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The Grammys were set for change, but that's not what happened

The Grammy Awards giveth, and the Grammy Awards taketh away.

When the Recording Academy announced nominations in November for music's most prestigious prizes, the notoriously fusty industry group raised the tantalizing prospect that its members finally got it.

With multiple nods for the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z and the Puerto Rican duo of Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee (whose song "Despacito" was 2017's biggest), the academy seemed to be acknowledging that, in a rapidly changing

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