2023 Grammy Snubs: Taylor Swift’s ‘Red,’ Nicki Minaj, Megan Thee Stallion & More Get No Love

Sometimes, it’s not who gets nominated for a Grammy Award but who doesn’t. Since the debacle of 2020, erstwhile The Weeknd failed to score a azygous nomination for his After Hours album – including thing for “Blinding Lights,” the opus Billboard dubbed “The Top Hot 100 Song Of All Time” – the Grammy nominations faced a large woody of scrutiny. Despite the extremity of “secret committees,” idiosyncratic was going to get snubbed, 1 mode oregon the other. However, fewer thought Taylor Swift would get overlooked for Album of the Year for the 2023 Grammy Nominations. Following the occurrence of “All Too Well (10 Minute Version), fans expected Taylor’s re-recorded Red to get a changeable astatine AOTY redemption.

Not so! Thought Taylor was nominated for Song of The Year (“All Too Well (10 Minute Version)(The Short Film),” Best Country Song (“I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version),” Best Song For Visual Media (“Carolina,” for Where The Crawdads Sing), and Best Music Video (“All Too Well: The Short Film”), she was denied a slot successful the Album of the Year category. Whether oregon not Red (Taylor’s Version) was eligible – albums request to person capable archetypal worldly to beryllium considered – but enactment that the deluxe variation of Mary J. Blige’s Good Morning Gorgeous was nominated.

Taylor Swift was near seeing ‘Red’ (Hoo-Me/Mediapunch/Shutterstock)

Nicki Minaj clashed with Latto over the latter’s “Big Energy” being considered rap by the Grammys, portion Nicki’s “Super Freaky Girl” was going to beryllium considered for the Pop categories. Ultimately, the Grammys sided with Latto, giving a unrecorded mentation of “Big Energy” a Best Melodic Rap Performance nod. Nicki got zilch.

Demi Lovato’s foray into metallic and punk, her Holy F-ck album, was forgotten by the Grammys. So was Carrie Underwood’s Denim & Rhinestones, John Legend’s Legend, and Megan Thee Stallion’s Traumazine. BLACKPINK got overlooked, contempt being the archetypal pistillate K-Pop radical to onshore a No. 1 connected the Billboard 200, arsenic did Elton John, whose Lockdown Sessions was ignored by the information committee. Even his duet with Britney Spears failed to foster immoderate nominations.

No emotion for Nicki? That’s ace freaky (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP/Shutterstock)

While the 2023 Grammy Nominations didn’t see immoderate enactment by accused rapist Dr. Luke, Morgan Wallen (the state prima caught using a radical slur connected camera), oregon the antisemitism-spewing Kanye “Ye” West, the Recording Academy did nominate Louis C.K., the comedian who admitted to intersexual misconduct, and Dave Chappelle, whose compared trans women to blackface connected his now-Grammy-nominated special. Win Butler, accused of intersexual misconduct, whitethorn be the 2023 ceremonial since his band, Arcade Fire, got nominated for Best Alternative Album.

Even Megan got nary love. (Jason Sheldon/Shutterstock)

The explanation of “snub” is varied. For some, being unopen retired from immoderate nominations is the snub supra snub. When the 2022 Grammy nominations were revealed, determination was a small sourness coming from Machine Gun Kelly due to the fact that his album, Tickets to my Downfall, wasn’t recognized. “wtf is incorrect with the Grammys,” helium tweeted (expect nary tantrum from MGK, since Mainstream Sellout scored a Best Rock Album nod.) Similarly, erstwhile Midnight Sky failed to gain a nomination, Miley Cyrus tweeted a Best Life nonfiction titled “30 Artists Who Haven’t Won Grammys.” Queen, Patti Smith, The Ramones, Jimi Hendrix, Katy Perry, Snoop Dogg, Bob Marley, Nicki Minaj, Bjork, Martina McBride, Diana Ross, Busta Rhymes, The Notorious B.I.G., and Iggy Pop were among those listed. “In bully company,” she said.

Some of the top Grammy snubs are robberies erstwhile definite artists suffer to others. For example, Beyoncé’s Lemonade lost to Adele’s 25, and Taylor Swift lost Album of the twelvemonth to Daft Punk. Similarly, Blood, Sweat & Tears self-titled 1970 medium besides took the apical prize implicit Johnny Cash’s At San Quentin, Crosby, Stills & Nash’s self-titled, and The Beatles’ Abbey Road. Lionel Richie’s Can’t Slow Down won implicit Prince’s Purple Rain and Bruce Springsteen’s Born In The U.S.A. Plus, for arsenic many Grammys that Kanye “Ye” westbound has won, helium mislaid Best New Artist to Maroon 5, Song of the Year to John Mayer (“Daughters” won implicit “Jesus Walks”), and Album of the Year to U2 (Late Registration to How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb). (h/t Vulture)