The most memorable Grammy moments: From JLo in THAT Versace dress to Lady Gaga hatching from an egg and Jay-Z's verbal swipe
The most memorable Grammy moments: From JLo in THAT Versace dress to Lady Gaga hatching from an egg and Jay-Z's verbal swipe
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Undisputedly the biggest night in music - the 67th Grammy awards is set to take hold today and will welcome some of the globe's biggest entertainers and VIPs. While fans look forward to the glittering ceremony in Los Angeles, California, it's the event's penchant for shocking moments and crazy antics that really gets people talking . We'll never forget 2011's edition which saw Lady Gaga arriving in a human-sized egg, neither how Adele memorably flubbed a George Michael tribute in 2017.
Nor can we erase the controversial night Chris Brown and Rihanna turned up together just four years after they both missed the Grammys. And what would the mighty night be without scandalous fashion statements like Jennifer Lopez's iconic plunging Versace silk dress in 2000 or Madonna's cheeky bottom flash at the 2015 awards. Meanwhile last year Jay-Z shockingly attacked the respected accolade for failing to give his wife Beyoncé the best album award, despite her 32 wins in other categories.
From wardrobe malfunctions to on-stage gaffes and wild moments, it's clear the event is famed for more than just music. Here, FEMAIL takes a look back at the most outrageous incidents to ever occur at the premiere show... Undisputedly the biggest night in music - the Grammys is famed for more than just music. In 2011, Lady Gaga shocked the world by arriving at the premiere award ceremony in a human-sized egg.
Lady Gag's look was equally dramatic as she donned a sheer gold skirt and cropped top, with her hair tied up in a style reminiscent of Madonna's Blonde Ambition tour era. The star later hatched out of the egg before performing her monster hit, Born This Way. While Lady Gaga is no stranger to drama, she ramped it up to epic proportions at the 2011 ceremony. The flamboyant fashionista's entrance to the Grammys has gone down in history as one of the wildest ever - and it all started with an egg.
She arrived on the red carpet in a resplendent human-sized sphere, signalling metaphorical rebirth before a performance of her monster hit, Born This Way. Her look was equally dramatic as she donned a sheer gold skirt and cropped top, with her hair tied up in a style reminiscent of Madonna's Blonde Ambition tour era. She incidentally bagged three gongs that night, marking it both a professional and fashion milestone for the superstar.
Lady Gaga later claimed to have spent an incredible 72 hours inside the enormous egg, an act she described as a ‘creative embryonic incubation’ that gave her time to ‘think about the meaning’ of her Grammys performance. In 2024 Jay-Z slammed the Grammy awards for failing to honour his wife Beyoncé with the best album gong. When the camera cut to Queen B she appeared shy and apprehensive and was seemingly blushing.
With his 12-year-old daughter Blue Ivy by his side, the mogul ironically said there were more important things in life than winning Grammys - before pointing out that his superstar wife had never won best album. It's rare to catch the queen of pop-RnB blushing, but that's exactly what happened when her husband Jay-Z slammed the Grammys last year. After the Brooklyn-born rapper accepted his Dr. Dre Global Impact Award for contribution to the music industry, he condemned the establishment for failing to honour Beyoncé with the best album gong.
With his 12-year-old daughter Blue Ivy by his side and wife Beyoncé looking on from their table in the audience, the mogul ironically said there were more important things in life than winning Grammys - before pointing out that his superstar wife had never won best album. 'I don't want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more Grammys than everyone and never won Album of the Year,' said the rapstar.
'So even by your own metrics, that doesn't work. Think about that. The most Grammys; never won Album of the Year. That doesn't work'. When the camera cut to Queen B she appeared shy and apprehensive and was seemingly blushing. Jay-Z has been nominated for 88 competitive Grammy Awards, winning 24 of them. Six of his nominations have been for Album of the Year. Beyonce has also been nominated for 88 competitive Grammy Awards, winning 32 of them. Like her husband, Beyonce has been nominated six times for Album of the Year, but never won.
A stunning 31-year-old Jennifer Lopez coupled with an iconic Versace dress set in motion the most talked about moment to occur at the 43rd Grammy awards. The plunging green and sheer dress was so legendary it inspired the creation of Google images shortly afterwards. The multi-hyphenate performer's split from Ben Affleck keeps her in the headlines 24/7, but in 2000 she had tongues wagging over for something else.