Grammys: Miley Cyrus praised for ‘hilarious’ performance of Flowers

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Miley Cyrus made her mark as one of probably the most memorable components of the 2024 Grammy Awards along with her mid-performance quips and passionate acceptance speeches.

The singer picked up her first two Grammys on Sunday evening (5 February), scooping each Best Pop Vocal Performance and Record of the Year for her beachy breakup anthem, “Flowers”.

In between her wins, she carried out the 2023 monitor on stage, and at one level, known as out the viewers for not singing alongside.

Urging the gang to provide her extra enthusiastic suggestions, she stated in between lyrics: “Why are you acting like you don’t know this song?”

Then, she squeezed in some spoken adlibs and tailored some lyrics to mark her achievement.

“I didn’t wanna leave you (but had to), I didn’t wanna fight (but we did), started to cry but then remembered – I just won my first Grammy!”

The tune is broadly thought of to be about the breakdown of her relationship along with her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth.

Fans had been fast to share their praises for the “We Can’t Stop” singer’s new rendition of the tune on-line.

“Miley Cyrus just displayed amazing talent and vocals while also being hilarious and sarcastically bullying the crowd into getting hype,” wrote one on X/Twitter.

Another fan concurred: “Wait, Miley Cyrus is hilarious; the way she’s so unserious.”

Cyrus was introduced along with her very first Grammy, for Best Pop Vocal Performance, by Mariah Carey, and it was clearly a second that meant lots to the previous Disney star.

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“This MC is going to stand by this MC because this is just too iconic,” Cyrus started, gesturing towards Carey.

“Oh my god, I just got stuck in the rain and traffic and thought I was going to miss this moment. And I could have missed the award – that’s fine – but not Mariah Carey! I just saw you at the Hollywood Bowl. It was everything.”

Later within the night, Cyrus gained the award for Record of the Year, beating Billie Eilish’s “What Was I Made For?”, “Not Strong Enough” by boygenius, Jon Batiste’s “Worship,” Olivia Rodrigo’s “vampire”, SZA’s “Kill Bill”, “Anti-Hero” by Taylor Swift and Victoria Monét’s “On My Mama”.

“This award is amazing. But I really hope that it doesn’t change anything because my life was beautiful yesterday,” Cyrus stated whereas choosing up the foremost award.

“Not everyone in the world will get a Grammy, but everyone in this world is spectacular,” she continued, earlier than including with fun: “So please don’t think that this is important, even though it’s very important, right guys?”

Cyrus then started to reel off the names of the folks she wished to thank, together with “my mommy, my sister, my love, my main gays because look how good I look”.

“I don’t think I forgot anyone. But I might have forgotten underwear. Bye!” Cyrus stated, rounding off her speech to applause and laughter. As famous by viewers, the acceptance speech didn’t point out her father, fellow musician Billy Ray Cyrus.

Elsewhere, the ceremony was crammed with feminine artists dominating the foremost classes on an evening dubbed “Year of the Women”.

It was just lately revealed that the awards present acquired its highest rankings in 4 years, with viewing figures up 34 per cent.