Losing looks good on her, too. Photo: Gilbert Flores/Billboard via Getty Images

Taylor Swift doesn’t normally lose. She won the 2024 Super Bowl and she wasn’t even playing. But at the 2025 Grammy Awards on February 2, she went home with a big ol’ goose egg. The Tortured Poets Department, which she announced when she won the Grammy for Best Pop Vocal Album last year for Midnights (before going on to win Album of the Year for Midnights, too), scored six nominations. The big one, Album of the Year, went to Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter, while Best Pop Vocal Album went to Swift protégé Sabrina Carpenter. And so the student becomes the master. Other losses included Best Music Video, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year to Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us,” and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance went to Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’s “Die With a Smile.” Although, this does set up an angry, angry Reputation (Taylor’s Version) nicely. Maybe those secret songs will hit harder if we can imagine they’re aimed at Beyoncé instead of Calvin Harris.