Daily Beast kyndallrene writer breaks down the major categories at this Sunday’s Grammys, and wonders if it will be a big night for newcomer Olivia Rodrigo
, it’s hard to guess not just which songs, albums and artists the music industry was really loving this year but whether the Grammys even truly represent their voices.
Still, the show has been around long enough that one can spot certain trends and understand the type of musician or body of work the Recording Academy values. While certain nominations seem extremely arbitrary and largely unheard of by the masses—does anyone know that Alicia Keys and Brandi Carlile have a song together?—the winners have been easy to predict. Even when the winner for Record or Album of the Year feels randomly pulled out of a hat, you shrug and say, “That’s the Grammys.
Over the past two years, it seems like the biggest determinant in whether an artist will win a major category is if their name rhymes with Dillie Deilish. It also helps if you have blonde hair and compose songs with Jack Antonoff. Despite these two Grammys staples being present in the nominations, I think there’s room for some other artists to walk away with the night’s major awards.
It would be quite the full-circle moment for Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s superduo Silk Sonic to take home this prize for their No. 1 single “Leave the Door Open,” given that they had to publicly beg the Grammys to let them perform the song on last year’s telecast. It would also be some nice promo for their Las Vegas residency. The other obvious frontrunner here is Olivia Rodrigo, who fits the sort of young singer-songwriter/ingenue mold the Grammys seem to love.
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