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Please, please, please don’t let Sabrina Carpenter’s performance end.
The “Espresso” singer—who is nominated for six Grammys at this year’s ceremony, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year and Song of the Year—had the audience at Crypto.com Arena in the palm of her hand with a gut-busting act. (See the complete winners list from the 2025 Grammy Awards.)
Beginning her number dressed in a sparkled tux, Sabrina fought to find the spotlight, which kept moving at the same time as her. Once she found her light, she attempted to twirl a baton, which quickly flew away from her after she dropped it, leaving her looking slightly embarrassed.
She powered through, though, and began a jazzy version of her hit "Espresso" while descending from the top of a white staircase. But as she kept walking, she kept descending, eventually being hidden from behind the staircase.
It was at that moment the audience confirmed Sabrina was performing a vaudeville-style act and they were ready to laugh along.
After she changed into a blue, crystal-covered Victoria's Secret bodysuit, she continued singing "Espresso" with a crew of backup dancers, though her malfunctions didn't end. While dancing on a set built to look like a house, the lights began to flicker and the walls fell, prompting Sabrina to scream and jump into one of her dancer's arms, who spun her and caused her to laugh.
The rest of her routine featured a medley with "Please Please Please," dancers running into each other, a tap dance break and laughs from Sabrina and the crowd, which host Trevor Noah quickly noted.
"That was amazing and funny, which I didn't appreciate," the comedian said. "You're gonna do funny too, Sabrina? Really? You're just gonna take my job like that?"
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While Sabrina is certainly a pro on stage, she is new to the experience of being a Grammy-nominated artist, as evidenced by the celebrations she and her team had when the nominations were revealed.
“Us on the tour bus this morning take a shot every time we scream,” she captioned her Instagram post that included a video of her crew freaking out. “This is the first year I’ve watched the live stream where i heard my name! I’d be lying if i said i hadn’t dreamt about this day my whole life so i am filled with gratitude- Thank you.”
In the video, Sabrina—who is also nominated for Best New Artist, despite having six albums under her belt—also commented on her shock of being among the nominees, joking that she’s “best old artist.”
And while Sabrina’s turn on the Grammys stage was her first—just like her fellow Best New Artist nominees Benson Boone, Chappell Roan and Doechii—her cheeky number was no coincidence, as she loves to shock the crowd with her NSFW sets.
In September, the 25-year-old took the stage at the MTV Video Music Awards to perform a medley of songs from her Short N’ Sweet album, bringing along a spacesuit-wearing astronaut and a seductive blue alien. After separating the pair and kicking the astronaut off stage, Sabrina—who was dating Barry Keoghan at the time—planted multiple steamy kisses on the alien, before also kicking her off the stage.
And these headline-making moments weren’t the first time she has leaned into her sexuality on stage. Sabrina also built a reputation throughout her Short N’ Sweet tour—which was attended by multiple stars, including Jack Antonoff, Margaret Qualley and Saturday Night Live’s Marcello Hernandez—of being a bit risqué during her shows, even miming an NSFW act during her song “Juno” when singing the lyrics, “How you ever tried this one?”
For more of the exciting—and shocking—moments from the Grammy Awards over the years, keep reading…
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Jennifer Lopez, 2000
No one could ever have guessed the series of events that would follow the reveal of this dress. J. Lo quite literally shocked the world with this now iconic plunging Versace jungle-print gown. People searched it on the Internet so much that Google was inspired to create the Google Images search engine.
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Eminem & Elton John, 2001
Jaws literally dropped when the unlikely duo took the stage to perform together for the Grammy Awards. It's a bit more surprising when you realize that their performance spawned a friendship that has endured over the years. Both musicians have said that they bonded over their shared sobriety.
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50 Cent & Evanescence, 2004
After the rock band beat the rapper in the Best New Artist category, 50 Cent took to the stage during the band's speech, which confused the entire audience. He smoothly walked back down to his seat moments later to a round of applause, and was even given a shout-out from the band. It's safe to say he was a bit upset to go home empty-handed that night.
