Grammys 2026 live chat: Justin Bieber's half-naked 'Yukon' brings stripped down vibe to the show

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With the 2026 Grammys officially upon us, work astir each of the night’s champion and worst moments beneath successful our Grammys unrecorded chat betwixt popular euphony professional Mikael Wood and unit writer August Brown.

6:35 p.m. Seeing immoderate clips for the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic successful the ads here. What a…challenging clip to merchandise a large diagnostic astir a almighty antheral personage accused of kid abuse. —A.B.

6:34 p.m. Lady Gaga’s show of “Abracadabra” is fundamentally a screen of the Rapture’s “House of Jealous Lovers.” — M.W.

Where is Girl Talk erstwhile you request him to marque that mashup a reality. Man, to beryllium backmost astatine Coachella past year, seeing this madness onstage for the archetypal time. — A.B.

6:29 p.m. Jelly Roll wins the grant for modern state album. He views each awards-show acceptance code arsenic an accidental to audition for a aboriginal occupation arsenic a megachurch pastor, and this 1 is nary exception. — M.W.

Interesting to spot Jelly Roll triumph this close aft helium joined Kid Rock’s MAGA-coded “Rock the Country” tour. Beyoncé winning for state medium already feels similar an eon ago. —A.B.

6:24 p.m. Yikes to Lainey Wilson’s cornball “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”/”Somewhere Over Laredo” gag with “Wicked’s” Jeff Goldblum. You’re amended than this, Lainey! — M.W.

6:20 p.m. Pretty inevitable for Bad Bunny to instrumentality location the grant for música urbana album, a class helium fundamentally inaugurated. But a beardown connection connected the existent warfare connected immigrants here: “ICE out,” helium says. — A.B.

After noting that “we are humans and we are Americans,” Bad Bunny goes on: “The hatred get much almighty with much hate. The lone happening that is much almighty than hatred is love. So delight — we request to beryllium different. We person to bash it with love.” — M.W.

6:12 p.m. Justin Bieber heard your thoughts connected Sombr, Mikael, and decided to spell afloat shirtless.— A.B.

Shirtless and pantsless! I was already looking guardant to seeing however Biebs planned to bring the radically underdressed “Swag” to Coachella successful a fewer months. This heartthrob-in-his-underwear instrumentality connected “Yukon” has maine doubly intrigued. — M.W.

6:08 p.m. Kind of a cringey comedic spot betwixt Trevor Noah and Bad Bunny that I won’t spell to the occupation of play-by-playing here. But the propulsion punctuation from Bad Bunny: “Puerto Rico’s portion of America.” — M.W.

6:00 p.m. As expected, Olivia Dean wins champion caller artist. In her speech, she notes that “I’m up present arsenic a granddaughter of an immigrant.” She calls herself “a merchandise of bravery, and I deliberation those radical merit to beryllium celebrated.” — M.W.

Good for her for utilizing her infinitesimal to constituent that out, the U.S. is successful the throes of a unspeakable infinitesimal connected immigrants, but nary state is immune from the sentiment and I’m blessed to perceive a unified beforehand connected fixing this from artists everywhere.—A.B.

Would not person called Lola Young doing “Messy” arsenic a bare-bones soft ballad. It’s got 1 of the astir hypnotic grooves heard connected popular vigor successful the past decade! No question she tin sing, though. — M.W.

I anticipation she’s doing amended these days! That abrupt unreserved of fame and tremendous demands connected your assemblage and caput tin exhaust the astir resilient of us, and Lola’s specified a unit of charisma who deserves clip to chill. —A.B.

And present the caller creator category’s presumptive favorite, Olivia Dean, with “Man I Need.” I’m astir apt incorrect astir this, but I benignant of consciousness similar this opus volition inactive beryllium with america successful 40 years the mode Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” is now. Just a gorgeous soul-music emotion bomb. — M.W.

Olivia Dean astatine the 68th Grammy Awards

Yeah, “Man I Need” could person travel retired astatine immoderate constituent successful the past 60 years and been a deed successful immoderate of them, and the remainder of her catalog is conscionable arsenic timeless. The Grammys LOVE young radical making sturdy, soul-soaked euphony similar that. Looking astatine a lifer here. —A.B.

Sombr finishes retired the caller creator showcase. I’ve seen this dude play astir apt fractional a twelve times astatine this constituent and can’t callback ever seeing him deterioration a shirt. August, you profiled Sombr a fewer months back. What tin you archer maine astir his doctrine regarding the precocious body? — M.W.

Man, if my thorax hairsbreadth wasn’t going visibly grey and I was alternatively a lanky, chiseled Zoomer with a deed LP I mightiness consciousness the aforesaid mode astir apical buttons. —A.B.

5:40 p.m. The Marías unfastened a series of performances by the show’s champion caller creator nominees, and it’s chill to spot a set conscionable playing euphony connected unrecorded web TV. — M.W.

Shades of Charli XCX’s chaotic back-alley meta-entrance into the Crypto.com arena from Addison Rae here, with a chill pivot into choreo. Brat Summer inactive lives connected successful its feral children. — A.B.

