Author: Mikael Wood / Source: latimes.com
Consider that the singer brought a touch of suspense — and a deep well of feeling — to an annual production whose predictable data-based prizes include one for the year’s top-selling album.
Welcoming viewers to Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards, broadcast live on NBC from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Clarkson stood before the cameras in a stark cold open and admitted, “This is gonna be so hard.”
Fighting back tears, Clarkson instead proposed “a moment of change,” and whether or not she’d run her comments by the show’s organizers ahead of time, the display felt startlingly unrehearsed.
Accepting the award for top Hot 100 song, Luis Fonsi (of “Despacito” fame) thanked listeners for embracing a tune sung mostly in Spanish, then dedicated the trophy to immigrants and dreamers and “all those who get made fun of when you speak with an accent.”
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