The Best and the Worst of the Grammys 2017 Red Carpet
By Ani Bundel
The Grammys are on tonight, and the stars of the musical world dressed to impress. We run down the best and the worst of the red carpet.
The Grammys red carpet is one of the stranger red carpets is the pantheon of Red Carpets. More serious than say, the MTV Awards, but not nearly as high class as the Oscars, the music awards finds itself torn between the desire to be respectable and the problem that the entire concept behind rock and roll is a lack of respectability.
Then take the Recording Academy’s choice to hold all the Grammys on the same night, in the same space in one ridiculously long 6-8 hour ceremony. Their idea is noble–sound is inherently a technical award, so we don’t want to shunt our “non televised portion” off to a “Technical Awards Ceremony” weeks earlier like the Emmys and Oscars do. but it does make for a strange atmosphere, as Ryan Seacrest and co stand around pretending to wait for people who they know perfectly well are already there and inside the building to “show up.”
Some play along with the conceit, going as far as to sneak out the back door, and slide into a limo to “arrive.” Those who do arrive for real are mainly music hanger on types, or people who are famous for being famous and have been asked to present. A few of the major A listers don’t come to the early part of the ceremony. (Beyonce would be one–she’s got an excuse though. Two of them in fact.) But most do, and so the experience is really Ryan waiting around for them to come take a break from sitting and come talk to him for a bit.
But however they showed up, the question is, what did they wear? We’ve got the rundown of the best, worst, and wackiest of this year’s Grammys red carpet.