Shinedown frontman Brent Smith sat down with Good Charlotte’s Benji Madden for a new chat and discussed his friend Courtney LaPlante’s Grammy interview.
Smith recalled LaPlante was mistaken for Poppy and handling it with ease. “Dude, I know her very well and, when she did that, that just elevated her to another level. She wasn’t mean [when the interviewer didn’t recognize her]. She just rolled with it.”
The rocker then touched on the lack of categories in the Grammys and what they can do to fix it. “Don’t alienate a community of people and listeners that is massive. I can’t remember the last time there was a rock and roll performance at the Grammys. I think it’s time that the Grammys take an initiative to let rock and roll present itself again, because they look at ratings and they look at how many people watched and how many people are tuning in it’s like you would have so many more people watching the Grammys as well with all of these different categories.”
“Now you’ve only got so much time to televise everything but again rock and roll ain’t just a genre man it’s a way of life. I really hope that in the future that they start to broadcast a bit more rock and let artists come in there that can throw down,” the frontman added.
During the 2025 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, one standout moment came when an interviewer on the red carpet mistook LaPlante for Poppy. Rather than correcting them, LaPlante played along. “I am Poppy, and I am really happy to be here nominated with Knocked Loose. I really hope we win,” she told the interviewer.
She continued the act, agreeing that ‘Poppy’ had been nominated before in 2020. “I was actually nominated in, I believe, 2020. 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.”
Poppy later shared the video on her Instagram account along with other moments from the Grammys.
