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Kacey Musgraves, Drag Race Judge, Wins Album of the Year at Grammys

#KaceyMusgraves # SpaceCowboy # Butterflies Kacey Musgraves has won Album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. The country singer took home music's biggest award for her album, Golden Hour. In total, Musgraves wo n four in four categories, including Best Country Album, Best Country Solo Performance (“Butterflies”), and Best Country Song (“Space Cowboy"). Musgraves, who performed with Dolly Parton during the awards’ telecast, has been one of the only voices of LGBTQ acceptance in country music — ever since she broke Nashville conventions in 2013 with her inclusive hit, “Follow Your Arrow.” Fast forward to 2018 and Musgraves has achieved gay icon status with tracks like the dance-centric “High Horse” and the optimistic “Rainbow,” which won over queer audiences — so much so that she even earned a spot as a guest judge on this season of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars. She frequently includes rainbow imagery into her visual cues as a nod to her LGBTQ fans, as seen in the vide

Grammy nominations 2019: Full list of nominees

The 61st #Grammy Award nominations were announced Friday morning .# ShawnMendes, #JanelleMonáe, #AlessiaCara and Apple Music's #Zane Lowe joined "CBS This Morning" to announce the nominees in the top categories Friday morning. Mendes and Monáe walked away with their own nominations while Cara, a four-time Grammy nominee and last year's best new artist, was not eligible.  With #Drake and #KendrickLamar leading the way in the biggest categories, both earning nods for record, album and song of the year. Those two aside, this year's top awards are dominated by women.  After backlash over the lack of female nominees last year, 2019 sees mostly young women in the best new artist category and five women competing with three men for album of the year.  There were also some notable snubs. Beyoncé and Jay-Z -- typically a favorite of the academy -- didn't get any love in the main categories for their collaborative album, "Everything Is Love." Kanye Wes