Grammys 2024: 10 takeaways from music's biggest night (Taylor's version)

The Grammys are nothing if not a three-and-a-half-hour infomercial for the music industry: The telecast foregrounds music's biggest stars, programs performances that span many genres and generations, and otherwise assembles a digestible package of major milestones and musical moments. Sunday night's festivities were no different, so here are this year's major storylines and other takeaways, starting with... no, you'll never guess. Wait for it...

1. Somewhere along the way, we have left a world in which Taylor Swift dominates the cultural conversation and entered a world in which Taylor Swift is the world and we are just tiny specks of flotsam, floating listlessly in a sea consisting of her disembodied essence.

Okay, so we kinda knew, going in, that Swift would be a significant player in Sunday night's Grammys, given that she was nominated for six awards and that, when it comes to music news in 2024, all roads lead back to her red-lipsticked visage. But few won album of the year — her record-breaking fourth win in that category alone — as well as best pop vocal album. And, of course, the singer made a splashy entrance and danced and sang along during performances even when seemingly everyone else was seated. But Swift set aside her headline-grabbingest moment for her first victory speech, in which she announced the imminent arrival of a new album titled , out April 19. Which means the conversation around Swift is only going to get busier and louder and more all-consuming, with next Sunday's Super Bowl just six Swift-packed days away.