On Stage and Behind The Scenes at The GRAMMYS! [PICTURE HEAVY!]

Photos: Grammys.com

I have to say, the Grammys ended up being better than I expected. There was a bit of a change, there were more performances ever this year and a few upsets. Gaga crawled out of an egg and The Biebs went home empty handed, let's look back!

Notice the only "diva" truly helping Xtina is Florence??

The show kicked off with a tribute to Aretha Franklin.  Jennifer Hudson showed off her new body, Florence Welch got her time to shine and Christina got a chance to redeem herself. Some people claimed she flubbed another lyric, I DIDN'T HEAR IT, but I thought she did a great job. Even recovering from a slip. We were also treated to a slimmer Aretha giving her thanks from at home where she's still recovering from an illness. (Lord, PLEASE don't let The Queen have pancreatic cancer as has been rumored. PLEASE.)

DARLING. Willow and Gaga...Paws UP!

After the break, get it, Lady Gaga hatched from her egg in a yolk-like get up. I personally didn't enjoy the performance, the choreography was very New Kids on The Block, but it's okay, she was Born That Way! She even turned little Willow Smith into a monster.

Muse!

Lenny Kravitz, looking fine as ever, introduced Muse. Sad, though, that Matt Bellamy is going to be known as the other guy who knocked up Kate Hudson from now on. They later won Best Rock Album.

The monocle is BACK!

Janelle stage diving!

One of the best performances of the night came from B.O.B, Janelle Monae and Bruno Mars. Bobby Ray sported a monocle, please let them come back in fashion! Janelle tightroped across the stage and then dove off of it.

Justin Bieber and his "mentor" Usher did a joint performance. Honestly, I blanked out at this part. Usher needs to stop performing "OMG" and doing his half-assed regionals cheerleading competition routine.

Esperanza Spaulding - Gorgeous and gracious

[Side Note: The lovely and gorgeous Esperanza Spalding won BEST NEW ARTIST over Bieber then had both her Wikipedia page and Twitter account attacked by Bieber's scary-ass stans.  She deserved to win, everyone who was nominated would have deserved it if they had won. Bieber needs to tell his snot-nosed stans to calm their pre-teen tits because one of these days their mess is going to make it offline.  I still fear for Selena Gomez. By the way, didn't she look fabulous?]

Selena...gorgeous and grown UP!

David Lettereman introduced the other performance trio of Mumford & Sons, Avett Brothers and Bob Dylan. I was shocked at how good looking the first two groups were and how gravely Bob's voice sounded now.

Bieber with the Human Muppet, CeeLo

Cee Lo out-crazied Gaga and channeled Elton John with his performance of his hit "F*** You." Because she insists on doing things, Gwyneth Paltrow joined him ("Whyyeeeeeeee??") and crawled on his piano like she was on of those puppets. I have to say I was disappointed that Animal, Janice and Fozzy Bear didn't join Cee Lo. They are the resident musicians on Sesame Street.

Katy Perry. Meh.

Katy Perry is still alive and showed us some of her wedding pictures.  Oh.  Okay.

RiRi

Em and Dre

Rihanna performed twice, despite being sick, like that even mattered.  Dr. Dre joined Eminem on stage for the first time making hip hop history. This was stressed I don't know how many times. Props to Skyler Grey who sang with them but never had her face shown. Fun fact: She wrote the hook to "Love The Way You Lie."

Arcade Fire wins Album of the Year!

Arcade Fire won ALBUM OF THE YEAR and gave me a headache during their first performance. I love how all 52 of them were genuinely surprised that they had won and decided to close out the show.

Gaga, Bey and Urrrsher

One thing I kept hearing last night was, where is Beyonce?  It's not like she was nominated for a major award, but she was there. Hanging out in the audience with her pal Paltrow and backstage with Gaga and Usher, the outfit is a little Cabaret-ish but she seemed to be enjoying herself.

So.  What were YOUR faves?  Or least favorites?  C'mon.  TELL US!