How the Los Angeles wildfires will transform the 2025 Grammys

ABC ^ | 1/28/25 | MARIA SHERMAN AP music writer

[DallasBiff]

LOS ANGELES -- LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Grammy Awards will look a little bit different this week.

Each year, the Recording Academy hosts a multitude of events to welcome the music industry during Grammy week and record labels do the same. However, many institutions have canceled their plans — Universal Music Group, Sony, Spotify, BMG and Warner Music Group among them — and instead are allocating resources to help those affected by the devastating Los Angeles-area wildfires.

The Grammys will still take place on Sunday at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles but now will focus its attention on helping wildfire victims.

[DallasBiff]

Huh, the wildfires in LA could have been preventable if billions of gallons of fresh water had not been diverted into the Pacific by Newsom.

Nothing about the people in North Carolina, who suffered a real natural disaster, called a hurricane.

[frank ballenger]

Maybe not the best year for the lifetime award to the Trammps for Disco Inferno —Burn, Baby Burn with the song playing after each guest comes on stage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH_FFiUMoLY

[sasquatch]

Both my Grammys passed a long time ago.

[j.havenfarm]

So the Grammies will be less self-congratulatory and more self-pitying?

[SaxxonWoods]

They still giving those out?

[MCF]

I'm sure there is a cul-de-sac somewhere in the Pacific Palisades that could host the Grammys.