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Is Hollywood able to have fun once more? The Recording Academy positive hopes so. Simply weeks after wildfires swept Los Angeles, the Grammys are going forward with their ceremony, changing into one of many first main L.A. occasions within the metropolis to happen. The present will characteristic tributes and fundraising, and the temper will definitely be extra low-key after most of the regular Grammy-week events had been referred to as off.
However there’ll even be so much to have fun, ranging from the highest. After changing into the most-awarded artist in Grammys historical past, Beyoncé is again in competition, jockeying for 11 awards for Cowboy Carter — together with her first nation trophies and her still-elusive first Album of the 12 months win. So are a slew of newer faces, together with Charli xcx, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan. New (and new-to-the-Academy) artists appear to be the main focus of the present, with these three all set to carry out together with Doechii, Raye, Benson Boone, and Teddy Swims. However the present’s regular fixtures shall be there too: Trevor Noah is internet hosting for a fifth straight yr, perennial nominee Billie Eilish can also be performing, and Taylor Swift is in search of a document fifth Album of the 12 months trophy (together with presenting one other award).
On paper, it looks like this yr’s Grammys are caught between the previous and future, with the current weighing closely over all of it. However we must always know higher than to anticipate the Academy to make all of it make sense tonight. Apart from, perhaps what we actually want proper now’s only a good present.
Properly, with the four-time nominee’s efficiency not deemed essential show-worthy, I’d go on strike too. The singer-songwriter carried out her TikTok-viral hit “Made for You”in the course of the Premiere Ceremony and, as many pointed out, fumbled a couple of notes. When she gained Greatest R&B Efficiency for that very same track moments later, her voice appeared to go out and in. Sadly, that additionally meant no extra publicly shaming Atlantic Data, with their execs probably within the room.
For the primary time ever, a girl has gained Greatest Metallic Efficiency on the Grammys. Opera singer Marina Viotti shared within the win for “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ca ira!),” the track she carried out with Gojira on the summer season Olympics. (It’s additionally the primary win for French titans Gojira.) The trophy has been probably the most testosterone-fueled in Academy historical past — a girl hadn’t even been nominated till 2021 — however this yr, three ladies had been nominated.
“Kendrick simply opened his mouth, somebody go hand him a Grammy proper now”
— Craig Bro Dude (@CraigSJ) February 2, 2025
Who wants the CMAs anyway? Beyoncé is formally a rustic Grammy winner, incomes Greatest Nation Duo/Group Efficiency for “II Most Wished” with Miley Cyrus. It’s now the fifth style she’s gained in, together with R&B, rap, pop, and dance/digital. That is Bey’s solely country-field recognition for Cowboy Carter to date, after losses in Greatest Nation Solo Efficiency and Greatest Nation Music. However she’s nonetheless in competition for Greatest Nation Album, to be offered throughout the principle present tonight.
The Grammys Premiere Ceremony yielded the primary spin of the Recording Academy improbability matrix: A canopy of Simon and Garfunkel’s 1971 Document and Music of the 12 months winner “Bridge Over Troubled Water” by award-show gospel-segment closers Cox and Adams; Beninese-French icon Angélique Kidjo; TV and now musical theater’s Wayne Brady; blues vet Taj Mahal; and, for some cause, Pentatonix’s Scott Hoying.
It’s exhausting to stuff all 94 classes into the principle present, which is why every Grammys Sunday begins with the pre-telecast, a three-hour noon ceremony the place a lot of the yr’s winners are introduced. The 2025 version is being hosted by Music of the 12 months nominee Justin Tranter (“Good Luck, Babe”). You’ll be able to watch the occasion earlier than the occasion beneath; we’ll be updating the winners listing over right here.
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