Rihanna is ready to lift up the Oscars audience at next month’s awards show.
Rihanna is the first performer announced for this year’s awards show, though typically, the Best Original Song artist nominees take the stage. Jimmy Kimmel is set to host the awards show, which is scheduled for March 12 at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theater.Black Panther
star Chadwick Boseman and allows Rihanna’s impressive vocals to shine as she’s backed by a piano and minimal string instruments on the emotionally powerful song. “Lift me up/Hold me down/Keep me close /Safe and sound,” she sings on the track. “Burning in a hopeless dream/Hold me when you go to sleep.”
Rih, Tems, Ludwig Göransson, and Black Panther director Ryan Coogler co-wrote the song. “After speaking with Ryan and hearing his direction for the film and the song, I wanted to write something that portrays a warm embrace from all the people that I’ve lost in my life,” Tems previously said in a statement. “I tried to imagine what it would feel like if I could sing to them now and express how much I miss them.
“Lift Me Up” — Rihanna’s first Oscar nod — is up against Sofia Carson and Diane Warren’s “Applause,” Lady Gaga and Blood Pop’s “Hold my Hand, M.M. Keeravani’s “Naatu Naatu,” and Ryan Lott, David Byrne, and Mitski’s “This is a Life.”
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