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.

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.

Kevin Parker of Tame Impala – the band are up for two Grammy Awards. Picture: Getty Images/AFP

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.”

Justin Bieber at the American Music Awards. Picture: AFP

Paige Elkington and Harley "Flume" Streten at this year’s Grammy Awards. Picture: AFP

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:

‘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

— The Weeknd News (@NewsWeeknd) November 25, 2020

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