St. Vincent will nonetheless get her likelihood to compete in rock classes, as “Damaged Man” will go head-to-head in opposition to unshakeable staples just like the Black Keys and the Beatles for Finest Rock Tune and Finest Rock Efficiency, respectively.
What in regards to the rock music that’s supposedly a bit bit lighter, extra artistic, or much less, you recognize, normal? Proper, now that’s the place ladies slot in: Kim Gordon’s The Collective, Brittany Howard’s What Now, Clairo’s Allure, and the aforementioned All Born Screaming are all up for Finest Different Music Album, with Nick Cave & the Dangerous Seeds’ Wild God within the working as a bit deal with. A minimum of they’re all in nice firm.
–Nina Corcoran
They’re Not Like Kendrick
Even once they’re not nominating Taylor Swift, they’re nonetheless nominating “Tailor Swif”—A$AP Rocky’s tune, that’s—and for Finest Music Video, of all issues. However whereas the Recording Academy’s favourite pop star may be very a lot right here and current on this yr’s prolonged nominations record, she really falls behind two rappers with regards to whole variety of nods: Kendrick Lamar and Put up Malone. (Malone, nominated primarily within the nation classes, might not think about himself a rapper, however who can overlook how a lot saucin’ he used to do?) What’s extra, Lamar earned most of his nominations on the again of 1 inescapable, savage tune: “Not Like Us.” What does it imply for a spiteful diss monitor to grow to be a five-times-Grammy-nominated single? For starters, that rap followers wish to have enjoyable spectating drama once more, because it’s the lone rap tune to be nominated for Tune or Report of the 12 months. It additionally means Lamar simply slipped in a bonus jab at Drake, who famously loathes the Grammys.
The Recording Academy will need to have been paying fairly shut consideration to the Drake-Kendrick beef as a result of voters acknowledged Future and Metro Boomin’s We Don’t Belief You (together with “Like That” and “We Nonetheless Don’t Belief You”) and even J. Cole’s shock May Delete Later mixtape. That’s some fairly affected person revenge for all of the years Drake snubbed them.
–Nina Corcoran
Album of the 12 months: A Hand of Secure Bets and One Thrilling Wildcard
Every year, the Recording Academy compiles its Album of the 12 months roster the way in which a cool aunt assembles an outfit: wise shirt, sneakers, and slacks, with only a couple kooky equipment to spark a convo. This season, the sensible, inevitable nods went to Grammy MVPs Taylor Swift (The Tortured Poets Division), Billie Eilish (Hit Me Onerous and Delicate), and Beyoncé (Cowboy Carter)—the latter of whom now boasts a whopping 99 nominations throughout her profession. After which there’s Jacob Collier (Djesse Vol. 4), YouTuber–turned–Recording Academy fave with six golden gramophones underneath his belt. In a bid to be Brat (or maybe, so Julia), Charli XCX (Brat) is on the ticket, as are Sabrina Carpenter (Quick n’ Candy) and newcomer Chappell Roan (The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess). However essentially the most shocking—and pleasant—of all of the AOTY nominees is André 3000, nominated for his dazzling jazz flute LP New Blue Solar. It appears unlikely {that a} 90-minute new-age incantation will greatest a pack of business darlings and pop divas, however its rating amongst them is nonetheless trigger for celebration.
