A backup dancer for Harry Styles revealed that his turntable spun the wrong way during his performance at the 2023 Grammy Awards on Sunday night.
The British singer took the stage at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles to perform his track “As It Is,” accompanied by 12 dancers who pulled off a routine on a circular rotating platform next to Harry and his band. Was” was played.
Responding to the negative reaction to Monday’s performance, dancer Dexter da Rocha, in a since-deleted TikTok post, rehearsed for 10 days with the turntable moving counter-clockwise, but was unable to perform critically during the live show. It revealed that it began to rotate in the opposite direction at the moment. tv set.
“How to switch all patterns on the fly without walking in that direction?” said Dexter. “Because it’s circular, it pulls in different directions. And it’s a very specific type of balance, so I was lucky enough to get used to it in one direction and then in the other. We tried our best and ended up with one cool formation.”
“Harry did his best to walk and reverse everything while he sang and reverse the entire duet, which is great,” he added.
Another dancer named Brandon Mathis shared a similar account on his Instagram Stories.
“As soon as the curtain opened and it was time to play, our turntables started spinning backwards and we all freaked out on live TV. There was nothing we could do to stop it. did,” he said.
Despite technical glitches, Harry had a big night at the Grammys, winning two awards, including Album of the Year for Harry’s House.
The 29-year-old has been criticized online for saying “it rarely happens to people like me” in his acceptance speech, with many users deafening him for not recognizing his privilege. is called inaudible.