’68th Annual Grammy Awards’ Review: Music’s Biggest Stars Found Their Own Ways to Recognize a National Crisis… In-Between the Delights of a Sabrina Carpenter and a Cher
Variety | 02.02.2026 23:02
What was your favorite part of the 2026 Grammys, if you watched? Was it seeing the succession of artists who spoke up to address the deportation raids that are roiling the nation, with either blunt-force language about federal agents or thoughtful appreciation of immigrants? Maybe it was seeing Bad Bunny getting the climactic win, for album of the year, and using that platform to say “ICE out” and to make a moving declaration on behalf of anyone who has been “other”-ed in this country: “We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we are not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans.”