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It's 1.13 a.m. and we are looking back on this year's Grammy Awards.

It was a big night for John Batiste, Silksonic, Olivia Rodrigo, and more.

I'm Stephen Thompson and we are recapping the 2022 Grammy Awards on Pop Culture Happy

Hour from NPR.

Joining me is NPR Culture Desk Correspondent Anastasia Silks.

Hi Anastasia.

Hey Stephen.

It is a pleasure to have you.

So going into tonight's Grammys, many myself included predicted a massive night, possibly

even a sweep for Olivia Rodrigo, but she didn't win in three of the night's four biggest

categories. Still, she did win best new artist, best pop solo performance and best pop vocal

album and she gave a great performance of driver's license.

Yeah, so I think a lot of people expected kind of a coronation for Olivia Rodrigo tonight

and I think she got that, but only to a point.

Well, if there's a coronation, Stephen, I thought it was her performance on stage.

She is just so ready for mega-stardom and I think she just showed that off so amply

tonight.

Yeah, I think that's exactly right.

Even though like we said, she didn't necessarily have a huge awards night like she might have,

she definitely represented herself enormously well.

Now two of the big awards that Olivia Rodrigo was kind of expected to win but didn't

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