2024 Grammy Awards: Taylor Swift Makes History on a Night Dominated by Women

Monét was up towards nominees from many types and backgrounds, together with the class’s oldest nominee in 25 years, the rapper turned nation singer Jelly Roll, 39. One other outstanding competitor was Ice Spice, the Bronx drill-meets-pop rapper whose cultural ubiquity final yr prolonged to a Taylor Swift collaboration and a “Barbie” soundtrack look. The opposite nominees within the class had been the pop-folkie Noah Kahan, the British dance producer Fred once more.., the R&B singer Coco Jones, the rootsy married duo the Battle and Treaty, and the singer Gracie Abrams, who opened for Swift on the Eras Tour.

Monét was nominated for seven Grammys on the 2024 awards, tied for second-most general. Her full-length debut, “Jaguar II,” received for greatest R&B album and for greatest engineered album, non-classical.

“On My Mama,” the album’s third single, was up for report of the yr in addition to greatest R&B music. From the identical album, “How Does It Make You Really feel” was a nominee for greatest R&B efficiency, whereas “Hollywood,” a collaboration with Earth, Wind & Fireplace, scored a nod for greatest conventional R&B efficiency. “Hollywood” additionally options Monét’s daughter, Hazel, who at 2 years previous turned the youngest Grammy nominee ever.

Past the Grammy accolades for Monét, her longtime collaborator and “Jaguar II” producer Dernst Emile II, often known as D’Mile, additionally acquired his second straight nomination for producer of the yr, non-classical. D’Mile has received 5 Grammys, together with report of the yr and music of the yr in 2022 for his contributions to Silk Sonic’s “Go away the Door Open” and music of the yr in 2021 for H.E.R.’s “I Can’t Breathe.”

Monét got here into the 2024 Grammy season with three earlier nominations for her work as a songwriter. In 2020, her Grande tunesmithing landed nominations for album of the yr for “Thank U, Subsequent” and report of the yr for “7 Rings,” whereas in 2021 her work with Chloe x Halle was up for greatest R&B music for “Do It.”

“I believe my complete story has been main as much as this second,” Monét informed The New York Instances in November after studying she’d earned seven nominations. “I felt like an underdog for thus lengthy.”