Featured Actor Joined: 6/14/11
bummer --
BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE --
Sia — Chandelier
John Legend — All of Me
Pharrell Williams — Happy (Live)
Sam Smith — Stay with Me
Taylor Swift- Shake It Off
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
"Let It Go" is a pop song?
It was the longest reigning number 1 song of the year.
Featured Actor Joined: 6/14/11
Her performance of the song was submitted in this category. Yes, it is a pop song
Please wait for the other nominations to come out!
Featured Actor Joined: 6/14/11
LET IT GO was not nominated for Record of the Year either. It is unlikely it will get Song Of the Year or will "FROZEN" Album of the Year.
It's Disney, folks. The Grammy's are unlikely to embrace a Disney phenom, except via the backdoor.
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/24/09
It's not Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Pharrell, or the awful new female rapper of the year, and those are the only people the Grammies recognize.
Where ARE my pearls?!?
Some of the noms were announced this morning.
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Sia was nom'd so I'm happy.
Will she perform with her back to the audience?!
I would be surprised if "Let It Go" wasn't nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media but anything more than that would be surprising to me. Were people really expecting it to break into the General field categories?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
Musical Theatre fans who don't understand the Grammys did, jnb.
It may still be nominated in the "Best Song Written On A Tuesday Sung By Lady Who Was In Wicked Ten Years Ago, Also Rent Before That".
I won that one last year.
Featured Actor Joined: 6/14/11
It is much more popular than the BEAUTY & THE BEAST duet by Celine/Bryson. So, yes, I was expecting it the break into the General Field. That duet, was nominated for Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo.
^ Yes, but aren't these (ostensibly) nominated on the basis of quality, not popularity?
(Congrats, doodle!)
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/28/13
Jay. In the real world, yes. On BWW, apparently not.
It's Disney, folks. The Grammy's are unlikely to embrace a Disney phenom, except via the backdoor.
They have in the past. Including many "backdoor" Grammy wins.
1994
Song of the Year
Alan Menken (music by)
Tim Rice (lyrics by)
Peabo Bryson (performed by)
Regina Belle (performed by)
For the song "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)".
Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals
Peabo Bryson
Regina Belle
For the song "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)".
1995
Best Male Pop Vocal Performance
Elton John
For the song "Can You Feel the Love Tonight".
Technically, by that trend, Demi Lovato's "Let It Go" would have been nominated instead of Idina's.
Right. But there are several other Disney wins for Best song written specifically for a movie or television. The pop "versions" of the film songs go into the pop category.
"Let It Go" is also very easily quarantined into a musical-theatre box which those Elton recordings weren't. They were written and recorded by an adored pop star with a decades-long career and a history of Grammys. And they weren't the actual vocal tracks from the musical but the re-recorded pop ballads. And that tradition includes the pop/R&B cover of "A Whole New World" that won, as well as "Somewhere Out There" which won Song of the Year in the 80s from AN AMERICAN TAIL.
These are similar, but not analogous. If Beyoncé covered "Let It Go" on the FROZEN soundtrack and that had radio play, that would be nominated in the General field categories.
Broadway Star Joined: 3/23/05
Why would she? Her nasal screeching is painful to listen to. Besides, it's not most popular song of the year. Updated On: 12/5/14 at 01:14 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/1/14
"Let It Go" isn't the most popular song of Frozen??
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/24/09
" that one about reindeer being better than people is the more popular one.
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