Adele ended her night at the 2017 Grammy Awards with back-to-back wins for album of the year and record of the year, melted in her final moments on stage to salute Beyoncé and her “monumental” album “Lemonade.”
Beyoncé, meanwhile, wowed the audience with a spiritual performance and also took home the prize for urban contemporary album.
Even though Adele had flopped during her live performance at the Grammys early in the night, she still walked away from the ball with five awards including album, record and song of the year beating Beyonce to the punch repeatedly in 3 categories.
The album-of-the-year Grammy was always a two-woman battle, between Adele and Beyoncé. This year Adele scored the trophy — but almost didn’t accept it.
During a tearful speech in which she thanked her friends and family, she turned to Beyoncé and told her it was hard to accept the trophy knowing how much Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” had meant to her.
“My artist of my life is Beyoncé,” Adele said.
“I adore you and I want you to be my mommy,” Adele had said earlier to Beyoncé while accepting record of the year, to big laughter. But she seemed to mean it.
For her part, Beyoncé beamed at Adele during the speech, shaking her head humbly as Adele piled on compliments for the power and courage behind “Lemonade.”
But by the end of the night Adele’s victory for “25” seemed assured. She’d already earned song of the year and record of the year for “Hello,” and bested Beyoncé in pop solo performance.
According to Grammy officials, Adele is the first artist to sweep album, record and song of the year twice.
