Barbie got here into the 2024 Grammys with 11 nominations and went dwelling with three of them.
Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell gained track of the yr for “What Was I Made For?” Their fellow contenders included Lana Del Rey’s “A&W,” Taylor Swift’s “Anti-Hero,” Jon Batiste’s “Butterfly,” Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Evening,” additionally from Barbie, Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers,” SZA’s “Kill Invoice” and Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire.”
Throughout her acceptance speech, Eilish gave a particular shout-out to Barbie director Greta Gerwig for “making the very best film of the yr,” seemingly referencing the truth that the filmmaker was snubbed for the very best director class on the Oscars this yr.
In a dialog with reporters within the press room after their win, Eilish defined that she and her brother had hit a little bit of a roadblock with their songwriting earlier than getting the chance to put in writing for the movie’s soundtrack.
“We had been working three days every week and never arising with stuff, and even when we had been arising with stuff it simply didn’t really feel proper, didn’t really feel good, didn’t really feel actual,” she stated. “And I received actually anxious, I received nervous, I felt prefer it was going to be over a bit of bit. I used to be in an actual darkish place, actually, actually darkish place, it’s form of onerous to suppose again to it, however Greta got here to us, and he or she supplied us this life-changing factor we didn’t actually notice was going to be life-changing like that, and we wrote [‘What Was I Made For?’] 24 hours after we noticed the film.”
The emotional ballad acquired the trophy for finest track written for visible media, the place it was competing in opposition to three different songs from Barbie — Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Evening,” Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Simply Ken” and Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice’s “Barbie World” — in addition to Rihanna’s “Carry Me Up” from Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly.
Barbie the Album took dwelling the Grammy for finest compilation soundtrack for visible media. Daisy Jones & the Six, Black Panther: Wakanda Ceaselessly, Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3: Superior Combine, Vol. 3 and Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story had been additionally up for the award.
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