u/dismal_windfall

I suppose the answer is they thought Ed Sheeran was more palatable for the music branch and would have resulted in a song nomination. But considering they didn’t nominate it and only shortlisted it. Why didn’t they push for the two songs that actually charted in the U.S.?

I know there’s a pop bias in the branch unless you’re Lady Gaga, but surely the popularity of those songs would have helped if Apple pushed them more. Ed Sheeran has declined in reputation and popularity, and someone like McRae was having a moment.

Even outside of that Lose My Mind and Just Keep Watching are more in line with the films score

I mean ones that have never won it before.

My current list:

• Lady Gaga
• Justin Bieber
• Kendrick Lamar
• Sabrina Carpenter
• Olivia Rodrigo

There’s a few artists that I can think of that are American that lean into it. Mostly Jon Baptiste, but some other artists that lean more R&B like Leon Thomas or Samara Joy.

But if you look at what’s mostly taking up that space in terms of attention it’s a lot of British artists. Olivia Dean, Raye, Sienna Spiro, Lola Young. Ten years ago the two people at the forefront of the genre were Adele and Sam Smith. The exception to British people is Laufey who is Icelandic/Chinese.

I’m confused as to why the genre that seems to be derived from American music doesn’t actually have a lot of American musicians visible in the genre or even participation. Like the last big American name I can think of is Norah Jones. There’s also Seth MacFarlane and Liz Gillies but both mostly do stuff from the American song book.

I know drop dead was muted on released but the cure had a more positive reaction.

Now that the album has been out for a few days it seems like the clear songs that people have gravitated towards have been: honeybee, maggots for brains, and less. So why weren’t these the single pushes?