5 Storylines To Watch At This Year's Grammy Awards
Will Kendrick Lamar be denied? Will protests prevail? Where are the guitars? Which performances will pop? Who will break down barriers?
The Grammy Awards have many roles to play in the cultural conversation. Above all, they're a music-industry showcase and infomercial, stuffed with three and a half hours of live performances meant to spark social-media conversation — and, by extension, sales, streams and TV ratings. But they also function as a way to crown what you might call ambassadors: marketable standard-bearers the industry sees as its faces and future. Each year, the Grammys provide a window into how the music business wishes to see itself, which in turn makes each telecast a surprisingly useful snapshot.
By Monday morning, this year's snapshot will have come fully into focus. Here are five looks at how it might play
