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The Grammys Still Don’t Know What to Do With Global Music
How should the Academy handle an album like Tyla?
Tyla’s music has little in common with the albums she’ll now be competing against for a nomination, like the confessional pop of Taylor Swift’s Tortured Poets Department or the brooding alt-pop of Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft. (Victoria Monét’s Motown-indebted Jaguar II won this year’s R&B trophy, while SZA’s adventurous SOS clinched in Progressive.) The Best African Music Performance award already arrived too late to recognize hits like Wizkid and Tems’s “Essence” or Rema’s “Calm Down.”
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