Politics, Dreamers, #MeToo, and Hillary: These Were the Grammys

And you thought the Grammy Awards were all about music and those who create it!

The awards show started pretty innocently, or so it seemed.

Then about halfway through the Sunday evening program, recording artist Janelle Monáe took the stage with a strident #MeToo speech, during which she said in part: “We have the power to undo the culture that does not serve us well.”

She also said, “And for those who try to silence us, we got two words for you: Time’s up” — a blatant reference to the efforts on the part of some in Hollywood and other elite entertainment circles to try to push back against sexual harassment and abuse in their industries, even as they wind up promoting themselves and their liberal politics and potentially drag the innocent along with them.

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But that was nothing compared to the comments of Camila Cabello.

The young singer went out of her way to mention dreamers — those who were brought here illegally by their parents and who are now demanding all the rights and benefits of citizenship, never mind the millions upon millions of legal, taxpaying Americans who will bear the burden of that in one way or another.

“Tonight, in this room full of music’s dreamers, we remember that this country was built by dreamers, for dreamers, chasing the American dream,” the former singer with Fifth Harmony declared.

“I’m here on this stage tonight because just like the dreamers, my parents brought me to this country with nothing in their pockets but hope,” she said.

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“They showed me what it means to work twice as hard and never give up, and honestly, no part of my journey is any different from theirs,” added Cabello, who is 20, wearing a barely-there white ensemble. “I’m a proud Cuban-Mexican immigrant, born in eastern Havana, standing in front of you on the Grammy stage in New York City, and all I know is, just like dreams, these kids can’t be forgotten and are worth fighting for.”

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Naturally, the crowd went wild.

Immediately after her, the rock group U2, not to be outdone, performed the song “Get Out of Your Own Way” from a new album, “Songs of Experience,” from a barge in front of the Statue of Liberty. At the song’s conclusion, lead singer Bono shouted out, “”Blessed are the s***hole countries, for they gave us the American dream” (it was censored on live TV). The band later tweeted the same thing.

In a pretaped segment that followed not long after this, a range of celebrities took turns reading from the highly controversial and much-discredited book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolfe, as part of a spoken word audition spoof. The group included none other than failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton — who’s likely been waiting for this close-up for months.

“He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s. No one knew he was coming, and the food was safely pre-made,” she read ridiculously from the book in a slam against the president.

Host James Corden then told her she’d nailed it — and that a spoken word Grammy was “in the bag.”