“Stay loose, hide your flasks and have a good time,” host LL Cool J declared from the Staples Center stage in Los Angeles moments before the broadcast portion of the Grammy Awards began. Backstage, the mood was even more loose as newly minted winners chatted excitedly about the significance of winning a trophy.
“You do have a great country,” joked Sam Smith to the press after winning four Grammys, including Record of the Year and Song of the Year with “Stay With Me.” “What’s beautiful about this record to me is I didn’t play a character,” said Smith, who’s currently on the cover of Rolling Stone. “It was just me being me. I was living my life and just spoke about it through music, and I’m going to do the same again.”
