This year, the 67th Grammys went beyond the taste and became political.
Feb 4, 2025 07:02 IST First published on: Feb 4, 2025 astatine 07:02 IST
With Texas-born Queen Bey receiving Album of the Year and the Best Country Album for Cowboy Carter, the disruptor recovered her crowning moment. Beyonce is present the archetypal Black pistillate to triumph Best Country Album astatine the Grammys. The grant came for the medium wherever she reclaimed her roots successful state euphony — a politically blimpish and mostly White territory that’s been unkind to her. The Grammy motion was a chapeau extremity to not conscionable her assemblage of enactment but besides to an artiste asserting herself and breaking the solid ceiling. This year, the 67th Grammys went beyond the taste and became political.
Florida rapper Doechii told Black women to not “allow anybody to task immoderate stereotypes connected you… that you’re excessively dark, oregon that you’re not astute enough…”. Lady Gaga took a jab astatine Trump’s enforcement bid to recognise lone 2 sexes. “Trans radical are not invisible… the queer assemblage deserves to beryllium lifted up,” she said successful her acceptance code for the Grammy for Best Pop Duo with Bruno Mars. Latin popstar Shakira dedicated her Grammy for Best Latin Pop Album to her “immigrant brothers and sisters”.
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Chappell Roan, who took location the aureate gramophone for her lesbian-pop renaissance medium The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess, called retired the grounds labels and mentioned a clip during the pandemic erstwhile she couldn’t spend wellness insurance. “It was truthful devastating to consciousness truthful committed to my creation and consciousness truthful betrayed by the system…”. However, portion Indian-origin Chandrika Tandon, 71, won a Grammy successful the class of the Best New Age, Ambient oregon Chant Album, it was disappointing to spot tabla elephantine Ustad Zakir Hussain, a four-time Grammy winner, not included successful the “In Memoriam” conception of the ceremony.