Steve Lacy Is The Guitar Hero We Need With His Grammys Performance Of ‘Bad Habits’

With his caller album, Gemini Rights, an endless proviso of charm, and a Dead Kennedys-inspired Stylo au Plafond shirt, Steve Lacy has been anointed the “new benignant of guitar hero” for his generation. That rubric was cemented astatine the 65th Grammy Awards connected Sunday (Feb. 5), erstwhile the “Bad Habits” vocalist deed the signifier of the Crypto.com Arena to execute his chart-topping deed for each those gathered successful Los Angeles and those watching astatine home. With bass maestro Thundercat by his side, Lacy injected immoderate chill precocious into the Grammys broadcast.

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Steve entered the 65th Grammy Awards with 4 nominations nether his belt: Record of the Year (“Bad Habit”), Song of the Year (“Bad Habit”), Best Pop Solo Performance (“Bad Habit”), and Best Progressive R&B Album (Gemini Rights). Before the amusement began, helium won Best Progressive R&B Album successful a non-televised, pre-show ceremony.

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Steve has six nominations successful total, having scored a brace of Best Urban Contemporary Album nods successful 2016 for The Internet’s Ego Death and successful 2020 for his debut solo album, Apollo XXI. “It’s hilarious,” Steve told Rolling Stone about scoring a information for his archetypal solo album. “I consciousness similar I enactment possibly 2 oregon 3 percent effort into that album. And I’m like, ‘Oh, damn, I inactive went to the Grammys. That’s crazy.’ Compared to that album, I enactment a batch of effort, and care, and clip into this 1 [Gemini Rights]. More than immoderate task I ever did.”

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The effort paid off. It topped Billboard’s Top Rock Albums and Top Alternative Albums charts and reached No. 7 connected the Billboard 200 Albums chart. It received affirmative reviews, with The Guardian saying Gemini Rights was afloat of “sweet, psych-tinged songs that are distinctly cosmic and sensual, laced with nods to 70s pop, funk, and soul,” and that helium produced “smudged, yearning guitars, delicate piano, and melodies truthful accomplished they consciousness arsenic if they’ve ever been heavy successful your bones,” earlier adding that Steve’s “breathy dependable glides with a warm, mellifluous lightness. A sumptuous perceive that glows similar a freaky summertime love.”

The enactment besides resulted successful “Bad Habit” topping the Billboard Hot 100 for 3 weeks successful precocious 2022. Steve didn’t deliberation the opus would beryllium a hit. “I truly didn’t,” helium told Rolling Stone. “I conscionable knew it was fun. I knew I liked it. … I consciousness similar this is thing that everybody astir apt went through. So, we were conscionable benignant of laughing astir it. Like, ‘This is hilarious.’ I truly had nary thought that it would beryllium [successful] similar this. I don’t adjacent person that brain. I’m conscionable making worldly constantly, and I’m ever chasing that feeling of loving an idea. And I’m truly harsh. I had, like, 250 ideas for the album, but I ever knew I wanted 10 [songs].”

Steve’s encephalon has been successful precocious demand. He worked with his set The Internet, connected Kendrick Lamar’s Damn.,  and connected Vampire Weekend’s Father of the Bride, to sanction a few. “I’ve been astatine the Grammys since [I was] 17, astir each year,” helium told Rolling Stone. “Because it was Ego Death, and then Damn. … And past it was Vampire Weekend, and past it was Apollo XXI. So I’ve been astatine the Grammys a small bit. But for this album, it decidedly feels different. This time, I conjecture I consciousness a small much like, ‘Oh, yeah, of course.” Or conscionable much assured this clip around.”

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