At the Grammy Awards last Sunday, shortly after his album "Harry's House" was named Album of the Year, Harry Styles concluded his acceptance speech by saying, "I'm not sure how this is possible. Adele, who was nominated in the same category, was not immediately impressed, and many noted that, in the words of one viewer on Twitter, "I can't think of another type of person this happens to."

Stiles had said early in his speech that it was important to remember that there is no "best" in music, but his final line, "This rarely happens to people like me," seemed particularly tony given the context: Beyoncé, whose album "Renaissance" was expected to win in the same category, had lost to white artists such as Beck, Adele, and Taylor Swift. In fact, no black woman has won Album of the Year at the Grammys since the late 1990s.

"'This doesn't happen to people like me very often' IT LITERALLY ONLY HAPPENS TO PEOPLE LIKE YOU??" @ungodlywests tweeted after Stiles' speech.

A week later at the BRIT Awards, Styles won four awards, including Best Album, Best Artist, and Best Song of the Year.During his acceptance speech for Best Artist at the BRIT Awards, Styles addressed the controversy that his acceptance speech the previous week had sparked, saying said: "This award goes to Lina, Charli, Florence, Mabel, and Becky." Stiles mentioned the controversial female artists who were ignored in the category, as only men were ultimately nominated for Artist of the Year.

He also thanked his former One Direction bandmates: "I want to thank Niall, Lewis, Liam, and Zayn, because they were the ones who made it happen.