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Elton John was honored at the iHeartRadio Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles on Thursday night (May 27), with an Icon Award, as well as a medley tribute performance from H.E.R., Brandi Carlile and Demi Lovato.
John was introduced first by host Usher as “one of the greatest artists of all time,” and then by Chris Martin of Coldplay — who jokingly pretended to read a teleprompter full of factual inaccuracies, calling him one of the greatest guitar players of all-time and shouting out his classic hits “Uptown Girl” and “I Just Called to Say I Love You.” Finally, after a video career montage, Lil Nas X saluted him as a trailblazer and thanked him on behalf of all the people he inspired.
Then, the tribute performance began, with H.E.R. at the piano banging out Elton’s “Bennie and the Jets” — also singing the Goodbye Yellow Brick Road smash, and later whipping out the guitar for a ripping guitar solo. Then Carlile walked out to center stage in a very ’70s blazer and gold buttoned-down shirt to perform his mega-ballad “Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me.” Finally, Demi Lovato took the stage in John’s trademark square glasses to perform his ’80s classic “I’m Still Standing” — even handing the mic to Sir Elton for him to fill in on one lyric.
After the medley and a time-filling return from Chris Martin, John accepted his Icon Award — raving about how radio is “where you hear things… where you discover things” and talking about the importance of promoting new artists on his own radio show. He also gave a special thanks to Lil Nas X, calling him “a wonderful artist [with] balls of steel.”
Doja Cat paid homage to sci-fi classics including Signs, Poltergeist and the X-Files during her extraterrestrial (and extra delightful) performance at the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards.
Performing a medley including “Streets” from her 2019 LP Hot Pink and “Kiss Me More” from the forthcoming Planet Her, the singer launched the performance by sitting directly in front of an old school television like that little girl from Poltergeist, until the camera panned back revealing that she was in a cornfield that was subsequently invaded by a fleet of little green men (and what looked like a few women) that also just happened to be really excellent dancers.
Doja, dressed in a kind of skimpy wedding gown, got down with her extraterrestrial cadre, twerking in the middle of a crop circle while delivering the hits. What at first seemed to be a spotlight lit up the stage, with Doja rising off the stage and slowly levitating towards what was then revealed to be the alien mothership, which had presumably arrived to take her back to her home planet.
Altogether, the performance struck the balance between weird and wonderful that’s become Doja’s calling card.
Usher pulled double duty Thursday night (May 27) by hosting the iHeartRadio Music Awards and performing his biggest hits over the last 20 years.
A harpist delicately began Usher’s heavenly performance of “Confessions” before he brought “Love in This Club” — but not actually to the club. Despite transforming Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre into his personal club, replete with Usher Bucks he doled out to Megan Thee Stallion (who won best collaboration for her “Savage” remix, featuring Beyoncé) to the floor-length fur coat he walked out in, a group of disco ball-resembling dancers ushered him into the desert through a rainbow-colored arched doorway that was on the stage.
He proceed to slide onto the hood of a sky blue convertible for “U Don’t Have to Call” that matched his regal Game of Thrones-esque jacket and short get-up before the “DJ Got Us Fallin’ in Love” for a desert day party.
Fans “Scream”-ed when they saw the R&B hitmaker dancing on a see-through floor, with the camera capturing his footwork from below. But up above, Usher made it rain back on stage with special guest Lil Jon, who got everyone in the venue singing their 2004 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Yeah!” while dancing on top of the convertible that magically reappeared.
The 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards were presented on Thursday (May 27) at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. Here are some of the artists who made history at the show.
The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” took song of the year and also the socially-voted award for TikTok bop of the year. The Weeknd also took male artist of the year for the first time. He’s the third Canadian artist to win in the latter category, following Justin Bieber (2016-17) and Drake (2019).
Dua Lipa took female artist of the year for the first time. She beat Megan Thee Stallion and three past winners in the category – Taylor Swift (2015-16 and 2018), Ariana Grande (2019) and Billie Eilish (2020).
Dan + Shay were surprise winners for duo/group of the year, beating out the red-hot BTS and three past winners in the category – Jonas Brothers, Maroon 5 and Twenty One Pilots. Dan + Shay are the first country group to win in this all-genre category in the eight-year history of the iHeartRadio Music Awards.
BTS won in two socially-voted categories – best fan army for the fourth year in a row and best music video for “Dynamite.”
Luke Combs won country artist of the year for the third year in a row. Marshmello won dance artist of the year for the third year in a row. H.E.R. won R&B artist of the year for the second year in a row. twenty one pilots won alternative rock artist of the year for the third time in six years.
Roddy Ricch won both hip-hop artist of the year and new hip-hop artist of the year. He’s the only new artist to win as the top artist of the year in genre category. Ricch also won hip-hop song of the year for “The Box.”
The Pretty Reckless won rock artist of the year. J Balvin won Latin pop/reggaeton artist of the year. Both were first-time winners in those categories.
“Savage” (Remix) by Megan Thee Stallion featuring Beyoncé won best collaboration. It’s the second all-female collab to take that award, following “Bang Bang” by Jessie J, Ariana Grande & Nicki Minaj, which won six years ago.
Taylor Swift’s Folklore won pop album of the year. At the Grammys on March 14, Folklore lost the award for best pop vocal album to Lipa’s Future Nostalgia, but later turned around and won the top award, album of the year.
Olivia Rodrigo won the social star award. It is likely to be the first of many awards that the talented 18 year old wins in the next year or so.
Elton John, who would have dominated the iHeartRadio Music Awards if they had existed in his mid-‘70s heyday, received the icon award from Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Lil Nas X. Though the connection wasn’t explicitly made, John paved the way for the success of other British pop and rock musicians, such as Martin, and for the emergence of other openly gay artists, such as Lil Nas X. In accepting the award, John spoke warmly of Lil Nas X. “He is a wonderful artist and has balls of steel.”
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak are two of the best live performers around these days, so when Silk Sonic hit the 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards on Thursday (May 27) to deliver their Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 “Leave the Door Open,” you knew there was a 0/100 chance they would phone it in. Wearing dark azure crushed velvet blazers and tinted sunglasses (with Paak in a stylish flat cap), the duo worked the crowd exactly like the ’70s soul singers that Silk Sonic pays homage to would have.
Starting out with Mars at a piano and Paak and two backup singers leaning on the ivories, Silk Sonic delivered the buttery tune as the crowd readily sang it back to them. The music came to a sudden stop when Paak ripped off his glasses and let out a “wooo” to which Mars responded, “Let’s go! Let’s go!”
Delving back into the song, the crowd went wild – well, as wild as you can expect to a sultry, seductive bedroom slow jam (which was pretty wild, tbh). Mars was clearly ready to be back in front of an IRL crowd – not only did he croon straight to a woman in the front row, but he took her hand and placed in on his bare chest. Yep, live concerts in 2021 are about to be wild, y’all.
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