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Issue date: 2/4/10 Section: Arts & Entertainment

Media Credit: Matt Terrill/AP Images Yet again, Lady Gaga dazzled everyone with her extreme and artistic style. Backstage at the Grammys, she showed her appreciation and walked away with two awards: Best Dance Recording for "Poker Face" and Best Electronic Dance Album for Fame.

Crazy outfits? Singers hanging from ribbons? Beyoncé in 3-D glasses? Must be time for the Grammys.

This past Sunday, music's greatest night took to the airwaves for the 52nd consecutive year, bringing together musicians and movie stars alike to produce impressive performances and memorable moments, in the biggest celebration of musical art and achievement this season.

From Lady Gaga's bizarrely brilliant opening duet with Elton John to the sneak preview performance of the upcoming Broadway musical, "American Idiot," (based on Green Day's acclaimed 2004 album), the Grammys began with a bang that shot their ratings to their highest point since 2004.

The Grammys, however, are as much about the awards as they are the routines, and this year's winners set records. Twenty-year-old country sweetheart Taylor Swift lived the "Impossible Dream," nabbing four awards, including the Grammys' top prize, Album of the Year, over veterans like Beyoncé and The Dave Matthews Band. The former, at least, didn't go home with nothing; by the show's end, Beyoncé became the first female artist to win six awards in a single evening.

While the divas dominated, the Academy surprisingly spread the love (a complete list of winners can be found at www.grammy.com):

You could take pot-shots - perhaps for its length, its winners, or for the fact that someone needs to kill Jamie Foxx's auto-tuner - but none can deny that the Grammys are shifting and growing, proving that, despite problems in the music industry, it's still a show to remember.


Album of the Year: Fearless - Taylor Swift
Song of the the Year: "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)" - Beyoncé
Record of the Year: "Use Somebody" - Kings of Leon
Best New Artist: Zac Brown Band
Best Pop Vocal Album: The E.N.D. - Black-Eyed Peas
Best Electronic/Dance Album: The Fame - Lady Gaga
Best Rock Album: 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day
Best Alternative Music Album: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix - Phoenix
Best R&B Album: Blacksummer's Night - Maxwell
Best Contemporary R&B Album: I am... Sasha Fierce - Beyoncé
Best Rap Album: Relapse - Enimem
Best Country Album: Fearless - Taylor Swift
Best Comedy Album: Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All - Steven Colbert

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