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  • Why We (Still) Think the Grammys Are Good Now

    Why We (Still) Think the Grammys Are Good Now


    As Grammy nights go, this year’s ceremony was a pleasant surprise. Beyoncé took home the top album prize, ending a decades-long shutout. Kendrick Lamar translated a rap beef into two huge wins, for song and record of the year. And the up-and-comers Chappell Roan, Sabrina Carpenter and Doechii won big prizes and delivered memorable performances.

    All in all, it felt like a snapshot of pop music’s rapidly evolving landscape, in which young artists with highly developed senses of self and performance are remaking stardom at a rapid clip.

    On this week’s Popcast, a conversation about the Grammys’ relationship to its own metanarrative, the use of the Grammy stage as a place of protest and pushback; and whether this year’s show marked a true changing of the pop guard.

    Guests:

    • Joe Coscarelli, The New York Times’s pop music reporter

    • Caryn Ganz, The New York Times’s pop music editor

    • Jon Pareles, The New York Times’s chief pop music critic

    • Lindsay Zoladz, a pop music critic for The New York Times

    Connect With Popcast. Become a part of the Popcast community: Join the show’s Facebook group and Discord channel. We want to hear from you! Tune in, and tell us what you think at popcast@nytimes.com. Follow our host, Jon Caramanica, on Twitter: @joncaramanica.

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  • Meet the Grammys’ Best New Artist Nominees

    Meet the Grammys’ Best New Artist Nominees


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    Whether or not she takes home a Grammy on Sunday, the dexterous Florida rapper Doechii is undoubtedly a star in the making, as this current single — structured like a raw but comedic conversation between Doechii and her therapist alter ego — demonstrates. I’d love to see her pull off an upset in the best rap album category, where her imaginative mixtape “Alligator Bites Never Heal” is nominated alongside efforts from veterans like Eminem, Common and J. Cole.

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    The diffuse, groovy sound of the Texas trio Khruangbin is difficult to pin down, but I like the options that the writer Ryan Bradley offered in a New York Times Magazine profile from last year: “Is it psychedelic lounge dub? Desert surf rock? The sound you hear inside a lava lamp?” Let’s go with the last one. Like quite a few of this year’s nominees (Carpenter is on her sixth album; Shaboozey on his third), Khruangbin is only a “new artist” by the Grammys’ notoriously nebulous standards: The band formed in 2010 and its most recent album, the drifting, spacious “A La Sala,” is its fourth. But either way, Khruangbin is a fun, low-key wild-card in a category full of aspiring A-listers — and the only band nominated in a year that is heavy on solo acts.

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    An “American Idol” dropout with a penchant for onstage back flips and the most intriguing Gen Z mustache this side of Timothée Chalamet, the 22-year-old Benson Boone blends pop crooner romanticism with rock star bombast on this dynamic hit, which blew up on TikTok and peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100 last year.

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    The London-born singer-songwriter Raye is no stranger to awards-show triumph: Last year, when she scored six Brit Awards, she broke the record for most wins in a single ceremony. That was largely thanks to her ambitious 2023 debut album, “My 21st Century Blues,” which drew inspiration from Amy Winehouse and Beyoncé and found Raye singing about contemporary hot-button issues like body image, climate change and, as she does on this harrowing hit, struggles with self-esteem and substance use.

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    Finally, let’s go out with a tune you’ve probably heard before — albeit from an artist you probably hadn’t heard of before last year. Though the 29-year-old, Virginia-born singer-songwriter has been releasing music as Shaboozey for about a decade now, he made the most of his memorable guest appearances on Beyoncé’s 2024 epic “Cowboy Carter” and, just two weeks later, put out this star-making single, which transforms J-Kwon’s ecstatic 2004 party anthem “Tipsy” into a hard-luck country tune. Might a big night for “Cowboy Carter” also mean an upset win for Shaboozey? We’ll see on Sunday.

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  • Grammy Awards 2025: How to Watch, Time and Streaming

    Grammy Awards 2025: How to Watch, Time and Streaming


    The other top nominees are the British “Brat” Charli XCX and the shape-shifter Post Malone (with eight nods each), followed by Lamar and Billie Eilish, with seven. Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Taylor Swift each have six.

