2025 Grammy Awards Fulfill Flyer Wishes (Mostly)
(Photo courtesy of Doechii’s, Carpenter’s, and Roan’s verified Instagram accounts @doechii, @sabrinacarpenter, @chappellroan)
Bryce Russell | Arts & Entertainment Editor
The students at the University of Dayton seem to have their finger on the pulse of popular music. Prior to the biggest night in music, which was held on February 2, we had flyers send their choices for who they wished to see win big at the 67th Grammy Awards. With heavy-hitters like Beyonce, Taylor Swift, and the Rolling Stones, going up against newcomers like Sabrina Carpenter, Fontaines D.C., and Chappell Roan, the Flyers seemed to pick right in most of the categories.
We posted the nominations for Best Album, Best Song, Best Solo Pop Performance, Best Rap Album, and Best Rock Album on our Flyer News Instagram, and opened it up to students to pick who they want to win. Here are our fellow Flyers’ picks for the 2025 Grammy Awards.
In the Best Solo Pop Performance Category, the nominations were “Bodyguard” by Beyonce, “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter, “Apple” by Charli XCX, “Birds of a Feather” by Billie Eilish, and “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan. The response to this category from Flyers was, overwhelmingly, “Espresso” by Sabrina Carpenter. Carpenter, who first rose to fame in the Disney Channel show Girl Meets World, has blown up in popularity over the past year. The Flyers were correct, and Sabrina took home the award.
For Best Album, the Flyers were close, but Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter ultimately beat out Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet. The student vote had Carpenter barely scraping by with the win, but the Beyonce effect proved to be too much for the new pop star. The other nominations in that category were Brat by Charli XCX, The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift, New Blue Sun by Andre 3000, Hit Me Hard and Soft by Billie Eilish, The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess by Chappell Roan, and Djesse Vol. 4 by Jacob Collier.
Best Rock Album had nominations for classic artists like The Black Crowes, The Rolling Stones, Green Day, Pearl Jam, and Jack White, as well as newer acts like Fontaines D.C. and IDLES. Flyers must be fans of the classics, as the Rolling Stone’s Hackney Diamonds ran away with the poll, followed by Green Day and then Fontaines D.C.. With this choice, the Flyers were correct, and the Rolling Stones took home their fourth grammy award, 62 years after they formed in England.
The closest poll of them all, the Best Song category had nominations for “Texas Hold ‘Em” by Beyonce, “Please, Please, Please” by Sabrina Carpenter, “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” by Shaboozey, “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan, “Fortnight” by Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone, “Birds of a Feather” by Billie Eilish, “Die With a Smile” by Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars, and “Not Like Us” by Kendrick Lamar. Flyers wanted Sabrina Carpenter to win, but the Grammy’s ultimately decided to hand it out to Kendrick Lamar, who had one of the biggest years a musician could ask for over 2024 and the beginning of 2025. However, Flyers voted “Not Like Us” a close second behind Sabrina Carpenter, so again, we weren’t too far off.
Best Rap Album featured nominations for Common and Pete Rock’s The Auditorium Vol. 1, Doechii’s Alligator Bites Never Heal, Eminem’s The Death of Slim Shady, J. Cole’s Might Delete Later, and Future and Metro Boomin’s collaboration album We Don’t Trust You. This was the category we Flyers did the worst though. We Don’t Trust You was the clear winner in our poll, with the only other album Flyers voted for being Eminem’s. With the huge song “Like That” that ignited the beef between Kendrick Lamar and Drake, it seemed as though Future and Metro Boomin’ had the award locked in, but ultimately lost to Doechii’s Alligator Bites Never Heal. Overall, I’d say the students here at UD did a pretty good job with voting for the Grammy Awards. Above all else though, I learned that the Flyers are huge fans of Sabrina Carpenter. With award season coming to a close soon, we’ll be back a couple more times leading up to the Academy Awards and seeing what movies students want to win at the 97th Oscar Award Ceremony, so stay tuned!