(He also won video of the year for "Mirrors," as anticlimactic a winner as this awards show has ever seen).
Click here to see our red carpet gallery The night was, of course, stolen by Justin Timberlake, who took home the top prize for video of the year for "Mirrors" and a special achievement honor, and also led a much-anticipated onstage reunion of the boy band 'N Sync.
The singer also took home the night's biggest prize, video of the year, for "Mirrors".
What is particularly insidious about hair loss is the toll it takes on a man's ego during its slow but steady march, the years of mirror gazing and shower-drain inspecting as he helplessly monitors his hairline's inexorable retreat.
So 1963 was a year of lenses and mirrors, concealing and revealing a perverse dis-ease about what sex was becoming.
CES 2017 wasn't the year of the smart mirror – but it was hard to ignore the things lurking about around the edges of the show.
The world's largest arts festival runs until 31 August, with performances in venues ranging from traditional theatres to the Famous Spiegeltent – an elaborately decorated 95-year-old wooden "tent of mirrors".
Curator Leo Kuelbs and artist Eike Berg project the work of six video artists for a fourth edition of the annual Light Year show, entitled Transflexion: Net of Mirrors.
(Saint-Gobain, the building materials manufacturer donating the high-tech textiles for the enclosure as well as the home's ultra-energy-efficient windows, originally supplied the glass for Versailles' legendary Hall of Mirrors almost 350 years ago).
So after years of living around mirrors, I've discovered that the most honest and revealing one is the four-year old boy sitting in the back seat of my car.
This phenomenon is shown most clearly in the record of the year category, which mirrors the recent female dominance of the Billboard top five with nominations – alongside Smith – for Iggy and Charli's Fancy (No 1 for seven weeks), Sia's Chandelier, Taylor Swift's Shake It Off (No 1 for three weeks), and Meghan Trainor's novelty ode to the larger bottom, All About That Bass (No 1 for eight weeks).
