Melissa Ruggieri

There's winners being announced.

There's so much happening.

You're trying to write.

You're trying to listen.

And that was one of those moments where pretty much every journalist in the room kind of stopped what they were doing just for a few minutes to listen.

You know, Lauryn Hill,

Really, who better to sing Roberta Flack songs than Lauryn Hill?

And she looked amazing, too.

And then you had a D'Angelo tribute when, you know, you had people like John Batiste and all, you know, and Raphael Sadiq and Chaka Khan.

And those two artists being remembered by this conglomerate of other artists just showed the respect that they had for them.

And it was a really well-produced segment.

And I was really curious how they were going to handle all the In Memoriam stuff this year because we did lose so many people.

You know, like you said, you know, we lost Ozzy.

We lost D'Angelo.

We lost Roberta Flack.

And then, of course, we lost Sly Stone and Brian Wilson, who I was happy to see that Bruce Springsteen just had a prerecorded narrated retrospective of Brian Wilson's career.

You know, talk about one of the most important people in pop music over the last century.

I thought the Grammys did a really great job of getting everything in there to recognize the greats and, you know, a relatively short period of time that they had to cram in there.

And Reba McEntire, of course, was one.

And Brandi Clark led the in memoriam segment in general for all the other people who were lost this year.