    Carpenter and Roan are also competing for best new artist, a trophy that would be a crowning achievement after a year of rapid pop ascension for both performers. That all-genre category also includes the buzzy “Denial Is a River” rapper Doechii, the “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” country singer Shaboozey and the “Beautiful Things” singer Benson Boone.

    There were no expected nods for the pop powerhouse Dua Lipa or the respected bands the Smile and Vampire Weekend. Tommy Richman’s inescapable viral track “Million Dollar Baby” also went unrecognized.

    The Grammys are voted on by more than 13,000 music professionals — performers, songwriters, producers and others with credits on recordings — who are members of the Recording Academy. Members first scan through huge lists of submissions to vote for nominees. After the final ballot is set, they do it again, to select winners. In the past, anonymous committees had the power to overrule members’ selections of nominees; after some controversy those were largely disbanded, though the academy still has the power to reassign submissions if necessary.

    The 94 categories are divided into 12 fields, including six awards in the general field and the rest in 11 others divided by genre. Voting members are allowed to cast ballots in up to 10 categories across three genre fields, plus the eight categories in the general field. While members can choose where to vote, they are “directed to vote only in those Fields in which they are peers of the nominees,” according to Recording Academy rules.

    This year’s presenters include Anthony Kiedis and Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cardi B, Gloria Estefan, Olivia Rodrigo, Queen Latifah, SZA, Taylor Swift, Victoria Monét and Will Smith. (Swift will be making her return to the stage where last year she announced “The Tortured Poets Department,” which is up for five awards.)



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  • Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Shakira Will Perform at the Grammys

    Billie Eilish, Chappell Roan and Shakira Will Perform at the Grammys


    Billie Eilish, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan, Charli XCX and Shakira will be among the performers at the 67th annual Grammy Awards on Feb. 2.

    Details about this year’s Grammy ceremony have been scant since the Recording Academy, the organization behind the awards, announced last week that it would be moving forward with the show as planned, but refocusing it to raise money for wildfire relief efforts in Los Angeles.

    The first batch of performers confirms that there will be no shortage of celebrity wattage for the show. Eilish, Carpenter, Roan and Charli XCX — young women who dominated the pop charts in 2024 — are each up for awards in the top categories this year. Shakira, a three-time Grammy winner, is nominated for best Latin pop album.

    The show will also feature the buzzy rapper Doechii; Benson Boone, whose alt-rock song “Beautiful Things” was one of last year’s biggest hits; and the singer-songwriters Raye and Teddy Swims — each, like Carpenter and Roan, a nominee for best new artist. The ceremony will be hosted for a fifth time by Trevor Noah.

    For the music industry, the week leading up to the Grammys is usually a glittery blur of label parties, showcases and fifth-gear schmoozing. This year, the mood may be more somber. Most of the parties have been canceled, and the academy announced a “condensed” schedule of events, pared down to its annual MusiCares dinner, a fund-raising effort for the Grammys’ flagship charity — this year it will honor the Grateful Dead, who never won a competitive Grammy — and the invitation-only gala led by the industry don Clive Davis.

    The show will be broadcast live from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on CBS, and streamed on Paramount+.



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  • Remembering the Moments That Jolted Pop Music Last Year

    Remembering the Moments That Jolted Pop Music Last Year


    On this week’s Popcast, which was recorded live at S.O.B.’s in New York in December, Jon Caramanica and Joe Coscarelli discuss some of the most memorable music moments and characters of the past year, including the dominance of pop star mess, hip-hop’s challenging transition moment, the mainstreaming of beef as marketing tactic, the rise of Sabrina Carpenter, the Young Thug trial, Dave Blunts, Mk.gee, Playboi Carti and more.

    Also: an in-person listener mailbag segment, taking audience questions about Taylor Swift, Camila Cabello, Yeat, Katy Perry and ideal 2025 duet partners.

    Connect With Popcast. Become a part of the Popcast community: Join the show’s Facebook group and Discord channel. We want to hear from you! Tune in, and tell us what you think at popcast@nytimes.com. Follow our host, Jon Caramanica, on Twitter: @joncaramanica.

    Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.





