Taylor Swift wins and so do other girls at 2024 Grammys
Even with a totally enjoyable, excellently produced album like SOS in the running for Album of the Year, everybody seemed to know that SZA would not be getting the Grammy. That was because Taylor Swift was also in the running.
You know Swiftie, she is such a dazzling presence, media savvy, business savvy and maybe even an authority on football plays soon, thanks to boyfriend Travis Kelce. Of course, her Midnights was named Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards held in Los Angeles last Feb. 4.
While I was disappointed that SZA did not win, this year’s results were truly something to be happy about. The 2024 Grammys night was woman power in music in such an exciting, affecting, even tear-jerking display. The girls brought home most of the awards at stake.
I wished that Olivia Rodrigo would get one for her Vampire but I am glad that Miley Cyrus’ Flowers was named Record of the Year and the brother-and-sister team Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connor again bagged Best Song Written for Visual Media and was also Song of the Year.
By the way, the Song of the Year gramophone is one that has avoided Taylor Swift all these years. It is a songwriter’s award which is more concerned with the raw words and music and not the studio expertise of a produced recording.
Anyway, the Grammys was female dominated again. I think that rapper Killer Mike and the metal band Metallica were the only male acts to land trophies. Even the other groups that did, Paramore, boygenius had girl members.
Remember, this was so in 2021 and 2022 when Swift, Eilish and other females were winning prizes. Beyoncé looked like a sure winner last year but then Harry Styles at his cutest came along and broke the trend with his Harry’s House.
The girls are back at the Grammys. Oh and not just as winners. The top performers in the show were also female. Fantasia, SZA, Miley and Olivia were great, and even the great Billy Joel paled in comparison to the laid-back beauty of numbers like an 80-year-old Joni Mitchell singing her dreamy classic Both Sides Now with Brandi Carlile and the reclusive Tracy Chapman coming out to do her own classic, Fast Car with Luke Combs.
Here are some of the winners:
•Record of the Year: Flowers by Miley Cyrus.
•Album of the Year: Midnights by Taylor Swift.
•Song of The Year: What Was I Made For by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connor.
•Best New Artist: Victoria Monet.
•Pop Solo Performance: Flowers by Miley Cyrus.
•Pop Duo/Group Performance: Ghost in the Machine by SZA ft. Phoebe Bridges.
•Pop Vocal Album: Midnights by Taylor Swift.
•Pop Dance Recording: Padam Padam by Kylie Minogue.
•Rock Performance: Not Strong Enough by boygenius.
•Metal Performance: 72 Seasons by Metallica.
•Rock Song: Not Strong Enough by boygenius.
•Rock Album: This is Why by Paramore.
•Alternative Music Performance: This is Why by Paramore.
•Alternative Music Album: therecord by boygenius.
•R&B Performance: ICU by Coco Jones.
•R&B Song: Snooze by SZA.
•Progressive R&B Album: SOS by SZA.
•R&B Album: Jaguar II by Victoria Monet.
•Rap Performance: Scientists and Engineers by Killer Mike ft. Andre 3000, Future, Eryn Allen Kane.
•Melodic Rap Performance: All My Life by Lil Dork ft. J. Cole.
•Rap Song: Scientists and Engineers by Killer Mike ft. Andre 3000, Future, Eryn Allen Kane.
•Rap Album: Michael by Killer Mike.
•Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Bewitched by Laufey.
•Musical Theater Album: Some Like It Hot.
•Folk Album: Joni Mitchell at Newport Live by Joni Mitchell.
•Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording: The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama.
•Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media: “Barbie (The Movie).”
•Score Soundtrack: “Oppenheimer.”
•Song Written for Visual Media: What Was I Made For by Billie Eilish for “Barbie (The Movie).”
•Music Film: Moonage Daydream by David Bowie.
•Music Video: “I’m Only Sleeping” by The Beatles.
Do check out the Grammy website for the rest of the winners.
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