Beyoncé should’ve won, plain and simple

There’s very few people out there who can deny the power of Beyoncé. When it comes to relevance, the woman has been on the top of the game since her emergence onto the music scene in 1997.

Whether someone’s dancing it out to “Survivor” from back in her Destiny’s Child days or they’re jamming harder than they’ve ever jammed before when the bass drops in “Partition,” there are millions of reasons to love Beyoncé.

Everyone has a reason to love Beyoncé.

So why hasn’t she ever won Album of the Year?

In 2010, Beyoncé lost Album of the Year to Taylor Swift. In 2015, Beyoncé lost to Beck. And most recently, just a few weeks ago, Beyoncé lost Album of the Year to Adele.

How can this be?

Yes, in 2010 when Taylor Swift was on the radio every five minutes singing about how you belonged with her, it seemed almost inevitable that she would win. This is a loss that makes sense in a lot of ways.

In 2015, however, when Beyoncé lost to Beck, a red flag almost certainly had to be raised. I mean, who is Beck?

Ask me – or any person off the street for that matter – to name a Beyoncé song and at least 15 tracks come to mind. But Beck? Besides his 1993 song, “Loser,” (isn’t that ironic?) not another song comes to mind.

Coming around the bend to the most recent Grammy Awards, Beyoncé lost the title of Album of the Year to Adele. While there’s no questioning the worthiness or relevance of this opponent, there is a big issue: Adele didn’t deserve to win.

Was Adele’s “25” a bad album? Of course not. “Hello” and “When We Were Young” were instant hits and when the album was released in November of 2015, after a five-year break from music, people were starving for her.

The quality was absolutely there, the talent was absolutely there, but Adele’s album felt exactly the same as her last.

But Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” was different than anything the Texas-born singer had ever released before. The social and political commentary created with the release of “Lemonade” was groundbreaking.

The album“Lemonade” and the single “Formation” are forcing people to take a look at the world around them and to really examine their surrounding and themselves.

In addition to the album’s impact, Adele herself thought Beyoncé deserved the win.

“I can’t possibly accept this award, and I’m very humbled and I’m very grateful and gracious, but my artist of my life is Beyoncé and this album, to me, the ‘Lemonade’ album,” Adele said on stage when she accepted her award.

So what does this say about the Grammy Awards? When the person who received the award genuinely believes that she should’t have won – isn’t that an indication that maybe she shouldn’t have?

“You are our light,” Adele continued. “And the way that you make me and my friends feel, the way you make my black friends feel, is empowering. You make them stand up for themselves and I love you. I always have and I always will.”

There’s no denying the legitimacy of Beyoncé Knowles-Carter. I, along with Adele and so many others, all believe it’s time the Recording Academy woke up and gave the woman the award she deserves.