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  NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR “THE 67 TH  ANNUAL GRAMMY awards ® ”   Beyoncé leads with 11 Nominations; Charli xcx, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, Post Malone, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and Taylor Swift Are This Year ’ s Other Leading Nominees   “ Music’s Biggest Night ® ” Airs Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, on CBS   Nominees for THE 67 TH  ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS ®  have been announced and topping the list are Beyoncé (11), Charli xcx (7), Billie Eilish (7), Kendrick Lamar (7), Post Malone (7), Sabrina Carpenter (6), Chappell Roan (6) and Taylor Swift (6). As the only peer-voted music award, the GRAMMY Awards ®  are selected by the Recording Academy ® ’s voting membership body of music makers, who represent all genres and creative disciplines, including recording artists, songwriters, composers, producers, mixers and engineers. The nominees were announced via a livestream event on  live.GRAMMY.com  and  YouTube .   The GRAMMY Awards ...

By Mona Austin During the 2019 BMA's Taylor Swift's performance of her hit "Me" took inspiration from Beyoncé's Coachella performance. Ironically, she was singing about being herself while emulating someone else. Apparently Swift likes marching bands because she has used them in several songs, but not in the video for this one. The Beyhive noticed the similarities swiftly accused Taylor of copying Beyoncé, starting a war of words between the two fan bases online. The comparison could not be avoided for obvious reasons. A drumline was the most prominent feature of Beyoncé's recently released Netflix documentary Homecoming , which was all about her behind-the-scenes journey to the Coachella stage in 2018. Beyoncé brought the Black college homecoming experience to the masses and it was distinctively cultural, creatively addressing the discriminatory issues Blacks face in American society, a literal music/entertainment dissertation on Civil Rights and...