“…Gentlemen and ladies, the 55th Grammy Awards Ceremony will be presented to you!”

The lights of the audience were dim, with only stars and lights dotted above the stage, and the interlaced lights of bright yellow and dark red weaving a wonderful atmosphere that looked like Halloween. Then a clown with a high hat rode a low bicycle with an auxiliary wheel and appeared from the left side of the stage.

"Tell those who are abandoned, 'never look back'; tell those who are hurt, 'never look back'; tell those who are brave, 'never look back, 'never look back'."

The clown, traveling horizontally from left to right, muttering words in his mouth, as if he had appeared from a cold and dark underground world, entered a storm of smoke, and then pulled the rope hanging on his head, and the torch evolved into a fire-breathing lamp, and the whimpering flames brightened the entire stage.

The performers took the stage with the clown's chilling laughter.

Taylor Swift!

The most representative of today's new generation of singers is leading the pop music scene in all aspects from sales to awards to popularity. Although he has witnessed Adele's strong rise in the past two years, Taylor still has a brilliant strategy in business operations and his market foundation is still unbreakable.

This year, Taylor appeared in the Grammy with his single "We Never Go Back" and was unveiled as the opening guest for the award ceremony. He dressed in a white uniform and a circus-style Halloween dance, giving a lively opening performance.

All kinds of strange costumes, dazzling lights and fireworks, full of firepower, shining in the audience, and truly being in it, you can't help but feel excited.

However, Ollie leaned slightly towards Ronan and said in a low voice, "I don't like her scene."

Objectively speaking, Taylor Swift's live performance was still a bit unstable. The disorder of the breath destroyed the transmission of the power of the sound, and the overall infectiousness of the performance was not able to erupt. In addition, Taylor's own voice was not a force type with a fully opened aura. Against the backdrop of the noise of the whole audience, it became increasingly thin, and the performance presented was difficult to achieve the expected results.

Tonight's opening looks full of flowers, but the content is lower than expected.

Ronan knew that Oli was relieved of pressure on himself. After all, the King's performance tonight was under tremendous pressure - every performer standing on the Grammy stage was very much attention, and no one could be an exception. "I think it's not appropriate to choose a song."

"We can never go back." The chords of this song are light and soft, and they cannot show the level and momentum after being reorganized, which also makes the song style and stage effect peel off. Even though Taylor Swift tried his best to show the oppressive feeling of controlling the entire audience, he still failed to catch up.

However, this is not surprising. The selection of songs that appeared on the Grammy performance was originally a starting point for commercial considerations. "We can never go back" is still on the list. Taylor naturally needs further publicity in the Grammy, and it is difficult to give up; and there are still a few songs that boldly gave up popular singles and performed in line with the style, like the King of One Day.

Jeremiah, who was sitting on the other side, also leaned over, "Obviously, the wonderful performances tonight are all behind."

The meaningful words made Ronan and Jeremiah exchange a glance, and a smile appeared deep in the eyes.

Then, tonight's host ll-cool-j appeared.

The hip-hop singer, whose original name was James Todd-smith, debuted in 1989, won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance twice in 1992 and 1997, and won nominations nine times. She is one of the representative figures of hip-hop on the East Coast of the United States.

However, James is also a typical dual-dai artist. He has starred in the movies "Anti-terrorism SWAT team", "Ambushes on the Eight-sided", "Hollywood Trading", etc. In 2009, he became one of the dual-stars of the TV series "Ncis: Los Angeles", and has firmly occupied a place in the industry early on.

Last year, "Little Cool-j" James appeared as the host of the Grammy Awards Ceremony, and was the host of the awards ceremony for the second consecutive year due to his outstanding performance.

“Welcome to the world’s most solemn music festival, the Grammy Awards.”

James stood at the forefront of the stage, and the arc-shaped audience was spread out in front of him. The closest to the stage were undoubtedly popular superstars. Not only could they be captured by a light scan of the camera, but they could also enjoy tonight's performance in the most natural and comfortable way.

Then other guests and nominees extended backwards in an orderly manner.

One day, King and Shining Band, as newcomers, were also assigned to the area diagonally in front of the right side of the stage. Where the front light could not be covered by the lights. Only when the director moved the lens specifically, the lights could follow and capture specific faces, and even the sight of watching the stage was inevitably affected.

Although the King led the Grammy with seven nominations in one day, the nomination was just a nomination. At the award ceremony, they were completely newcomers, and naturally they were treated as newcomers. From a distance, they watched the top popular superstars shrouded in dazzling golden lights.

"What a wonderful performance Taylor Swift just gave, right? In Taylor's song, she sang that we will never go back, but the truth is that in Grammy, we will always return to the same position, and it is precisely because of this that the historical status of Grammys has been established."

At the Golden Globes or Oscars, entertainment clips are interspersed, and the host needs to take on the task of shaking bags; but at the Grammys, performance is a major highlight. The host cannot steal the style of the performing guests, so he does not need to shaking bags, but needs to do more to work on the threading of needles.

James knew very clearly what he should do.

"A year ago, I stood on this stage and served as the host of the Grammy Awards for the first time. I planned to use this passage as the opening remark, but the creation made people and unexpectedly happened. Our musical family lost a very important person and our ceremony needed to be changed."

Whitney Houston, her unexpected death changed all the situation of the Grammy last year. This is why James's speech was a bit deeper at this time, and the guests at the scene also maintained a serious expression. Obviously, such a grand and formal opening was slightly different from the expected carnival feast.

"This year, I want to spend some time telling you why hosting this ceremony is so important to me."

"No matter where you come from, you will feel in an instant why the Grammy is hailed as the highest honor in the industry. For me, it is when I see Michael Jackson holding all the Grammy trophys, do you still remember?"

Roar roar roar!

Roar roar roar!
Chapter completed!