Harry Styles Grammys Dancers Say Set Malfunction Forced Them to ‘Reverse’ Performance Live - Rolling Stone

Harry Styles performs during the 65th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 05, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.

Harry Styles’ dancers during the 2023 Grammy Awards took to social media on Monday to reveal that while on live television the turntable they practiced on malfunctioned and began to spin in the wrong direction.

“What you don’t know is that the moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning in reverse,” said Brandon Mathis, one of the dancers, in an Instagram story.

According to another dancer, Dexter, Harry and his team practiced the choreography for 10 days leading up to the Grammys.

Defending comments online that called Styles’ performance was “boring” and “lethargic,” Dexter said that despite trying to unsuccessfully get the technician’s attention, the dancers had to make the best of it and reverse their entire choreography on the spot.

“We rehearsed for 10 days getting down these beautiful formations and sliding off the table in a roll-off and just making this incredible, morphing, cool artistic shit and Harry did such a good job integrating into it,” Dexter shared in a TikTok video.