Comment on Another Beyoncé vs. Taylor Swift showdown looms at the 2025 Grammys

By Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — A decade and a half ago, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift went head to head for album of the year at the 52nd Grammy Awards in January 2010. It was each woman’s first time competing for the Grammys’ most prestigious prize — the one that embodies the Recording Academy’s closely held ideas about craftsmanship and tradition — and as they waited for Carlos Santana to call out the winner’s name, both wore expressions of nervous expectation. Swift, then 20, took album of the year that night with her sophomore LP, the 10-times-platinum “Fearless” — in the process becoming the youngest person in Grammys history to carry the category.