Melissa Ruggieri
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It really did.
I mean, you know, there was hope for Lady Gaga to maybe win one of the first of her three top awards, which she's never won before in record album or song of the year.
But I think everybody knew going into it that this was going to be a cultural year and that Bad Bunny, who absolutely deserved to win, was going to become the first artist in Grammy history to have an all Spanish album win album of the year.
And the funny part is the last time that that might have happened was for his last album or his album two albums ago.
So
So, you know, it was going to be Bad Bunny one way or the other, I think.
Well, the first speech when he got up there, he was very passionate about talking about ICE and the community and, you know, telling people, look, these aren't aliens.
These aren't savages.
We are human beings.
And
I thought that he stuck a really unifying tone when he said, you know, the only thing that comes out of hate is more hate and that he's about love.
And I think the people who, you know, have raised the controversy about the Super Bowl halftime performance show that we'll see him in this coming Sunday, I think are going to see some more of that on Sunday, too.
I think that his whole thing right now is unity.
And, you know, when you listen to his music, his music is fun.
His music is stuff that, you know, you want to dance to, even though he does have a lot of important messages in it, too.
And I think we're going to see that at the Super Bowl.
But I think as far as the Grammys go, you know, I've been doing this.
This is my 31st Grammys, I believe.
And I have never seen an artist respond to winning an award the way he did for Album of the Year when he was so overcome with emotion that he just sat at the table and
for a good 30 seconds.