beyonce) for her album Renaissance. Only two other Black women have ever won the award: Natalie Cole for Unforgettable…With Love in 1992 and Whitney Houston for The Bodyguard soundtrack in 1994. This doesn’t happen to people like me very often.” People like who, exactly? However, what began as a celebratory moment for the artist—who also won best pop vocal performance for “As It Was”—put a bad taste in many viewers’ mouths.

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' 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.

Several of Harry Styles' back up dancers have taken to social media to explain that the turntable they were performing on during the Grammys spun in the ...

But it seems Styles and his dancers were just doing trying to make the best of a bad situation. "Unfortunately, news outlets didn't know what was happening so they called it lethargic or boring or whatever, but it really was that we're just trying to f--ing stay standing." We get on stage for the performance, the performance starts and the turntable starts going the wrong way." 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." Dexter added that the dancers tried to get the attention of the technician under their breath to inform them that the turnable was going the wrong direction, but their efforts were to no avail. But things did not go according to plan, say his dancers, who have started posting on social media about the turntable they were dancing on malfunctioning and spinning the wrong direction.

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/).

The Beechwood Café in Los Angeles has been inundated with Harry Styles fans since he name dropped the eatery in the 2019 song Falling.

Once inside the girls could be seen with cardboard cutouts of the star as they burst out into his songs and dance around. 'I think it's fascinating, a social phenomenon,' he said. How one line in Harry Styles song has made LA café a goldmine! Fahim said he and his staff are happy to take photos and answer fans' questions about what Harry Styles ate - the Beechwood Scramble - and where he sat - the table at the center of the room and the booth in the far right corner. Super fans of the singer-songwriter have been traveling from across the country to eat at the Beachwood Café since December 2019, when Harry Styles briefly mentioned it in his song, Falling. - The Beechwood Café in Los Angeles has been inundated with Harry Styles fans since he name dropped the eatery in the 2019 song Falling

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]

People are trying to claim Adele walked out of the Grammys when Harry Styles won AOTY, but there's more to the video than meets the eye.

I don’t think any of us sit in the studio making decisions on what is going to get us one of these.” He started off by saying, “I think on nights like tonight it’s important for us to remember there is no such thing as ‘best’ in music. Alleged footage of Adele walking out of the show when Harry won Album of the Year.

The musician has been accused of “white privilege” for saying “this doesn't happen to people like me very often” when, actually, it does.

“’A black woman hasn’t won in over 20 years and a Hip Hop artist hasn’t won in 19 years. “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,” one person tweeted, referencing the fact that a Black woman hadn’t won the award since Lauryn Hill in 1999, while Styles was the 33rd white man to accept the honour. In his defence, he’s opening remark: “Well, shit”, insinuates his mutual surprise. In fact, militant Beyoncé fans could even be heard booing as the performer took to the stage. In the 65 shows since, artists such as Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder and Taylor Swift have each won the coveted award three times — yet there’s always been one glaring snub. However one category is without a doubt the most prestigious of them all.

Lizzo has shared an insight into her evening at the Grammys, capturing the moment her pal Harry Styles won Album of the Year.

SO REAL.” Adele saying ‘I’m screaming’ with a straight face. Lizzo has shared an insight into her evening at the Grammys, capturing the moment her pal Harry Styles won Album of the Year.

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."