Month: November 2023

The SAG strikes might be over, but the season of release date shuffling has just begun! Marvel’s upcoming installment Thunderbolts has moved from its initial release date of Dec. 20, 2024 to July 25, 2025. This comes after the announcement that the upcoming Captain America sequel would also be pushed to July 2024 as Disney wiggles around its releases.

The good news is that the upcoming film looks like it could be worth the wait. The cast is stacked with fan favorites from other Marvel projects, like Black Widow’s Florence Pugh, David Harbour, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, plus The Bear’s Ayo Edibiri and Minari‘s Steven Yeun.

While plot details are sparse, we can assume that Louis-Dreyfus is reprising her role as Valentina, who popped up in the mid-credits scene in Black Widow to recruit Yalena (Pugh). The anti-heroes are expected to team up in the upcoming film, which Louis-Dreyfus claims is going to be “absolutely wild,” and she’s seen some things so you can trust her to know what’s up.

Earlier this year, the actress said that her kids were the main reason she was on board for the upcoming movie. “For years, both of my boys have been saying, ‘Mom, why don’t you do a Marvel movie? Do a Marvel movie. Do a Marvel movie.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh, they’re not going to pick me for a Marvel movie.’ And then they did. And I was like, ‘Oh yeah. Now my boys are going to be psyched.’”

Hopefully, they will still be psyched in July 2025!

(Via Collider)

Following the release of the first official teaser for the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series on Netflix, fans of the hit anime series are already feeling confident that the streaming show will not make the same mistakes as the reviled M. Night Shyamalan movie.

In 2010, Shyamalan delivered a live-action adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon series, and Avatar fans were not here for it. The film featured sub-par special effects, egregious changes to characters who acted nothing like the cartoon, and accusations of white-washing in the casting decisions. The Netflix series appears to be side-stepping all of those mistakes.

As Avatar fans devoured the first teaser trailer on Twitter, the overwhelming consensus is that the new live-action series will, at the very least, not be as bad as the Shyamalan movie. After struggling with adapting anime series, Netflix finally hit the mark with its recent One Piece series, and Avatar fans are hoping their beloved show will be just as good.

You can see some of the reactions below:

Here’s the official synopsis:

The four nations of the world once lived in harmony, with the Avatar, master of all four elements, keeping peace between them. But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked and wiped out the Air Nomads, the first step taken by the firebenders towards conquering the world.

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER, follows a young Air Nomad named Aang, as he reawakens to a world ravaged by war. Together with his newfound friends Sokka and Katara, he embarks on an action-packed quest to take his rightful place as the next AVATAR.

Avatar: The Last Airbender starts streaming February 22, 2024 on Netflix.

Unfortunately, Dua Lipa’s “Houdini” can’t magically be eligible for nomination at the 2024 Grammys, though we can go ahead and pencil Lipa’s name in for this time next year. The Recording Academy revealed nominees in all 98 categories for the 2024 Grammys and had plenty of other deserving pop artists, albums, and songs to pick from the eligibility window between October 1, 2022 to September 15, 2023.

It wouldn’t be a Grammys nomination field without Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, and Taylor Swift, They’re each well-represented. Plus, the discourse over whether Miley Cyrus will be snubbed yet again or finally win her first-career Grammy will be alive and well for the next six-ish months. See all of the pop nominations below.

Best Pop Solo Performance

Miley Cyrus — “Flowers”
Doja Cat — “Paint The Town Red”
Billie Eilish — “What Was I Made For?” [From Barbie]
Olivia Rodrigo — “Vampire”
Taylor Swift — “Anti-Hero”

Best Pop Vocal Album

Kelly Clarkson — Chemistry
Miley Cyrus — Endless Summer Vacation
Olivia Rodrigo — Guts
Ed Sheeran — – (Subtract)
Taylor Swift — Midnights

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance

Miley Cyrus Feat. Brandi Carlile — “Thousand Miles”
Lana Del Rey Feat. Jon Batiste — “Candy Necklace”
Labrinth Feat. Billie Eilish — “Never Felt So Alone”
Taylor Swift Feat. Ice Spice — “Karma”
SZA Feat. Phoebe Bridgers — “Ghost In The Machine”

