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The breadth and depth of female dominance at the Grammys is heartening | Alexis Petridis
The likes of Taylor Swift and SZA were expected winners – but women also picked up wins in the traditional male bastions of rock, remixing and more
Women clearly dominated the awards: only one male artist, Jon Batiste, was nominated in the top three categories; the most striking performances on the night came from SZA, Joni Mitchell and Billie Eilish, the latter taking home her ninth Grammy at the age of 22; outside of the winners the biggest news stories were the unexpected appearances of Céline Dion, handing out the album of the year award and Tracy Chapman, who last released an album in 2008 and last performed in public nine years ago, duetting with Luke Combs. Photograph: Mike Blake/ReutersThe striking thing about the awards wasn’t that Taylor Swift or SZA or Billie Eilish won – frankly, it would have been weird if they didn’t – but the sheer breadth of female artists’ domination. Under the circumstances, you can’t really blame Phoebe Bridgers of Boygenius for bringing up Neil Portnow’s line about female artists failing to “step up”, with a hair-raising lack of diplomacy: “To him I’d like to say – I know you’re not dead yet, but when you are, I hope you rot in piss.”
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