Courtney LaPlante laughs off Grammy mix-up with Poppy

One of the most unexpected and humorous occurrences from the 2025 Grammy Awards was when Courtney LaPlante of Spiritbox was confused for Poppy during a red-carpet interview. LaPlante expressed her feelings over being addressed as her fellow vocalist and Best Metal Performance candidate during a recent Instagram live session. 

I was like, “Don’t say anything too crazy” because I don’t know Poppy and Knocked Loose well enough to go crazy on it, you know? What if they don’t like this? What if they feel like I’m mocking their achievements, because I wasn’t – I think this is very funny. It reminded me of Charlie XCX was doing an interview, and someone was like, “What was it like writing [the Lorde song] ‘Royals’ or something like that?” And instead of being all shitty about it, she just talked about writing “Royals” and being a teenager from New Zealand. I took that as my inspiration, and I think everyone left happy, right? We got promotion of Poppy and Knocked Loose in there, I slipped a little Spiritbox and Courtney in there too.

All’s well that ends well!