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Your favorite hotline is back with a pressing topic: the 2026 Grammy nominations. It’s a perplexing list of some divas, randoms, and sneaks. The Snake Nation sounded off powerfully about Katseye, Troye Sivan, Ariana Grande, Role Model, Alex Warren, and many more victims. Enjoy! 

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Nitzan

Thank you snakes! The rest of my work day is saved

SAM

I don't want katseye to win but they might due to hybe payola

Sophia

Thank you for bringing back cynthany ♥️

Lor

I honestly think mayhem should win aoty. As zack said, it has her dna all over it and we haven’t had an album like this from her since ARTPOP. I feel like it’s truly a celebration of who Gaga is and what made her the artist we all respect. Also, this win would honor all her previous records nominated (born this way and tfm)

Shreya

Will there be a video version of this?

Gosia

Let's be honest SWAG was a moment for a week, not a Grammy worthy moment

iLaney90

There always is. It gets posted later.

Abby

It would be really cool if you did something like Grammy retrospective. Like rewatching a random year - 2014, 2011, even maybe one from the 1990s

Dijon🌺

I think the issue with Sabrina getting nominated despite being released 1 day before the deadline has to do with the deadline itself. Why the deadline is from September-> September makes no sense to me… I know they do multiple rounds of voting but I feel like we should be doing January->January no? Does anyone agree with me lol

Dijon🌺

Also we shouldn’t underestimate Bad Bunny cause the academy just added 3900 Latin Grammy voters🫣 with the pop and rap votes splitting I think he could slip by (and I’m saying deserved!)

Kimberley

I forgot to leave a voicemail for Jennie Doechii extraL best pop duo/group performance robbery RIP 😔

emma

if katseye wins I will RIOT!!!!

m

wildflower is nominated because it was released as a single during the eligibility period. it was sent to radio on february 28th 2025

Leni Doom

Agreed!! Given that Lady Gaga just scored a major Rolling Stone cover, it really feels like we’re heading toward a final Mayhem release (“Garden of Eden,” anyone?!) before the still-rumoured Part II, Total Mayhem. The black-and-white aesthetic, the Lady in red, Mayhem herself, the Lady in white — all those mirrored visuals and duality references — it’s all lining up a little too perfectly. If this really is the rollout, it could launch her straight back to the top of public and musical consciousness. Even if the rollout led to a follow-up album. What do you all think?

Valentin Bellegarde

You say at 43:05, "The more I think about it, the less I think Addison Rae has a shot, and that really upsets me. Like, how did Katseye receive a nomination for a song and Addison didn't? Can someone answer that question?" I might have a go at answering it. Addison doesn't play in Peoria because she represents our sense of cultural loss and anxiety. She is the 5th most followed person on TikTok. TikTok represents a line in the sand. It launched internationally in 2017 and gained prominence in the US in 2018, when the reality of Trump set in and talk of re-election began. Trump was elected in 2016, but when did Trumpism (as a means of practical governing politics rather than just a campaign) arrive? TikTok saw its most downloads in the first quarter of 2020 (hello COVID-19, global pandemic, lockdowns, mass death), and then A.I. came after that. So basically, Addison evokes TikTok, and TikTok evokes this line in the sand, after which everything became shit. TikTok, in and of itself, evokes brain rot and the degradation of our collective mind's eye. iPad babies, et cetera. There is that line in Past Lives: "When you leave something behind, you gain something, too." Well, when you gain something, you leave something behind. Addison reminds us that we left something behind. That is why these "allusions to Britney," this iconography, these trinkets, fantasy perfume bottle, sequinned bra, it defiles the past, deforms it, because we project this age of Trumpism, pandemic PTSD, brain rot, doomscrolling, drones, Ukraine, AI's encroachment into the arts, onto a simpler, more human time. Zach questioned why she now goes by ‘Addison.’ The answer is obvious: because the association is real. This is not the Disney kids going into pop music. Remember that video of Addison (very amicably) pausing a fan interaction to do a TikTok on the street? We just commemorated Armistice Day. There is a saying: "Never was so much owed by so many to so few." The TikTok version would be "Never was so much earned by so many for so little." Teenagers becoming millionaires by making 10-second videos dancing to music. TikTok pioneering vertical video endless scrolling, leading to Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts. Brain rot. This is not Justin Bieber going from YouTube to pop superstardom. Remember when he said at his roast something like, "What do you get when you give a teenager $250 million? A bunch of has-beens calling him a lesbian for 2 hours." Hold that thought. Now remember that quote from The Dark Knight, where the Joker says: “You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go 'according to plan.' Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, a gang banger will get shot, or a truckload of soldiers will be blown up, nobody panics, because it's all 'part of the plan.' But when I say that one little old mayor will die, well then everyone loses their minds!” Justin Bieber, teenyboppers = part of the plan. The Disney-to-pop-star pipeline = part of the plan. Teenagers becoming millionaires by dancing to 10-second music clips destroying our minds while society goes to shit =/= part of the plan. When you gain something, you leave something behind. The question you have to ask is: is this a good trade? Addison represents a Faustian bargain. And then what is Katseye? Katseye is just global K-pop. K-pop is just Michael Jackson (i.e., the dancing pop star). Rehearsal rooms and studios in the JYP building named after Michael Jackson, Madonna, Prince. And then what is dance? It's just an art form. Ballet, Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky. Dance and music have been around for a while. Lineage. Addison's lineage? These trinkets, this tinsel - a perfume bottle, a sequinned bra, a rain-soaked video. I was talking to someone about Mahler, and he was saying how Mahler's orchestration is some of the best ever written, and I said to him something like, "all the orchestration in the world is tinsel without a good melody." These trinkets fade to dust. I can collect as well as the next guy. You say Fantasy perfume, sequinned bra. I raise you Björk's 'Jóga' in the opening strings of 'Headphones On.' But we are more than mere collectors. Rain-soaked video. Addison's music washes over us without a trace. Look at the track listing: - Aquamarine - In the Rain - Life's No Fun Through Clear Waters Aqua. Rain. Waters. I can hear the wipers going, I can feel the suds. I can hear the music playing wishy washy duds. It used to be that every house had a piano. Then every house had a computer. In both instances, we went to these things. We approached them, sidled alongside, shifted the seat, pressed into things, into keys, ivory or plastic, our fingers depressed, tactile. There is a thought in psychology that the PC computer every house used to have, it was the same size as you when you sat down at it. Standing up you’d be taller, obviously. But when you sat down, you were the same size as the whole contraption: the desk, the PC, the monitor, the wires spooling out the back, the retractable keyboard tray, the tinny speakers, the mouse with its ball that would occasionally fall out. You were equals. Like in that Deathly Hallows story, where the third brother greeted Death like an old friend, and the two departed from this land as equals. You sat down with a physical counterpart. Approaching the piano felt like sidling up to a big cat, or a water buffalo. Especially with the jungle promise contained in its ivory. We no longer approach. Our fingers no longer depress. They skate, they skitter, they slide and scroll. To call it touch is inaccurate. It insults touch. We do not break through. The loneliness epidemic. We do not break through. Declining birth rates. Addison’s music does not break through. It washes over us. Quite the irony! Anyway... Katseye is different gravy. I mean, it's apples and oranges. They're K-pop (I know it's "global girl group," but it's K-pop). People like watching them do the hand helicopter. I could go on, but... Addison addison addison. I do like the fact that it's an all-female thing. Those two producers are signed to MXM, Max Martin's production company. I can definitely see him wandering into the studio on the next album.