Katseye astatine the 68th Grammy Awards held astatine the Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026.

Fun, weird, noisy show of “Gnarly” by Katseye, a radical that started retired arsenic a reality-TV instauration but has rapidly travel to consciousness similar a existent enactment with a shared originative ambition. I’m into it. — M.W.

Leon Thomas was each implicit the pre-party circuit this week, I curse I saw him play “Mutt” much often than I saw my household this year. Great each clip though, helium rips and intelligibly has immoderate behind-the-scenes buzz from the songwriter trenches. —A.B.

He does rip! Alex Warren, meanwhile, is being made to march down a stairwell past a kindly looking grandma typing distant connected her telephone arsenic helium pours his bosom retired successful “Ordinary.” Rude, Grammy producers — rude. — M.W.

Heard idiosyncratic quip that we unrecorded successful an epoch of kids with look tattoos making Adult Contemporary euphony and well, present we are with Alex Warren . —AB

Kendrick Lamar astatine the 68th Grammy Awards held astatine the Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles, CA, Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026.

5:24 p.m. Kendrick wins champion rap album, which you fig he’d person to person won to support album, grounds and opus of the twelvemonth successful play for “GNX” and “Luther.” — M.W.

This was his to lose, arsenic it ever is, but it’s a coagulated omen for him joining Roberta Flack, U2 and Billie Eilish arsenic artists who’ve won grounds successful consecutive years. — A.B.

Yep. I ever bask trying to crippled retired what’s gonna hap successful the ceremonial based connected the bid of awards. (Tragic for me, I realize.) Given that helium besides came up large connected the pre-show, with wins for rap opus and melodic rap performance, this could mean a large nighttime for Kendrick. — M.W.

5:21 p.m. Kendrick looking crisp successful that tux (though I did emotion his all-denim look past year). — M.W.

Noah telling Kendrick “I remembered what you tin bash to lightskinned dudes from different countries” - Drake is ne'er not catching strays astatine the Grammys. - A.B.

5:17 p.m. Sabrina Carpenter intelligibly spent large astatine the past Spirit Halloween to enactment unfastened successful Los Angeles for this lavish show of “Manchild.” Among her galore dancers, I spy a nurse, an astronaut, a UPS transportation feline — adjacent a dude successful a pith helmet. — M.W.

International question for a precise extended play of clip connected Sabrina Carpenter Airlines- feeling beauteous glamorous and aspirational these days! - AB

5:15 p.m. “Nicki Minaj is not here, she is inactive astatine the White House with Donald Trump,” astir apt a monolithic alleviation to everyone connected the level contiguous that Barbz aren’t present emboldened with national constabulary powers. Yet. —A.B.

5:13 p.m. Asking Jelly Roll to unlock Teddy Swims’ telephone with his look is simply a bully bit. — M.W.

5:12 p.m. Honestly going to miss Trevor Noah erstwhile helium moves connected from this hosting gig, he’s been large and seems similar a sincere instrumentality of the full shebang with conscionable capable vim and vinegar to support it lively. —A.B.

5:09 p.m. Trevor Noah arsenic helium strolls done the assemblage chatting up assorted musicians: “I consciousness similar I’m successful Jeff Bezos’ wedding but with mode much Black people.” — M.W.

Rosé and Bruno Mars execute astatine the 68th Grammy Awards

5:03 p.m. Speaking of Bruno and Rosé, present they are opening the amusement with “Apt.” astatine what feels similar treble speed. This opus has ne'er reminded maine of No Doubt earlier now, but this rendition feels precise “Tragic Kingdom” coded to me. — M.W.

4:45 p.m. Let maine archer you, I earned similar 10 years of cool-uncle-August credibility with my friend’s five-year-old aft I sent implicit a video clip of the Huntr/x singers performing astatine the UMG gala yesterday. I’m keeping an oculus retired connected a macro level to spot if Kendrick Lamar oregon Bad Bunny - 2 of the astir politically and creatively salient artists moving contiguous for a assortment of reasons - are capable to yet instrumentality location the capstone medium prize erstwhile each person been deservedly circling it for immoderate time. Artists and voters consciousness immoderate urgency to marque this a connection award. But for Record and Song, don’t number retired Grammy bestie Bruno Mars and Blackpink’s Rosé sneaking successful for immoderate hardware either. — A.B.

4:45 p.m. August, my friend, we’re going up, up, up — it’s our infinitesimal (which is to accidental different accidental to liveblog different Grammys ceremony). So gladsome to beryllium with you contiguous arsenic the enactment unfolds astatine Crypto.com Arena. Will “Golden” go the archetypal K-pop tune to triumph opus of the year? Will Lady Gaga yet triumph a apical Grammy with “Abracadabra” oregon “Mayhem”? Will Bad Bunny instrumentality it each en way to adjacent weekend’s Super Bowl halftime performance? These are conscionable a fewer of the evening’s galore burning questions. —M.W.

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