On Sunday evening, the Grammys were upstaged by a force of their own making — Taylor Swift announced her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, as she accepted Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights. Other than that, music’s biggest night tried its darndest to hang on to its self-proclaimed title. The show featured the largest slew of legends in recent memory, including performances by Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman, Billy Joel, and Stevie Wonder, and appearances by Céline Dion, Mariah Carey, Oprah Winfrey, and Meryl Streep. Today’s stars were out, too, with SZA, Miley Cyrus, and Olivia Rodrigo performing the year’s biggest hits, and Dua Lipa also launching a new era. And of course, it all came back to Swift herself rewriting history. |
