To be eligible in a genre category at the Grammys, at least 51% of the songs on an album must fall into it
Photo: Will Heath/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images In 2019, the sun set on Kacey Musgraves’s pop-country opus Golden Hour when it won Album of the Year at the Grammys, becoming the first country album to earn the top prize since Taylor Swift’s Fearless in 2010. Now, when she returns to the Grammys this year for her equally genre-blurring follow-up album star-crossed, Musgraves will find herself in unfamiliar territory: the pop categories.
To be eligible in a genre category at the Grammys, at least 51 percent of the songs on an album must fall into it. That judgment is made by a genre-screening committee — different from the nomination-review committees, which the Recording Academy recently got rid of in most categories.
The Academy still reportedly considered some star-crossed songs to be country, with a source telling Rolling Stone that “camera roll” will be eligible for Best Country Song. Yet Mabe, in her email to the Academy, wrote, “Sonically, [star-crossed has] got more country instrumentation than Golden Hour which won Country Album of the Year in 2019. … There is no departure in sound from these two projects.” She went on to emphasize Musgraves’s importance to the country genre as a progressive woman.
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