U2 is a great act to do this. I suspect follow-ups from the likes of

“ It just would’ve been nice if it were associated with a cooler band than U2.”

#1 Prince.

Ya’ll scared of the beyhive? Prince is #1 and it’s not close. 

If Beyoncé doesn’t win the Best Album award specifically, then there is clearly a hateful conspiracy against her because she’s *checks notes* the curatorial messiah of a misunderstood generation. Is that right? Did I do good?

This is one of the more pathetic things I’ve read on the AVClub in quite a while.

Exactly, Beyonce has done, and is doing fine. I don’t get this strange, fucked up culture where she supposedly has to win and be recognized for everything ever time, and artists who do win somehow are supposed to feel guilty? 

> “The Grammys have again failed to actually do the work”

At risk of defending the Grammys, what do you think “the work” is exactly?

I didn’t realize Beyoncé’s publicist worked for the AV Club

Don’t blame me. I voted for a-ha

U2 are from the Republic of Ireland, which is rather famously not part of the United Kingdom.

White guys from the UK who have won Album of the Year:

Or, maybe Beyonce’s recent strategy of coming down from the mountaintop once every few years to gift the world an album and then disappearing again didn’t help with Academy voters. Harry Styles has been touring, performing live on TV, generally doing things to get his new songs out to a wider audience than his core…

Just doubling checking... because the award winner didn’t align with your (subjective) opinion of who should have won, he should apologize to the other performers? This is utter nonsense. Beyonce is not the end all/be all of pop music. Yes, some people like her music, but many, many do not.  Just because she did not…

Renaissance is a generational work.

are you really saying that Beyoncé, coming where she came from, is less privileged and more queer than Harry Styles? And wrote a discourse about it attacking him just because you like Beyoncé better? 

Oh come on - should everyone who beats out Beyonce for an award be required to preface their acceptance with a boilerplate apology for taking what everyone knows was rightly hers?  And on this night in particular, where she won four others and became the most-awarded artist of all time??

I don’t see how the Grammy’s have “failed to do the work” when Beyonce has won... checks notes.... 29 Grammys.  With her wins last night she broke the record for most awards.

Ah yes the “queer joy” of the music produced by a woman happy to perform for the elite of a lethally homophobic country to add a handful of small change millions to her coffers.

“The unabashed queer joy of Renaissance was dismissed...”