Some of the maximum ubiquitous songs in contemporary reminiscence were nominated for Song of the Year at the 2024 Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 4.
Billie Eilish thought there used to be “now not a possibility” that she would take house the award, which acknowledges the composition of a song and its songwriters, and her surprise was once transparent when she received the trophy.
“I simply want to say everyone on this category, like — that used to be a crazy record of implausible people, improbable artists, implausible track! I think loopy at this time,” Eilish, 22, mentioned all through her acceptance speech. “Damn, dude. I am shocked out of my balls.”
Lana Del Rey’s “A&W,” Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero,” Jon Batiste’s “Butterfly,” Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night,” Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers,” SZA’s “Kill Bill” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” also received nods in the category.
“Thank you to the individuals of the Recording Academy. Thank you to my brother who's my best buddy in the global and makes me the particular person I'm nowadays,” Ellish mentioned on level Thank you to Greta Gerwig for making the best possible movie of the year.”
Both Eilish and Lipa have been each known for the songs they penned for the 2023 Barbie movie. The two already competed towards every different for Best Original Song – Motion Picture at the 2024 Golden Globe Awards in January, with Eilish securing the win. Eilish additionally earned a nod for Best Original Song at the 2024 Academy Awards, which is able to happen in March, whilst Lipa was once not nominated by the Oscars.
In January, Eilish shared the inspiration behind “What Was I Made For?” at the Palm Springs Film Awards, emphasizing that “any recognition that this song gets, I simply want to commit to someone who studies hopelessness, the feeling of existential dread and feeling like, ‘What’s the point? Why am I right here? And why am I doing this?’”
“I believe we all really feel like that on occasion, however I think if someone like me, with the quantity of privilege that I've and the improbable things that I am getting to do and be and how I have in point of fact not wanted to be right here,” she persevered. “Sorry to be dark, damn. But I’ve spent a lot of time feeling that way.”
Eilish then inspired those dealing with equivalent issues to “be patient” with themselves. “And know that it is, I feel, price it all,” she stated. “And I think that it’s excellent to be alive now. I didn’t really feel like that for a long time.”
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As for Cyrus’ hit “Flowers,” the empowering anthem’s message used to be first of all much bleaker.
“I wrote it in a in point of fact different method,” Cyrus, who received Best Pop Solo Performance earlier in the night, informed British Vogue in her June 2023 cover story. “The chorus used to be initially: ‘I can purchase myself plants, write my title in the sand, however I can’t love me higher than you can.’ It was once more, like, 1950s. The saddest song. Like: ‘Sure, I can be my own lover, but you’re so much better.’”
Cyrus in the long run made up our minds to take the lyrics in another direction, converting the line to “I will love me better than you'll.” She defined to the outlet that the song is “a bit fake it till you make it, which I’m a big fan of.”
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