With just a week until the winners of Best Original Song for the 98th annual Academy Awards are announced, here's a rundown of this year's nominees. For her seventeen nomination (the most of any individual without a win), Diane Warren has written a song for a movie that is about herself. "Dear Me" is featured in the documentary, "Diane Warren: Relentless" which covers this songwriter's impressively prolific career with her writing over four hundred songs for some of the biggest pop artists in history. The ballad, "Dear Me", handpicked by Warren to be performed by Kesha, was written about overcoming difficult times while offering a message of hope. "KPop Demon Hunters", which became the most-watched original title in Netflix history, featured a song that attained worldwide commercial success and garnering millions of streams. In this animated movie, "Golden" is performed by the fictional K-pop girl group, Huntr/x who lead double lives as demon hunters. "I Lied To You" is a rousing, blues number in the supernational thriller and box-office smash, "Sinners", performed by musician-turned-actor, Miles Caton and written by the film's composer, Ludwig Göransson and r&b musician, Raphael Saadiq. "Viva Verdi!" is a documentary that looks into the lives of veteran opera singers and musicians that are mentoring young music students. A song from the film, "Sweet Dreams of Joy" is written by English composer, Nicholas Pike and performed by Puerto Rican soprano, Ana María Martínez. And American composer, Bryce Dessner and Australian rocker, Nick Cave have teamed-up to create the title track for the intimate, period drama, "Train Dreams" that details the challenging life of an American railroad laborer.
The nominations are very strong this year with each song more than worthy of winning. But there can only be one winner and I think it will be that brightly exhilarating K-pop song that will get the gold statue this time. And once again, the show does not plan to have all of the nominated songs performed during the telecast. Only "Golden" and "I Lied To You" will be done in special musical segments which is really not fair to the other nominees.
"Dear Me" from "Diane Warren: Relentless" (Music and Lyrics by Diane Warren)
"Golden" from "KPop Demon Hunters" (Music and Lyrics by EJAE, Mark Sonnenblick, Joong Gyu Kwak, Yu Han Lee, Hee Dong Nam, Jeong Hoon Seon and Teddy Park)
"I Lied To You” from "Sinners" (Music and Lyrics by Raphael Saadiq and Ludwig Göransson)
"Sweet Dreams Of Joy" from "Viva Verdi!" (Music and Lyrics by Nicholas Pike)
"Train Dreams" from "Train Dreams" (Music by Nick Cave and Bryce Dessner; Lyric by Nick Cave)
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