This yr’s Grammy subject is dominated by queens of pop — Taylor, Beyoncé and Billie, and now Chappell and Sabrina too. However with a current deep altering of the guard within the Recording Academy’s voting ranks, the Grammys’ shifting tastes are mirrored in who they nominated — and omitted. Listed below are a couple of of the notable surprises and snubs of this yr’s crop.
André 3000 of OutKast performs at Lollapalooza in Chicago’s Grant Park on Aug. 2, 2014.
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Shock: André 3000, the jazz-flute album of the yr sleeper choose?
When the OutKast frontman dropped his experimental jazz-flute album “New Blue Sun” final November, you needed to admit — the man adopted his muse the place it led him. However the Grammys love a freewheeling veteran updating jazz traditions. After the org handsomely rewarded bandleader Jon Batiste, André additionally might profit from a crowded pop subject and take residence a big-category prize. On the very least, he’s the front-runner for instrumental composition for, sure, “I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album but This Is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time.”
Musician and music producer Jack Antonoff in his Hollywood studio on Feb. 1.
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Snub: Jack Antonoff’s producer streak lapses
After successful one more Grammy for producer, non-classical in February on the power of Taylor Swift’s “Midnights,” Antonoff appeared a shoo-in for a nomination given that very same artist’s huge follow-up, in addition to Sabrina Carpenter’s “Brief ‘n Sweet.” Antonoff had won that Grammy three years running, but he won’t be including to his streak this yr — that is the primary time he hasn’t been at the very least nominated for the award since 2019.
Paul McCartney, left, George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon in “The Beatles: Get Back.”
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Shock: The Beatles are again
AI has quite a bit to reply for — mangled fingers, election misinformation, siphoning the world’s water. However give credit score the place it’s due: New tech allowed producers to conjure a remaining Beatles track out of beforehand unsalvageable mixes. When it comes to manufacturing innovation and craft, it’s onerous to argue with what “Now and Then” completed. A win could be the Beatles’ eighth Grammy, 60 years after the group’s first in 1965.
Texas psychedelic rock trio Khruangbin.
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Shock: Khruangbin for brand new artist?
For individuals who have been watching the good Texas psych-rock trio headline festivals for what looks as if a decade, keep in mind — you will be comparatively identified with a good again catalog and nonetheless be a greatest new artist.
The Rolling Stones carry out on July 10 at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood.
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Snub: Rock stars in repose
A well-received comeback Rolling Stones album with a scorching younger producer — that needs to be Grammy catnip, proper? “Hackney Diamonds” did land one nomination, for rock album, however it’s stunning the group didn’t flip up in rock efficiency or track and even one thing larger. However the Grammys punted on different straightforward decisions for rock classes — no Dolly Parton for her feel-good ripper “Rockstar,” no Hozier for the streaming smash “Unreal Unearth,” no nod for younger guitar god Mk.gee for “Two Star & The Dream Police.”
Charli XCX throughout a efficiency.
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Shock: Brat summer season lives on
Giving Charli XCX Grammys: The Recording Academy considered it on a regular basis. “Brat” was the vital and industrial peak of Charli’s profession, and the academy rewarded her up and down this system, with a second-highest seven nominations for a messy meta-rave about how fame refracts femininity. She received nominations in an enormous vary of classes — file, album, pop solo and duo/group efficiency, three dance music classes (like pop-aligned friends Beyoncé and Daft Punk) — in addition to music video and packaging.
Tommy Richman in Los Angeles in August.
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Snub: Tommy Richman, don’t @ me
Tommy Richman’s TikTok smash “Million Dollar Baby” was one of many yr’s inescapable singles — a brash, funky and feather-light falsetto that rattled out of automotive home windows and telephone audio system for months. There may need been some class debates behind the scenes — is it rap? R&B? pop? — however he reportedly submitted for rap track and melodic rap efficiency, although it led to a clean for the rising singer.
Former President Carter teaches Sunday faculty at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga.
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Shock: Jimmy Carter, Grammy icon
The previous president is up for his fourth Grammy — all within the spoken-word class — for “Last Sundays in Plains: A Centennial Celebration.” Frankly, today, listening to a centenarian peanut farmer learn you to sleep feels like paradise.
Vampire Weekend’s Chris Tomson, Ezra Koenig and Chris Baio in Los Angeles in September.
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Snub: The L.A. Instances’ Envelope Grammy Preview
What Instances columnist Invoice Plaschke is to jinxing Dodger baseball, we will need to have the identical impact for Grammy hopefuls. Our apologies to non-nominated current Envelope stars Tyla, Vampire Weekend, Fuerza Regida and Megan Moroney — hopefully your Grammy victory parade is simply across the nook too.
