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Chappell, chaps, Brat or rap spats: what will – and should – win at the 2025 Grammys?
It’s tough to call the quality-stacked top categories, featuring Academy darlings such as Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift alongside pop’s new tyros
André 3000 – New Blue Sun Beyoncé – Cowboy Carter Sabrina Carpenter – Short N’ Sweet Charli xcx – Brat Jacob Collier – Djesse Vol 4 Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft Chappell Roan – The Rise and Fall of a Midwestern Princess Taylor Swift – The Tortured Poets Department Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy) Billie Eilish – Birds of a FeatherBruno Mars and Lady Gaga – Die With a Smile Taylor Swift – Fortnight (ft Post Malone)Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe! But this is a songwriting award, and Die With a Smile’s lyrics are really hackneyed (“our love’s the only war worth fighting for”), particularly when compared with Roan’s tale of suppressed lesbian desire and Carpenter’s hilarious Please Please Please, in which she manages a wildcard lover with more diplomacy than a UN special envoy.
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