5 Takeaways From the Grammy Nominations

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Music Interviews, Music Commentary, Music

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🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Breaking down the story lines to watch from the new slate of nominees going into February’s big show. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher. For more podcasts and narrated articles, download The New York Times app at nytimes.com/app.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times popcast, you are abrogadabra.
0:07.6	Nothing has changed.
0:09.0	Of music news and criticism, I'm John Caramonica, and I'm The Critic.
0:12.7	I'm Joe Costcarelli, and I'm the reporter. Joe, it's Grammy nominations.
0:28.5	It's Friday.
0:29.3	The Grammy nominations came out hours ago, moments ago.
0:33.1	Would you have faulted me for sleeping through them?
0:35.5	And not simply because I prefer to be asleep at the hour.
0:38.2	At 11 a.m.
0:39.2	Yeah, it's my preferred sleep time.
0:41.2	There are a number of names on here that are going to be extremely familiar to Grammy viewers, to Grammy followers, people who still take this kind of thing seriously.
0:49.8	Us.
0:51.1	No, we are professionally obliged to take this seriously.
0:54.6	But there have been these flickers over the last few years where you're like, wait, did they?
0:59.3	Are they?
1:00.0	This year, I feel not so much.
1:02.2	Some flickers.
1:03.3	Very, like the most flickery.
1:05.6	And the biggest flicker of all, we'll get there.
1:07.9	Actually, we just got there.
1:09.2	We heard.
1:10.2	Yeah, so we were listening to
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