Best Pop Dance Recording

David Guetta, Anne-Marie, and Coi Leray — “Baby Don’t Hurt Me”
Calvin Harris Feat. Ellie Goulding — “Miracle”
Kylie Minogue — “Padam Padam”
Bebe Rexha and David Guetta — “One In A Million”
Troye Sivan — “Rush”

Best Latin Pop Album

Pablo Alborán — La Cuarta Hoja
AleMor — Beautiful Humans, Vol. 1
Paula Arenas — A Ciegas
Maluma — Don Juan
Gaby Moreno — X Mí (Vol. 1)

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The 50th anniversary of hip-hop has fans and musicians on high alert for glaring snubs by award ceremonies and more looking to celebrate the genre. So, today’s (November 10) 2024 Grammy Awards nomination broadcast had everyone locked in. Unfortunately, according to online communities, who are already in an uproar, the Grammys dropped the ball.

So, what are the rap Grammy nominations for 2024? Well, leading the pack with four nominations is notorious anti-Grammy rapper Drake. Behind him is Killer Mike, with three nominations, and Doja Cat, with two.

View the complete 2024 Rap Grammy nominations below.

Best Rap Performance

Baby Keem ft. Kendrick Lamar – “The Hillbillies”
Black Thought – “Love Letter”
Coi Leray – “Players”
Drake & 21 Savage – “Rich Flex”
Killer Mike ft. André 3000, Future, and Eryn Allen Kane – “Scientists & Engineers”

Best Melodic Rap Performance

Burna Boy Featuring 21 Savage – “Sittin’ on Top of the World”
Doja Cat – “Attention”
Drake & 21 Savage – “Spin Bout U”
Lil Durk Featuring J. Cole – “All My Life”
SZA – “Low”

Best Rap Song

Doja Cat – “Attention”
Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice ft. Aqua – “Barbie World”
Lil Uzi Vert – “Just Wanna Rock”
Drake & 21 Savage – “Rich Flex”
Killer Mike ft. André 3000, Future, and Eryn Allen Kane – “Scientists & Engineers”

Best Rap Album

Drake & 21 Savage — Her Loss
Killer Mike — Michael
Metro Boomin — Heroes & Villains
Nas — King’s Disease III
Travis Scott — Utopia

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Yellowstone Season 5 will end sometime in 2024. Of course, the specifics of the flagship series are still up in the air with Kevin Costner’s departure, but fortunately, Taylor Sheridan appears to have already honed in on another key spinoff, which will hopefully be as well-received as 1923 (with 1883 also earning some audience nods). That would especially be the case if Sheridan can bring star power on par with Helen Mirren and Harrison Ford, so what’s the lowdown on 6666, and when will Season 1 arrive?

Sheridan’s 6666 might sound, to outsiders, like some horror series about possessed cowboys, but that’s not the case. Instead, this in-the-works spinoff (one of several) will revolve around the fictional cowboys of the real-life 6666 Ranch (i.e., the “Four Sixes”) near Guthrie, Texas. Sheridan actually owns that expansive ranch (which stretches across an area twice as big as Chicago) after a recently reported $200 million deal that was joined by investors who presumably dig that Yellowstone brand.

So, it’s safe to assume that filming will go down on location (some 1883 scenes have already been filmed at the 6666 Ranch), and there hasn’t been a concrete release date as of yet, but Sheridan can whip out scripts like no one’s business, and Paramount+ (where 6666 will stream) is clearly banking a lot of resources on the Sheridan empire, so don’t be surprised if we receive a sudden update, and soon enough, business will already be booming. Heck, I really wouldn’t be surprised if major movement happened before Yellowstone ends. From the show’s synopsis:

Founded when Comanches still ruled West Texas, no ranch in America is more steeped in the history of the West than the 6666. Still operating as it did two centuries before, and encompassing an entire county, the 6666 has inspired a new scripted series where the rule of law and the laws of nature merge in a place where the most dangerous thing one does is the next thing. The 6666 is synonymous with the merciless endeavor to raise the finest horses and livestock in the world, and ultimately where world-class cowboys are born and made.

