The full list of nominations for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards are now upon us and, with 84 trophies up for grabs, there’s a lot to comb through. As we await the big ceremony, which takes place on January 28, here are some key takeaways and categories to watch.

Addressing the Race Problem

In the nearly 60-year history of the Grammys, there has only been one year—2005—when four artists of color have been nominated at the same time for Album of the Year, the award show’s most prestigious accolade. This year it happened again, with nominations for JAY-Z’s 4:44, Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN., Bruno Mars’ 24K Magic, and Childish Gambino’s “Awaken, My Love!”, as well as Lorde’s Melodrama. (Jay leads the nomination class overall, with eight nods; Kendrick with seven; Bruno with six.)

Finally, the Grammys faced the ongoing criticism that their choices are too white—which came to a head last year when Adele basically apologized to Beyoncé for winning AOTY—by having a banner year for diversity in their Big Four categories (Album, Song, and Record of the Year; Best New Artist). Besides Lorde, the only other white people even nominated across those categories are Alessia Cara and Julia Michaels.

But Where Are the Ladies?

The Big Four are the guts and glory of the Grammys, and everyone knows it. But only a fifth of the nominations across those categories this year go to female artists: Lorde, Julia Michaels, SZA, and Alessia Cara. It is true that 2017 has been a truly rough one for women on the charts, and it’s hard to expect more from the Grammys than glorified chart watching. But couldn’t y’all have at least slipped “Bodak Yellow,” the year’s record smasher of a hit, into the Big Four? SZA’s spectacular debut CTRL for the album nod?

That said, it seems like Lorde has a real chance for the AOTY win, just in terms of voting politics. The Grammys love a wunderkind. Four of the last 10 AOTY winners have been young, white pop singer-songwriters mining matters of the heart and the self. And the two strongest competitors—Kendrick and JAY-Z—could split votes that sway hip-hop. (Plus, you know, Melodrama is a good album.)

Snubbed!

Though he did rack up two nominations, for Best Pop Solo Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album, the humbly insufferable Ed Sheeran was mercifully shut out of the show’s biggest categories. Also proving that massive star power doesn’t necessarily translate to Grammy gold: Miley Cyrus and Katy Perry were not nominated for anything, the Weeknd’s Starboy only garnered a single nom (for Best Urban Contemporary Album), and Recording Academy favorite Lady Gaga scored just two noms in pop categories. Though the classic rock stylings of Harry Styles’ solo debut seemed to cater to the Grammys’ ingrained tastes, the one-time boy bander was also left out entirely. And country! There is not one country artist to be found across the Big Four categories.

Of the more heartbreaking snubs, A Tribe Called Quest and their brilliant swan song, We Got It From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service, was not recognized. Though Vince Staples recently suggested that he deserved noms in the Best Rap Album, Best Electronic Album, Best Alternative Album, and Album of the Year categories, he didn’t get any of those—or any at all. Paramore, one of the few mainstream rock bands worth following nowadays, turned in a fine addition to their impressive catalog with After Laughter, to no avail. And with his production work on Lorde’s Melodrama, Jack Antonoff helped push the sound of pop further than most this year, but he did not receive a nom for Producer of the Year.

Who the Hell Are These Rock Bands?!

Granted, rock music is not exactly at its peak cultural relevance right now, but there were a couple of bands nominated for major rock categories that we’ve barely heard of. So we did some research. According to the Grammys, Texas band Nothing More—essentially a ham-headed cross between Nickelback (minus hooks) and Muse (minus bombast)—are worthy of three nominations, including two for their quasi-political hit “Go to War.” And filling the white-boy blues hole left by an absent Black Keys this year is the Icelandic group Kaleo, whose zombie-foot-stompin’ track “No Good” is up for Best Rock Performance. Now we know!

Alt vs. Rock

Why do the War on Drugs get to be nominated in the Rock Album category, but the National are relegated to the (well-stacked) Alternative Album category? Their albums, A Deeper Understanding and Sleep Well Beast, have equal amounts of synth weirdness and experimentation with song structures, and the National actually debuted higher on the charts than the War on Drugs. It always feels arbitrary where the Grammys draw this particular line; alternative to what, exactly?

Most Bizarre Category

This year’s Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album noms include: Vegas redux Michael Bublé, a Tony Bennett tribute record featuring Lady Gaga and, um, Kevin Spacey, Lilith Fair queen Sarah McLachlan, “Family Guy” and Ted auteur Seth MacFarlane’s fourth (!) standards album, and fucking Bob Dylan. What we would give to see all of them on the same stage, in what would likely be the strangest medley in Grammy history.

Fun Fact

“Bodak Yellow” is nominated for two awards, Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song. The latter is a songwriting award, so the Grammy credits include all songwriters and producers. Though the song’s official publishing credits use Cardi B’s real name (Belcalis Almanzar), the name Cardi uses in her Grammy filing is Washpoppin, one of her catchphrases (and one of her songs). The Grammys confirmed Washpoppin is Cardi, so now the question shifts from, “Why didn’t the Grammys recognize Cardi B as a songwriter?” to, “Is Cardi B low-key trolling the Grammys?”