Why Taylor’s ‘Midnights’ Is not Nominated

Taylor Swift followers have a “Query…?” for the 2022 American Music Awards: Why isn’t Midnights nominated?

The pop star, 32, is up for six trophies at this 12 months’s music awards, which occur on Sunday, November 20. Amongst Swift’s quite a few nominations is her ninth profession Artist of the 12 months nod. She faces stiff competitors within the class from ex Harry Types, Beyoncé, Dangerous Bunny and extra.

Together with the ceremony’s high honor, the “Willow” songstress is nominated for Favourite Feminine Pop Artist and Favourite Feminine Nation Artist. She crosses genres but once more with the up to date Pink (Taylor’s Model), which is featured in each the Favourite Pop Album and Favourite Nation Album classes. All Too Effectively: The Brief Movie, which accompanied the 10-minute rendition of her breakup anthem, earned a nod for Favourite Music Video.

Whereas she has loads of alternatives so as to add to her trophy assortment on the 2022 AMAs, some Swifties have been left questioning why not one of the Cats star’s work from this 12 months is being acknowledged. The “Anti-Hero” artist dropped her tenth studio album, Midnights, final month — and shortly broke streaming data.

Regardless of the album’s instantaneous success, it was not noted of the awards dialog because of the interval of eligibility. For this 12 months’s AMAs, solely tasks launched between September 24, 2021, and September 22, 2022, have been in a position to be nominated, which means Midnights missed the cutoff.

The “Lengthy Story Brief” singer has an extended historical past with the AMAs, profitable a grand complete of 34 trophies from the occasion since 2008. Whereas she attended the 2021 affair, she was noticeably absent from the earlier ceremony — for good purpose.

“Thanks a lot for this. This can be a fan-voted award, which suggests a lot to me,” Swift instructed awards present viewers in November 2020. “You guys have been past fantastic all of the years of my profession however particularly this one once we’ve been to date aside. We haven’t been in a position to see one another in live performance, however I nonetheless really feel actually related to you thru the music, your response to Folklore and all of the methods by which your creativeness honored that album. I simply love you a lot, and I’m actually, actually fortunate due to you.”

On the time, the Pennsylvania native was nearly accepting her wins for Favourite Feminine Pop/Rock Artist, Favourite Music Video (“Cardigan”) and Artist of the 12 months. “I’m really rerecording all of my outdated music within the studio the place we initially recorded it,” she defined. “It’s been wonderful, and I can’t wait so that you can hear it.”

Following the top of her contract with Large Machine Data, Swift started the method of reimagining her catalog after Scooter Braun bought her grasp recordings. She publicly referred to as out the music supervisor, 41, a number of occasions in a years-long feud — and seemingly referenced their pressure in a handful of Midnights tracks.

To this point, the “Ivy” artist has dropped Fearless (Taylor’s Model) and Pink (Taylor’s Model). Eagle-eyed followers are satisfied Converse Now, which initially dropped in 2010, would be the subsequent album to get the Taylor’s Model remedy after selecting up on obvious Easter eggs in Swift’s new “Bejeweled” music video.

“I’ve spoken lots about why I’m remaking my first six albums, however the way in which I’ve chosen to do that will hopefully assist illuminate the place I’m coming from,” she beforehand defined by way of Instagram in February 2021. “Artists ought to personal their very own work for therefore many causes, however probably the most screamingly apparent one is that the artist is the one one who actually is aware of that physique of labor.”