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  • See Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman and More at W Magazine’s Golden Globes Party

    See Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman and More at W Magazine’s Golden Globes Party


    In the movie “The Substance,” Demi Moore plays an entertainer in her 50s so intent on hanging onto stardom that she signs up to take a potion that will restore her youth, but at a horrific price.

    “This is more joyous,” Ms. Moore said of the beautification process leading up to W Magazine’s Golden Globes party held on Saturday evening, the night before the ceremony, in a top floor suite of the Chateau Marmont hotel in West Hollywood.

    She was decked out in a black and white polka-dot dress from Nina Ricci as she stood in a tented area where the smell of cigarette smoke was surprisingly strong and household-name celebrities and fellow Globe nominees were everywhere.

    The party, co-hosted by W’s Magazine’s editor in chief Sara Moonves, and its editor at large, Lynn Hirschberg, was celebrating the magazine’s annual Best Performances issue, and the walls were covered with enlarged photographs of the featured celebrities.

    On one side of the room, the real-life Nicole Kidman stood underneath a giant image of the actor Daniel Craig, nominated for a Globe for his role in the movie “Queer.” On the other side, the real-life Mr. Craig, in a pair of tinted glasses, a black shirt and wide trousers, stood beneath a giant image of Ms. Kidman, who was nominated for her part in the film “Babygirl.”

    “Not a bad year,” someone said to Ms. Kidman as she made her way through the crowd with her daughter Sunday Rose Kidman-Urban.

    “Not a bad year, indeed,” Ms. Kidman said as a DJ played Blondie’s Rapture while Sabrina Carpenter and Cynthia Erivo shimmied by.

    Did Ms. Erivo, who is up for a Globe for the film “Wicked,” have an outfit picked out for the next evening?

    Of course she did.

    “LV,” she said, by which she meant Louis Vuitton. Nicolas Ghesquière, the artistic director women’s collections at the brand, happened to be out on the terrace, a few yards from Ms. Moore and within spitting distance of Angelina Jolie, a nominee for her performance in the film “Maria,” in which she plays the opera diva Maria Callas.

    She seemed to be the only attendee who had a handler stopping photographers from taking pictures of her. But a moratorium on her moratorium took place when Ms. Moonves ambled over to say hello and to politely make it clear that, for history’s sake, the moment would be captured.

    Kevin Mazur, a celebrity photographer for Getty Images, raced through the crowd with his camera. The pop stars Charli XCX and Ms. Carpenter huddled together with the model and actress Cara Delevingne.

    By 10 p.m., the place was so crowded that the designer Christian Louboutin realized he was going to have to leave the penthouse suite for his room elsewhere in the hotel.

    But only for a moment.

    “I have to pee!” he said.

    “You can get in but you can’t get out,” said Pamela Anderson, who was by the door, hoping to make an exit.

    And who could blame her?

    After all, Ms. Anderson is featured in the magazine’s issue and is nominated for a Globe for her role in the film “The Last Showgirl.”

    Clearly, she had a full weekend ahead of her, although so did the celebrity stylist Law Roach, who seemed to have no interest in leaving.

    What was his client Zendaya, nominated for the movie “Challengers,” wearing to the awards the next evening?

    “Vuitton,” he said, adding that the jewelry would be Bulgari and that the whole look would be inspired by Joyce Bryant, the glamorous Black singer of the 1940s and ’50s who broke racial barriers in nightclubs.

    A few feet away, Eddie Redmayne, nominated for his role in the television series, “The Day of the Jackal,” was hanging out with Andrew Garfield, who is scheduled to present at the Globes.

    Colman Domingo, nominated for his part in the movie “Sing Sing,” mingled with Tilda Swinton, nominated for her role in the film “The Room Next Door,” and then headed to the dance floor around the time that DJ Ross One began pumping Shannon’s “Let the Music Play.”

    Around 11:30 p.m., the party was still going strong. Waiters paraded around the room with chocolate truffles and French fries.

    Kevin Bacon, with his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, was by one of the sofas inside the suite wearing a blazer and a vintage Iron Maiden T-shirt. It was one of only a few outfits not selected by a stylist.

    “My son got it for me for Christmas,” he said.



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