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Is Beyoncé’s ‘Cowboy Carter’ an Unstoppable Frontrunner for the Album of the Year Grammy?
Beyoncé's 'Cowboy Carter' has seized the cultural moment. It also feels likely to seize the album of the year Grammy, given its rapturous reception.
The most obvious challenger might be seen as the one other album in the remainder of this year that will also stand unmistakably as a major cultural event: Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” due just three weeks after “Cowboy Carter” came out. After “Midnights” just won that trophy this year, giving Swift a record number of personal triumphs in the category, “Tortured Poets Department” could turn out to be as strong as that album, “1989” and “Fearless” combined and still even most hardcore Swifties might be saying: “It’s OK if Beyoncé gets it this time. It’ll be in the tradition of wins like those for “Songs in the Key of Life,” “Graceland,” “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (the last time a Black woman won it, but who’s counting) and others — landmark records that felt culture-shifting, as well as just being grooves a nation could get under.
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