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Business Insider’s entertainment team predicts who will take home an award, and why.

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Grammy’s night forecast: cloudy with a chance of snubs

After covering the Grammy Awards for nearly two decades, there are a few moments I know will happen on music’s biggest night: Someone will go home happy, and someone will go home sad.

Either way, we’ll get Trevor Noah as the host for his sixth and final time, performances you’ll text about, and candid moments between our favorite singers seated inside LA’s Crypto.com Arena on Sunday. It’ll all air on CBS.

Kendrick Lamar leads with nine nominations, including in the major categories such as Record, Album, and Song of the Year, followed by Lady Gaga and producers Cirkut and Jack Antonoff with seven. We’ll also be watching Super Bowl performer Bad Bunny, Sabrina Carpenter, and my personal favorite, Leon Thomas, to see if they go home with trophies after nabbing six nods.

I asked Business Insider’s entertainment team who they thought would go home with a small, 24K gold-plated gramophone. Here’s what they’re betting on:

Jason Guerrasio, Entertainment correspondent: Tucked away in the midst of the 90-plus Grammy categories is Best Album Cover. I hope it goes to Perfume Genius’ “Glory” cover. Google it. It’s instantly eye-catching.

Samantha Rollins, deputy editor of Entertainment: When “Mayhem” single “Abracadabra” debuted during a commercial break at last year’s Grammys, many posited that Lady Gaga’s newest album would take a back-to-basics approach to the edgy electropop that made her famous. What emerged instead was far more interesting. Lady Gaga’s “Mayhem” is an invigorating return to form that proves one of pop’s most famous shape-shifters can still keep us guessing. She’ll take it for Album of the Year.

Callie Ahlgrim, senior pop culture writer: Record of the Year is supposed to honor the most superb blend of production and performance, but since it tends to favor ubiquity, I have to give the edge to the global pop smash “APT.” Bruno Mars has the cross-generational appeal that Grammy voters can’t resist, and Rosé would make history as the first K-pop star to win in a competitive category.




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B-52 bomber crew picks up award for pulling their plane out of life-threatening ‘catastrophic’ failures at 1,200 feet

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A US Air Force B-52 bomber crew received an award for pulling off an exceptional recovery during a life-threatening emergency.

“All the systems kicked off at once, and the aircraft went completely dark, engines flamed out, and controlling the aircraft became a battle,” Capt. Matthew Walls, one of three aircrew members aboard the B-52H Stratofortress bomber at the time, described in a Thursday press release.

As the heavy bomber’s crew was navigating around severe thunderstorms on their way to Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on December 13, 2022, the aircraft, Scout 94 went into an uncontrolled roll.

Two of the plane’s electrical generators were off, four of the bomber’s engines gave out, and the aircraft was descending quickly while decelerating below normal approach speed.

Walls recalled that the emergency, which happened as they were making preparations to land the plane, “was sudden and caused brief but extreme disorientation to myself and the other crew members.”


Capt. Charles Powell, 11th Bomb Squadron director of staff, Lt. Col. John Conway, Air Combat Command TRSS Detachment 13 commander, and Capt. Matthew Walls, 343 Bomb Squadron unit deployment manager, stand for their photo in front of a B-52H Stratofortress June 3, 2024 at Barksdale Air Force Base, La. They recently earned the Air Force Global Strike Command General Curtis E. LeMay award for the outstanding bomber crew category for overcoming multiple failures during a flight, but still managing to land the aircraft safely.

Capt. Charles Powell, 11th Bomb Squadron director of staff, Lt. Col. John Conway, Air Combat Command TRSS Detachment 13 commander, and Capt. Matthew Walls, 343 Bomb Squadron unit deployment manager, stand for their photo in front of a B-52H Stratofortress June 3, 2024 at Barksdale Air Force Base, La.

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Capt. Charles Powell attempted to restart the engines and managed to bring back two of the four that had given out.

Lt. Col. John Conway, another crew member, said “the reason Captain Powell was able to recover the aircraft safely is because he has trained to a six-engine approach many times and holds himself to a high standard when he trains.”

He added that “Capt. Powell and Capt. Walls both performed admirably and with immense poise that day.”

The bomber lost its engines on one side. Shortly after the two engines restarted, the crew was able to make an unusual turn back against the roll, declare an emergency, and achieve a safe landing with assistance from air traffic control.

The crew’s actions were significant, as they successfully recovered the unwieldy aircraft at a low altitude of just 1,200 feet while flying over a populated area in Bossier City.

“The Scout 94 crew overcame multiple catastrophic failures to safely land the aircraft, averting potential disaster in the air and on the ground,” the Air Force said.

During the 2023 Air Force Global Strike Command Operations Awards, the B-52 crew received the Air Force Global Strike Command General Curtis E. LeMay Award in the outstanding bomber crew category.

“I’m very proud of how we handled the situation,” Walls said of the emergency that lasted only minutes but required a quick response. “It was fast and intense, and there wasn’t time for discussion, just action. In my opinion, everyone fell into their role and did what was required.”


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