2012: Nicki Minaj

I just want to know what OTHER acting work the Pope has done. How high up is this on his resume?

2012: Robyn

Bringing your own seat liner IS a sanitary idea, it's true.

2012: Fergie

What lovely workmanship on this (I think it's Gaultier). And how distracting that it's basically just framing her underpants.

2013: Kelly Rowland

It's like a saucy maze.

2014: Beyonce

This fit her sensationally, but just felt unnecessarily patchy to me. Why not have the white flowers everywhere? There was also a bare chunk right under her butt, and it disrupted the flow.

2014: Katy Perry in Valentino

This was fresh off the runway, and it's a lovely idea, but a) on-the-nose, and b) too messy for me.

2014: Ashanti

She looks like someone from one of those sexy maid services.

2015: Madonna

And this is her biggest office rival.

2015: Jordin Sparks

This is technically from a party and not the Grammys themselves, but I HAD TO REVISIT IT. I can't decide which part of her looks like it broke out in something: that one right leg, or everything else.

2015: Charli XCX

She clearly works at a magic restaurant that's about to go out of business.

2015: Meghan Trainor

This is just so dreary.

2016: Lady Gaga

This is NOT dreary. I put this in here under "wild" and not necessarily "worst," as it was a Bowie tribute look. She performed a bunch of his songs as a tribute, and the whole thing felt very much about Lady Gaga and only tangentially about David Bowie at all, but she at least went there with the clothes.

2016: Janelle Monae

Janelle is dressed as a handbag.

2017: Lea Michele

This dress didn't work, but what REALLY struck me was how poor the makeup was on her.

2017: Cee-Lo Green

The Internet called him Angry Ferrero Rocher, and I cannot improve upon that.

2017: Demi Lovato

Oh dear.

2017: Halsey

She wore the boob belt not long after this, so maybe on this night, her girls REALLY punished her here for the lack of support and security.

2017: Katy Perry in Tom Ford

This would have been great if it had picked one dress or the other to be. It KILLS me how the gold part gets all bunchy right where it meats the feathers.

2017: Gaga

Exhausting.

2018: Gaga

This is basically the polar opposite of that outfit, but somehow feels just as joyless.

2018: Heidi Klum

Do we think this makes her all-time bottom five?

2018

I love this photo. It's. here because of Katy Perry and her bubblegum cocoon, but seeing Dua Lipa there looking so sleek makes Katy's seem even MORE Seussian. And then Anna Kendrick is staring at her so skeptically. It's great.

2019

No no no no no. Even she seems distressed.

2019: J Lo and Gaga

I am terming this "wild" also because J.Lo's ensemble is so funny to me. I didn't like Gaga's, though. I thought it was messy.

2019: Jeannie Mai

Girl, please.

2019: Ashanti

She looks like she's melting into a pile of smelted Grammys. (The one in the crook of her arm is actually just the backdrop peeking through, but it gets me every time.)

Fantasia Barrino

Life is hard when you have one arm that's evil.

2019: Kacey Musgraves

Why so DRAB, Kacey? And so... low?

2019: St. Vincent

Even a great cape rarely improves a romper.

2020: Alessandra Ambrosio

NOTHING, in fact, improves a romper. Certainly not a shroud.

2020: Little Big Town

I cherish them for not trying to coordinate EVEN A LITTLE BIT. In a group of four, it feels like it'd be hard for ALL of you to be so different, and yet they've nailed that. This is crackers and I'm here for it.

2020: Billy Porter in Baja East

This was the outfit with the hat that retracted so we could see his face. It was hilarious -- "wild" but in a really great way. One of you called him a "glamorous lamp" and that's perfect. Please, SOMEBODY, show up on Sunday as furniture.

Flashback: The Weirdest and Wildest of the (Recent) Grammys

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