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10 Takeaways From The 2019 Grammy Awards

This year's telecast served up a string of satisfying winners, memorable performances and a GIF sure to endure until roughly the moment life on earth is extinguished.
Kacey Musgraves holds the four Grammys she won Sunday night.

We made it, everyone! This year's Grammy Awards telecast rolled past the three-and-a-half-hour mark with its share of controversies, but also served up a string of satisfying winners, memorable performances and a GIF sure to endure until roughly the moment life on earth is extinguished. Here are 10 takeaways from 2019's overstuffed and idiosyncratic Grammy Awards.

This wasn't one of those years where, say, Adele or Bruno Mars took home award after award, leaving fans of everyone else disappointed. Sure, Kacey Musgraves won four Grammys, two of which were announced on the telecast — those would be Album of the Year and Best Country Album — and Childish Gambino's "This Is America" overcame the Grammys' past aversion to hip-hop in the major categories, winning both Song and Record of the Year. But otherwise, the so-stars Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper.

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