Not conservative in a political sense, of course: As an institution, the Grammys is as progressive - and eager to be seen as progressive - as any university or showbiz organization, which is why this year’s telecast opened with performances by Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican superstar who sings and raps mostly in Spanish, and the folk-rock singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile, who was introduced by her wife and their two (very cute) kids. Harry Styles won album of the year, Lizzo record of the year and Bonnie Raitt song of the year, while Beyoncé took home a record-breaking 32nd Grammy.
Music Beyoncé breaks all-time wins record but loses top awards at wide-open 2023 Grammys (More on why they do in a moment.) But the story the Grammys tells about popular music - tells us today and tells future generations examining the historical record - takes place in the major categories that’s where the Recording Academy’s taste and value system come into focus.Īnd that taste, unlike Beyoncé’s music, is fundamentally conservative. I don’t mean to suggest that those genre awards don’t matter.
In fact, of the 32 Grammys that Beyoncé has collected over the last two decades, only one - one! - has been a major prize: song of the year, which she won in 2010 as a writer of “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).” All the rest have come in genre categories like R&B song and urban contemporary album. It was her fourth defeat for the Grammys’ equivalent of best picture and the 15th time she’d lost in one of the ceremony’s top categories of album, record and song of the year. About an hour and a half after that record-breaking win, Beyoncé lost the award for album of the year to “Harry’s House” by Harry Styles.
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