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M.I.A., 2009
While it isn't a big deal for a pregnant musician to perform, it's a pretty big deal to rap and sing onstage on your due date. This is exactly what the "Paper Planes" rapper did in 2009, when she took to the stage to perform "Swagga Like Us" with T.I., Lil Wayne, Jay-Z and Kanye West. Luckily, the baby waited a few days before finally arriving.
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Lady Gaga, 2011
The Star Is Born actress had a truly out-of-this-world experience when she arrived on the red carpet in an egg pod. Models in gold ensembles lifted the vessel through the hordes of people to the stage area, where she crawled to perform.
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Macklemore & Kendrick Lamar, 2014
When The Heist won for Album of the Year, even Macklemore was surprised. He was so surprised, in fact, that he texted Kendrick Lamar to apologize. "You got robbed. I wanted you to win," the star told his competitor. "You should have. It's weird and it sucks that I robbed you." While Macklemore have been a sincere apology, Drake called the public apology "wack as f--k."
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Beck & Kanye West, 2015
After the rapper interrupted Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2009, he got a lot of criticism. Perhaps this is why the star changed his mind when he went onstage to take the mic out of Album of the Year winner Beck. Beck welcomed Kanye to speak his mind, but the rapper simply returned to his seat as people looked on in shock.
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Beyoncé, 2017
It was a sight to behold when the Lemonade performer ascended the stage in a shimmering gold dress and crown. At the time, she was heavily pregnant with twins Sir and Rumi as she danced and sang to "Sandcastles" and "Love Drought." While all performances by Queen B are amazing, this one is definitely one of her most memorable.
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Adele, 2017
It was a tough choice to vote between Adele and Beyoncé, but the votes were cast and Adele won. "I'm very humbled and I'm very grateful and gracious. But my artist of my life is Beyoncé. And this album to me, the Lemonade album, is just so monumental," the British singer tearfully revealed during her acceptance speech for Album of the Year, which was mostly devoted to praising Bey.
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Adele, 2017
George Michael's death hit close to home for the star, who got choked up during her tribute to the late singer. As she began to sing his song "Fastlove," she swore and asked to start over entirely even though the show was being broadcast live. "I'm sorry for swearing and I'm sorry for starting again," Adele said. "Can we please start it again? I'm sorry, I can't mess this up for him. I'm sorry. I can't. I'm sorry for swearing. I'm really sorry."
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Michelle Obama, 2019
When it came time to start the show, host Alicia Keys surprised the audience by bringing a few familiar female faces to the stage, including the former first lady.
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Alicia Keys, 2019
Leave it to the modern queen of the keys to perform a medley of hits as the night's host using not one, but two pianos.
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Demi Lovato, 2020
Nearly two years after surviving a near-fatal overdose, Demi Lovato took the stage at the 2020 Grammys for a powerful performance of "Anyone," marking her first time singing live since being hospitalized. The moment was so emotional that Lovato had to start the song over again.
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Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion, 2021
Stripper heel props, neon graphics and a whole lot of twerking made this NSWF performance of "WAP" a must-see event at the 2021 Grammys. "If you have small children in the room, just tell them it's a song about giving a cat a bath," host Trevor Noah jokingly warned before the duo took the stage.
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Olivia Rodrigo and BTS' V, 2022
The K-pop group started off their 2022 Grammys performance of "Butter" with Jungkook descending from the MGM Grand Garden Arena ceiling. Then, the rest of the group—J-Hope, RM, Suga, Jin, V and Park Ji-min—slowly appeared throughout the audience, with V cozying up to pop star Olivia Rodrigo.
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Harry Styles and Taylor Swift, 2023
Haylors rejoice! At the 2023 Grammys, the "Cruel Summer" singer reunited with her ex. In fact, after the former One Direction member won Best Pop Vocal Album for Harry's House, Taylor quickly jumped up to give him a standing ovation.
Don't miss the 2025 Grammy Awards tonight, Feb. 2, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT on CBS.
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