It’s anybody’s guess who will prevail on the Grammy Awards on Monday in Las Vegas, in a subject that ranges from teen sensation Olivia Rodrigo to 95-year-old singer Tony Bennett and rapper Kanye West.
Rodrigo, 19, is nominated within the high 4 classes – album, track and report of the 12 months and finest new artist – on the music business’s highest honours. Only two musicians in Grammys historical past have swept all 4 classes on the identical evening.
Experts say Olivia Rodrigo is near a lock-in for finest new artist after her “drivers license” took off in January 2021, and that the viral hit is a robust contender within the report and track classes.
“Everybody thinks Olivia Rodrigo is going to take a significant number of awards,” mentioned Variety deputy music editor Jem Aswad. “She’s almost a shoo-in for best new artist.”
Album of the 12 months is more durable to name, Grammy watchers say. Rodrigo’s “Sour” is competing in opposition to West’s “Donda”, Jon Batiste’s “We Are” and Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga’s “Love for Sale”.
Justin Bieber’s “Justice” can be within the race, together with Doja Cat’s “Planet Her”, Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever”, HER’s “Back of My Mind”, Lil Nas X’s “Montero” and Taylor Swift’s “Evermore”.
Kanye West, who has legally modified his identify to Ye, has a contentious historical past with the Grammys. Media retailers have quoted an nameless consultant for the rapper saying West was informed he couldn’t carry out at this 12 months’s ceremony on account of his current social media posts.
The rapper was suspended from Instagram for twenty-four hours this month after posting racial slurs about late-night host Trevor Noah, who can be internet hosting the Grammys.
Representatives for the Recording Academy, which presents the Grammys, and West didn’t reply to requests for remark.
West is an award nominee, so he may very well be seated within the viewers on Monday even when he doesn’t carry out. Viewers and attendees can be watching how he reacts, win or lose, within the 5 classes he’s nominated in, Aswad mentioned.
The rapper famously took the microphone from Taylor Swift as she was accepting a trophy on the MTV Video Music Awards in 2009.
“No one expects Kanye West to sit on his hands on Grammy night,” Aswad mentioned.
This 12 months’s Grammys had been pushed to April from January due to a Covid-19 surge in the beginning of the 12 months. The date swap pressured a change in venue from Los Angeles to the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The awards can be broadcast stay on CBS tv and Paramount+ within the US.
Okay-pop band BTS, which has but to win a Grammy, enters the evening with a single nod for top-selling single “Butter” and is among the many acts slated to carry out on the Grammys stage.
Nominee Bennett has Alzheimer’s illness and isn’t anticipated to attend.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
