SZA, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and more flex girl genius in 2024 Grammy noms

nypost.com:

the nominees for the 66th annual Grammy Awards were announced on Friday morning, women ruled — make that, owned — the Big 4 categories: Album, Record and Song of the Year, plus Best New Artist.The diva domination was most drastically disproportionate in what are really the Big 2 categories: Album and Record of the Year.

There is only one single, solitary man — former “Late Show” bandleader Jon Batiste, the 2022 Album of the Year winner for “We Are,” who is nominated again for “World Music Radio” — among the 16 nominees. (Maybe there are some dudes now regretting that they cut the Big 4 fields from 10 back to eight this year.)And you know there is some kind of cosmic shift happening when even an act called Boygenius — up for Album (“The Record”) and Record (“Not Strong Enough”) of the Year — is actually an indie-chick supergroup comprised of Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus.Oh, the cruel irony.But the real female power players in the top categories are SZA, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and Miley Cyrus, who are each up for Album, Record and Song of the Year.SZA, who leads all nominees with nine nods, is up for her No.

1 album “SOS” and its long-running hit “Kill Bill”; Swift contends again with her “Midnights” LP and its smash single “Anti-Hero”; Rodrigo made the cut for her sophomore set “Guts” and its chart-topping tune “Vampire”; and Cyrus, who had the real record of the year with “Flowers,” also got full-length love for “Endless Summer Vacation.”Notching six nods apiece, Swift, Rodrigo, Cyrus and Boygenius are all tied for the third-most nominations with two other women: country singer-songwriter Brandy Clark and seven-time Grammy winner Billie Eilish, whose “Barbie” tune “What Was I Made For?” is also up.