It’s the 2012 Grammys! The Stereogum crew is over at my house, there may or may not be pizza and beer involved, and on the off chance you are experiencing something similar at yours, we have decided to put up a post for us all to congregate and talk shit about Adam Levine. This year’s proceedings will be steeped in bittersweet reminiscence for the glorious career of the the late, great, Whitney Houston, but there is obviously plenty of room for the well-timed Skrillex joke. Although, Skrillex is probably having a better time than any of us: the wub-step crown prince has socked away three Grammys already, which is more Grammys than any of us have won (yet). Other winners from the pre-televised portion of the evening include Kanye, who’s also taken three (Best Rap Album and both Best Rap Song and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for “All Of The Lights”); Bon Iver’s Bon Iver (Best Alternative Album); Tinariwen for Tassili (Best World Music Album); and Foo Fighters with three (for Best Rock Album, Rock Song, and Hard/Rock Metal Performance). And for the Videogum contingent, Louis C.K. took home a statue for Best Comedy Album (Hilarious). Nice! And now, it’s time to watch a whole bunch of other people that we mostly don’t care about win things. Yeah! We’ll continue our dialogue in the comments — see you down there.
UPDATE: Winners in major categories…
- Album of the Year: “21,” Adele
- Record of the Year: “Rolling in the Deep,” Adele
- Song of the Year: “Rolling in the Deep,” Adele Adkins & Paul Epworth
- New Artist: Bon Iver
- Pop Vocal Album: “21,” Adele
- Pop Performance by a Duo or Group: “Body and Soul,” Tony Bennett & Amy Winehouse
- Pop Solo Performance: “Someone Like You,” Adele
- Rock Song: “Walk,” Foo Fighters
- Rock Album: “Wasting Light,” Foo Fighters
- Rock Performance: “Walk,” Foo Fighters
- R&B Song: “Fool For You,” Cee Lo Green, Melanie Hallim & Jack Splash
- R&B Album: “F.A.M.E.,” Chris Brown
- Rap Performance: “Otis,” Jay-Z and Kanye West
- Rap Song: “All of the Lights,” Kanye West
- Rap Album: “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” Kanye West
- Country Vocal Solo Performance: “Mean,” Taylor Swift
- Country Performance by a Duo or Group: “Barton Hollow,” The Civil Wars
- Country Album: “Own the Night,” Lady Antebellum
- Latin Pop, Rock or Urban Album: “Drama y Luz,” Mana
- Jazz Vocal Album: “The Mosaic Project,” Terri Lyne Carrington & various artists
- Opera Recording: “Adams: Doctor Atomic,” Alan Gilbert, conductor
- Traditional Gospel Album: “Hello Fear,” Kirk Franklin
- Dance Recording: “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites,” Skrillex
- Dance/Electronica Album: “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites,” Skrillex
- Alternative Music Album: “Bon Iver,” Bon Iver
- Spoken Word Album: “If You Ask Me (And Of Course You Won’t),” Betty White
Bruce Springsteen
The Beach Boys (w/ Maroon 5, Foster The People)
Adele
Glen Campbell
Lil Wayne, Chris Brown, David Guetta, Foo Fighters, Deadmau5
Nicki Minaj
Paul McCartney (w/ Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl, Joe Walsh)
Bon Iver’s Acceptance Speech
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Oh Justin, you should have picked a better suit
is justin gonna mention that bon iver is not a new artist?
i knew it, it was him or nikki…btw, ‘bon iver’ won, where’s the rest of the ‘band?’
love justin’s shout out to the non-nominees
“Nailed it” ~Justin Vernon
bon iver forgot how not to sound like a moron
Wow, Justin was this close to giving the Grammys a big Fuck you.
The grammys have no credibility. Goblin should have won best rap album. Or at least nominated.
It’ll be nominated for Best New Artist next year.
I think you can rest assured that if the Grammys had a “Best Album of the Decade” award, Goblin would have won.
Not this decade, though. That’s not how the Grammys do things.
*Pitchfork writers typing furiously to accept credit for this award*
That was a good speech by Justin Vernon, although it was a little bit awkward.
Who are the Bon Ivers??!
Joke doesn’t work as well on self-titled albums.
Dummit.
Works better I think. Chipotle, what do you think?
I wholeheartedly agree.
Justin’s Iver just got a whole lot Bonner.
TVOTR’s Gerard Smith in the Rememberance section…
Still haven’t figured out who Adele is..
The girl winning all of the grammys
Jennifer Hudson is probably the most genuine portion of the Grammys.
Great performance by JHud
Im not too sure what just happened. Im not too sure I enjoyed it.
oh shit!
Corban turned on the Drake light!
Screw the Grammys. The Walking Dead is on.
she should’ve done “stupid hoe”
this is terrible
Well there just went Nicki’s career.
awful
horrible
Turrible.
I want STUPID HOE or ROMAN IN MOSCOW dammit.
Does anyone else think it would have been cool to see a live soul train line going to tribute Don Cornelius?
At least, as long as it wasn’t soundtracked by the Dance category nominees
Well actually Barbra Streisand by Duck Sauce would be fitting. Seeing as its mostly just a disco sample.
