Harry Styles’ Dancers Blame Tech Malfunction For Shaky Grammys Performance

A number of of Harry Styles’ backup dancers are talking out after the pop star’s efficiency on the 2023 Grammy Awards drew a combined response from followers.

The previous One Path member took the stage at Sunday’s ceremony to carry out “As It Was,” the smash lead single off his third solo album, “Harry’s House.” Through the quantity, he and a troupe of dancers re-created strikes from the music’s music video atop a revolving turntable much like a file participant.

Nonetheless, many felt that Styles didn’t seem like his high-energy self and that the efficiency got here throughout as haphazard. In response, dancers Brandon Mathis and Dexter Da Rocha shared their ideas on the expertise in social media movies by which they stated a technical malfunction was guilty.

“The moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning in reverse, backward, freaking all of us out on live television,” Mathis defined in a brief video posted to his Instagram Tales. “There was nothing we could do to stop it … in real time, we have to troubleshoot and try to do a complete piece in reverse. Talk about professionalism.”

Da Rocha, who makes use of they/them pronouns, echoed these sentiments in a since-deleted TikTok video, noting that the efficiency had been “spotless and beautiful” in rehearsals simply hours earlier than the Grammy Awards have been set to air.

“The performance starts, and the turntable starts going the wrong way,” they stated, noting that a number of dancers tried to alert a backstage technician to the blunder however have been unable to take action with cameras rolling.

“So we got accustomed to one way, and it was the opposite way,” they continued. “Luckily we worked together and did our best and got to one cool formation in time for the overhead shot, but had to kind of change the rest.”

A consultant for the Recording Academy, which presents the Grammy Awards every year, confirmed Mathis’ and Da Rocha’s accounts in a press release, telling E! Information that “unexpected things happen in live television,” however that “Harry showed he was the ultimate pro in not missing a beat.”

In a separate Instagram submit, Mathis praised Styles for being “a kick ass down to earth human being who truly cares about what he’s doing and who he’s doing it with,” earlier than alluding to “ridiculous technical difficulties that none of us could have prepared for.”

“As I started this off saying, moments like this do not happen often and I couldn’t be happier to have been a part,” he added. “Until next time.”

Fortunately for Styles, the evening ended up on a triumphant observe, with “Harry’s House” nabbing the coveted Album of the 12 months Grammy in what’s been extensively interpreted as an upset over Beyoncé’s “Renaissance.”