Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish are each up for tune of the 12 months for his or her contributions to the Barbie soundtrack
Whisper it quietly…however may the Grammy Awards be proper this 12 months?
The ceremony, which takes place on Sunday in Los Angeles, is understood for scoring its personal aim, usually rewarding middle-of-the-road heritage acts over cutting-edge modern pop.
However this 12 months's nominees are straight-up populist decisions, with R&B star SZA main the sector on 9.
There may even be performances by massive names starting from Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish to Joni Mitchell and U2.
Comic Trevor Noah will host for the fourth 12 months in a row, overseeing a staggering 94 classes, from Greatest Up to date Christian Album to Greatest Audiobook, the place Michelle Obama will face Meryl Streep.
Elsewhere, Phoebe Bridgers' indie-rock supergroup Boygenius and pop star Victoria Monét have seven nominations every.
Chart stars Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Miley Cyrus, Lana Del Rey and Ice Spice even have a number of nominations in a area led by girls.
Listed below are 9 issues to know earlier than the occasion.
1) How you can watch the Grammys
Comic Trevor Noah is internet hosting the present this 12 months
To start with, put together a robust pot of espresso.
Greater than 80 awards can be handed out in what’s being known as the “premiere ceremony” at 20:30 GMT on Sunday (12:30 in Los Angeles).
It's usually price tuning in. The winners within the extra obscure classes are much less polished and extra excited to win, and the performances are looser and, dare I say it, extra musical than the Hollywood-scale set items you'll see later.
You possibly can watch all of it on the Recording Academy's YouTube channel and stay.grammy.com.
The principle present, which is able to begin at 01:00 GMT on Monday, can be broadcast stay within the US on CBS and broadcast on Paramount Plus. Chosen speeches and performances are often uploaded to YouTube the subsequent day.
2) Will Taylor Swift high Ol' Blue Eyes?
Taylor Swift already has 12 Grammys – which is greater than any human can moderately maintain directly
If Swift wins album of the 12 months for Midnights, she’s going to change into the primary artist to elevate the distinguished trophy 4 instances.
In the mean time, she is tied with Paul Simon, Stevie Marvel and Frank Sinatra, who every have three wins.
However the Grammys have typically been much less excited by Swift's pop information than her forays into nation and folks.
Their competitors for album of the 12 months is powerful. Right here is the total checklist of candidates:
- Boygenius – The Document
- Janelle Monáe – The Age of Pleasure
- Jon Batiste – World Music Radio
- Lana Del Rey – Do you know there's a tunnel beneath Ocean Blvd
- Miley Cyrus – Limitless Summer season Trip
- Olivia Rodrigo – Guts
- SZA – SOS
- Taylor Swift – Midnights
3) Joni and Tracy may put younger stars within the shade
Joni Mitchell will proceed her comeback stay on the ceremony
Modern-day superstars Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, SZA and Olivia Rodrigo will little doubt placed on lavish performances of their best hits.
However the present might be stolen by two different feminine artists who’ve been largely out of the general public eye lately.
Joni Mitchell is assured a reception worthy of a residing legend when she makes her Grammy debut on the age of 80.
And Tracy Chapman is rumored to be making a really uncommon public look to affix nation star Luke Combs on his 1988 basic Quick Automotive, which returned to the charts final 12 months.
Different performers of the night time included Billy Joel, Travis Scott and Burna Boy.
4) A win for SZA is a win for Scotland
SZA's second album SOS was probably the greatest sellers of 2023
In america, SZA's second album, SOS, topped the charts for 10 weeks and marked the singer's ascent to the key leagues.
Born in Missouri and raised in New Jersey, the singer – actual title Solána Imani Rowe – skilled in marine biology earlier than launching her music profession.
If his newest album takes a Grammy, it is going to additionally imply a victory for a 20-year-old music producer from Scotland.
Blair Ferguson, who writes beneath the title BLK Beats, wrote the music for his hit single Snooze in his Glasgow bed room, and has offered over two million copies within the US.
“SZA is only a genius and she or he's in a position to remodel any report with the way in which she comes up with a melody,” he informed BBC Information. “I don't assume another artist may have executed this monitor.”
5) Who’s a much bigger rock star: Mick or Olivia?