Like, Lady Gaga honestly is just nothing more than a birthday clown for our amusement right?
to me she’s not even that.
i guess someone was wrong about it being the last time anyone called paul their “homie”
Adele could release a spoken word album of her being excited about things and I would buy twenty copies.
She was so adorable
Guitar Solos, how do they work?
boss guitar solo fail!!!!
bruce springstien shreds!!!!
that’s what it sounds like when i play Beatles rockband
Was Paul Autotuned? I thought I caught some tracking
That Paul McCartney set was Music Sex.
have you met the grammy’s?
WINS BEST NEW ARTIST.
Update your memes dewd
What if he makes another one, then that gets more popular? Then it becomes considered a new meme. It would be just like….well you know
….too meta?
Thanks STEREOGUM. G’night.
Thanks for watching with us!
you notice LL’s flubbing the Beatles line while bringing Paul out? ‘the love you GET is equal to the love you make…’ haha.
pretty surprised they didn’t have Gaga do a song, i know she did last year but…she was still nominated? kinda too bad, maybe she woulda worn a ‘F**** Madonna!’ shirt? doubt but never know hehe.
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The best part was Milton Babbitt in the montage. The worst part was Chris Brown.
LOL @ Best Coast- https://twitter.com/#!/bestycoastyy/status/168932025871511552
YAY best coast! what i think everytime i see that fucking idiot, if he was really good then you could look past his idiocy, but he’s so so average.
How is Bon Iver a “new artist”? What is the grace period, 4 years?
You know the lamestreamers are as Late as Kanye’s Registration.
Modest Mouse was around longer when they won it
J-Hud, girl you slayin it w/ this Whitney tribute.
Umm… Glad Bon Iver won, but they are not a New Artist; likewise, nominees Mumford & Son’s sole album came out in 2009 whilst Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was released 2010. Isn’t there any cut-off??
If you look closely, you can see that Nicki Minaj is being raised by wires.
Wow, who would of thought Joe Walsh was still alive? Colour me surprised.
i think minaj might be the most annoying person in the world…please can her career end soon
“Who the hell is Paul McCartney?!”
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/who-is-paul-mccartney
@Davey Pants…you realize the guy is dying of Alzheimer’s right?
i heard, after. still, does that mean one cannot report the facts? he oddly talked in-between lines of verse, and on at least 2 occasions muttered ‘oh wow, not used to a chorus.’ i thought it was newsworthy to acknowledge the flubbing, whether he’s a special needs child, a genius, young-old, or in the early stages of dementia. i never said ‘haha you suck grampa!! pull the plug!” did i?
BUT if it makes you feel any better, i dared to say the same thing as PC as possible on a friends FB post where she was excited about GC singing, and within an hour she deleted me haha. i was like ‘wow SOMEONES a Glen fan?! good to know.’ of course maybe i pushed her a bit when after she made me feel like a dick on that, i got her back after she made fun of deadmou5 ‘what is that mickey mouse tron?’ to which i retorted ‘how dare you, that guy has autism and that mask is the only thing that let’s him feel confident enough to go out in public, jerk!’
Adele: Because We Need A New Amy Winehouse
-or-
Adele: Because No One Remembers Duffy
I think they’re literally throwing darts randomly at a list of indie bands to pick who’s going to be the next Arcade Fire, because that is the only way I can figure someone could think Bon Iver deserves any sort of award.
http://gifsoup.com/MzQwMDY3NA
gif post fail :(
stereogum sucks!
Stereogum sucks you.
Is that an insult?
Bon Iver is a douche you don’t need to sound so apologetic for winning a grammy..who cares what a bunch of snivelling pitchdorks think!..and stop stealing your grandad’s clothes.
honestly didn’t mind Taylor Swift’s performance at all, surprising…. liked the Civil War ( and their pre performance witty banter ).. Sad to hear Glen Campbell has alzheimer.. nicki minaj is just a “poor mans” Gaga,shock value only works on retards…Chris Brown needs his head kicked in..can’t on hate the foo fighters, seem like cool guys …. paul mccartney looks like my grandma, The boss was the boss and the beach boys>maroon five/foster the people
and ironically paul mccartney’s SON looks like you’re grampa…look him up haha.
can someone please explain what the fucking difference is between record of the year, and song of the year??!?!
actually have no fucking clue, Record is suppose to mean ‘song’ last i checked…maybe they mean sales with record and song just judging the best song across the board in all genres no matter if its a big hit or not?? very fucking confusing whatever it is.
Welcome to oblivion Adele. Watch out for Alanis, Lauryn Hill, & Norah Jones.
used to hate Norah, but since she did that ‘ace’ song with Belle and Sebastian i have to fucking love her, cuz she’s amazing on it.
Who cares about Adele? it’s not like she even wrote the songs she got awards for. She even admitted that in her acceptance speech.
I cant believe people are giving awards to the Foo Fighters.
cuz they’re the establishments choice of THE token rock band du jour. a bit of an ode to the past, kinda fresh, no X factor lead singers who might go crazy on tv, and the legends love Dave Grohl. kinda makes perfect sense.
Lady Gaga’s face: “what’s happening? who are they?”
Honestly, I thought The Civil Wars stole the show….
I’d love to hear what you guys think about my first ever music video!
Just look up “Make It Tonight New Alliance”