The Grammy’s happened on Feb 1, 2026, and with artists like Olivia Dean winning best new artist or Bad Bunny winning Album of the Year with ‘DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS’, many of the staff and student body from Bellevue East High School watched. Many opinions were made as the winners were announced.
Staff gave very brief opinions about who they thought should have won. Out of the eight responses a tie between “WILDFLOWER”, “Abracadabra”, and “Golden” from K-Pop Demon Hunter for who should have won ‘Song of the Year’ came to light among staff. Students disagreed.
“The Grammy I disagree with is K-POP Demon Hunter’s ‘Golden’ it wasn’t a good song, it was overhyped and annoying, I’ve heard it so many times it gets old.” freshman Carly Worell said.
The general consensus across all of the 52 students who answered the Google form, was that Wildflower, the winner of Song of the Year, was the true winner in their opinions. However some students disagreed.
“Manchild should have won song of the year because of its status as ‘song of the summer’,” senior Emerson Schubauer said. “Also, ‘WILDFLOWER’, the winner by Billie Eilish, was released in the Spring of 2024, which in my opinion should have taken it out of the running for SOTY, especially since Billie won zero awards for the album it came from last year, when it should have been been up for awards. Just because it was popular this season, shouldn’t make it the song of the year. If we were to get rid of ‘WILDFLOWER’, I think ‘Manchild’ would naturally take song of the year.”
Students overall disagreed with the ‘Album of the Year’ winner. Instead, saying CHROMAKOPIA by Tyler, The Creator should have won. But one student explains why they agree with the winner.
“Bad Bunny winning album of the year,” Schubauer said. “He has been a top global artist for years, but he has rarely gotten recognition from the recording academy. It was finally time that Latin music gets the attention it deserves.”
When winners took to the stage to receive their awards a speech was accompanied and whether students or staff agreed with the choices of winners they listened to these speeches.
“Regarding the winners, I felt that many of the speeches and messages, such as those from Billie Eilish and Bad Bunny, focused too much on harsh criticism of ICE and the administration,” Instructor Genevieve Reza said. “In my opinion, the focus should have remained on celebrating artistic achievement. Many viewers, I believe, watch to escape politics, not to have them delivered in acceptance speeches. The ‘ICE out’ rhetoric felt like a distraction from the talent.”