Spiritbox frontwoman Courtney LaPlante was mistaken for Poppy during an interview at the Grammys and decided to answer for her fellow Best Metal Performance nominee – check out footage of the awkward interview below.
While walking the red carpet at the 67th annual Grammy Awards last night (February 2), LaPlante was approached by an unknown publication for an interview, who mistook the Spiritbox singer for Poppy. LaPlante originally gave the interviewer a look of confusion, only for the interviewer to double down: “You are, you got nominated against Judas Priest.”
LaPlante then decided to do the rest of the interview while pretending to be Poppy: “I am Poppy, and I am really happy to be here, nominated with Knocked Loose. I really hope we win.”
The Spiritbox went on to answer on behalf of the real Poppy, who had been nominated in the past before and that “she” was honoured to have performed with Knocked Loose on Jimmy Kimmel recently.
LaPlante added: “Really happy to be here again, would love to take home the Grammy for Knocked Loose and myself because I would be the first woman to win this award. I actually haven’t looked at [how many women have been nominated previously] but I just always know that it’s time for one of us to win. I hope it’s me, or Spiritbox and Courtney.”
Check out the full interview below.
Poppy has not publicly commented on the mix-up, but has acknowledged it on social media, posting a snippet of the interview on Instagram as part of her Grammys post, which you can see below.
Both Spiritbox and Poppy – who have performed together in the past – were nominated for Best Metal Performance for ‘Cellar Door’ and ‘Suffocate’ respectively. However, they would ultimately lose to Gojira, who won for ‘Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)’, which they performed at the 2024 Paris Olympics – you can see the full list of Grammy winners here.
Spiritbox are next due to release the album ‘Tsunami Sea’ on March 7 via Pale Chord in partnership with Rise Records. You can pre-order it here. The band have also shared the haunting single ‘Perfect Soul’.
Meanwhile, Poppy released her album ‘Negative Spaces’ in November last year – read NME‘s chat with her about the album here.
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