Beyonce broke a major record at this year's Grammys. She has now won more awards than any

other artist, but she was shut out of the major categories and lost to Harry Styles,

Lizzo, and Bonnie Raidt. I'm Stephen Thompson, it is 12.35 am and we are recapping the 2023

Grammy Awards on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR. Joining me is NPR Culture Desk Correspondent

on Estacia Silkas, hey Anastasia. Hey Stephen. Lovely to have you also joining us

writer Keanu Fitzgerald, hey Keanu. Hey Stephen. I am so glad that you were both here on this

Music's Biggest Night. TM, don't forget trademarked. All right so we have thoughts. We're going to

start. Beyonce did set a major record at this year's Grammys. She has now won more Grammys than

any other artist that's 32 total in her career. Tonight she won four of them. She won best dance

electronic recording, best dance electronic music album, best traditional R&B performance,

and best R&B song. But when it came to the major general categories, she was shut out.

Song of the year, she was nominated for Break My Soul, but Bonnie Raidt won for just like that.

For album of the year, Renaissance was nominated, but Harry Styles won for Harry's House,

and for Record of the Year, Break My Soul was nominated again, but Lizzo won for about damn time.

Our panel has thoughts. Keanu, I'm going to start with you.

Yes, thoughts are plenty. I knew she wasn't going to win anything in the Big Four, unfortunately,

but in my soul, I was hoping she would. I thought that that was a possibility, especially with an

album like Renaissance for album of the year. I thought that this was her chance to really take

this award home and it didn't happen. So I'm really, really grateful and happy that she won the

awards that she did and broke the records that she did, but it still doesn't take away from the

fact that this was a monumental album. This was a really well-constructed body of work,

and it impacted so many people on so many levels. I was really hoping that this would be reflected

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