Sean Mandell: LA entertainment correspondent recaps the highs and lows of the 2025 Grammys

The 67th Grammy Awards took place today - and plenty of the biggest names in music got to take home some awards and accolades.

Chappell Roan won the Grammy for best new artist, Kendrick Lamar's 'Not Like Us' scored record of the year and song of the year, and Beyoncé took home album of the year for Cowboy Carter - a career first.

The ceremony took place a month after the LA wildfires began, with plenty of tributes paid to the ongoing relief efforts.

The event wasn't without controversy either, with Kanye West and his wife Bianca Censori being escorted away after her naked dress look got caught potentially breaking California’s penal code.

LA entertainment correspondent Sean Mandell says Beyoncé also won country album of the year - and seemed shocked by this development. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Grammys. Will get to the half not even half naked,
completely naked woman at the Grammys in a second. But
they're under the way underway in Hollywood right now. Number
of artists have taken to the stage. This is Sabrina Carpenter,
who won Best Pop Vocal Album. Beyonce. She's there, She's

(00:33):
proven well there's nothing she can't do, including winning Best
Country Album. Here's a reaction.

Speaker 2 (00:38):
I think sometimes genre is a cold word to keep
us in our place as artists, and I just want
to encourage people to do what they're passionate about.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Beyonce should win everything because she can both sing and
dance at the same time, which half of these people,
including Taylor Swift, can't. But I'll move on. Best New
Artists went to Chapel Rohan. Is that how you say it?
She's sent a strong message to the record labels.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
I told myself, if I ever won a Grammy and
I got to stand up here in front of the
most powerful people in music, I would demand that labels
in the industry profiting millions of dollars off of artists,
would offer a livable wage in healthcare, especially to developing artists.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Right host Trevena made a special mention of the LA wildfires.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Everybody in Los Angeles and building tonight, you know, working
on stage and off knows somebody who has lost their home,
their business, or the lives that they knew less than
a month ago. And I just want everybody to remember
what this moment was.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
Like, Yeah, it is worth remembering. But the big award
of the night Album of the Year, we're not sure
about it. Sean Mandl is our entertainment reporter in La
Sean Gida, gooday, how are you?

Speaker 5 (01:50):
Yeah? Good?

Speaker 1 (01:50):
Thank you? Have we got that top of ward that
gong yet?

Speaker 5 (01:55):
No, we are waiting on it right now. It is
going to be any moment. We've just heard some big
categories beginning to come out. As you mentioned, Beyonce had
a big moment tonight, big surprising moment, winning Country Album
of the Year. She seemed very much genuinely shocked. So

(02:15):
that was a really heartwarming moment. And we're going to
be waiting to see here who takes home that top
prize in Album of the Year.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Speaking of tops, somebody turned up without one all bottoms
for that matter, Kanye West's girlfriend Apparently they were kicked
out even though he was nominated for an award. Can
you talk us through this?

Speaker 5 (02:35):
Yeah, so really interesting turn of events this evening. Some
different conflicting reporting in terms of what happened about why
they were escorted out. No official word yet from the
Recording Academy, but the moment occurred after they walked the
red carpet with Bianca Sensory, Kanye West's girlfriend known for

(02:59):
oftentimes wearing let's call it daring fashion or pieces of
it anyway, and not wearing very much in fact on
the red carpet today. So that definitely got a lot
of heads turning. But it's not something that we've seen
yet in We didn't see it in the Grammy Hall

(03:20):
in the Crypto dot Com Arena in downtown LA. So
as they did not make it into that part of
the show.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
Right, I mean, because you know, to be honest, the
Grammy's all of these awards, it's almost like the goal
is to wear as little as possible. Anyway, I thought, well,
in some ways, I thought, credit to her for just
just doing what everybody else clearly wants to do and
just take all of your clothes off.

Speaker 5 (03:47):
I mean, she leaned in.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
She certainly did, and I mean, she looked great doing it,
so good on her, all right, Sean, have we got
an album of the yun yet? Not yet, We'll have
to come back.

Speaker 5 (03:56):
No, not yet. We're still about eight minutes out from
the and that's if everything keeps going on time. So
we are still a few minutes out there, but shortly
we will be. We will be getting a winner. And
you know, all eyes are on Beyonce. She is the
front runner right now, so it'll be I think a
bigger The biggest surprise will be if Beyonce doesn't win.

Speaker 1 (04:20):
Good to hear Sean. Shan Mandel is that entertainment reporter
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