Beyoncé‘s Renaissance is definitely on that new vibration, marking historical past not only for Bey, however for dance and digital music on the Grammys at giant.
Renaissance‘s win for greatest/digital album marked the primary time the class was included within the Grammys telecast since being added to the awards 23 years in the past. Picking up the trophy additionally made Beyoncé the winningest artist in Grammys historical past.
Renaissance — which options home music and consists of collaborations from style greats akin to Honey Dijon and Green Velvet — beat out LPs by Diplo, ODESZA, Bonobo and RÜFÜS DÜ SOL.
All of those dance-world stalwarts have been beforehand been nominated for Grammys, with Diplo and RÜFÜS DÜ SOL each profitable in prior years. (Only Diplo has beforehand appeared on the Grammys telecast, nonetheless, having proven up throughout BTS’ 2020 efficiency and through a efficiency of “Where Are U Now” with Jack U in 2016.)
While the dance music group was sharply divided about Renaissance‘s inclusion in the dance/electronic category — with many feeling that the album did not feature enough dance/electronic music to qualify it for the category — in the dance world, it’s additionally broadly agreed that getting the style within the world highlight by way of telecast is certainly optimistic ahead movement for digital music at giant.
Many additionally felt that Beyoncé’s inclusion within the dance/digital classes did a lot for the mainstream visibility of home music and the style’s LGBTQ+ roots. Beyoncé herself nodded to those roots in her speech, saying, “I’d like to thank the queer community for the love, and for inventing the genre.”
Previous winners of this award embody The Chemical Brothers, Skrillex, Daft Punk, Aphex Twin, Flume and Kaytranada. The class is just not, nonetheless, with out pop priority, as Madonna and Lady Gaga each received for greatest dance/digital album within the class’s earlier years, earlier than the EDM increase of the early 2010s modified mainstream consciousness about dance music within the United States and subsequently on the Grammys.
As many predicted, Beyoncé swept the Grammys’ two dance classes this 12 months, with Renaissance‘s ’90s home homage single “Break My Soul” profitable for greatest dance/digital recording in the course of the pre-ceremony. This class has by no means but been introduced in the course of the telecast.
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