Taylor Swift wins album of the year in the historic Grammy recovery

It’s a love story between Taylor Swift and the Grammys once again.

After her last two albums were largely overlooked by the awards ceremony, the Recording Academy has made it clear that there is no bad blood with the singer-songwriter joining her surprise quarantine album “Folklore” as Album of the Year.

Nominated for six awards at the 63rd annual Sunday night ceremony, including the song of the year (“Cardigan”), the performance of Pop Solo (“Cardigan”), the performance of Duo Pop / group (“Exile” ), the album Pop Vocal (“Folklore”) and Album of the Year (“Folklore”), Swift was about to return to the show after a five-year absence from the Grammys.

Shaking her past steps, as she usually does, Swift went without trophies throughout the ceremony before picking up the top prize of the night. She now becomes the only female artist to win the album of the year three times, before taking home category trophies for her 2008 album “Fearless” and 2014’s “1989”. consolidate as a pop star in good faith.

Accepting the award on stage with co-writers Aaron Dessner of The National and Bleachers leader Jack Antonoff, who performed with Swift on stage at night, Swift thanked his collaborators for the first time before giving a sweet shout to her lifelong boyfriend Joe Alwyn.

“I want to thank … Joe, the first person to play every song I write. I had the best time writing songs with you in quarantine, ”he said.

Swift continued to make a special mention of friends Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively through the reference to the couple’s three children, whom she christened several characters from her album.

“I want to thank James, Inez and Betty, who are the second and third people to play every new song I write,” Swift added before thanking his legion of fans.

“You guys knew us in this imaginary world we created and we can’t tell you how honored we are for that,” he concluded.

Winning this year’s album places Swift in the well-decorated company of Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra and Paul Simon, who have also won the award three times. Meanwhile, Adele is the only female performer to have approached Swift, tying her previous record with wins for her albums “21” and “25.”

Swift couldn’t ask for a better re-entry to the Grammy’s good graces than with her universally acclaimed eighth studio album, “Folkore”. The album, which stripped the singer’s pop sensation to reveal her more adult and emotionally raw lyricism to date, was crafted almost completely in isolation during the blockade of COVID-19.

“Folklore” became the biggest and best-selling album of the year and Swift’s seventh consecutive album to reach number one on the Billboard charts, where it remained for eight weeks.

And, in case you’re wondering: no, Swift’s follow-up album “Evermore,” which released less than five months after “Folkore” didn’t meet the requirements for this year’s ceremony, so look forward to seeing some more trophies next year.)

In addition to her assent to the title of “Folklore,” Swift also received a nomination for best song written by visual media for her collaboration with “Cats” with Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Beautiful Ghosts,” but lost the award for the James Bond theme by Billie Eilish. Time to die.”

Throughout her career, the singer has garnered a total of 41 Grammy nominations and 11 wins and obviously has no intention of stopping at any point.

Swift is now in the process of re-recording her first six albums in the midst of her ongoing struggle to control her musical legacy and regain ownership of her masters. An expanded version of his first No. 1 album, “Fearless,” will be released in April and will include six unreleased tracks.