Questlove assembled a crash course in hip-hop history, Beyoncé made her priorities known and Kim Petras spoke from the heart at the 65th annual awards.
It’s disappointing that the big awards show doesn’t reflect all of music’s immediacy and vibrancy and messiness. But the Grammys still function as a measure of change.
Beyoncé has the most nominations for the 2023 awards, and many recent perennials are back again. But some of music’s most inventive younger stars didn’t break through.