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The Grammys Nailed It
The 2025 Grammys got most of the important things right in their winners and performances, and it was a year where the impact of that was huge.
And from maximizing the sky-high performance potential of the artists on the docket, to hitting most of the appropriate big and small notes in addressing the heavier concerns understandably weighing down the buoyant festivities, to picking a slate of winners that felt much more triumphant and cathartic than confusing and disappointing, the Grammys got it right this year. A best new artist nominee medley — not in the old-school, everyone-at-once, Franz Ferdinand-colliding-with-Black-Eyed-Peas Grammy sense, but more of a carefully plotted, quick-moving showcase — brilliantly demonstrated the dazzling talents of this year’s class, including the vocal fireworks of Raye and Teddy Swims, the athleticism and showmanship of Benson Boone and a particularly scorching Doechii, and the lower-key likability of Shaboozey. Moreover, it was a brilliant project that was unanimously acclaimed upon release, one that both excavated genre history and pushed it forward in real time, with a handful of the year’s finest pop, country and/or Americana songs and some of the most thoughtful and inspired structuring and pacing of any LP in recent memory.
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