![]() ![]() "I'm Just Ken," Barbie, performed by Ryan Gosling (Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt, songwriters) And it'll surely sound terrific when performed on Oscar night, which is just one more reason among many to cheer its inclusion.Ģ. The first Native American nominated for best original song, songwriter Scott George crafted a rousing work that transcends its place in a movie's closing credits: It's a work of celebration that suits its moment in the film while speaking to the Osage Nation's resilience in the face of systemic discrimination and murder. An unconventional entry in a field typically reserved for English-language songs by well-known artists, "Wahzhazhe" had an unusual number of hurdles to clear in order to get nominated, starting with the fact that it had never been written down prior to submission. Maybe I'm riding high on the thrill of not having to write about Diane Warren for another 12 months, but this is a strong field! Next up is "Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)," which closes Martin Scorsese's epic Killers of the Flower Moon - and pointedly gives the Osage Nation the last word. "Wahzhazhe (A Song for My People)," Killers of the Flower Moon, performed by Osage Tribal Singers (Scott George, songwriter) Had Flamin' Hot never existed - and how sad it would have been for the world to be denied Eva Longoria's sub-featherweight brand-fluffing biopic! - Warren would have just gotten nominated for " Gonna Be You" from 80 for Brady.Ĥ. As a whole, this is probably Warren's best Oscar-nominated song since 2015's "Til It Happens to You" (a Lady Gaga collaboration that should have beaten Sam Smith's "Writing's on the Wall"), which is at least saying something. Musically, "The Fire Inside" is an effervescent and thoroughly inoffensive trifle, brought home by a charismatic vocal from Becky G. Rise, stand, fight, you got this, they can't hold you back, blah blah blah, seriously, have ChatGPT and Diane Warren ever been seen in the same room together? Lyrically, it's just another slice of quasi-inspirational, nominally defiant boilerplate, dragged down by couplets that would cause a generative AI program to resign in embarrassment ("They will think they can stop you / But there's no stopping you"). ![]() decent, as recent-vintage Diane Warren songs go. 15 and thanking our lucky stars that "The Fire Inside" is actually. So here we are, yet again, pondering Doomed Nomination No. She's locked into an eternal paradox: enough institutional support for a seventh consecutive nomination (!!), never enough juice to win. ![]() It's hard to devise new ways to say that a Diane Warren composition gets nominated in this category every single year, invariably at the expense of superior songs. "The Fire Inside," Flamin' Hot, performed by Becky G (Diane Warren, songwriter) ![]()
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