Beyoncé will come into the next Grammy Awards with 11 nods, after setting a new record for most nominations at this ceremony, but other artists weren’t as lucky. This year’s list of nominees brought many snubs and surprises our way, and here are five that created the biggest commotion online. Snub: Ariana Grande Ariana Grande […]
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]]>Beyoncé will come into the next Grammy Awards with 11 nods, after setting a new record for most nominations at this ceremony, but other artists weren’t as lucky. This year’s list of nominees brought many snubs and surprises our way, and here are five that created the biggest commotion online.
Snub: Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande is coming into this year’s Grammys with three nods, including her sixth consecutive nomination for the best pop vocal album with Eternal Sunshine, but she failed to break into the main categories.
Surprise: The Beatles
The Beatles haven’t been around for decades, but that didn’t stop them from scoring a record of the year nod at the Grammys with their AI-assisted song “Now and Then”, which utilized artificial intelligence to extract John Lennon’s voice from an old demo.
Snub: Dua Lipa
After winning the best pop vocal album with Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa failed to make a splash with its follow-up Radical Optimism, and she didn’t even break into the pop categories.
Surprise: Album of the Year
The coveted album of the year category brought several surprises our way, with New Blue Sun by André 3000 and Djesse Vol. 4 by Jacob Collier shockingly making the cut.
Snub: Jack Antonoff
Despite producing two of this year’s AOTY contenders—Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department and Sabrina Carpenter’s Short n’ Sweet —Jack Antonoff failed to secure a nod for the producer of the year, the award he won for the past three years.
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It’s been five decades since The Beatles went their separate way, but that didn’t stop them from making waves with a brand-new song this past weekend. “Now & Then” has been billed as the legendary band’s “final song”, but how did it come together after all this time? “Now & Then” was built on the […]
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]]>It’s been five decades since The Beatles went their separate way, but that didn’t stop them from making waves with a brand-new song this past weekend. “Now & Then” has been billed as the legendary band’s “final song”, but how did it come together after all this time?
“Now & Then” was built on the backbones of a demo John Lennon recorded during the ’70s, but it never saw the light of day. The Beatless were initially planning to include it in The Beatles Anthology in 1995, but their plan fell apart because they couldn’t mash the backing track and Lennon’s recording in a way that made sense.
Things turned around almost three decades down the road, largely thanks to the visionary director Peter Jackson. The audio restoration technology his team developed for the documentary The Beatles: Get Back made it possible to isolate Lennon’s vocals from the instruments and eventually complete the song.
Even though “Now & Then” was billed as The Beatles’ last song together, Jackson believes it’s possible to use the same technology to resurrect some of their other lost tracks.
“We can take a performance from Get Back, separate John and George, and then have Paul and Ringo add a chorus or harmonies. You might end up with a decent song but I haven’t had conversations with Paul about that. It’s fanboy stuff, but certainly conceivable,” said Jackson told The Sunday Times.
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