Christopher Polk for Varietyīut the Grammys did just as well when the choreography amounted to nothing much more than Eilish banging her head to the chaotic climax of “Happier Than Ever” in a Taylor Hawkins T-shirt in a rainstorm. at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 3rd, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was flown in and got his moment, even if the solo turn viewers might remember most is V’s utterly uncomplicated flirtation with Olivia Rodrigo out in the audience.īillie Eilish (R) and FINNEAS perform onstage at the 64th Annual Grammy Awards held at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 3rd, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. There was evidence that the BTS choreography was designed fairly recently, because much of it involved only six of the seven members, the sextet design probably reflecting the fact that Jungkook was recently sidelined with COVID and had just returned to the fold.
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That honor went down as a tie, though, after BTS pulled off what might have been its most lavishly impressive production number in a career full of them, this one being a spy-movie homage set to “Butter,” involving card tricks and conjoined-jacket magic on top of the Bond-ian and “Mission: Impossible”-ian antics, because… why not. The Latin music king had 64 dancers (if we’re doing our math right) seated and doing every bit of their lockstep dancing without any steps at all, but rather doing all the movement with their glow-in-the-dark arms, giving white-glove treatment a good name. Sharing honors for the most brilliant choreography of the night was J Balvin’s early number. Was it OK that they had the stage all to themselves? Also, yes. Paak share the stage with one of the older artists that overly inspired them? Yes. Would it have been cool to see Bruno Mars and Anderson. There is an irony, of course, in the Fulwell 73 camp banishing the veteran acts that Ehrlich would often put on the show… and then devoting the top of the show to a ’70s homage that goes on to sweep all its categories, in spite of or because of being a completely nostalgically driven thing. Silk Sonic set the energy level at the top of the show, momentarily making the high camp of a 1970s pastiche feel like a get-on-up good thing. Not to slight the skill involved in executing that playlist, with a good number of terrific setpieces coming into play Sunday night and the cameras always feeling like they were in the right place under the schooled direction of Hamish Hamilton. But in a year that had Silk Sonic, Jon Batiste, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Brandi Carlile, Lil Nas X and a Lady Gaga/Tony Bennett combo among those coming out tops in the nominations - and BTS’ lone nomination also offering an excuse for a typically dazzling production number - there was some real luck of the draw happening in being able to turn on that jukebox. And in some years, it could be a creative disaster to just rely on the whims of where the Recording Academy’s voters went. If there’s been a resistance to making it that simple in the past, it was partly out of fear of turning the Grammys into the American Music Awards, which no one needs two of. The 2022 show was low-concept in primarily consisting just of today’s top performers doing their top hits. It kind of felt, actually, like an old-school Ken Ehrlich production, the only thing super-demonstrably different from that era being the notable absence of the “Grammy moment” duets Ehrlich made famous.
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Trevor Noah wore a tux, no one ordered out for pizza from the stage, and the show was not reconfigured into a series of TikTik moments.
And the biggest surprise was… how unsurprising it was. This year felt like the truer test of how things might go under a new regime, with Raj Kapoor taking over primary showrunner duties for Winston’s Fulwell 73. The 2021 show, which incorporated a host of novel aspects to make up for the lack of a real live audience, was hard to judge, as a quarantine-era one-off. But maybe that was never really Winston’s intent after all, or maybe the pandemic - and the failures of the Academy Awards - put into starker relief which direction things should go. And we’ve all seen how wrong that can go in recent years at the Oscars. When Ben Winston took over at the helm with last year’s Grammys, there was a general feeling that, for better or worse, he might try to make the show a lot hipper.
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