If you’ve ever watched an awards show, you know acceptance speeches can get pretty heartfelt and sentimental — which is why it’s so annoying the people giving them are unceremoniously interrupted by music meant to signal they’ve taken too long on stage. At the 2023 Golden Globes, a few celebrities got this treatment, and some of them — along with plenty of angry tweeters — seemingly pointed the finger at live pianist Chloe Flower for playing them off. Flower was shown on camera multiple times throughout the night, tickling the ivories with short instrumental renditions of popular TV and movie theme songs. She was not responsible for cutting off any speeches, but she took much of the heat for it nonetheless.
“Shut up please,” Everything Everywhere All At Once star Michelle Yeoh, who won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, said with a laugh as the play-off music began. “I can beat you up. And that’s serious.” Though the camera remained trained on Yeoh, we did see the actress look to the side when she delivered those remarks. Yeoh didn’t specifically mention Flower, but that didn’t stop people on Twitter from assuming the pianist was on the receiving end of the jabs and blaming Flower for interrupting.
