{"id":60197,"date":"2021-03-15T18:16:25","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=60197"},"modified":"2021-03-15T18:16:25","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:16:25","slug":"the-jewish-highlights-of-the-2021-grammys-breakout-performance-but-no-win-for-jewish-sister-act-haim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/the-jewish-highlights-of-the-2021-grammys-breakout-performance-but-no-win-for-jewish-sister-act-haim\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish highlights of the 2021 Grammys: Breakout performance but no win for Jewish sister act Haim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By EMILY BURACK<\/p>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 When the Jewish sister act Haim took the stage at the 2021 Grammy Awards on Sunday night, Americans began googling \u201chime.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58121\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Grammy.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58121\" class=\"wp-image-58121 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Grammy-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Grammy-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Grammy-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Grammy-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Grammy.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/208;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58121\" class=\"wp-image-58121 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Grammy-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Grammy-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Grammy-1024x711.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Grammy-768x533.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Grammy.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-58121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An early Grammy Award. (Photo by Alan Smason)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>That\u2019s how host Trevor Noah pronounced the group\u2019s name, which is the last name of the sisters and the Hebrew word for life. Though the sisters did not win in either of the categories in which they were nominated, they celebrated their friend Taylor Swift\u2019s win backstage.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony, of course, was unusual: There was no audience, the nominees sat outdoors at socially distant tables and the awards were announced by people involved with local music venues across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it was still a riveting spectacle, and other awards shows held during the COVID-19 pandemic pale in comparison: By having attendees in person, viewers were treated to a mix of incredible performances and live acceptance speeches that were not streamed from a living room.<\/p>\n<p>There were stand-out Jewish performers, though not many Jewish musicians took home trophies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The performances<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Haim\u2019s first-ever Grammy\u2019s performance, the group chose \u201cThe Steps\u201d from their album \u201cWomen in Music Pt. III.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Haim: &quot;The Steps&quot; | 2021 GRAMMY Awards Show Performance\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kZ_LYDulhuE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Doja Cat, making her Grammys debut, performed her hit \u201cSay So\u201d near the end of the show in a futuristic latex suit, including the TikTok dance that helped the song go viral. She also teased her next album, \u201cPlanet Her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jack Antonoff, the Jewish producer, joined Taylor Swift for her performance along with Jewish musician Aaron Dessner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve only gotten to be together in the same room once, so this is really awesome to get to be together with them again,\u201d Swift said of performing with Antonoff and Dessner. \u201cWe\u2019re quarantining in the same house, we\u2019re getting tested every day. It\u2019s just really exciting, honestly, to play music with your collaborators. That\u2019s something that I will never, ever take for granted again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The winners<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though many Jewish artists were nominated \u2014 from Haim to Doja Cat \u2014 not many won. The notable Jewish winners were Antonoff and Dessner, who were key parts of Swift\u2019s Album of the Year win for \u201cFolklore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the ceremony, comedian Tiffany Haddish&nbsp;won for best comedy album for her Netflix special \u201cBlack Mitzvah\u201d released in December 2019. Haddish celebrated her bat mitzvah&nbsp;on the same day the Netflix special premiered.<\/p>\n<p>Director, actor and writer Taika Waititi&nbsp;won the Grammy for best compilation soundtrack for visual media for his film \u201cJojo Rabbit,\u201d much to his confusion.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jojo Rabbit Wins Best Compilation Soundtrack For Visual Media | 2021 GRAMMYs\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZRisk9rYee0?list=PLzAduZ80dWSu1zZRWlkKALOe8uUFdWClh\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess they\u2019re just giving Grammys to anyone now! I\u2019ll take it, thank you,\u201d the Jewish M\u0101ori filmmaker joked. \u201cWhat can I say? It was so long ago, I can barely remember anything about making that movie \u2014 but it seems like it\u2019s never going to go away, and I\u2019m happy about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Waititi was in a trailer on a movie set while he accepted the award \u2014 likely \u201cThor: Love and Thunder,\u201d featuring Natalie Portman as Thor \u2014 and tweeted later that he was \u201chappy\u201d about the Grammy win.<br \/>\nJoanie Leeds, a singer-songwriter who frequently leads children\u2019s Shabbat programming and has released albums of Jewish children\u2019s music, won the Grammy for best children\u2019s album for \u201cAll the Ladies,\u201d which contains a musical ode to the late Jewish Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, an orchestral adaptation of \u201cThe Diary of Anne Frank &amp; Meditations On Rilke\u201d narrated by Isabel Leonard and conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas for the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra won best classical compendium. Thomas produced the work back in 1990 with the help of Audrey Hepburn, who originally read Frank\u2019s words in performance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Looking ahead \u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new trailer for \u201cIn the Heights\u201d that aired during the broadcast set the internet abuzz. With a screenplay by the Jewish Puerto Rican playwright Quiara Alegr\u00eda Hudes, with music by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the musical is poised to become the film of the summer once theaters reopen.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In The Heights - Washington Heights Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7g6c6dCuTW8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"The%20Jewish%20highlights%20of%20the%202021%20Grammys%3A%20Breakout%20performance%20but%20no%20win%20for%20Jewish%20sister%20act%20Haim\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7137],"tags":[10733,11260,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60198,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60197\/revisions\/60198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}