Music, Masks, and Megan Thee Stallion

The 2021 Grammys awards ceremony was a reflection of the coronavirus pandemic era, with the celebrity guests sitting outside at socially-distanced tables and wearing bespoke face masks to match their designer suits and gowns.

Daily Show host Trevor Noah opened the awards ceremony with a monologue that joked about politics, Covid-19, and cocaine.

“I know it’s been one year but it feels like ten,” Noah said of the pandemic. “As you can see here, we are outside. Meaning we get to enjoy the great Los Angeles air. Which I know may be as dangerous as Covid, but we’re willing to take the risk.”

Comedian Bill Burr made a splash while presenting several awards, making a series of jokes he predicted “the feminists” would go “nuts” over. Watch his comments and judge for yourself here.

The Grammys' annual tribute to musicians that we lost the year before took on an especially poignant tone with Lionel Ritchie performing Kenny Rogers' hit song "Lady" to honor the friend for whom he wrote that song in 1980.

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion tested the limits of what network television censors will tolerate with their performance of "WAP." “I hope you’re ready everybody,” quipped host Noah. “Because in prime time, we’re all going to find out what ‘WAP’ really stands for. If you have small children in the room, just tell them it’s a song about giving a cat a bath.”

Beyoncé continued her reign as Queen B, winning her 27th and then record-setting 28th Grammy. The award for Best R&B Performance for her song "BLACK PARADE" meant that Beyoncé is now the female artist with the most Grammys in history. 

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An RBG tribute? 

Jonathan Lyndale Kirk, better known as DaBaby, delivered a Grammys performance of his hit song, “Rockstar” that got social media buzzing, not just for his musical skills, but for six backup dancers that appeared to be dressed like judges or perhaps Supreme Court justices.

The lyrics to “Rockstar” have multiple references to the police (“Let’s go / Brand new Lamborghini, f*** a cop car / With the pistol on my hip like I’m a cop”), but no overtly judicial themes, leaving Twitter users to come up with their own reasons for the somberly-robed dancers.

Check out a clip of DaBaby's performance with Roddy Rich, Anthony Hamilton, and the dancing judges here -- plus some of the best reactions on Twitter.