This year, fun, dance-ready pop music dominated the charts thanks to superstars like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan, and Sabrina Carpenter.
As is pretty much always the case, the Recording Academy got some stuff right, got some stuff wrong, and pulled a few moves that left us a totally mystified. But it wouldn’t be the Grammys without a little flat-out weirdness — sometimes surprisingly good weirdness. Here are some quick takes on a fascinating batch of 2025 nominations.
Sure, it’s a relentlessly brutal diss track, but “Not Like Us” is also just a flat-out fantastic song — multi-layered, casually virtuosic, and insanely catchy, with Kendrick dropping enough hooks for ten more Drake eviscerations. It’s a sign of how much the Grammys have evolved in recent years that they gave the song its due, including nominations for two of the biggest awards, Song of the Year and Record of the Year.
Hey Staples Center, what the fuck is up? Charli XCX notched seven Grammy nominations this year, her first since 2015 when she was nominated alongside Iggy Azalea for their collaboration “Fancy.” It’s a fitting end to her bigyear: an album that reckoned with the avant-pop star’s relationship with success — whether it was on the charts or with institutions like the Grammys — ended up manifesting her most critically acclaimed and commercially successful album yet.
Way back in 1970, Linda Martell smashed a country glass ceiling by becoming one of the very first Black women in the genre. Her album,, was steeped in honky tonk and Martell’s roots in R&B and pop. Soon after, her career was sidelined by intolerance and music-biz fickleness, and Martell became a footnote. But thanks to her cameo in Beyoncé’s “Spaghettii,” which is up for Best Melodic Rap Performance, Martell finally has a shot at redemption a half-century later.
Grammy Nominations 2025: Beyonce Leads With 11 Nods as Taylor Swift, Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and Charli XCX Are Among Top Nominees
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