Harry Styles' Dancers Address Performance Mishap at 2023 Grammys

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Harry Styles' Grammys show seemingly wasn't the aforesaid arsenic it was successful rehearsals.

After seeing immoderate little than aureate reactions to his "As It Was" number, the singer's dancers are speaking out, revealing that they had to flooded a large signifier mishap during the unrecorded show.

"Y'all are going to beryllium seeing a batch successful the media astir this performance," dancer Brandon Mathis said successful a since-expired Instagram Stories video reshared connected Twitter. "But what you don't cognize is that the infinitesimal the curtain opened and it was clip to perform, our turntable started spinning successful reverse. Backward. Freaking each of america retired connected unrecorded television, and determination was thing we could bash to halt it."

Brandon said they had spent a week "rehearsing this portion perfectly" with the turntable going 1 mode lone to person it spell the different during the Feb. 5 show, forcing them to set successful the moment. 

"And successful existent time, we person to troubleshoot and effort to bash a implicit portion successful reverse," helium continued. "Talk astir professionalism."

Another dancer, Dexter, besides shed immoderate airy connected what the regular was expected to look similar successful a since-deleted TikTok. They said, according to Entertainment Tonight, that the show included "these beauteous formations," noting that the regular was "amazing" during rehearsals. But erstwhile the turntable started turning the incorrect way, they had to pivot, which was nary casual feat. 

"To power each those patterns astir connected the spot, having not adjacent walked successful that direction, it sounds easy," Dexter reportedly added. "Since it's circular, it pulls you successful antithetic directions and is specified a peculiar benignant of balance. We got accustomed to 1 way, and it was the other way. So, luckily we worked unneurotic and did our champion and got to 1 chill enactment successful clip for the overhead changeable but had to alteration the rest."

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A Grammy root acknowledged to E! that "unexpected things hap successful unrecorded television" and noted "Harry showed helium was the eventual pro successful not missing a beat." 

And it seems similar some dancers agree. In an Instagram post, Brandon called Harry a "rockstar" arsenic good arsenic a "kick ass down to world quality being who genuinely cares astir what he's doing and who he's doing it with." Meanwhile, Dexter praised the "Adore You" creator for however helium handled the situation.

"Harry did his champion to beryllium capable to locomotion and reverse everything portion helium was singing and reverse his full duet," they said per ET. "Unfortunately, quality outlets didn't cognize what was happening, truthful they called it lethargic oregon boring oregon whatever, but it truly was that we're conscionable trying to f--king enactment standing."

Despite the snafu, Harry inactive had an epic night, winning some the Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album Grammys for Harry's House

"When we get successful the workplace and statesman a record, we conscionable marque the euphony that we privation to make," he told reporters backstage. "And I think it feels truly bully to consciousness similar oh, that is the close happening to do."

E! News has reached retired to Harry's rep and to the Grammys for comment.

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