For some reason, Meghan Trainor won Best New Artist at the Grammys in 2015, so she had the honor of announcing the nominees this morning on Good Morning America for the 2017 big four general Grammy categories: Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist. Following her presentation, the Recording Academy announced the rest of the 84 category nominations.

I would have preferred if the Recording Academy just went ahead and told us they’ve decided to forgo this whole nominations business because Beyoncé will be winning all the awards, and the ceremony hosted by James Corden will be a 30-minute Carpool Karaoke with Beyoncé and a pile of Grammys in the backseat. That would have been the honest thing for them to do.

We may have had a terrible year in 2016, but we cannot let the nominations for the Grammys depict such a bleak music year. Of the first of the general categories, Beyoncé, Adele, Drake, Justin Bieber, and Sturgill Simpson are nominated. First of all, according to the Recording Academy (which is comprised of recording professionals like engineers and producers), the Grammys “honor artistic achievement, technical proficiency and overall excellence in the recording industry, without regard to album sales or chart position.” That sounds all well and nice, so, who invited Bieber? Has the Recording Academy really decided that of all the albums released this year, Purpose was truly one of the best? An album that features Diplo and Skrillex represented more artistic achievement, than say, Blackstar by David Bowie?

Also a bit confusing is Drake’s presence in this category with Views, but I guess “Hotline Bling” and “One Dance” swept the nation that much, and he did break streaming records. Oh wait, album sales are disregarded, remember? Then why is Aubrey here as well? If the music gods care, Beyoncé will most likely win because I’m scared of the Beyhive’s reaction of Adele wins, honestly. Or maybe the Stereogum comment section’s favorite country musician Sturgill Simpson will surprise us all? Pouring one out for the lack of rock music this year and watching when Arcade Fire won in 2011 for The Suburbs.

Record of the Year nominees Adele (“Hello”), Beyoncé (“Formation”), Rihanna (“Work”), Twenty One Pilots (“Stressed Out”), and Lukas Graham (“7 Years”) present a slightly less confusing outlook. Oh yay, a band that does not really seem to qualify as rock somehow is the rock representative in this category. I can already hear the “I’m so proud, they’ve come so far” posts that Twenty One Pilots fans are making across their Tumblrs right now. Please, I cannot take it if they win. If this category does not go to Beyoncé, Adele, or Rihanna, I’ll be surprised.

Song of the Year is a more bleak hell landscape just because Justin Bieber (“Love Yourself”) and Mike Posner (“I Took a Pill in Ibiza”) are nominated alongside Adele (“Hello”), Beyoncé (“Formation”), and Lukas Graham (“7 Years”). Really, “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” is the height of technical proficiency in 2016 music? Well, I have simply been incorrect over here thinking that Radiohead’s “Burn the Witch” or James Blake and Bon Iver’s “I Need a Forest Fire” were beautifully produced and artful songs from 2016. Apparently, I need more Top 20 Radio in my life.

If The Chainsmokers, who are up against Anderson .Paak, Chance the Rapper, Maren Morris, and Kelsea Ballerini, win Best New Artist, we as a society have to decide now to ask every member of the Recording Academy if they are aware that those dudes are actually really gross and terrible people, and yes, that should factor in somehow, but this is, I guess, the award show that continued to nominate Chris Brown after he abused one of the other nominees. That’s fine. Whatever. Come one, Recording Academy, do not let the bro EDM misogyny win.

For most of the genre-specific categories, business seems to be operating as expected. I did get some joy out of seeing Twenty One Pilots nominated for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance because they are Hot Topic Pop. Also, a sign that the Recording Academy will probably never change, they still nominated Bob Dylan for something (Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album) because it was not enough he’s getting a Nobel Prize. Then we have DJ Khaled nominated for Best Rap Album, when we really should be awarding him an Oscar for Best Male Actor in his Snapchats. The saga of him getting lost on a jet ski should get him a Golden Globe alone. Can we live in a world where DJ Khaled wins a Grammy? Especially if that meant he beat Kanye’s Life of Pablo? We cannot handle that outlook. We are already such a fragile society with Mike Posner representing the height of songwriting apparently.

A category no one would think to be this wild is Best Rock Performance. Did we ever think in our lifetime we would witness Beyoncé featuring Jack White nominated for a rock award against 1990s favorite alt rock band Disturbed? On top of that, Disturbed is specifically nominated for a cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Sound of Silence” they performed on Conan. The band that brought the world “Down With the Sickness” is up against a song from a predominantly R&B album that happens to feature one of the best guitarists and rock musicians, White, for a goddamn Rock Performance Grammy Award. To hold back the disappointment I feel at the nominations this year, I have to find some joy in laughing at this category. How did we come here? Genres mean nothing anymore. Yes, Twenty One Pilots and Alabama Shakes are also nominated as well as David Bowie, who should really win the award. Best Rock Performance is the real category to look out for the night of the show.

To quote a friend, every year that Taylor Swift isn’t nominated is a win.

The 2017 Beyoncé Awards will air on February 12 on CBS, hosted by James Corden.