Flume, Tame Impala and Hillsong score Grammy nominations while Justin Bieber has a hissy fit
Flume and Tame Impala will represent Australia at next year’s Grammy Awards, while controversial church Hillsong are also up for a gong.
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Australian musicians Tame Impala and Flume have been nominated for Grammy Awards at next year’s event.
Tame Impala’s The Slow Rush has been nominated as Best Alternative Album while their track Lost In Yesterday is up for Best Rock Song.
It’s the third time Tame Impala have been nominated for Best Alternative Album, with Lonerism and Currents losing in 2014 and 2016 respectively.
Tame Impala are also up for Best Album, Best Group, Best Pop Release (for Lost in Yesterday) and Best Rock Album at tonight’s ARIA Awards.
Flume’s collaboration with Toro y moi, The Difference, is up for Best Dance Recording.
It is Flume’s fourth Grammy nomination, the Sydney musician won Best Dance/Electronic Album for Skin in 2017.
The awards will be held on January 31, with organisers uncertain if it will run as a virtual event.
Meanwhile, Australian church Hillsong will go against Kanye West for the Grammy award for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album.
All of My Best Friends by Hillsong Young and Free will compete with Kanye West’s Jesus is King.
Hillsong, who have been shrouded in controversy after preacher Carl Lentz quit the tax-free organisation after cheating on his wife, won a Grammy in 2018 for What a Beautiful Name.
Meanwhile, Carl Lentz’s friend Justin Bieber has complained about his Grammy nominations.
Bieber’s Changes album saw him receive four Grammy nominations, however the singer took to social media stating he wanted to be nominated in the R&B not pop category.
This year’s awards had already shocked the music industry with major R&B artists including The Weeknd, Kehlani and Alicia Keys snubbed completely.
The Weeknd, whose Blinding Lights is now the longest-running Top 10 hit in Billboard history, posted on social media “The Grammys remain corrupt. You owe me, my fans and the industry transparency.”
However Bieber addressed the Grammys saying he was ‘flattered’ by his nominations but they were misguided.
“I set out to make an R&B album. Changes was and is an R&B album. It is not being acknowledged as an R&B album, which is very strange to me. I grew up admiring R&B music and wished to make a project that would embody that sound. For this not to be put into that category feels weird, considering from the chords to the melodies to the vocal style, all the way down to the hip-hop drums that were chosen, it is undeniably, unmistakably an R&B album!
“To be clear,” he concluded, “I absolutely love pop music, it was just wasn’t what I set out to make this time around. My gratitude for feeling respected for my work remains and I am honoured to be nominated either way. Please don’t mistake this as me being ungrateful, these are just my thoughts take em or leave em. Thank you to the people who fought for me to even have any noms.”
The Weeknd’s manager about Grammys nominations:
— The Weeknd News (@NewsWeeknd) November 25, 2020
‘Enough hiding behind your desks. We won’t tolerate or stay quiet. The time for change is now. We need transparency!!!!!!!’ pic.twitter.com/WCDO9txHkg
Beyoncé’s nine nominations means she remains the most Grammy nominated woman in history with a further nine nods. Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa and Roddy Ricch scored six nominations, Brittany Howard earned five and Megan Thee Stallion, Billie Eilish, Phoebe Bridgers, Justin Bieber and DaBaby all earned four nominations each.
In a first for the Grammys, all the nominees for Best Rock Performance are by women - Fiona Apple, HAIM, Big Thief, Phoebe Bridgers, Brittany Howard and Grace Potter.
MAIN GRAMMY NOMINATIONS
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
Chilombo, Jhené Aiko
Black Pumas (Deluxe Edition), Black Pumas
Everyday Life, Coldplay
Djesse Vol. 3, Jacob Collier
Women in Music Pt. III, HAIM
Future Nostalgia, Dua Lipa
Hollywood’s Bleeding, Post Malone
Folklore, Taylor Swift
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Black Parade — Beyoncé
Colors — Black Pumas
Rockstar — DaBaby Featuring Roddy Ricch
Say So — Doja Cat
Everything I Wanted — Billie Eilish
Don’t Start Now — Dua Lipa
Circles — Post Malone
Savage — Megan Thee Stallion Featuring Beyonce
́SONG OF THE YEAR
Black Parade — Beyonce
The Box — Roddy Ricch
Cardigan — Taylor Swift
Circles — Post Malone
Don’t Start Now — Dua Lipa
Everything I Wanted — Billie Eilish
I Can’t Breathe — H.E.R.
If the World Was Ending — JP Saxe Featuring Julia Michaels
BEST NEW ARTIST
Ingrid Andress
Phoebe Bridgers
Chika
Noah Cyrus
D Smoke
Doja Cat
Kaytranada
Megan Thee Stallion
BEST DANCE RECORDING
On My Mind — Diplo & SIDEPIECE
My High — Disclosure Featuring Aminé & Slowthai
The Difference — Flume Featuring Toro y Moi
Both Of Us — Jayda G
10% — Kaytranada Featuring Kali Uchis
BEST ROCK SONG
Kyoto — Phoebe Bridgers
Lost in Yesterday — Tame Impala
Not — Big Thief
Shameika — Fiona Apple
Stay High — Brittany Howard
BEST ROCK ALBUM
A Hero’s Death, Fontaines D.C.
Kiwanuka, Michael Kiwanuka
Daylight, Grace Potter
Sound & Fury, Sturgill Simpson
The New Abnormal, The Strokes
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
Fetch the Bolt Cutters, Fiona Apple
Hyperspace, Beck
Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers
Jaime, Brittany Howard
The Slow Rush, Tame Impala
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