Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish Snubbed at 2025 Grammys

Swift went 0-6 this 12 months, marking the primary time she has ever been blanked when she had six or extra nominations. Nonetheless, it’s laborious to think about it as a snub. Each single voter knew that Swift has amassed extra album of the 12 months wins than anybody else in Grammy historical past. They might have merely determined to share the wealth this 12 months.

Ferrell is a rising star within the Americana world, however you most likely didn’t assume she was headed for a four-Grammy sweep. Her fourth full-length studio album, Path of Flowers, gained finest Americana album. The album’s opening monitor, “American Dreaming,” gained each finest Americana efficiency and finest American roots track. One other monitor on the album, “Lighthouse,” gained finest American roots efficiency.

Eilish went 0-7 this 12 months. Eilish and her brother FINNEAS misplaced track of the 12 months, which I anticipated them to win for his or her silky ballad “Birds of a Feather.” Eilish additionally went 0-7 on the present in 2022. Eilish has gained file of the 12 months twice, track of the 12 months twice (with FINNEAS) and album of the 12 months as soon as, to not point out two Oscars (once more with FINNEAS). Once more, voters could have simply needed to share the wealth this 12 months.

Residente’s Las Letras Ya No Importan gained finest música urbana album, beating Unhealthy Bunny’s Billboard 200-topping album Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana. It’s Bunny’s first loss within the class, which he gained with El Último Tour Del Mundo in 2022 and Un Verano Sin Ti in 2023.

Antonoff went 0-6 on the evening. The 11-time Grammy winner was denied a nomination within the class that he appeared destined to win for the fourth 12 months in a row – producer of the 12 months, non-classical.

André 3000’s New Blue Solar was nominated for album of the 12 months and finest different jazz album. Few anticipated it to win album of the 12 months, however most figured it could take the choice jazz prize. It wasn’t to be. As a substitute, the award went to Meshell Ndegeocello’s No Extra Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin. Ndegeocello accepted her award carrying a sweatshirt emblazoned “Andre 3000 Stay in Individual.” André 3000 introduced on Saturday that he wouldn’t attend the present. He didn’t state a motive: “Sadly, I’m not in a position to attend the GRAMMYs tomorrow however among the New Blue Solar musicians, buddies and supporters will probably be in attendance,” he wrote in an Instagram publish on Saturday (Feb. 1).

Rapsody that includes Erykah Badu’s “3:AM” gained finest melodic rap efficiency, a class most figured would go to “Spaghettii” by Beyoncé that includes Linda Martell and Shaboozey. Many realized of Martell’s compelling story by means of Cowboy Carter – a gifted Black nation singer who was thwarted in her profession within the late Sixties due to the much less open attitudes of that period.

The band has gained finest steel efficiency seven instances and lots of anticipated them to win once more with “Screaming Suicide.” However the award went as a substitute to Gojira, Marina Viotti & Victor Le Masne for “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ca ira!). It’s solely the second time that Metallica has misplaced on this class. In 1996, their “For Whom the Bell Tolls” misplaced to 9 Inch Nails’ “Happiness in Slavery.” Gojira has had an excellent 12 months. Final July, the band carried out on the 2024 Summer time Olympics opening ceremony in Paris.

When John Legend’s My Favourite Dream was nominated for finest youngsters’s music album, it was simple to assume it was sport over. How do you compete with an EGOT? However Fortunate Diaz and the Household Jam Band gained for Brillo, Brillo! This was the most recent proof that voters aren’t all the time swayed by the largest title within the race. (Legend gained a Grammy for finest association, instrumental or a cappella for his position in arranging Jacob Collier’s “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” on which he and Tori Kelly had been featured.)

Diamonds and Pearls: Tremendous Deluxe Version, a reissue of the group’s 1991 album, was nominated for finest historic album. Many figured it would win, on condition that Prince was chosen to obtain a lifetime achievement award, which was introduced on Saturday (Feb. 1). However no. The album misplaced to Centennial by King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band and Numerous Artists. Diamonds and Pearls acquired two nominations when it was a present album – “Get Off” was nominated for finest R&B efficiency by a duo or group with vocals. “Diamonds and Pearls” was nominated within the equal pop class.

Eigsti’s Plot Armour gained finest up to date instrumental album, beating the most recent album (Rhapsody in Blue) by style star Béla Fleck, who was a part of a collaboration which gained within the class final 12 months. Fleck carried out the Gershwin basic on the Premiere Ceremony, one other trace that it would win.

Jon Batiste’s American Symphony gained finest music movie, beating The Best Evening in Pop, a Netflix movie in regards to the making of “We Are the World.” That humanitarian anthem swept 4 Grammys, together with file and track of the 12 months, 39 years in the past. Lionel Richie, who gained track of the 12 months for that anthemic hit (alongside Michael Jackson), was nominated right here as one of many video producers.