Bruno Mars won all six awards for which he was nominated at the 2018 Grammy Awards: Album of the Year (24K Magic), Record of the Year (“24K Magic”), Song of the Year (“That’s What I Like”), Best R&B Performance, Best R&B Song, and Best R&B Album. (24K Magic also won Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.) He beat out artists like JAY-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Lorde, and Childish Gambino in those categories. Now, a past Grammy winner, never shy about his feelings about the awards, has reacted to the sweep. Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon tweeted this morning, “Absolutely NO offense to Mr Mars, but you absolutely have to be shitting me.”

Vernon continued, “While some awesome musicians do win, what is WINNING?” He also called out Recording Academy president Neil Portnow for his comments about the lack of female winners at the 2018 ceremony. See Vernon’s tweets below.

Bon Iver have been nominated for five Grammy awards in the past: The band was up for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2017 Grammys for 22, A Million. At the 2012 ceremony, Vernon and the band were nominated for Record of the Year and Song of the Year (“Holocene”), Best Alternative Music Album (Bon Iver, Bon Iver), and Best New Artist; he won the latter two categories.

Back in 2012, Vernon encountered a similar situation to Lorde, when Bon Iver weren't offered a solo performance slot, just a collaborative one, despite being nominated for several major awards. He also declined to perform. "We kind of said 'fuck you' a little bit," Vernon said at the time. In another Tweet today, Vernon addressed that situation:

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