So, fingers are duly crossed for 6666 movement in 2024, if Sheridan doesn’t first get distracted by the 2024 spinoff. He’s a busy guy!

It was the Recording Academy’s annual time to flex on Friday morning, November 10, as nominees for the 2024 Grammys were announced. The 2024 Grammys are scheduled for February 4, 2024 at Crypto.com Arena — or Staples Arena to the real ones — in Los Angeles, California.

The 2023 Grammys resulted in Brandi Carlile, Ozzy Osbourne, and Wet Leg dominating the rock and alternative categories. This year, the categories mirror the triumphant return of Paramore, resiliency of Foo Fighters, resurgence of Boygenius, and more. Even presumed pop girlie Olivia Rodrigo stakes her claim as an actual rock girlie with a nomination for Best Rock Song.

The nomination window for the 2024 Grammys counts material released between October 1, 2022 to September 15, 2023. There are 98 categories for the 2024 Grammys, and the rock and alternative nominees can be found below.

Best Rock Album

Foo Fighters — But Here We Are
Greta Van Fleet — Starcatcher
Metallica — 72 Seasons
Paramore — This Is Why
Queens Of The Stone Age — In Times New Roman…

Best Rock Performance

Arctic Monkeys — “Sculptures Of Anything Goes”
Black Pumas — “More Than A Love Song”
Boygenius — “Not Strong Enough”
Foo Fighters — “Rescued”
Metallica — “Lux Æterna”

Best Rock Song

The Rolling Stones — “Angry”
Olivia Rodrigo — “Ballad Of A Homeschooled Girl”
Queens Of The Stone Age — “Emotion Sickness”
Boygenius — “Not Strong Enough”
Foo Fighters — “Rescued”

Best Metal Performance

Disturbed — “Bad Man”
Ghost — “Phantom Of The Opera”
Metallica — “72 Seasons”
Slipknot — “Hive Mind”
Spiritbox — “Jaded”

Best Alternative Music Performance

Alvvays — “Belinda Says”
Arctic Monkeys — “Body Paint”
Boygenius — “Cool About It”
Lana Del Rey — “A&W”
Paramore — “This Is Why”

Best Alternative Music Album

Arctic Monkeys — The Car
Boygenius — The Record
Lana Del Rey — Did You Know That There’s A Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd
Gorillaz — Cracker Island
PJ Harvey — I Inside The Old Year Dying

Best Latin Rock Or Alternative Album

Cabra — Martínez
Diamante Eléctrico — Leche De Tigre
Juanes — Vida Contidiana
Natalia Lafourcade — De Todas Las Flores
Fito Páez — EADDA9223

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Rundown is a weekly column that highlights some of the biggest, weirdest, and most notable events of the week in entertainment. The number of items could vary, as could the subject matter. It will not always make a ton of sense. Some items might not even be about entertainment, to be honest, or from this week. The important thing is that it’s Friday, and we are here to have some fun.

ITEM NUMBER ONE –Well, this has taken over my brain

While I do not watch The Golden Bachelor and have no plans to start, less due to the quality of the show than my general aversion to reality dating shows, I have recently become obsessed with the thing where the star of the show, a 72-year-old hunk named Gerry, has a freaking massive tattoo of a lion on his shoulder. That was… not something I expected to learn. Ever. I don’t think you did either. Like, imagine two years ago some guy walks up to like “Yo, someday in the next couple years there’s gonna be a Bachelor spinoff where a Baby Boomer looks for love among a crew of similarly aged ladies and at one point he’s gonna get in a hot tub and reveal to the world that he has a massive lion tattooed on his arm.” You would be surprised, too. For a lot of reasons. Probably. Maybe you’ve seen enough reality dating shows that you’d just yawn and say “I can see it.” We all have our own journeys.

