It’s Taylor Swift’s world and we are just living in it. On music’s biggest night, the singer made history by winning Album of the Year for the 4th time at The Grammys 2024 for her album Midnights. This win makes her the only artist to have achieved this feat while surpassing Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, and Paul Simon, who are all tied with three awards.
While Swifties are over the moon with their idol’s iconic achievement, a section of netizens are questioning the credibility of the Blank Space singer’s win and believed that singer-songwriter SZA deserved the recognition for her brilliant album SOS. These criticisms aimed at Swift are also significant in the light of rapper Jay-Z’s rant about Beyonce being snubbed for Album of the Year.
Netizens Cry Foul Over Taylor Swift’s Record-Breaking Grammy Win
Whether it is through her songs or just her public persona, Taylor Swift has been one of music’s biggest superstars. Having historically been a Grammy favorite over the years, Swift proved her worth once again in The Grammys 2024 by winning Album of the Year for a record 4th time in her career. In addition, the Enchanted singer was also awarded the Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights.
While Swift’s iconic win is being talked about virally, not everyone is pleased about her album being recognized as the best of the year. In a category that had some stiff competition, many netizens felt that talented American singer-songwriter SZA was absolutely deserving of the Grammy over Swift for her pathbreaking album SOS. While many listeners harshly questioned the credibility of the Romeo and Juliet singer’s win, a few others vociferously justified it.
Yea the Grammys is never beating the white mediocrity allegations because idgaf Taylor Swift did NOT deserve album of the year over SZA. SOS was objectively and creatively a BETTER album than Midnights. I'm tired of this bullshit #GRAMMYs pic.twitter.com/RdCr34ZhpA
— Jordan 🍿 (@jordansveto) February 5, 2024
Just muted this btw so I am not seeing ANY of the think pieces from her fans, they're gonna have to stay mad! 😂😂.
In the mean time, Go stream a REAL album with quality vocals and production 🥳: https://t.co/YBOos2ZQjU— Jordan 🍿 (@jordansveto) February 5, 2024
Writing album after album of the same song and dance and here sza comes with a culturally defining album that generations will listen to just to be snubbed
— Ny🖤🌈 (@MLashae_) February 5, 2024
Everyone likes different music and both albums can be great. Midnights is a fantastic album. Definitely deserving.
— J (@Jgoloso) February 5, 2024
I'm seeing this everywhere. I can't say that I disagree, tbh Everyone loves taylor, but SZA earned this one
— 🦎 (@Sytheticwaifu13) February 5, 2024
taylor had 800k copies sold the first day and SZA had 300k in a week time. it’s not even close u just don’t realize how big taylor swift actually is 😭
— alexx (@KnicksRing) February 5, 2024
To add further fuel to the fire, rapper Jay-Z who was honored with the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award at The Grammys 2024, turned his win into a rant about his wife Beyoncé being snubbed for Album of the Year once again. Surprisingly, the 32-time Grammy winner who holds the record for the most Grammys by any artist, has been overlooked for Album of the Year every time. With Jay-Z making this fact extremely clear in public, Taylor Swift’s 4th album win is bound to be discussed even more over the next few days.
Taylor Swift Announces New Album Following Her Big Grammy Win
While Taylor Swift’s Album of the Year win is creating some debate online, the artist revealed some massive news from her end at The Grammys 2024 by announcing her brand new album. Accepting the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights, the Cruel Summer singer took the opportunity to formally make the revelation that The Tortured Poets Department will officially release on all platforms on the 19th of April.
Following her big Grammy night, Swift promptly went on to update her Instagram with details about the album which included a cover and a handwritten letter with words that could possibly be the lyrics to her title song and signed it off in style. In the post, the singer wrote,
“And so I enter into evidence my tarnished coat of arms, my muses acquired by bruises. My talisman and charms. The tick, tick, tick of love bombs. My veins of pitch black ink. All’s fair in love and poetry. Sincerely, The Chairman of The Tortured Poets Society.”
With Swift being a master at understanding the pulse of her audience, there is no doubt that Swifties will lap up this album with even more enthusiasm and excitement.
