Singer Harry Styles caused a stir on social networks after becoming the winner of the main category of the Grammy Awards, which took place last Sunday (5/2). The artist’s speech was so bad that it was called “queerbating” by the LGBTQIAP+ community.
When the winner of the Best Album of the Year category was announced, Harry Styles tried to come out in the minority after winning with “Harry’s House”. In a “deconstructed” approach to Tiago Iorc, the artist said the Grammy Awards are not used to seeing alternative figures. “That doesn’t happen a lot with people like me,” he said.
The comment sparked an outcry from the LGBTQIAP+ audience, who were outraged by the artist’s attempt to appropriate the community to promote his speeches. Interestingly, the singer has never disclosed his sexual identity or preferences, other than that he dates women, and his masculine, white, cisgender, good-looking, and popular characteristics are clearly evident.
“What do you mean Harry Styles won the Grammy and said in his speech that ‘these things’ don’t happen to ‘people like him’? What is he talking about, coming from a boy band? Why did all the Grammys ever have awards people like him,” fired an Internet user, adding the Oscars and Emmy Awards to the list.
“Harry Styles was ‘gaslighting’ [distorção de informações] against himself, he wore so much skirt and makeup that he came to believe he was a minority,” quipped another.
Furthermore, netizens point out that Harry Styles’ victory would be yet another proof of the event’s structural racism, as the Academy drew a lot of attention to singer Beyoncé’s record number of trophies at the event, but, as always, allowed her to win only in the sector categories: R&B and dance music.
With the critically acclaimed album ‘Renaissance’, the Queen received a standing ovation after receiving her 4th trophy of the night, which brought her total to 32 Grammy Awards statuettes in her career – none for Best Album, Record year or Pop Performance, and only one from the Best Song category – “Single Ladies”, 2010.
“Ridiculous what the gym does to her year after year when woman is the biggest female entertainer today,” one Twitter user wrote.
Harry Styles’ album is great, but it honestly doesn’t even come close to Beyoncé’s Renaissance. It’s ridiculous what academia does to her year after year when a woman is the top female entertainer today. #GRAMMY pic.twitter.com/JnStZ2581R
— felipe ⚓️ (@stateoffelipe) February 6, 2023
When you see this mock speech from Harry Style for winning the AOTY yesterday, remember that when ADELE won Beyoncé, this was her speech.
RACIST GRAMMY #GRAMMY pic.twitter.com/JC4kb34JhQ
— Nicole (@NikyVasconcelos) February 6, 2023
this is when Kanye West should be there to take the award from Harry Styles and hand it to Beyonce pic.twitter.com/I1SyEXg01O
— Bruno Rahall (@brunorahall) February 6, 2023
At the end of the day, no one will remember that Harry Style won album of the year, but we will all remember that Beyonce lost album of the year.
— Atailon (@atailon) February 6, 2023
Harry Styles gaslighted, wore so much skirt and makeup that he ended up believing he was a minority pic.twitter.com/qxcF54CSoS
— dwarf sam ☽☾ (@evanpiters) February 6, 2023
“This doesn’t happen often to people like me” – Harry Styles at the 2023 Grammy Awards
Let me clarify a bit here:
It’s not because you’re going to the fucking Grammy dressed in Tutti Frutti Jell-O that you’re in the minority. You’re just ridiculous and smelly. This is pic.twitter.com/zIwKNjqh2J
— – 𝐴𝑛ka. (@anykkah) February 6, 2023
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