Reid Butler: Channel Nine US Correspondent on the 67th Grammy Awards, Chappell Roan

It was a pared back event last night as the 67th Grammy Awards took place in Los Angeles. 

The Recording Academy reformatted the awards show to help victims of the wildfires that destroyed more than 14,000 buildings and displaced tens of thousands.  

More than $10 million was raised for those impacted.  

Many award-winners also used their time to make statements about the current climate, with Best New Artist Chappell Roan calling out the working conditions for emerging artists. 

Channel Nine US Correspondent Reid Butler told Mike Hosking that some people hated the speech while others loved it. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Peered back, toned down Grammy Show last night, kind of
lovely really to Los Angeles post those fires. Beyonce finally
got the country nod, She's got the album of the year,
all that sort of stuff. Channel nine's US correspondent Read
Butler was there and was with us, Read Morning.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Good morning. Yeah, it was, it was. It was paired back,
but still a lot of fun, I reckon there was.
There was a lot of nice, fun, upbeat performances and
from your Sekira's, your Billie Eilish is, Sabrina Carpenter, Lady Gaga,
but then also that undercurrent of the importance of paying
respects and paying tribute to those who who have been

(00:36):
affected by these wildfires, and raised a lot of money too,
which was good. I think more than more than ten million.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Dollars krnye in as weird, Missus? Was that as weird
as it looked?

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah? Yes, yes, so cop to knife full. Yeah. It
were very strange for a lot of reasons, primarily obviously,
there are a lot of people on the red carpet
dressed to the nines, and Carne's missus, Bianca from I
think originally from Melbourne, wasn't dressed in anything at all.
So she rocked up in her coat and took it

(01:07):
off and she was essentially standing there absolutely stark naked,
which shocked a lot of people making a statement. So
the statement are quite for help, I don't know. But
then weirder than that she was. They then just left.
They left. They didn't even go inside Crypto Arena. There
was some reporting saying that they might have been kicked out,

(01:28):
but that was kind of disputed by people in the Grammys.
I think they just kind of thought they were going
to rock up, make this statement and then and then leave.
But it was certainly they certainly made a lot of
headlines in the process of doing that. It was very
very strange to see.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I mean, I haven't seen a bit of it yesterday,
that Chapel rowan, I mean, for God's sake, So was
there too much moaning? I mean, apart from the Patriot.
But you know, when I was an artist and no
one supports me, and I want to be surprised.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
Yeah, come on, you are talking to a very big
Chapel Road fans. But I do I do see what
I do see what you're saying. She's such an interesting one,
right because she she's kind of like not following the
playbook of these artists in where they're at this stage
in their career. Because this time last year she was

(02:18):
a little nobody, like nobody has had heard of her.
She had maybe the tiny little group of really dedicated fans.
I think my brother. My brother actually went and saw
her at the end Moore Theater in Sydney a couple
of years ago, and there was maybe twenty five people
in the theater and I had no idea who who
she was. Anyway, in the past twelve months has just

(02:38):
exploded into just she is everywhere, like every supermarket you
walk into, you hear every radio station from in Australia,
I'm sure New Zealand in the United States certainly, she's
just everywhere and selling out. And she's got crowd sizes
five times Society at music festivals of the headline Act.
So such, she's doing something right, but she also struggled

(03:01):
to deal with this kind of rise to fame and
she's not not doing what normal artists would do in
this in this in this state. So she's like lashing
out at fans refusing to get selfies. She's yelling at
photographers on the red carpets and was worried she would
do that last night to us, but she didn't, and
then she Yeah, she's got onto the stage last night
to accept her Best New Artist Grammy, her first Grammy,

(03:24):
and then yeah, she's used as an opportunity to kind
of call out the industry and the lack of health
insurance from recording a labels and the like. And she's
really kind of used that to make a statement, which
she I think is getting a lot of praise for.
But it's certainly and she she was at that absolute
I think she got dumped by a record label a

(03:45):
couple of years ago and just had was cut off,
so she's clearly got some grievances there. But yeah, she's
used that opportunity to get up on stage and call
it out and some people love it, some people hate it,
but she just I don't think we cares what people know.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
That's a good way. That's a good way to be
and we're probably on the same So i'd read listen.
I appreciate it very much.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
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