{"id":973611,"date":"2019-11-20T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=915085"},"modified":"2019-11-20T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T15:30:08","slug":"taylor-swifts-lover-shut-out-of-album-of-the-year-grammy-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/taylor-swifts-lover-shut-out-of-album-of-the-year-grammy-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift\u2019s \u2018Lover\u2019 Shut Out of Album of the Year Grammy Category"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Around 2009, the year Taylor Swift<\/a> was nominated for a whopping eight Grammy Awards<\/a> for her sophomore album <\/span>Fearless<\/span><\/i>, and the country singer-turned-pop star\u2019s face of shock<\/a> whenever she won an award became so familiar to the public that it turned into a meme<\/a>. The following January, Swift went on to win in four of those categories, including Album of the Year, making the then-21-year-old musician the youngest recipient of the award to this day.<\/span><\/p>\n

For most other artists, it would be inaccurate to call three Grammy nominations<\/a> in a single year a snub. But this is Swift we\u2019re talking about, who, as of Wednesday, has managed to rack up 35 nominations before the age of 30. This year, Swift earned a Song of the Year nod for \u201cLover,\u201d the title track to her latest album, but the LP itself was left out of the Album of the Year category. That\u2019s despite it being yet another chart-topping album for the artist, generating three Top 10 singles and earning a warmer reception from critics than her previous album, 2017\u2019s <\/span>Reputation<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

This actually tracks well with how the Recording Academy has approached Swift\u2019s albums in the past: Aside from <\/span>Fearless<\/span><\/i>, Swift has been nominated for Album of the Year twice, for <\/span>Red<\/span><\/i> in 2014 and <\/span>1989<\/span><\/i> in 2016, which won that year. More often, though, her albums have ended up getting shuffled into the genre categories \u2014 Best Country Album for <\/span>Fearless<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> Speak Now<\/span><\/i>,<\/span> and <\/span>Red<\/span><\/i>, amd Best Pop Vocal Album for everything following.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Lover<\/span><\/i> did get a nomination for Best Pop Vocal Album this year, alongside records from Swift\u2019s buddy Ed Sheeran, Beyonce, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande, the latter two of which were also nominated for Album of the Year. It\u2019s worth noting that a Taylor Swift<\/a> album has never won in its genre category unless being nominated for \u2014 and winning \u2014 Album of the Year, and <\/span>Lover<\/span><\/i> is up against some steep competition this year from Eilish and Grande. Still, it\u2019s not an unfathomable win, and the same Academy coalition that pushed for <\/span>1989<\/span><\/i>\u2019s victory in 2016 could be won over by <\/span>Lover<\/span><\/i>\u2019s heartfelt synth-pop sound.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another Swift track, \u201cYou Need to Calm Down,\u201d is nominated for Best Pop Solo Performance, and facing off against much of the same competition as in the pop album category: Beyonce, Eilish, Grande, and Lizzo, for \u201cTruth Hurts,\u201d which is also up for Record and Song of the Year. Again, it\u2019ll be a tough category to win for Swift, and historically the Academy has awarded her more for her songwriting than for performance. But \u201cYou Need to Calm Down\u201d is already an odd choice for this nomination to begin with (why didn\u2019t \u201cLover\u201d scoop up a second nomination instead?), so, as with most things, no one really knows what\u2019s on the Academy\u2019s mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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