The telecast, hosted by Trevor Noah, was a slick and studied affair only occasionally elevated by surprise and genuine emotion.
consistently struggle to overcome their ordinariness. In previous years, the show seemed to be on a confused search for meaning. An identity crisis instigated by years of snubs and accelerated by the pandemic led comedian Trevor Noah to admitThat sentiment still rings true two years later. With most of the categories abandoned to an energetic but sparsely attended preshow ceremony, the main telecast feels like a trying exhibition and a hotbed of contradictions.
Noah returned as host this year, and his presence soon proved to be the only consistent element in an uneven affair. The evening began on a high note with a performance of “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs. The latter’s committed cover was nominated for Best Country Solo Performance and, in a prerecorded video, the North Carolina singer talked about the importance of the song to his development as an artist.
Joni Mitchell’s beautiful performance of “Both Sides Now” struck a similar chord of dissonance. Two years ago, the singer pulled her songs from Spotify in protest of the platform’s contribution to COVID-19 vaccine misinformation, but this evening’s program didn’t even gesture at the ongoing crisis caused by the pandemic.
After Noah’s monologue, which partly joked about Universal Music Group’s decision to pull its music from TikTok, as well as the exploitative relationship between Spotify and artists, the show proceeded in predictable fashion. The three-hour-plus runtime only contributed to the sense that the telecast was an endurance test. The taxing duration made it hard, for example, to fully appreciate performances like the one by Burna Boy, Brandy and 21 Savage , which came later in the evening.
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