2017-02-13

The 59th annual Grammy Awards brought a pair of sweeps: a likely one for a dearly departed star, a surprise for the reigning queen of pop — and more performances than anyone will likely remember tomorrow. As she did in 2012, Adele swept her "general category" nominations (the night's headline trophies) — but five years ago she wasn't up against what many considered to be one of the year's most definitive and universally lauded pieces of work: Beyoncé's Lemonade . Beyoncé has never won either Record or Album of the Year — Adele is the first to twice sweep the Album, Record and Song of the Year awards. As she accepted the penultimate award of the night, for Record of the Year, Adele looked at Beyoncé and said, "You move my soul every single day." Beyoncé didn't make it out of the front row of the audience for the three final awards of the night, and Adele would be back to the stage moments later to accept Album of the Year for 25 as well, upsetting Lemonade . Adele herself admitted

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