Beyonce Misses Her 1st Win Due to Traffic

On her means! Beyoncé scored the award for Finest R&B Music on the 2023 Grammys for “Cuff It” — however site visitors saved her from accepting the trophy.

“For actual, Beyoncé is on her means. However you already know the upside of internet hosting the Grammys in Los Angeles is that everybody might be right here. The draw back of internet hosting in Los Angeles is the site visitors,” host Trevor Noah defined on Sunday, February 5, after the singer, 41, didn’t seem on stage. “Beyoncé is on her means.”

Earlier within the night time, Noah, 38, famous that the Texas native was within the constructing, however cameras didn’t pan to her. Viewers as an alternative caught a shot of Lizzo reacting to the information that Beyoncé could be making an look on the awards present.

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“The place’s Beyoncé?” the “About Rattling Time” performer, 34, mentioned as she appeared across the room on the Crypto.com Area. Beyoncé’s husband, Jay-Z, was briefly seen within the viewers on the time.

The previous Every day Present host, for his half, saved the reward coming forward of Beyoncé’s arrival. “Beyoncé is nominated for her album Renaissance. Which by the best way, was higher than something from the precise Renaissance for my part. The Renaissance was simply photos of grapes and stuff,” the comic quipped. “Beyoncé took it up one other stage. Actually, I used to be so impressed by the lyrics of ‘Break My Soul’ that I truly give up my job.”

Noah concluded: “That’s how highly effective that was. I simply want Beyoncé had written a music concerning the significance of getting financial savings earlier than you give up your job. However perhaps the following one.”

As followers awaited Beyoncé’s arrival, many took to social media to chortle off her being fashionably late. “Not Beyoncé put the Grammys on the waitlist too 😭😭😭,” a commentator tweeted, referring to the songwriter’s upcoming tour that offered out tickets in document time.

One other social media person wrote, “Beyoncé isn’t even right here to select up her award.. Hahaha.. The Carter’s transfer on their very own time..”

In the meantime, a 3rd individual joked that the dancer wasn’t at fault for her preliminary absence. “BEYONCE ISNT LATE. THE GRAMMYS SIMPLY STARTED TOO EARLY,” they tweeted on Sunday.

The previous Future’s Little one member scored probably the most nominations with 9 nods for her album Renaissance, together with File of the Yr, Album of the Yr, Music of the Yr, Finest Dance/Digital Recording, Finest R&B Efficiency, Finest Conventional R&B Efficiency and extra. She is now tied with Jay-Z, 53, for many nominated artists in Grammy historical past and took house two trophies — Finest Dance/Digital Recording and Finest Conventional R&B Efficiency — pre-show.