We've come to expect awards shows to be blowhardy & political, but this was another jumping of the shark for me. For a lot of reasons.
First of all, this was so LITERALLY preachy, as if they're reading from the Gospel. It was so far removed from anything that could possibly be perceived as relevant to the the awards or music or anything at all it was just...extremely awkward and cringey.
As Kaos mentioned, the book has been WIDELY debunked to smithereens, which just made it extra cultish and sad to give it basically a commercial in the middle of the Grammy's. Like, imagine if in the middle of some unrelated awards show they just started reading, unironically, from some Alex Jones screed. It's that insane.
And in order to push this #TimesUp theme with everyone wearing #TimesUp pins, they use Hillary "bimbo eruptions" Clinton, friend of Harvey Weinstein, to read from a book that THIS WEEK, the author was going around pointing out a passage that was "overlooked" where he alleged, admittedly, without any proof whatsoever, that Nikki Haley is currently fucking Trump, because, after all, women can't be successful on their own terms without fucking their way to the top, right? Same shit that was alleged about Condi Rice and Bush. How incredibly #woke and #feminist of them. YASS QUEEN!
Gross.