Taylor Swift, having dominated 2024 with her album The Tortured Poets Department, was nominated for six Grammys and walked away with none; Shakira, winning best Latin pop album, hit out at Trump’s deportations policy, calling herself “an immigrant who came to this country with a dream”; Joy Villa, a Trump supporter, did the exact opposite, provoking a thousand well-heeled liberals with a red Maga-style cap.

Trevor Noah, the night’s host, pointed out that with Los Angeles going through one of the worst disasters in American history, the tone and motivation of this year’s awards was not so much celebratory and more a tribute to those affected by the wildfires — but otherwise it was (show)business as usual. Here is what we learnt.

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