All hail Olivia Rodrigo: a newly-minted Grammy winner ... and dropper.
The “Drivers License” singer made her mark on the 2022 ceremony in Las Vegas on Sunday evening, the place she took house three of her seven nominated awards for her chart-topping debut document, “Bitter.”
Whereas Rodrigo may not have seen the Grammys windfall some anticipated, holding all three awards directly, together with the trophy for Greatest New Artist, proved to be a little bit of a handful.
After the ceremony, the Disney star confidently posed for pictures together with her awards bounty. That's, till she by chance dropped one among her golden gramophones, which broke it into items.
In footage of the mishap, Rodrigo loses maintain one among her awards, which hits the ground of the crimson carpet, as a wall of photographers snap pictures and he or she makes a shocked face.
“That’s all proper,” one among them tells her. “We’ll put it in your invoice.”
Fortunately, an assistant was available to reassemble the trophy and return it in prime situation to Rodrigo, who laughed off the incident and went onto pose with all three awards with none additional accidents.
Followers of Rodrigo, who’s lengthy cited Taylor Swift as a musical inspiration, have been fast to notice that the “Folklore” singer additionally pulled an identical transfer again on the 2010 Grammy Awards.
Identical to Rodrigo, Swift misplaced maintain of one among her awards on the ceremony, the place she picked her first of three Album of the Yr trophies, whereas posing for pictures.
Rodrigo is in esteemed firm, as different stars have additionally mishandled their Grammys hardware, together with Adele, who famously broke her award in half onstage on the ceremony in 2017.
Regardless of her non permanent setback, Rodrigo had fairly an evening on the sixty fourth annual ceremony, the place she in the end triumphed within the Greatest New Artist, Greatest Pop Solo Efficiency and Greatest Pop Vocal Album classes.
In her first acceptance speech of the evening, an emotional Rodrigo informed the group, “That is my largest dream come true. Thanks a lot!”
The “Excessive College Musical: The Musical: The Collection” star was additionally the second act to take the stage after Silk Sonic, wowing the group with a stirring efficiency of her record-breaking smash single “Drivers License.”
Watch a clip from her efficiency beneath.
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