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Grammys Review: Telecast Is the Best in Years, Between the Horse Races, Conscience for L.A., Hot New Artists and Cool Quincy Acolytes
The 2025 Grammys telecast was the best so far this decade, between performers like Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter and the competitive intrigue.
Easily the best Grammys yet to be produced under the Ben Winston/Raj Kapoor/Jesse Collins administration, the show provides a good example of what can happen when you get handed some golden material — including compelling nominees, an unusually superior best-new-artist crop, and an outside crisis the music community is equipped to address — and then make hay with it. Later, the theme came back to SoCal, in more solemn form, following a short documentary recap of the wildfire devastation, with Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars teaming up for a suitably sad cover of the Mamas and the Papas’ “California Dreamin’,” rendered like a dream. Embrace using the show to send a post-inauguration message, as Lady Gaga did about trans people and Alicia Keys did about the demonization of diversity and DEI, or avoid polarizing subjects, as host Trevor Noah has done before and continues to do in his Grammys role?
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