But yes, it’s real. Fans of the show freaked out about it when they first saw it. I’m freaking out now a couple of weeks later. These things have a way of trickling down. Look at my dude.

I was filled with questions about this. When did he get a massive tattoo of a lion? Why did he get a massive tattoo of a lion? Did producers know he had it before he took his shirt off on-camera that first time? What was their reaction like? How would you react if you discovered your grandpa had a massive tattoo of a lion on his body? What if it had been, like, a penguin or an alligator or just a huge dinosaur that covered up his whole back? Not even a T-Rex or a cool one. Like, a brontosaurus or something. What then?

Luckily, for me, Mark Consuelos had questions, too, and he asked Gerry a lot of them on the morning show where he and his wife reveal kind of too many things about each other. And here was Gerry’s answer.

“There was a point in time where I was thinking about taking on more responsibility in business and so forth, and there’s this saying about every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up [and] it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or a gazelle wakes up and it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be eaten,” Turner said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a lion or a gazelle…when the sun comes up, you better be running.”

Hmm.

Hmmmmmm.

What I love here is that I’m not sure this makes sense. Like, at all. There’s a thing about lions and a thing about gazelles and then at the end, the moral is just that everyone needs to run. Which, like, fine, I guess, but mostly it all just raises more questions, starting with the thing where… I think in his telling of it the hero is the majestic gazelle who outruns the dangerous predator? Doesn’t this mean he should have a tattoo of a gazelle? How much weirder would that be? If the Golden Bachelor just had a tattoo of a gazelle across his entire back?

I guess the point of this is that if you know Gerry the Golden Bachelor, please tell him to call me so I can ask him 1000 questions about his massive lion tattoo. And maybe suggest he get a gazelle tattoo, too. Or the dinosaur one. I just want to talk about tattoos with a 72-year-old dude. It’s not weird.

ITEM NUMBER TWO – What do we think about the Mean Girls musical?

This is the trailer for the new Mean Girls musical. You can be forgiven if you didn’t immediately grasp that it’s a musical because there’s, like, barely any music in it. That’s odd. It’s like they’re saying “We think people like musicals enough to make movies out of them but not enough to sit through a little singing in a trailer without getting annoyed.” Or maybe the songs just play better in context. Or maybe another reason I haven’t thought of. This was not a great paragraph, in hindsight.

Anyway!

Here’s the description of the new movie musical, for those of you who never saw the original movie that starred Lindsay Lohan and for those of you who did see it but forgot and for those of you who just really love reading blockquotes.

New student Cady Heron (Angourie Rice) is welcomed into the top of the social food chain by the elite group of popular girls called “The Plastics,” ruled by the conniving queen bee Regina George (Reneé Rapp) and her minions Gretchen (Bebe Wood) and Karen (Avantika). However, when Cady makes the major misstep of falling for Regina’s ex-boyfriend Aaron Samuels (Christopher Briney), she finds herself prey in Regina’s crosshairs. As Cady sets to take down the group’s apex predator with the help of her outcast friends Janis (Auli’i Cravalho) and Damian (Jaquel Spivey), she must learn how to stay true to herself while navigating the most cutthroat jungle of all: high school.

Three notes here:

• My default position on these things remains “assume the smart and funny people know what they’re doing and give them room to do it,” so I’m going to choose to be excited due to Tina Fey’s continued involvement
• Angourie Rice playing Cady in this means she has now been in movies titled Mean Girls and The Nice Guys, which is maybe only funny to me but is also very funny to me
• Hey, it’s Jon Hamm

Look! Jon Hamm is in the Mean Girls musical!

This is probably not a surprise, both because Jon Hamm has a history with Fey/SNL that dates back many years and also because it’s almost more surprising if a new movie or show comes out and Jon Hamm isn’t in it. He’s really having fun out here.

The funniest thing about it for me is that, even if he is incredible in this sucker, Jon Hamm’s peak here is “second best inappropriate health teacher in a high school movie from the last 12 months,” because Marshawn Lynch kicked that much ass in Bottoms.

