This year’s Grammy Awards were handed out in Los Angeles on Sunday night.
Earlier in the evening, Swift won the award for “Best pop vocal album” for the same release. It was U2 vocalist Bono who presented the award. Swift used the acceptance speech, among other things, to tell when the next one will be released.
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Secret
The album will be called «Tortured Poets Department».
– I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I have been keeping for two years, and that is that with brand new albums comes April 19, Swift said.
She then promised to post the album cover, which she did on her Instagram account shortly after.
The “Record of the year” award went to Miley Cyrus for the song “Flowers”. At the same time, “Song of the year” – which is a songwriting award – went to Billie Eilish and her brother and collaborator Finneas for “What Was I Made For?”.
Victoira Monét received the award as newcomer of the year.
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Rapper arrested
The artist Killer Mike has received three awards at the Grammy Awards, including for best rap song. Then he was arrested by the police, for unknown reasons.
The awards took place on Sunday evening in Los Angeles.
According to the AP news agency, a video shows the rapper being handcuffed and taken away by the police. A spokesperson for the police will not give names or further details, but confirms that a black man has been arrested.
The news agency has not succeeded in getting a comment from the rapper’s representatives.
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Aqua confusion
Norwegian-Danish Aqua appeared to have taken home the Grammy award for best rap for the song “Barbie World“, but the announcement was immediately removed, reports VG. According to the newspaper, it was said in a post on X/Twitter that “Barbie World“, where Nicki Minaj and Icy Spicy also contribute, had won.
The Barbie Charts account also has published a screenshot of the announcement.
Shortly after, the post was removed. In a new post called that “Scientists & Engineers” with Killer Mike, Future, Andre 3000 and Eryn Allen Kane is the winner in the category.
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Prize for a project with a Norwegian contribution
The collection “For The Birds: The Birdsong Project” on 20 LPs has been awarded the Grammy Award in the category “Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package”. Jeri and John Heiden were nominated for this.
The collection consists of 172 pieces of music, all inspired by birdsong. Nick Cave and Yoko Ono are among the 220 musicians, poets and artists who have contributed. There is also the Norwegian folk musician and fiddler Benedicte Maurseth, who has collaborated with the American David Rothenberg.
Rothenberg is an American jazz musician and professor of philosophy and music, who in his time wrote a book together with the father of ecosophy, Arne Næss. Previously, Rothenberg and Maurseth played together with Nightingales on a 2019 release.
On the Grammy-winning release, the two are represented with “Rørsanger”.
Maurseth was named folk musician of the year in 2023, and she won the Nordic Music prize in 2022 for an album with, among other things, animal sounds from Hardangervidda.