The biggest event on the music industry’s calendar happened in LA this Sunday, and it provided its usual confusion rather than a relief of conscience. The 59th Annual Grammy, hosted by James Corden at the Staples Center this year gave a closer look into celebrity life than the viewers may have been comfortable with. Adele was the night’s chosen winner of the three major general-category awards, leaving the night with 5 in total.

On a happy note, Austin’s longtime fav Willie Nelson won an award for Summertime in the Best Traditional Vocal Album category, which is great news for one of Austin’s faves.

Many of the music industry’s giants decided to release music within the past year, making this year’s Grammy Awards very competitive. Out of the four general categories, Song, Record, and Album of the Year all went to the Adele, who dedicated her last two awards to the woman she thought deserved them: Beyoncé.

FYI: Adele is Beyoncé’s number one fan according to herself, and while accepting the award for Album of the Year for her record-breaking 2015 album 25, she passionately acknowledged her admiration for Beyoncé’s ground-breaking Lemonade, saying she “could not possibly accept this award. My artist of my life is Beyoncé and this Lemonade album was monumental.”

Adele continued raining compliments on Queen Bey, calling Lemonade “so well thought-out, beautiful and soul-bearing” while onstage and after the cameras stopped she actually broke her award to give half of it to Beyoncé. I’m not crying, you are!

This was an emotional and heartfelt ending for the Grammy’s, but it took a lot of patience to get through the three and a half hour-long award show. Adele opened the night with “Hello” for the opening performance (because, duh), and the show’s first award, which was for Best New Artist, went to our beloved independent Chicago-native Chance the Rapper (who also won Best Rap Album).

Chance returned later to the stage to slay a medley performance of three of his Coloring Book songs alongside gospel artists Kirk Franklin and Tamela Mann and his cousin Nicole.

Tributes were very frequent at this years Grammy’s. Among the most interesting to watch were Bruno Mars’ ode to Prince, the Bee Gees’ ensemble, and Adele’s second performance for George Michael which she asked to restart after a minute. Onstage she apologized before saying “I can’t mess this up for him” and delivering a more solid rendition of his hit “Fastlove.” The late David Bowie also won three awards for his posthumous collection Blackstar.

It may seem like Beyoncé lost out, but she still won two Grammys for Urban Contemporary Album and for Best Music Video (“Formation”). She also dazzled with her performance, which had a noticeably slower pace due to her growing double-baby bump. She chose to sing two of her more relaxed Lemonade songs “Love Drought” and “Sandcastles” amidst Warshan Shire’s spoken word, elaborate holographs, and symbolic imagery. Her costume resembled a composite of the Statue of Liberty, the Virgin Mary, and Oshun the West African goddess, all dipped in gold from head to toe.

To go with the combined Adele/Beyoncé domination, Hollywood’s musical night stuck with its tradition of collaboration. Some were more expected, like the Starboy duo (the Weeknd and Daft Punk), but others like the Gaga/Metallica mash-up was a sure surprise for the audience (especially with its epic microphone failure), and the political A Tribe Called Quest’s performance with Anderson .Paak and Busta Rhymes.

This year’s Grammy’s stayed politically relevant, with a number of hashtags and Twitter trends arising from performers, announcers, and winners, including Busta Rhymes’ #PresidentAgentOrange, Katy Perry’s “We The People,” and Laverne Cox’s #StandWithGavin.

Amidst a wild night of emotions, odd behaviors, and various technical difficulties, there are two things to learn from the year’s biggest night in music: 1) Adele admires Beyoncé’s Lemonade enough to literally break the music industry’s most renowned award in half, and 2) musicians and singers are more frequently using their societal influence to directly address today’s politics on the most public stages in the world. In both cases, it shows that there’s still good signs of hope for the future.