For several years, NPR has ranked the best original song Oscar nominees. Although there are no Disney hits in this year's rankings, there is a viral dance number thanks to RRR. Here's our critics choices and of course a shout out to Diane Warren.
The Academy's members gave Warren an honorary award last fall, which makes a fair bit of sense, given that she's never been far from their minds. She received her first Oscar nomination all the way back in 1988, yet she's never won in 13 tries. That honorary award would be much more welcome if it meant that Oscar voters would, particularly when the songs she's written are 1) generic to the point of self-parody; and 2) extremely obscure.
Remember that line a few sentences ago about"some pop star tossing out crumbs in the hope of getting an EGOT someday"? Meet 's"Lift Me Up," a ballad that barely merited a shrug when it came out last fall, even though it was 1) from the dizzily anticipated blockbuster; and 2) the singer's first piece of new music in more than six years.
Where the latter song doesn't skimp is in the sheer exertion of it all: Lady Gaga gives"Hold My Hand" every ounce of the fists-plunged-heavenward, writhing-atop-a-piano-on-a-lonely-airstrip grandeur it requires, and then some.
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