{"id":124060,"date":"2025-11-08T04:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/124060\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T04:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T04:38:08","slug":"taylor-swift-wont-dominate-the-2026-grammys-for-one-simple-reason-and-its-not-because-of-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/124060\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Swift won\u2019t dominate the 2026 Grammys for one simple reason \u2013 and it\u2019s not because of haters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Don\u2019t believe anyone who tries to say that the Grammys don\u2019t love Taylor Swift just because she wasn\u2019t among the crop of this year\u2019s nominees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Yes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/10\/06\/entertainment\/being-mean-to-taylor-swift?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:not everyone loved;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">not everyone loved<\/a> \u201cThe Life of a Showgirl,\u201d but the reason it didn\u2019t score any nominations, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/11\/07\/entertainment\/grammy-award-nominations-2026?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:which were announced Friday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">which were announced Friday<\/a>, is a matter of technicality, not technique.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In order to qualify for the 68th annual Grammy Awards, the music had to be released between August 31, 2024 and August 30, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe Life of a Showgirl,\u201d released on October 3, simply wasn\u2019t eligible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">That, of course, didn\u2019t stop some spectators from getting (at least, momentarily) outraged over the perceived omission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A reminder: Swift has been nominated for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/artists\/taylor-swift\/15450\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:58 Grammy Awards and won 14;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">58 Grammy Awards and won 14<\/a> over the course of her career so far.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/02\/04\/entertainment\/taylor-swift-album-of-the-year-grammys?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:she made history;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">she made history <\/a>by becoming the first artist to ever win the Grammy Award for album of the year four times thanks to her 2022 album \u201cMidnights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">So, cheer up, Swifties. In about a year, you\u2019ll likely have a very gleeful Grammy morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 2026 Grammy Awards will air live from the Crypto.com arena in Downtown Los Angeles on Sunday, February 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/account\/register?source=external-feeds_iluminar&amp;cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo&amp;registration_email_campaign=https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CNN.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CNN.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t believe anyone who tries to say that the Grammys don\u2019t love Taylor Swift just because she wasn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,1634,156,26626,52167,111,139,69,6456],"class_list":{"0":"post-124060","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-grammy-awards","12":"tag-liverpool","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-taylor-swift"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}