Grammys 2022: Methods to watch on-line, 5 issues to be careful for

 Las Vegas will host the Grammys for the primary time ever Sunday, one 12 months after the coronavirus pandemic compelled organizers to shake up the printed with a cabaret-style present heavy on performances.

Music’s most prestigious awards ceremony comes with the leisure world on edge, only a week after a stunning twist on the Oscars that noticed Will Smith slap Chris Rock onstage over a foul joke.

The incident is bound to immediate stiffer stage safety and script vetting in Sin Metropolis, however there’s all the time a bit of room on the Grammys for issues to get… bizarre.

Right here’s a information to the occasion, which comic Trevor Noah will host.

Olivia Rodrigo sweep?

Two years after Billie Eilish cleaned up the “huge 4” prizes – Album of the Yr, Music of the Yr, File of the Yr and Greatest New Artist – viral pop sensation Olivia Rodrigo has the prospect to do it once more.

The previous Disney channel actress – who posted record-breaking streaming numbers final 12 months throughout her explosive ascent to pop’s higher echelons – has a complete of seven nominations, together with in all 4 of essentially the most prestigious classes.

Rodrigo, 19, is amongst a coterie of pop stars together with Justin Bieber and Doja Cat main this 12 months’s nomination pack.

The “drivers license” singer can also be slated to carry out, as are a wide range of acts together with BTS, Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X, H.E.R. and nominations frontrunner Jon Batiste.

Kanye antics

Kanye West, whose authorized title is now Ye, launched an album each this 12 months and final, however it’s his questionable conduct that has made him music’s chaos agent at-large.

He scored 5 nominations this 12 months, most for his album “Donda” – and can face off with longtime nemesis Taylor Swift in the perfect album class, the place she has her sole 2022 probability at Grammys gold for “evermore.”

Neither are essentially favorites to win the coveted prize.

However ever since West’s notorious “I’mma allow you to end” stunt on the MTV Video Music Awards in 2009 – when he walked onstage and interrupted the then 19-year-old, who was accepting the award for Greatest Feminine Video – all of the world’s Ye’s stage.

For weeks, the mercurial West has been airing private assaults on comic Pete Davidson, who’s courting West’s ex-wife Kim Kardashian.

The Recording Academy had reportedly eliminated West from the efficiency lineup over his generally troubling conduct, however some sources stated he may nonetheless be part of the lineup on the final minute.

And in any occasion, he’s nonetheless invited to the ceremony. Even with seven-second broadcast delays and bleeps, if the Oscars taught us something, it’s that something can occur.

Will the Carters present?

When the Grammy hopefuls had been introduced in November, rap mogul Jay Z turned essentially the most nominated artist within the present’s historical past, with 83.

He was beforehand tied with legendary producer Quincy Jones, who had 80.

Ultimately 12 months’s ceremony, Jay Z’s spouse Beyonce turned the present’s most embellished singer in historical past, with 28 profession wins.

Up to now the rap billionaire from Brooklyn has 23 gramophones to his title.

However he’s by no means gained in a serious class, an identical subject to Beyonce’s, who regardless of holding a Grammy document for many wins has solely triumphed as soon as within the “huge 4” classes.

The Recording Academy faces perennial criticism that it’s too white and too male, and that it relegates Black artists to rap and R&B classes whereas refusing to reward them with the highest prizes.

In 2018, Jay Z was the frontrunner with eight nominations, however didn’t win a single award.

For sure, the couple skipped the 2019 ceremony – and took residence a single award, for Greatest City Modern Album.

Whether or not Jay and Bey will deign to indicate up Sunday in Vegas stays an open query.

Tony and Gaga

The maybe inconceivable duo of Tony Bennett and Woman Gaga are driving the success of their second duet album “Love For Sale,” which earned six nominations.

It was the 61st and closing studio album of Bennett’s profession.

In 2014, the now 95-year-old turned the oldest particular person ever to succeed in primary on the US album gross sales chart via a distinct assortment of duets with Gaga, who turned his buddy and touring companion.

The long-lasting crooner not too long ago revealed he’s been recognized with Alzheimer’s illness, a situation he saved below wraps for years.

Bennett has stopped touring, however it’s not unattainable that he’ll seem Sunday at Gaga’s aspect.

The 36-year-old pop titan closed final week’s Oscars ceremony alongside Liza Minnelli, one other twentieth century nice Gaga has apparently befriended.

Presidential hat trick?

Within the ever-eclectic Greatest Spoken Phrase Album class, which incorporates poetry, audio books, and storytelling, Barack Obama as soon as once more has the main probability to win what can be his third Grammy.

The previous president is up for his autobiography “A Promised Land,” two years after his spouse Michelle bested her competitors to take residence the prize for the audiobook of her memoir “Turning into.”

Obama – who gained the award each in 2006 and 2008 – faces competitors from Dave Chappelle, Don Cheadle, poet J. Ivy and LeVar Burton, who is ready to host the pre-broadcast ceremony.