![]() Bonnie Raitt won Song of the Year for “Just Like That,” a track she wrote by herself and performed with little more than a guitar. (Styles said the record was named after a 1973 Japanese album called Hosono House, but it couldn’t have hurt that there’s a Joni Mitchell song called “Harry’s House” either.) On top of that, Styles had the “most personal album yet” angle going for him with interviews about how the pandemic and his mental health influenced the record.Īdditionally, Styles’s creative approach lined up with one of the more conservative nights in Grammys history. Harry’s House is exactly the sort of old-fashioned sonic throwback the Academy likes to hear, and voters have proved that up and down the ballot the past few years. (Maybe he was referring to being a former boy-band member that doesn’t change it coming across as insensitive.) He’s obviously not just wrong from a race and gender standpoint - he’s wrong musically. “This doesn’t happen to people like me very often,” Styles said in his acceptance speech, a sound bite that was instantly criticized. Harry’s House is right in the Academy’s sweet spot. Blige, Kendrick Lamar, or Lizzo stole votes from her, why didn’t the same happen to Styles with ABBA, Adele, or Coldplay?) It also feels beside the point to argue whether Styles deserved AOTY over Beyoncé - we’ve done that with her past two snubs for Beyoncé and Lemonade, and the answer remains a resounding “yes.” All that matters is that the Recording Academy clearly thought he did. (That’s never felt like more of a fool’s errand, though if Mary J. With ten AOTY nominees in total, we can dream up innumerable explanations for who siphoned off votes from Beyoncé this time. ![]() Beyoncé, on the other hand, added a fourth snub for the top honor to her career, this time for Renaissance, a spectacular, holistic project celebrating Blackness and queerness that many critics had already declared the record of 2022. ![]() The speech that followed was noticeably awkward with Styles acknowledging there was “no such thing as best in music” despite winning a trophy that attempted to judge just that. ![]() Styles won on his first AOTY nomination for his third (solo) album, Harry’s House, a pleasant but too comfortable set of songs influenced by ’80s synth pop and classic rock. But this one was particularly painful to swallow. Anyone other than Bey winning would’ve been met with some level of vitriol - especially after the Grammys spent the entire night hyping AOTY, and especially after she became the winningest artist in the Recording Academy’s history earlier in the ceremony. On Sunday evening, it was a different British pop star who stood between her and her first Grammy for Album of the Year: Harry Styles. Memorials may be directed to the Hospice of Mercy or the American Cancer Society.Adele turned out to be the least of Beyoncé’s worries. She was also a generous and caring friend who will be greatly missed. She was a wonderful and loving mother and grandmother whose greatest passion in life were her children. She enjoyed her travels with the “Branson” girls. Mary Jo loved to line dance and was a member of the I.C. She was an executive secretary at Square D/Schneider Electric, retiring in 2005. 22, 1938, in Davenport, the daughter of Herbert and Agnes Jansen Schrader. She was preceded in death by her parents husband, Thomas L. Mary Jo is survived by one son, Jeffrey (Kathleen) of Clear Lake three daughters, Julieann (Kevin) Twiss of Atlanta, Ga., Beth (Michael) Sykora of Cedar Rapids and Cheryl (Worth) Chollar of Dallas, Texas nine grandchildren, Molly Friedman, Patrick and Cameron Mackey, Morgan and Kyle Twiss, Craig, Kirk and Kyle Sykora and Robbie Chollar two great-grandchildren, Michael and Madelynn Friedman sister, Jean (Dave) Steen and brother, Ron (Bev) Schrader. at Teahen Funeral Home and Monday after 9 a.m. Friends may visit Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. Jude Catholic Church, by Father Mark Reasoner. 16, 2010, at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy in Hiawatha following a short illness.
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