The Rolling Stones are nominated for the primary time in six years
The very best rock tune class is a tradition conflict for the ages, as Olivia Rodrigo's punky Ballad Of A Homeschooled Woman takes on The Rolling Stones' Offended, a story of lovers' quarrels.
So who’s the face of rock 'n' roll in 2024? The Grammys prefer to reward longevity, however maybe they are going to be swayed by Rodrigo's rock revival, which helped ignite the primary resurgence in guitar music in additional than a decade.
It's a robust area, with Foo Fighters, and Queens of the Stone Age additionally within the operating. However the actual contenders need to be Boygenius.
Shaped by indie singer-songwriters Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, final 12 months they made an era-defining guitar album, stacked with ghostly harmonies and poetic lyrics.
Nominated in all the key classes in addition to the rock sub-genres, it could possibly be this 12 months's runaway winner.
6) A primary for Africa
Nigeria's Burna Boy has change into one of many greatest stars on this planet
A brand new class, the most effective African music efficiency, displays the rising prominence of genres akin to Afrobeats and Amapiano, but in addition “the profound affect of Africa on the historical past of music”, in accordance with the Grammys.
The inaugural nominees – who beforehand slugged it out on this planet music class – included Nigerian stars Burna Boy, Asake, Ayra Starr and Davido, alongside South African singer Tyla.
“Actually, particularly the Grammys is a good award,” mentioned Tyla, who scored a worldwide hit with Water on the finish of 2023.
Two different new awards have additionally been launched for 2024 – greatest different jazz album and greatest pop dance recording.
7) Justice for Miley!
Miley Cyrus has by no means gained a Grammy
Regardless of her storied profession, Miley Cyrus has but to win a Grammy, and has solely been nominated twice prior to now.
Nevertheless this 12 months, SFKAHM (Singer previously referred to as Hannah Montana) has six nominations for her all-adult pop album Limitless Summer season Trip.
Lead single Flowers, which was the best-selling tune within the UK final 12 months and topped the US Billboard charts for eight weeks, was up for report and tune of the 12 months, and the most effective pop vocal efficiency.
However in a robust 12 months for unhappy ladies singing pop songs, I would go away empty-handed once more.
8) Are the Grammys ghosting nation music?
Morgan Wallen's album offered extra copies than another final 12 months, but it surely solely has one nomination
Nation has had an enormous resurgence within the US prior to now 12 months. Streams of the style elevated by 20%, and final August the highest three positions within the Billboard Scorching 100 have been occupied by nation songs for the primary time.
However none of these artists – Morgan Wallen, Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan – are nominated within the greatest class of all genres of the Grammys.
In reality, no nation album has been nominated for album of the 12 months since Kacey Musgraves' golden hour 5 years in the past (which gained the award).
So what's happening? It appears to be a response to the political and racial overtones of the style's greatest stars.
Voters are cautious of Wallen due to a headline-grabbing incident in 2021, the place he was caught on digicam utilizing a racial slur.
With Aldean, politics was embedded in his tune, Strive That in a Small City — a story of vigilante justice that some listeners interpreted as having racial undertones.
Aldean denied these accusations, however apologized when it emerged that he had filmed the video in entrance of a Tennessee courthouse that had been the scene of a brutal lynching in 1927.
Whereas stars like Jason Isbell and Zach Bryan made considerate songs that challenged Nashville's extra regressive tendencies, they have been additionally shut out of the massive awards.
Plainly the Academy, with typical warning, determined to deviate.
9) How new ought to the most effective new artist be?
Jelly Roll lately gained Greatest New Artist on the Nation Music Affiliation Awards
Simply 21 years after releasing his first tune, Tennessee singer Jelly Roll is up for Greatest New Artist.
The musician, whose actual title is Jason DeFord, isn’t a conventional contender for the class, however his current transfer from the underground to the mainstream makes him eligible beneath the Grammy tips.
A convicted felon and former drug seller, he has spent a number of stints in jail and lately testified earlier than the US Congress in assist of anti-fentanyl laws.
His emotional tales of habit and redemption lastly propelled him onto the charts final 12 months after a later profession pivot from rap to nation music.
At 39, she can be the oldest winner of the Greatest New Artist trophy – surpassing Sheryl Crow, who was 33 on the night time of her 1995 win.
However it's nothing in comparison with the Latin Grammys, which gave a trophy for the most effective new artist to 95-year-old Angela Alvarez in 2022.
