This year, SZA earned a year-best nine nods behind SOS by branching out from R&B into Best Pop Duo/Group Performance (for “Ghost in the Machine” with Phoebe Bridgers) and Best Melodic Rap Performance (for “Low”). You don’t become the top Grammy nominee without conquering a few genre fields first. It’s not a perfect group (still looking fairly white), and I wouldn’t put it past the Grammys to still give Jon Batiste a trophy or two instead in the generals. Nearly all of those women rank among the year’s most nominated too, along with six-time undercard nominee Brandy Clark. (They include SZA, Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Victoria Monét, Dua Lipa, Janelle Monáe, Lana Del Rey, and the three women of boygenius.) In other words: Only one male artist, Jon Batiste, was nominated for each of those awards. But as the last few years have shown, this could’ve been a lot weirder.Ī majority of the artists nominated for the Big Four awards are women, including seven each in Album, Record, and Song of the Year. If there’s a major flaw, it’s the lack of rap and country in the Big Four. It’s also definitely one of the most in-touch - and youngest - slates of top nominees the Grammys have put together. Because this is actually a pretty inoffensive (dare I say good?) slate of top nominees! The requisite heavy-hitters are there, and most of the up-top surprises are pleasant: Victoria Monét for Record of the Year, Janelle Monáe for Album of the Year, the War and Treaty for Best New Artist.
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