It was all too tame for a show whose belle of the ball was the Woodstock-era folk legend Joni Mitchell. Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images The Grammys are straining to be a different beast in this decade under Recording Academy president Harvey Mason Jr., who took over from his disgraced predecessor in 2021. Acclaim now gets spread around a wider and somewhat more careful group of nominees; categories are on the move and trying harder to recognize not just the evolving faces of Stateside pop,