2012 Grammy Awards open with prayer for Whitney Houston, Adele picks two awards

Jennifer Hudson performs I Will Always Love You 2012 Grammy Performance, As anyone and their mother could have (and, ahem, did) predicted, it was Adele's show at last night's 54th Grammy Awards. The singer, who absolutely swept the awards, took home six Grammys -- meaning she won in every category in which she was nominated, including the big three: Song of the Year, Record of the Year and Album of the Year. Other notable winners included Bon Iver, who scored an upset as Best New Artist over Nicki Minaj; Foo Fighters, for all of the rock-related awards; and Kanye West, who nabbed all the rap Grammys. The awards show itself, though, wasn't about the awards. It was about the performance, the (few) acceptance speeches and the absence of past members of "the Grammy family," as host LL Cool J dubbed it -- namely Whitney Houston and Etta James, both of whom saw some form of tribute within the first half hour of the show.