Also nominated is Taylor Swift, who beat Beyoncé for Album of the Year when they first faced off in 2010. As L.A. Times pop music critic Mikael Wood reports – another showdown is looming.

That celebrities could use their cultural power to get fans to vote for a candidate struck me as ridiculous at best, snobby and condescending at worst.

A week after the US presidential election, fake posts are claiming superstar singers Beyoncé and Taylor Swift will no longer be performing in Republican states that voted for Donald Trump. Though