I’m ready for the Lynch/Hamm buddy cop movie whenever Hollywood can get around to it. Sooner would be better. But I can be a little patient. Let’s pencil it in for next week.

ITEM NUMBER THREE – “Get a life”

Okay, here’s what happened…

The New Yorker put out a huge profile of Ridley Scott. It’s tied to the upcoming debut of Napoleon, but it covers his whole life and career, with stuff in there about Gladiator and Blade Runner and all of it, as well as some interesting stuff about his journey and some incredibly sad stuff about the death of his brother and fellow filmmaker Tony. It’s pretty fascinating. You should give it a read.

That’s not what I want to talk about, though. I want to talk about this part of it, where Ridley responds to a complaint about the historical accuracy of his Napoleon movie.

When the trailer came out, the TV historian Dan Snow posted a TikTok breakdown of its inaccuracies. (At the Battle of the Pyramids, “Napoleon didn’t shoot at the pyramids”; Marie-Antoinette “famously had very cropped hair for the execution, and, hey, Napoleon wasn’t there.”) Scott’s response: “Get a life.”

Get a life.

That’s such a great response.

And such a familiar one.

But I couldn’t put my finger on why it felt so familiar.

I thought about it a lot.

It was driving me crazy.

And then I remembered the profile of Alex Trebek.

And I remembered this quote.

Fact: When Trebek shaved off his moustache in 2001, he did it in the middle of the day, himself, without warning the “Jeopardy!” producers. Renee was alarmed to come in and find him mid-shearing. He just felt like it, he says now. “And it got so much press, I couldn’t believe it. The wars with Iraq or whatever at that time, and people are all in a stew over my moustache. I have one response: Get a life.”

“The wars with Iraq or whatever at that time, and people are all in a stew over my mustache. I have one response: Get a life.”

I genuinely don’t know if I’ve ever seen a better quote from anyone, ever, about anything. So thank you to Ridley Scott for helping me remember it. The only downside here is, like…

People have never been in a stew over my mustache.

Something to strive for, I guess.

ITEM NUMBER FOUR – Reality show as soon as possible

Let’s go ahead and rip through this one fast.

Aubrey Plaza is currently on Broadway doing the stage thing. Vulture wrote a big thing about it. Feel free to read it. Aubrey Plaza is awesome. But I can only focus on this.

While doing the play, Plaza is living on the Upper West Side with Patti LuPone, with whom she recently worked on the Marvel series Agatha: Darkhold Diaries. LuPone has since become something of a surrogate mother, making Plaza soup and doing her laundry. “She insisted,” Plaza said.

Aubrey Plaza and theater legend Patti LuPone are roommates. Patti LuPone is making her soup and doing her laundry. This is already — to me, a lunatic with access to blogging software — more interesting than the play Aubrey Plaza is starring in right now. Like, I would watch this show. A reality show starring these two or a lightly fictionalized version of the real-life living situation that also stars these two as lightly fictionalized versions of themselves. A Curb Your Enthusiasm situation.

I needed to know more. Which is why I’m thankful People magazine felt the same way and actually followed through by contacting Patti LuPone.

Soon enough, though, LuPone was cooking for Plaza, who was under the weather when she arrived. “She wasn’t eating! And I said, you’ve got to keep your strength up because what you need is physical energy for the stage,” says LuPone, who adds that she only intended to host her. “The taking care of her evolved because she was sick.”

Not that she minded at all. “I love cooking,” continues the actress, who prepared Plaza butternut squash soup, broccoli soup and also made her oatmeal in the mornings.

I must have these soups.

And this oatmeal.

Patti LuPone, please move in with me.

It won’t be weird.

It might be a little weird.

But still.

Offer stands.

ITEM NUMBER FIVE – Skate Jam

Tony Hawk was on Hot Ones this week, which was strange because… it feels like Tony Hawk should have been on Hot Ones by now, right? Like, at least once? This feels like a “how has Jon Hamm not been on Only Murders in the Building?” situation to me. Walk up to someone this weekend and ask them how many times they think Tony Hawk has been on Hot Ones. I bet they guess three, minimum.

