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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Alex Warren Now Sees His 2026 Grammys Performance Marred by Tech Issues as the Greatest Moment of His Life · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Alex Warren lived through an unfortunate technical mishap at the
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  Speaker 2: most recent Grammys while he was performing when the music
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  Speaker 2: in his earpiece wasn't in time with the music everybody
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  Speaker 2: else was hearing. And you wouldn't blame him if he
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  Speaker 2: wanted to forget that night forever. But he's looking at
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  Speaker 2: it differently.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he actually calls it the best night of his
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  Speaker 3: life now. And he means not despite the disaster, but
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  Speaker 3: because of it.
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  Speaker 4: And it wasn't instantaneous. He tells Rolling Stone that his
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  Speaker 4: first reaction was terror and self-loathing, but It ended up
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  Speaker 4: instilling confidence in him.
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  Speaker 2: Alex always worried people hated him, and he accepts some
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  Speaker 2: people do. But when it happened, he thought, everybody's going
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  Speaker 2: to make fun of me in this room, online, everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was so scared.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't even want to go online after that because
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  Speaker 3: he was positive that there was going to be nothing
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  Speaker 3: but hate. But his friends were like, you should actually look.
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  Speaker 4: And a lot of people were expressing empathy and also
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  Speaker 4: were just a matter of fact about it, that it
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  Speaker 4: wasn't him. It was bad luck, not judging him, lifting
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  Speaker 4: him up, actually.
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  Speaker 2: Now he calls that freak accident the best thing that
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  Speaker 2: ever happened for his confidence. His new album, Wild Child,
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  Speaker 2: is out now.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.