Kim Petras and Sam Smith, who received the 2023 Grammy award for greatest pop duo/group efficiency for “Unholy,” carried out the music at Sunday’s present.
Madonna launched the efficiency with a monologue about what she’s discovered about riot and being a troublemaker after her 4 many years within the music trade, noting that an artist is doing one thing proper in the event that they’re being referred to as provocative.
Surrounded by a monochromatic wash of crimson lights and in entrance of a backdrop of fireside, Smith opened up the music, encircled by dancers, sporting an ensemble and dealing with props that had allusions to BDSM themes. Midway by way of the music, Smith added a horned hat to his look.
Petras sang her part from inside a cage on stage, and wore a crimson leather-based mini-dress along with her signature lengthy, blonde hair.
Within the press room following the efficiency, Petras spoke concerning the inspiration behind it, saying: “I feel lots of people, actually, have sort of labeled what I stand for and what Sam stands for as religiously not cool. And I personally grew up questioning about faith and eager to be part of it, however then slowly realizing it doesn’t need me to be part of it. So it’s a tackle not having the ability to select faith and never having the ability to stay the best way that folks would possibly need you to stay, as a result of, you already know, as a trans particular person, I’m sort of already not needed in faith.”
After the business break, Trevor Noah faked a name to his mom, acknowledging the “unholy” themes of the efficiency’s set design and the singers’ wardrobe decisions, joking: “No, it wasn’t the precise satan, they had been simply dressed just like the satan, mother,” earlier than panning to the viewers: “She stated she’ll be praying for all of us.”
Earlier Petras and Smith received the Grammy for greatest pop duo/group efficiency for “Unholy” with Petras saying she was the primary transgender winner within the class’s historical past.
