Grammys Recap:The Winners and Performances

Lorde wins her first of two Grammy Awards for Pop Solo Performance and Song of The Year

America's Biggest Night of Music, The Grammys was one for the books and we don't mean the mass wedding/publicity stunt that the Academy pulled to show the support all people.
Last night was the best in terms of performances in years, from Beyonce's wet hair don't care rendition of "Drunk In Love" to remembering why Metallica is probably the scariest metal band of all time with their Lang Lang assisted "One" performance. We could have done without about three and a half of them (Nate Ruess's appearance was not necessary, we would have been happy with Pink's flawless acrobatics during "Try".) The big winners of the night were Macklemore & Ryan Lewis, who took home 4 trophies (with three in the rap categories and Best New Artist), Daft Punk with 3(including Record of The Year and Album of The Year) and Lorde with 2 (Song of The Year and Pop Solo Performance). The biggest upset of the night had to have been that Kendrick Lamar went home empty handed, though his critically and commercially successful "Good Kid, Madd City" should have easily nabbed the rap categories. Not even Macklemore's damage control texts can mend that. Hopefully he'll have another shot in with his future release, due sometime this year. Check out the list of winners and some of the performances from the show.
Winners:
Album of the Year Daft Punk-Random Access Memories
Song of the Year Lorde-Royals
Record Of The Year Daft Punk-Get Lucky
Best New Artist Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Best Rap Album Macklemore & Ryan Lewis-The Heist
Best Rap Performance Macklemore & Ryan Lewis-Thrift Shop
Best Rap Song Macklemore & Ryan Lewis-Thrift Shop
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance Daft Punk-Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams)
Best Rap/Sung Collaboration Jay-Z-Holy Grail (feat. Justin Timberlake)
Best Pop Solo Performance Lorde-Royals 
Best R&B Performance Snarky Puppy with Lalah Hathaway-Something 
Best R&B Song Justin Timberlake-Pusher Love Girl 
Best Urban Contemporary Album Rihanna-Unapologetic
Best R&B Album Alicia Keys-Girl On Fire
Best Dance/Electronica Album Daft Punk-Random Access Memories 
Best Music Video Justin Timberlake-Suit & Tie” (feat. Jay-Z)
Best Country Album Kacey Musgraves-Same Trailer, Different Park
Performances: Beyonce-Drunk In Love (feat. Jay-Z) Lorde-Royals Hunter Haynes-Invisible
Katy Perry-Dark Horse (feat. Juicy J) Robin Thicke and Chicago-Medley Keith Urban & Gary Clark Jr.-Cop Car
John Legend-All of Me
Taylor Swift-All Too Well Imagine Dragons & Kendrick Lamar-Radioactive/M.A.D.D City
Kacey Musgraves-Follow Your Arrow Pink-Try & Just Give Me A Reason (feat. Nate Ruess) Daft Punk-Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams, Stevie Wonder & Nile Rodgers) Metallica & Lang Lang-One Macklemore & Ryan Lewis-Same Love (feat. Mary Lambert & Madonna)
Nine Inch Nails, Queens of The Stone Age, Lindsey Buckingham & Dave Grohl-Copy of A/My God Is The Sun