The Grammys has valiantly plodded on, making announcements about what it has in store, without dislodging Smith and Rock from the headlines: what price the hot news that Bruno Mars and Anderson .
Paak’s retro-soul outfit Silk Sonic are opening the show, that the Foo Fighters’ appearance has been replaced by a hastily convened tribute to their late drummer Taylor Hawkins, or indeed the saga of Korean boyband BTS – two of whom have Covid, and may or may not perform – compared with one Hollywood star lamping another on live TV?Anyone tuning in for that sense of schadenfreude can always cling to the prospect of Kanye West attending – barred from performing as a result of his latest social media meltdown, he has nevertheless received five nominations for his album Donda – and the fact that the event is hosted by Trevor Noah, the subject of a recent Instagram tirade by West that included racial slurs.
Under the circumstances, it’s probably best to try to drown out the chatter and concentrate on the music. The winner before the winners are announced seems to be Jon Batiste, who has 11 nominations thanks to his score for the Pixar animation Soul and his album We Are.
That said, it’s worth noting that competition in the album of the year category is strong and not just because it includes Taylor Swift touting the follow-up to last year’s album of the year winner and the hugely successful debut by Olivia Rodrigo – herself the recipient of seven nominations, which feels very much like her coronation as the new queen of teen and tweenage pop.
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