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Annie Lennox shocked by reaction to Grammys performance
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At Sunday night's Grammy Awards, the Irish singer-songwriter Hozier — who was nominated for Best New Artist but lost to Sam Smith — played a faithful rendition of his hit single, "Take Me to Church," but the performance's most powerful bit came via onstage collaborator Annie Lennox. The former Eurythmics singer riffed and hummed background vocals on Hozier's own number, before taking center stage and rattling the crowd with a soulfully static rendition of "I Put a Spell On You," a version of which appears upon her 2014 album, Nostalgia. With her massive final, acoustic note, Lennox brought the crowd to its feet.
The performance on Sunday was incredible. I don't think I saw anybody in that audience as excited as when you finished performing.
Well that's fantastic. You just never know with this, whatever happens, how people are going to react. It's so strange because all of a sudden the whole thing is lighting up, and I'm getting these headlines! I'm like, "what?"
What has the immediate aftermath and fan reaction towards the performance been like for you?
Well, it was off the scale to be quite frank with you because we just kept getting in these reports from the Internet and from media with headlines that were pointing out the performance and saying things like, "It was the highlight of the evening" and stuff like this, which kind of blows my mind, but at the same time, I have to be really careful. On the one hand, you're put on a pedestal and on the other hand, you can get kicked in the stomach. They can say other things, so I'm grateful that people were so incredibly positive about it. I'm a very grounded person because I see how people get cocky and they get very head-blown about these things. That's never who I'll be, never. I'm just appreciative but at the same time, I'm really pragmatic because I know I can get kicked in the teeth in a nanosecond, especially in this day of all the commentary on social media, which can be really unpleasant. I just take it with a pinch of salt.
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She's so humble! I love that she's so against letting positive things go to her head. 
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