But that’s not the point. The point is that while he was on Hot Ones he told a story about Looney Tunes executives — fun to picture but also not the point — approaching him way back after the success of Space Jam about maybe doing a skateboarding version of the whole thing with live action and cartoons and all of it. And it was going to be called…

… you guessed it…

… Skate Jam.

We pick up the story at the airport, weirdly enough, where Tony Hawk is about to leave for Australia.

“[They said], ‘When you get back, we’re going to finalize all the details,’ like, that’s set, it’s happening,” he continues. “Awesome! I get on the plane, go to Australia. In the meanwhile, they released Back In Action, which was a Looney Tunes film with Brendan Frasier, and apparently it didn’t do the numbers they had hoped. That was supposed to be their way to reintroduce Looney Tunes characters. By the time I got back from Australia, they weren’t even calling anymore. It was gone. It was just gone. It was more like, ‘What happened?! Let’s all meet up again! This is gonna be fun, right?!’ Yeah. Bummer.”

Three things here:

• Please imagine this whole thing from Tony Hawk’s perspective, banging around Australia telling everyone he’s gonna make a movie with Bugs Bunny and then poof it just never happened
• I wonder if a lot of his friends thought he was lying and still make fun of him about it today, like “Oh, look who’s late again. Making another movie with the Looney Tunes?” but all sarcastically
• The “Bummer” at the end of this story is so devastating

Poor Tony Hawk.

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From Pete:

You have the power to transport any character or characters from one show into another. Who are you taking and where are you taking them? Three rules, just to make this harder and because I know you love lists.

No Muppets
No NoHo Hank from Barry
No Boyd Crowder

What do you got?

Hmm. I like that you gave me parameters here, Pete. Keeping me on my toes. Although now I’m imagining a Justified spinoff where Boyd Crowder and the Muppets are involved in a big heist, kind of like The Great Muppet Caper but with Walton Goggins in the Charles Grodin role. Dammit.

But with that off the table, I think I’ll go with Richie from The Bear transported into What We Do in the Shadows, partially because the show was just picked up for a third season and partially because I love him. Maybe he’s in New York for a restaurant convention. Or just a vacation. Whatever. I just like the idea of Richie having to grapple with the idea that there are just vampires out here now. Like picture this…

… but he’s talking about society at large now that he knows vampires exist. That would be fun. Let’s all think about it a lot this weekend.

AND NOW, THE NEWS

To San Francisco!

Steve Mazzari, now commonly known as “Dollarita Steve,” captured the hearts of many when he gave his honest take about the 3.9 shaker.

I love Dollarita Steve so much. Here is his origin story if you’ve been living under a rock for a week.

Dollarita Steve is America’s Sweetheart.

Now, thanks to Mazzari’s viral success, the Dollarita, a $1 margarita and staple of Applebee’s, will officially be back for the month of November at the Fisherman’s Wharf location in San Francisco. KTVU camera crews were there to capture the announcement.

Two things:

• I love to see Dollarita Steve thrive
• Please read this to learn what a damn wholesome icon this man is

We don’t often have a viral sensation who remains pure through three or four internet cycles. This one is special. Embrace it.

“I think this is my magnum opus. Beethoven had his Moonlight Sonata, I had bringing the ‘Dollarita’ back to San Francisco… I dreamed this into reality, I made it happen,” Mazzari told KTVU.

God, what a righteous dude.

Dollarita Steve for mayor.

When asked how he feels about his new moniker, Mazzari said he doesn’t mind it, “Dollarita Steve? Oh, I’m rollin with it, I’m good. I’m talking with my legal experts about whether or not we are gonna make a permanent change,” he said with a chuckle.

DOLLARITA STEVE FOR PRESIDENT.

“This is definitely the weirdest week of my entire life, and if this is how I’m remembered when I die, then so be it,” Mazzari said.

Two weeks ago, I had no opinion on Dollaritas and had no clue this man existed.

Now, I would gladly die for Dollarita Steve.

It’s been a weird November.

