Rolling Stone: Grammys 2025's biggest snubs

[TaylorSwift 161,466]

Dua Lipa’s Noms Go Houdini
We thought y’all loved her? Dua Lipa has been a Grammys favorite dating back to her 2019 Best New Artist win. With 2020’s Future Nostalgia, she earned another trophy and three other nods (including one for “Un Día,” her left-field collab with J Balvin and Bad Bunny). Last year, her Barbie song earned her two more nods. But Dua’s music will be absent at the 2025 Grammys — Radical Optimism earned not a single nomination. She didn’t fare any better in the song categories, either. Not even for “Houdini.” 


Megan Thee Stallion Gets Overlooked
Megan Thee Stallion’s “Hiss” is often credited as the song that started rap’s year of diss songs — but it wasn’t recognized by the Academy. 


Ariana Grande Misses the Major Categories 
Ariana Grande is back in the Best Pop Vocal Album race for her seventh studio album, Eternal Sunshine. It’s her fifth nomination in the category — yet she’s only made it into the Album of the Year category once, after Thank U, Next in 2019.  The Grammys didn’t have much time for “We Can’t Be Friends (Wait for Your Love),” either, shutting the poignant single out of Song and Record of the Year, along with every pop category. When it rains, it pours.


Hozier’s ‘Sweet’ Comeback Gets a Bitter Shutout
In 2014, Hozier’s breakthrough single “Take Me to Church” scored the Irish musician a Song of the Year nomination at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards. It remained his biggest hit for a decade — that is, until the luscious pop hit “Too Sweet” catapulted him to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in April. It would have been a deserving standout in the Pop Solo Performance category, maybe even Record of the Year, but it seems the Recording Academy wasn’t interested in giving into the indulgence. 



Nasty for Snubbing ‘Nasty’
2024 was the year Tinashe finally earned some deserved recognition for her all-around stellar artistry.  No one can write, sing, and dance like she does. She’s been delivering hit-worthy songs for years — 2023’s “Needs” was a bop, 333’s “Bouncin” would’ve slayed at radio. Then, “Nasty” came, re-introducing her to a new audience that welcomed her on TikTok and beyond — but the Grammys clearly weren’t looking.


Jack is Not Back in the Producer of the Year Category
Jack Antonoff has dominated the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical category in recent years, winning three years straight. Though he has his detractors, it’s surprising he didn’t even get a nomination in a year in which he worked on massive album like Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet.


No Love for Tyla 
Tyla made waves at last year’s Grammys as she won the inaugural Best African Performance Award for her smash “Water,” beating out Afrobeats giants Asake, Burna Boy, and Davido but she didn’t earn a single nomination this year.

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[weed 78,551]

Agree w most of these!

[huttont 5,975]

I think Hozier deserved a nom. Too Sweet was everywhere this year. 

[River 126,501]

except for Hozier and Ariana, the rest are not snubs.

[VTV 13,760]

15 minutes ago, Teletubby said:

Jack is Not Back in the Producer of the Year Category
Jack Antonoff has dominated the Producer of the Year, Non-Classical category in recent years, winning three years straight. Though he has his detractors, it’s surprising he didn’t even get a nomination in a year in which he worked on massive album like Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet.


No Love for Tyla 
Tyla made waves at last year’s Grammys as she won the inaugural Best African Performance Award for her smash “Water,” beating out Afrobeats giants Asake, Burna Boy, and Davido but she didn’t earn a single nomination this year.

rightfully so

[RenegAde 20,367]

there's no logical explanation for Ariana missing the big three. 

[Bradley 60,029]

The houdini pun

[tlittlemonster 2,501]

They should also do a list of the most unfair nominations and mention Taylor Swift.

How does she get nominated for every single category possible when Fortnight is so forgettable and the Tortured album is so shite compared to her previous albums and the other albums up for nominations?

[Plastic Flower 5,543]

I agree about Hozier. I liked Hiss but it's just another Megan track.

[JazzGa 14,637]

But where is the best song ever written, Bigfoot? That's the true snub of it all

[RichAssPiss 5,031]

Megan is thee biggest snub. She's having a major year. She at least deserved Rap Album and Rap Song for HISS. 

[GagaTheExplorer 3,053]

DWAS will hurt me until it wins SOTY and Pop Duo Group Performance as it will and should 

[Guest]

 Dua, Megan and Jack were not snubbed. 

[Flawless 2,236]

Megan & Hozier deserved some nominations.

Cobra or Hiss for Rap Song 

Hozier for pop categories and general field

[Awrah999 4,433]

Taylor Swift got way too many nominations and she has way more nominations and wins than she deserves, but her music is unassuming, generically accessible to almost everyone and Grammy voters will always have her as an option even if the product is subpar as is especially the case with her last album.