For the primary time in three consecutive years, Taylor Swift was left off of the Grammy Award nominations record.
The music nominations had been introduced on Friday, November 7, the place stars reminiscent of Sabrina Carpenter, Girl Gaga, Chappell Roan and extra obtained nods. Swift's The Lifetime of a Showgirl, nonetheless, was excluded from the accolades.
Swift, 35, has received 14 Grammys in years previous and obtained six nominations on the 2024 Grammys for that 12 months's Tortutured Poets Division. Nevertheless, Showgirl was by no means eligible for inclusion on the 2026 ceremony. Subsequent 12 months's awards present honor information that had been launched between August 31, 2024, and August 30, 2025.
Swift dropped The Lifetime of a Showgirl, her twelfth studio album, two months in a while October 3, 2025. The file might be eligible on the 2027 Grammys as a substitute.
Swift wrote and recorded Showgirl in the course of the European leg of her Eras Tour in 2024, pulling from her expertise between live shows and in her relationship with fiancé Travis Kelce. Whereas the pop star referred to as the LP one among her favorites she's ever created, not all followers and critics had been on the identical web page.
“I welcome the chaos,” she instructed Apple Music's Zane Lowe throughout a prolonged interview final month, addressing the blended critiques. “The rule of present enterprise is, if it's the primary week of my album launch and you're saying both my identify or my album title, you're serving to.”
Swift additional identified that there are numerous “subjective opinions on artwork.”
“I'm not the artwork police,” she acknowledged. “It's, like, everyone is allowed to really feel precisely how they need, and what our objective is as entertainers is to be a mirror. Oftentimes, an album is a extremely, actually wild means to have a look at your self [and] what you're going by means of in your life goes to have an effect on whether or not you relate to the music that I'm placing out at any given second.”
As Taylor Swift enters her The Lifetime of a Showgirl period, it's evident that her followers are proper behind and beside her. Swift, 35, dropped her twelfth LP on Friday, October 3, the place the 12 song-album shortly broke information throughout Apple Music, Spotify and different streaming platforms. “Tonight all these lives converge right here. The mosaics […]
Regardless of sure backlash, Showgirl did break all types of gross sales and streaming information.
“I've such an eye fixed on legacy after I'm making my music,” Swift stated on Apple Music. “I do know what I made. I do know I am keen on it.”
Kelce, 36, is amongst one of many largest supporters of Showgirl.
“I'm simply the fortunate man that will get to be, you realize, the help system for Taylor whereas she drops one of many coolest albums that I've ever listened to, that the world's seen,” he stated on his “New Heights” podcast in October. “I'm excited for her. I'm completely satisfied for her. All the pieces appears to have gone completely, all this planning. You see it from begin to end. She began this factor in the course of her tour in Europe.”
The Lifetime of a Showgirl options a number of songs about Swift and Kelce's relationship, together with “The Destiny of Ophelia,” “Opalite,” “Want Record,” Honey,” and the double entendre-filled “Wooden” with a number of allusions to Kelce's “manhood.”
“I had this concept about, ‘I ain't gotta knock on wooden,' and I might knock on wooden and it could be all these superstitions. And it actually began out in a really harmless place,” Swift stated on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon in regards to the racy lyrics. “I don't know what occurred, man. I received in there, [Max Martin, Shellback and I] began vibing and I don't know, I don't know the way we received right here, however I really like the music a lot.”
