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  • Olivia Rodrigo drops and breaks her Grammy, recreating Taylor Swift’s Grammys 2010 moment

    By ANI

    LAS VEGAS: Singer-songwriter Olivia Rodrigo has taken home three awards from the Grammys 2022, however, she might have carried the pieces of one of them.

    As per Variety, while posing for pictures after the show ended, the pop star dropped one of her awards on the ground, which broke in half.

    Rodrigo isn’t the first big artist to deal with a broken award at the Grammys. A similar situation happened with Taylor Swift in 2010, who won four awards that night for her album ‘Fearless’ and dropped one of the awards after the ceremony.

    Rodrigo is a huge fan of Swift, having interpolated a lyric from Swift’s 2017 song ‘New Year’s Day’ for her song ‘1 Step Forward, 3 Steps Back’.

    Meanwhile, talking about Rodrigo’s wins, for ‘Sour’, she received the best pop vocal album and won the best pop solo performance for her debut single, ‘Drivers License’.

    In the general field, she took home the best new artist award, in a category that included acclaimed artists such as Japanese Breakfast, Arlo Parks, Saweetie and Arooj Aftab. 

  • Kanye West named in ‘battery’ report being probed by LAPD

    By IANS

    LOS ANGELES: Influential American rapper and fashion icon Kanye West has been named as a suspect in a battery report taken by the LAPD’s Newton Division early on Thursday morning (US Pacific Time), ‘Variety’ has confirmed. He was not arrested; a rep for West did not immediately respond to requests for comment.According to LAPD spokesperson Redina Puentes, quoted by ‘Variety’, the incident occurred around 3 a.m. at South Santa Fe Avenue and Bay Street in downtown Los Angeles. The location is outside of Soho Warehouse, a members-only club.Online newspaper TMZ first reported the news, citing police sources as saying that the incident is being investigated as misdemeanour battery, which carries a maximum jail sentence of 6 months.TMZ also posted a secretly filmed video of West, which it says was “shot sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning,” in which a clearly aggravated West is heard yelling, “Did y’all say that or not? Did y’all say that or not? … Cuz that’s what happened right f…ing now.”