Before embarking on this Grammys 2025 edition of Snubs and Surprises, let’s answer a question that can arise from the start: how can we characterize Beyoncé winning album of the year as a “surprise” when we have predicted several times, like many others the forecasts made? There is an easy answer to that: although we rightly called it, we were very, very, very nervous on this subject. We can relax now. At least one thing has been straightened in this chaotic world, so let’s take a deep inspiration and take the “surprise” of the real perceived justice by being returned while we can obtain it. Now, forward!
Snub: Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish are excluded. Are there two more popular and appreciated pop stars in the world right now? There is none. And this is why the recording of the voters of the academy will sleep deeply tonight – and suppose that Taylor and Billie also take a good night’s sleep – knowing that it was ok to leave these fields going into fallow this year and let Someone else get love, after all the previous victories they have accumulated. However, it is a slightly marked reality to know that none of these beloved superstars of the Grammy, even obtained a victory further down beyond the first three. We did Image Eilish obtains one or the other of the performance of the song of the year and pop for the “Birds of a Feather”. But the fact that the whole world buzzes him while we are talking about will probably be enough to keep it warm at night, just like the biggest tour of all time is probably sufficiently rewarded for Swift in a year. (Now they may come back as a nominal apple next year.)
Surprise: Beyoncé does what we expected to do … what nobody could be certain expect her to do. As mentioned above, we had a case of nerves in the announcement of the album of the year: yes, we called it, but did we not call “lemonade” at the time too? You can be sure that whatever the anxiety we feel, it was 1000 times this amount for the recording academy, which would have a lot of “Splainin” to do. And can there be someone older Monday morning Grammy-Splainin ‘than Harvey Mason Jr.-Who must be the happiest guy in the world at 8:45 pm Sunday evening? There were reasons to think that things might not go this way during the first pre-interest ceremony, when Beyoncé won only one Grammy out of several for which she was ready. In the end, as the album culminating of the year, she had picked up the country album of the year earlier in television … that everyone started to worry was a prize for Air consolation for missing something bigger. This fear was unjustified, and although Bey Hardy swept the board – she won only three prizes, over 11 nominations this year – she swept the one who really counted, in the spirit of her, Jay -Z and about one billion fans.
Surprise: Kendrick Lamar wins the two records And Song of the year, two sterile lands for hip-hop. The nominees for these two categories generally ride mainly … And often, the voters torn between the contenders will see it as a means of spreading love, opting for one of their favorites in one division and another in the other. So, even if we predicted precisely the record of “not like us” of the year, we thought that the 13,000 members of the Registration Academy (A sentence that we heard so often during the night) was split there and gave a song to Eilish and Finneas for “Birds of a Feather”. There were other forecasters who even saw Eilish obtain both, given his previous domination of the Grammys. The number of Lamar Sweep for all its categories was also the number of hip-hop winners spent in the main categories. Only once before, a rap recording won for record of the year (“This is America” by Childish Gambino), so we all had to decide: we look at the roles of increasingly diverse voters … Or do we look at the previous one, where the older guard almost always tipped things towards the most conservative choice musically, in a pinch? It would certainly not have been a scandal if Eilish had won one or the other … But even she is probably happy that Kendrick had them.
Surprise: Sabrina Carpenter springs in front of the crowded diva field to claim a pop album. Almost everyone seriously plans that these prices have seen it go to Eilish or perhaps Chappell Roan. If you were going to choose one of the main pop divas of this moment for a bleaching, you may have chosen Carpenter, which is very cherished for its new place in the firmament pop but could have been considered a little too sparkling for a serious – members of the academy of mind. It turns out that Grammy voters like the kind of good wink that Carpenter offers as much anyone, or at least enough to push it beyond the competition here. You could also see him as a victory for the number of sure she delivered: “Espresso” was planned for the records of the year, while “please please” was nominated For the song of the year, and the voters could have one or the one or one of them of those they loved a little more … but vote for “shorts” n sweet “as an album was indeed a means to vote for both. And also, with Roan winning BNA, to say: we love you, we really love you, as much as your brand-label.
Snub: Chappell Roan obtains the price that everyone is the most sought after and predicts, the best new artist … But, go, nothing else? Let’s call that a moderate snob at most, so the best new artist is the chopped liver. And since Roan obtained it, we can jump the bag and the ashes in its name. But wasn’t there a place for someone of this brilliant to prevail elsewhere? You can love what Roan has done for a queer representation in the main public pop, or you can simply like to be a singer, a songwriter and a pop conceptualist as talented as anyone to come for years. Be that as it may, you have to love it, more than recording the voters of the Academy, apparently – it should have been a bigger year for someone as smashing, even in a crowded area. Of course, being anointed as a Grammy display can be seen an albatross, so maybe get an embrace of the academy which is not so too embroidered Will be good for Roan and his independent disciples of mind.
Surprise: Sierra Ferrell obtains the second largest number in night prices, with four. The root community went to Ferrell as a person who has come for years, so it was not really a total surprise to see her collect all the prices for which she was, given this support of folk lovers, of Americaa and the country. And she has certainly picked up a lot of affection and discovery of people who do not normally listen to music in strip strip, thanks to co-signs of admiration of superstars like Zach Bryan and Post Malone. But realizing that the number of victories she obtained was higher than anyone, except that the five collected by Lamar are always a happy shock, for those of us who have beat the bathtub for her for a few years.
Surprise: Chris Brown and Dave Chappelle can really do nothing to deactivate the Grammy love tap. Anyone who thinks that the cancellation of the culture prevails in the entertainment industry can simply examine the current record of victories by very controversial characters who are not loved among progressives to know that this could be a mistake. It is not really a major shock to see Chappelle continue to be a favorite of the Grammy, but it is always a slight surprise to see Brown continue to be above, after all the heat he took at worse. Here are two guys who, regarding the academy, will never have to do a redemption tour.
SURPRISE: Dei and Trans Rights collect cruelly necessary victories, if only in the area of the artists’ advocacy. Of course, none of these elements was on the Grammy voting bulletin, in itself. But during an evening when it seemed that everyone could well play on the drastic social and political divisions of the nation to find a unity on the relief of fire, there were at least a few artists who were not afraid of ‘Go. “DEI”, in particular, has become a term of COGE – relegated to the kingdom of “WOKE” – what to hear Alicia Keys boldly “Dei is not a threat, it is a gift” looked like a more important shock than any reward result.
