Here’s how musicians, performers and at least one blatant attention-seeker made their voices heard on music’s biggest night.
The song is already steeped in a political statement, with lyrics like, “We’re living in a bubble, bubble / So comfortable, we cannot see the trouble, trouble.”
Paris Jackson’s pipeline protest shout-out The late Michael Jackson’s daughter Paris Jackson used her minutes at the podium to mention the Dakota pipeline — although not explicitly.
He talked about the power of music to lift our souls, and how it’s an emotional, spiritual and economically important asset and export.