The 66th version of music’s most prestigious awards ceremony marks a historic 12 months for girls, queer and gender fluid artists up for the night time’s main trophies.
However whether or not they’ll really win is anybody’s guess, and there’s all the time room for eyebrow-raises and quirky selections throughout the night’s greater than 90 aggressive fields.
Right here’s a information to Sunday’s gala in Los Angeles:
Taylor eyes historical past, no Travis
Swift is up for six gramophones this 12 months, together with for Album of the 12 months for her most up-to-date new quantity of labor, “Midnights.”
If she wins the celebrated trophy, it might be her fourth — probably the most of any artist, breaking the tie she is presently in with Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Marvel.
Her high-profile relationship with Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce is among the many myriad causes Swift’s identify is headline catnip lately, however the NFL celebrity just isn’t set to attend Sunday’s gala along with her.
Kelce will probably be busy making ready to play in subsequent weekend’s Tremendous Bowl in Las Vegas, during which the Chiefs will face the San Francisco 49ers.
“I want I can go and assist Taylor on the Grammys and watch her win each award that she is nominated for,” Kelce mentioned in a current interview.
Tracy Chapman returns?
The Recording Academy fingers out most of its dozens of awards previous to the greater than three-hour, performance-heavy predominant broadcast, to air on US community CBS.
Anticipated on stage is Luke Combs, the nation singer whose omission from the night’s main prizes was a shock.
Combs dropped a canopy of Tracy Chapman’s 1988 traditional “Quick Automotive” to resounding success, incomes a single nod within the nation classes.
It’s rumored that Combs’ efficiency will embrace Chapman herself, who hardly ever seems in public.
Viewers may stay up for a set from Billy Joel, who simply launched a brand new single, his first authentic music in practically 20 years.
Joni takes the stage
Icon Joni Mitchell additionally will serenade the gala, her first Grammy efficiency ever regardless of a half-century relationship with the Academy.
The 80-year-old acquired a people album nomination for her dwell file “Joni Mitchell at Newport,” when she delivered a set simply years after an aneurysm led to fears she may by no means play once more.
Mitchell isn’t the one OG up for a prize: two compilations from Bob Dylan and the late Lou Reed are within the operating for Finest Historic Album.
The winner of that prize will go to the albums’ producers and engineers, relatively than the artist, however the identify recognition might increase their probabilities.
The identical goes for a music video set to “I’m Solely Sleeping” by The Beatles.
The Fab 4 aren’t up for the award themselves — the video’s director and producers are — however their look on a shortlist that features Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Tyler Childers and Troye Sivan was a bit far-out.
Barbie Women
Girls have extra illustration than ever at this 12 months’s Grammys, with SZA incomes 9 nods adopted intently by the likes of Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and supergroup boygenius.
However it’s our lady Barbie who raked in probably the most probabilities at Grammy gold, with 11.
The eclectic, star-powered soundtrack to the billion-dollar summer season blockbuster earned nominations for songs carried out by Eilish, Dua Lipa, Finest New Artist favourite Ice Spice and the Oscar contender Ryan Gosling.
Eilish received a Golden Globe final month for her spare, wrenching ballad “What Was I Made For?” which earned her Grammy nominations for each Finest Track and Finest File — and will additionally see her win an Oscar subsequent month.
It’s a uncommon hit that wins each a Track of the 12 months Grammy and an Academy Award for Finest Unique Track: others to perform the feat are Barbra Streisand’s “The Means We Had been” and Celine Dion’s “My Coronary heart Will Go On.”
And the Grammy goes to… Bernie?
Bernie Sanders — sure, that Bernie Sanders — has a second probability to win a Grammy within the audiobook and narration class.
The leftist senator’s studying of “It’s Okay to Be Offended About Capitalism” is up towards efforts by Michelle Obama, Meryl Streep, William Shatner and Rick Rubin in one of many night time’s quirkier classes.
If former first woman Obama wins, it might be her second audiobook victory; her husband Barack has two already.
Additionally in rivalry is Trevor Noah, the comic internet hosting the gala for the fourth consecutive 12 months.
Noah misplaced the Finest Comedy Album honor in 2020 to Dave Chappelle, one 12 months earlier than he started his stint as Grammy grasp of ceremonies.
Talking to Individuals just lately, Noah joked that his internet hosting gig is only a marketing campaign to win: “It’s all been an extended con.”
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