While Beyoncé honored the Oscars with her presence and performance, she unfortunately did not give the Grammys the same privilege. The singer opted not to attend this year's ceremony in Las
Vegas. Her absence is understandable: Beyoncé does not have any nominations this year, so there's no reason for her to be there.
Beyoncé will likely have a reason to be back soon though. In her September 2021 interview with Harper's BAZAAR, the singer spoke about her plans to release more music imminently.
“With all the isolation and injustice over the past year, I think we are all ready to escape, travel, love, and laugh again,” she said. “I feel a renaissance emerging, and I want to be part of nurturing that escape in any way possible. I’ve been in the studio for a year and a half. Sometimes it takes a year for me to personally search through thousands of sounds to find just the right kick or snare. One chorus can have up to 200 stacked harmonies. Still, there’s nothing like the amount of love, passion, and healing that I feel in the recording studio. After 31 years, it feels just as exciting as it did when I was nine years old. Yes, the music is coming!”
Of her hopes for the next decade in her career generally, Beyoncé said, “I’ve done so much in 40 years that I just want to enjoy my life. It’s hard going against the grain, but being a small part of some of the overdue shifts happening in the world feels very rewarding. I want to continue to work to dismantle systemic imbalances. I want to continue to turn these industries upside down. I plan to create businesses outside of music. I have learned that I have to keep on dreaming. One of my favorite quotes is from the inventor Charles Kettering. It goes ‘Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.’”