Beyonce, Adele Duel For High Honors At Grammys

As music’s elite collect in Los Angeles for the Grammy awards on Sunday, one query is taking part in on loop: Will Beyonce lastly win the coveted Album of the 12 months prize?

The 41-year-old has probably the most probabilities at Grammy gold with 9 nominations, following the discharge of “Renaissance,” her wealthy, layered ode to membership music.

She is a powerhouse contender for the night time’s main awards — however the identical goes for British balladeer Adele, whose introspective ode to the ugly cry, “30,” earned her seven nods.

The face-off has prompted apparent comparisons to 2017, when Adele swept the highest prizes on the glitzy music biz gala, shutting out Queen Bey’s culture-shaking “Lemonade.”

Six years later, Beyonce has continued to make historical past because the Grammys’ winningest girl; with 4 extra victories on Sunday, she may overtake classical conductor Georg Solti for probably the most victories by any artist.

However on the subject of the massive three awards — greatest album, greatest document, and greatest track — Beyonce curiously stays one thing of an underdog.

She has by no means gained Album of the 12 months honors and though she has probably the most File of the 12 months nods with eight, she’s by no means gained that prize both.

She solely scored Music of the 12 months as soon as, for 2008’s “Single Girls.”

However business watchers together with Billboard predict this can lastly be Beyonce’s 12 months to take house the Grammy for Album of the 12 months, arguably the night time’s most prestigious prize.

“I positive hope so, as a result of does not she deserve it?” Nile Rodgers, the co-founder of the band Stylish who’s credited with contributions on “Renaissance,” instructed AFP.

Rodgers, the Supremes, Nirvana and others will obtain a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy at Sunday’s ceremony.

“She’s arguably probably the most culturally essential artist on the planet,” Merck Mercuriadis, the music publishing mogul who was as soon as Beyonce’s supervisor, chimed in at a pre-Grammy gala.

Dangerous Bunny, Taylor Swift within the combine

Past the Beyonce-Adele rematch, a slew of up to date superstars together with Kendrick Lamar, Harry Kinds and Taylor Swift even have sturdy probabilities to take house the night time’s main trophies.

The star-studded sixty fifth annual Grammys, hosted as soon as once more by comic Trevor Noah, will embody performances from Kinds, Dangerous Bunny, Lizzo and Mary J. Blige.

“Tune in… if just for an evening of free remedy!” Noah quipped on Twitter.

Dangerous Bunny, indisputably the world’s greatest industrial artist, has three Grammy probabilities off his main drop “Un Verano Sin Ti,” additionally an Album of the 12 months contender.

It is the primary time a wholly Spanish-language album has an opportunity at that coveted award, and it is the primary time the Puerto Rican reggaeton megastar has landed a solo nomination within the main Grammy classes.

A Dangerous Bunny win in that subject “would imply loads to all Spanish-speaking folks and our tradition as a result of it actually says, ‘Hey, Spanish music is simply as revered as music in English and music actually has no limitations,” Colombian artist Sebastian Yatra instructed AFP.

Kinds, Lizzo and Doja Cat all determine among the many high nominees, whereas pop juggernaut Swift may win the Music of the 12 months prize that has evaded her for years.

The famous person — who has been making good on a vow to re-record her first six albums to achieve management of her rights to them — has an opportunity on the award celebrating songwriters for her 10-minute model of “All Too Properly.”

‘Surreal week’

After a number of Grammy years with clear Finest New Artist favorites — Olivia Rodrigo, Megan Thee Stallion and Billie Eilish — Sunday’s race is broad open.

For Molly Tuttle, a bluegrass artist within the working, even a nomination means “that my music can attain an even bigger viewers and that new alternatives may come up for me.”

“It is only a surreal week. It has been a whirlwind thus far,” she mentioned.

The class has grown more and more eclectic and reflective of the web age’s impression on common music, and lots of the nominees — together with Brazil’s Anitta, Eurovision rockers Maneskin and rapper Latto — have all discovered viral fame on TikTok.

“It is cool,” mentioned JD Beck, who with co-artist DOMi contains their eponymous experimental jazz duo that is up for 2 Grammys this Sunday, together with Finest New Artist.

“We’re simply ignoring all the things, making an attempt to be very tunnel imaginative and prescient till it is over,” he instructed AFP with a blase grin.

“Yeah, specializing in taking part in and never fully ruining it,” quipped DOMi.

The Academy — comprised of music-makers together with artists, composers and engineers — additionally shortlisted a coterie of the business’s enduring stars for Grammys, with Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson and ABBA every garnering a handful of nominations.

Regardless of who wins, the Recording Academy’s consideration has amped up the profession of Samara Pleasure, who together with a nod within the jazz classes earned a shot at Finest New Artist.

“, over the previous few months, much more folks began selecting up the cellphone,” she instructed AFP with amusing.

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