Why Can't Beyoncé Win Album of the Year? Breaking Down the 2023 Grammys
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🗓️ 13 February 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, I'm Brian Hyatt, and this is Rolling Stone, music now. |
| 0:05.0 | So the 65th annual Grammys have come and gone. |
| 0:09.0 | And it was a little bit of a rocky ride this year. |
| 0:12.0 | A great album, Harry's House by Harry's Styles, one album of the year. But that |
| 0:17.3 | meant that Beyoncé's Renaissance did not win album of the year. And Rolling Stone, for instance, |
| 0:22.3 | ranked Renaissance as the number one album of the year. And Rolling Stone, for instance, ranked Renaissance as the number one album of the year. |
| 0:25.1 | And it's not just about this year. |
| 0:27.1 | Beyonce just became the most honored artist in the history of the Grammys, but the |
| 0:30.7 | voters will not give her album of the year. |
| 0:33.0 | They didn't give it to her self-titled album from 2013. |
| 0:36.0 | They didn't give it to lemonade, and now they didn't give it to Renaissance. |
| 0:40.0 | So it's clearly a pattern at this point, and some fans are understandably upset about it. |
| 0:45.2 | And so again it's not just about this year, it's certainly not about Harry Styles. |
| 0:49.3 | We wanted to talk about that and we also wanted to look at the ups and downs of the ceremony and to do that |
| 0:54.3 | I'm lucky enough to have on hand our friends Brittany Spanos and Rob Sheffield. |
| 0:58.0 | What's wrong with the Grammy voters? Brittany what's your theory? Why will they not give |
| 1:01.7 | Beyoncé album of the year? I don't know if you |
| 1:04.4 | both read the article that Variety does every year they interview some of the |
| 1:08.6 | anonymous Grammy voters and it seems like they just still have this bias. |
| 1:13.0 | What a concept of like real artistry is. |
| 1:14.7 | I think for Beyoncé, they use the example of her using so many producers and songwriters |
| 1:19.5 | on there and how that's not real music. |
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