Taylor Swift is one of only four recording artists to win the Grammy for Album of the Year three times, along with Frank Sinatra, Stevie Wonder, and Paul Simon. Will she be the first to win it four times?

Midnights, Swift’s 10th studio album, is up for Album of the Year at the 2024 Grammys. Her competition in the category includes The Record by boygenius, Guts by Olivia Rodrigo, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd by Lana Del Rey, and SOS by SZA (who leads all artists with nine nominations). Swift, who previously took home Album of the Year for Fearless, 1989, and Folklore, wasn’t done there: she’s eligible to win in five other categories.

Here’s the full list:

-Album of the Year for Midnights
-Record of the Year for “Anti-Hero”
-Song of the Year for “Anti-Hero”
-Best Pop Solo Performance for “Anti-Hero”
-Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for “Karma” ft. Ice Spice
-Best Pop Vocal Album for Midnights

It’s unknown at this time if Swift will perform at the Grammys — or whether she’ll watch it at home with her cats, like the rest of us.

The 66th Annual Grammy Awards air on CBS and Paramount+ on February 4, 2024. You can find the full list of nominations here.

The 2024 Grammy Awards aren’t set to take place until February 2024. But today, the conversations surrounding each category of the coveted award show have begun. Ans we’re here to talk about the R&B Grammy nominations for 2024.

Today (November 10), the official R&B nominee list was broadcast. With the sheer dominating force shown on the charts, many artists racked up multiple nominations. R&B’s golden child, SZA, is the star of today. The singer is the most nominated artist at the ceremony, with nine total nominations, including four nominations in R&B and one in rap. What are the R&B Grammy nominations for 2024?

View the complete 2024 R&B Grammy nominations below.

Best R&B Performance

Chris Brown – “Summer Too Hot”
Coco Jones – “ICU”
Robert Glasper Featuring Sir & Alex Isley – “Back to Love”
SZA – “Kill Bill”
Victoria Monét – “How Does It Make You Feel”

Best Traditional R&B Performance

Babyface ft. Coco Jones – “Simple”
Kenyon Dixon – “Lucky”
Victoria Monét ft. Earth, Wind & Fire and Hazel Monét – “Hollywood”
PJ Morton ft. Susan Carol – “Good Morning”
SZA – “Love Language”

Best R&B Song

Coco Jones – “ICU”
Halle – “Angel”
Robert Glasper ft. SiR & Alex Isley – “Back to Love”
SZA – “Snooze”
Victoria Monét – “On My Mama”

Best Progressive R&B Album

6lack — Since I Have a Lover
Diddy — The Love Album: Off the Grid
Terrace Martin and James Fauntleroy — Nova
Janelle Monáe — The Age of Pleasure
SZA — SOS

Best R&B Album

Babyface — Girls Night Out
Coco Jones — What I Didn’t Tell You
Emily King — Special Occasion
Summer Walker — Clear 2: Soft Life EP
Victoria Monét — Jaguar II

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The Grammy Awards, despite some past controversies, remain the biggest night in music. While that night is still some months away, today, we learn which artists and works will compete for the most prestigious awards in music.

Works published between October 1, 2022, and September 15, 2023, are eligible to for nomination, while rule changes mean that fewer artists/works will be nominated for the “Big Four” awards. There will, however, be new categories for emerging genres.

Another decision sure to bring controversy is that AI songs have been declared eligible — but only for songwriting awards. Now, that doesn’t mean that one will be nominated, although one was submitted. But stranger things have happened (like Beyoncé being snubbed for Album of the Year — twice!).

Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason, Jr. made a statement to clear up confusion about AI after a public backlash from fans online, saying, “I take this [AI] stuff very seriously. It’s all complicated, and it’s moving really, really quickly. I’m sure things are going to continue to have to evolve and change. But please, please, do not be confused. The Academy is here to support and advocate and protect and represent human artists, and human creators, period.”

To find out who wins, you’ll have to wait until February 4, 2024, when the ceremony airs. For now, though:

Check out the full list of 2024 Grammy nominees below. The list will be updated as nominations are revealed.