Chas

I love this!

OneRainyWish_Again

Have you ever done a history/deep dive about Taylor at the Grammy awards? I personally don’t know much at all about that history, what she was nominated for, when she was snubbed, what she won, etc…. Or even what she wore and who she attended the ceremony with! Has there been such an episode? Would be into that

Lisa

As a Billie enjoyer, wildflower SOTY. It’s incredible

Sarah B

Zach I have a genuine question. What do you think of the quality of construction of “Golden”from KPop Demon Hunters from a melodic math, production and vocals standpoint (Madeline it sounds like you’re not really of a fan of it)?

Sarah B

Cynthany like a symphony 😆

Katie

Was thinking the same!

ImogenLucy

I swear that was my 5 year old son submitting the Troye Sivan opinion. I have been listening to Rush/Honey on loop every school run for months now and I really am not okay. “Troye Sivan needs more Grammy’s” 😭War flashbacks

Jeanne

I still agree with your take from last year's Grammys which was that Midnights stole TTPDs AOTY 😭

Lor

omg that rolling stone shoot is amazing!!!!!!!

yuanmiley

Thank you for using my voice!love you guys more than ever!

Rachel

Did they submit it? I like the song but it was a weird cultural moment....with that video of the black pink girls saying that n word coming out right after the song dropped 😬

Rachel

I think the Oscar eligibility is the entire calendar yearof 2025 so defying gravity or for good performance at the grammys..... More likely than you think!!

Miranda

When the doc comes out I need yall to fry how TTPD is being erased from the history books

Chas

Will forever be bitter about it tbh

cami

about the katseye nominations i think they just have a really big industry push behind them . that's the only thing that justifies their noms to me especially with no album. i mean they were crafted by the industry essentially

Rachel

I think one thing that's important to call out about the clipse album is that it was produced by and features Pharrell, who is such an industry darling. It's as much his album as it is Pusha T and Malice! Also Kendrick has a feature, and we all know the Grammys love him. I know it seems like a left field pick and I think all of the rap albums there are going to have a vote split issue, but I do think it has a better chance than we think. Also it's just an INCREDIBLE album. I know the pod audience here leans more pop but I would strongly encourage giving it a spin!

Rachel

On the Billie submission, I feel like it's kind of embarrassing for her? Like idk that would feel like a big reliving and reminder of my past flop award ceremony. I feel like if she wins, it's kind of highlighting some loser behavior... I liked the album to be clear, but let's move on!