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The Snubs and Surprises of the 2025 Grammy Nominations
Beyoncé is finally country enough — but got abandoned in R&B.
At least this one tilts a bit more progressive: The Recording Academy’s yearslong project to expand and diversify its membership seems to be paying off, with a younger and especially more women-heavy slate this year (just don’t look at the rock categories). Yet the track still got some general-category love in Song of the Year, a surprise to many who thought the Academy wouldn’t appreciate Shaboozey’s flip of J-Kwon’s rap hit “Tipsy.” (It’s more than deserved, as I previously noted — an interpolation like that takes the ear of a good songwriter!) 1s are competing here: “Texas Hold ’Em,” “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” and Post Malone and Morgan Wallen’s “I Had Some Help.” The other two slots go to past AOTY winner Kacey Musgraves’s “The Architect” and breakout Jelly Roll’s “I Am Not Okay.” The Academy didn’t even have room for its favorite country artist, Chris Stapleton!
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