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Music fans got to pregame their Thanksgiving table arguments today after the Recording Academyannounced its 2022 Grammy nominations.
Who came up short?
Who could we have done without recognizing at all?
And what can we make of the first nominations without committees?
Here are the days biggest takeaways.
This is a new time, and this is a new Academy, Mason said.
If the Grammys are gonna Grammy, at least its comingat fewer musicians expenses.
(He previously appeared in New Age as well as roots and classical categories as well.)
The youth are inheriting the Academy.The Grammys have long had a reputation for nominating legacy acts past their peak.
This year anoints that generation of artists as the next ones running the show.
At least the nominee to beat, Rodrigo, is a trulynewartist.
Bennett earned five more nominations in total, amounting to a great victory lap.
This year, Bieber got his wish just a little late.
And she still popped up in Best American Roots Performance for her duet Same Devil with Brandy Clark.
That dividecontinues to raise questionsover whether the rock categories are due for a restructuring.
1 hits Rapstar andHall of Fame), 42 Dugg, or NLE Choppa, among many others.
Check your assumptions about country and roots at the door.Because these fields have a remarkably diverse slates of nominees.
(Every song nominated for Best American Roots Song is performed by a Black musician.)
Wizkid, Kuti, and Kidjo also appeared among the Best Global Music Album nominations.
If you needed another sign of the strength of pop music from outside the U.S., this is it.
And wait, is that the Weeknd?Yep!
Today, he seems to care naming Blinding Lights the No.
1 song of all time.
