That whole thing confused me because it's supposed to be a tribute to the Best Original Song category but a ton of them weren't original songshttps://twitter.com/ilyseh/status/1226694375759065088 …
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If they did have an awards category for Best Licensed Use of an Existing Song who would actually get the award The people who did the song or whoever it was who decided to put the song in the movie
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This is especially a question because so many of those iconic needle drops are heavily ironic, like the Stuck in the Middle with You torture scene in Reservoir Dogs
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(The reason they have the rule, in fact, is that in 1941 they gave the award for "Best Song" to "The Last Time I Saw Paris" from Lady Be Good and the original songwriter refused to accept it because he felt the movie took his song out of context and disapproved of it)
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It's a pretty strict rule too, like obviously from the title you can tell "Mrs. Robinson" from Simon and Garfunkel was intended as a song for the movie But because it was based on a track "Mrs. Roosevelt" they'd been developing for an album before the movie it was ineligible
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"Gangsta's Paradise" would have been eligible because it was written specifically to be on the soundtrack for Dangerous Minds but it wasn't because it samples an earlier piece of music, Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That feels... weird. Sampling is a highly transformative act, so it's really hard to make the argument that it's "unoriginal", and by excluding songs that sample other songs they're excluding certain genres far more than others.
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Yeah but it's a rule they take a very strict interpretation on I mean they excluded Simon and Garfunkel from the category even though the only people they "copied from" was themselves from a track they never finished or released anywhere before the version they did for the movie
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Replying to @arthur_affect @everlasting1der
And yeah it obviously does shut out hip-hop from this award Like by any sense of what this award is for "Fight the Power" from Do the Right Thing ABSOLUTELY should've won this award but it was never eligible because it's made from a ton of (unrecognizable) samples
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The funny thing is Eminem went to great lengths to make "Lose Yourself" eligible for Best Original Song (It contains no samples and no references to other songs or other rappers, the first verse is directly about the plot of the movie, he literally wrote it during shooting)
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