Ahead of Grammys 2021, a look at key nominees
The 63rd annual Grammy Awards will be handed out at 5pm on Sunday in LA (5am Monday morning in Pakistan)
AFP
March 14, 2021
Nearly a year to the day after Covid-19 grounded tours and forced performance venues to close, the music world will celebrate its stars at the Grammys on Sunday, and try to move past a crushing 2020, reported
AFP.
The normally glitzy gala will be scaled back, like all major awards shows, to a primarily virtual affair, with a mix of live and pre-taped performances in keeping with restrictions now commonplace in the coronavirus era, which left the industry flailing and forced the ceremony to be pushed back.
2021 Grammy predictions: Who will win, who should win music s biggest awards
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Here are our Grammy predictions: Beyonce, Taylor and the cursed best new artist category
Mikael Wood, Suzy Exposito and Charles Holmes
Los Angeles Times
Almost exactly a year after the live music business shut down due to COVID-19 and six weeks after the show was originally scheduled to happen before being postponed the 63rd Grammy Awards will finally take place Sunday night in Los Angeles.
The telecast itself will be obviously shaped by the necessities of the pandemic: Ben Winston, who s overseeing the Grammys for the first time after Ken Ehrlich s four decades at the helm, has promised a supremely intimate experience geared to viewers at home, as opposed to the live audience that won t exist. (Performances are expected from Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny, BTS and last year s big winner, Billie Eilish, among many others.)
When music s biggest night airs during a pandemic, does it still make a sound? If its awards brethren are any indicator, the answer is… sort of. The CMAs, Emmys, and Golden Globes which have trotted out modified versions of their telecasts since you-know-what began last March all saw drop-offs in ratings. Then again, that downward slope pre-dates COVID-19. And having fewer eyeballs shouldn t excuse the boring pitfalls the Grammys have consistently fallen into. (Remember the I Sing the Body Electric cover in hour 4 of last year s Grammys? I wish I didn t.) If the show which has also lost viewers over the years, likely due to a combination of A-list music stars boycotting and the perception that the Recording Academy is out of touch hopes to stay relevant, it needs to at least learn from other virtual ceremonies: Double down on shots of stars hanging at home, skip the shoddy production that reminds us of work Zoom calls, and lean heavily on new music, preferably performed l
Beyoncé Could Make History Three Ways at the 2021 Grammy Awards
On 3/12/21 at 7:30 AM EST
The
Black Is King artist is nominated for nine total awards in eight categories. (She s got two nominations in the Record of the Year race; one for her own track, BLACK PARADE, and another for the remix of Megan Thee Stallion s Savage, on which she s a guest performer.) But even with her taking at least one loss in Record of the Year, there are still three ways for Bey to set incredible Grammy records.
If things really go her way, Beyoncé could become the woman with the most Grammys, the living musician with the most Grammys and the artist with the most Grammy wins of all time, period. Now, admittedly, it d be tough for her to hit all of those milestones in one night, and even if she doesn t pull it off this year, it s very likely she could clear all of those bars at some point in her career. (Right now, the Formation singer has got 24 Grammys to her name.) But if you re curious abo
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