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IOF^ ATLANTYC^ RECORDS.SONGWTaylor Swift“Lover”Taylor SwiftRepublicLABELRITER
The title track to Swift’s seventh studio album is the sole nomi-nee in the category with a single songwriting credit, as the ballad is one of three tracks on the 18-song Lover that Swift wrote on her own.
Wthe singles “Mat the Disco’s Brendon Urie) and “You Need to Calm Down,” Swift submitted “Lover” for song of the year. The ode to long-standing hile the album was preceded by E!” (featuring Panic!
romance and the tiny comforts that come with it reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Swift has been nominated for song of the year three times before — with “You Belong With Me,” “Shake It
Off ” and “Blank Space” — and is still looking for her first win. The pop superstar recently released a remix of “Lover” featuring Shawn Mnominated for song of the year endes, whose “In My Blood” was
in 2018.
“Norman Fucking Rockwell”SONGWLana Del ReyJack Antonoff, Lana Del ReyLABELRITERS
Iconic American painter Norman Rockwell was first given a lyrical nod by Del Rey on her 2018 song Polydor/Interscope
“Venice Bitch,” on which she sang, “Paint me happy in blue, Norman Rockwell.” One year later, Rock-well inspired the title of Del Rey’s sixth studio album — her first to be nominated for album of the year —
and its title track, which picks up the thread from the earlier song and includes the line, “Your head in your hands/As you color me blue, blue, blue.” Del Rey co-wrote the confrontation of a romantic
partner’s immaturity with Jack Antonoff, who has a writing credit on 10 of the 14 songs on Fucking Rockwell!title track was not released as an official single until two months Although the Norman
after the album dropped, the song is the first of Del Rey’s career to be nominated in a general category.Tom Barnes, Lewis Capaldi, Pete Kelleher, “Someone You Loved”Benjamin Kohn, Sam RomanSONGWLewis CapaldiLABELRITERS
Scottish singer-songwriter Capal-di’s single “Someone You Loved” became a No. 1 song in the United Vertigo/Capitol
Kingdom in early 2019, before it picked up steam in the United States and reached the top of the Hot 100. Although the 23-year-old Glasgow native is well-versed in breakup balladry, “Someone You
Loved” connected in part as a more general rumination on loss and trying to overcome devastation. “I just thought this is a song for people who have been there since the start,” Capaldi previously told
Billboardto see how it has connected.” After supporting artists like Sam Smith and Bastille on the road, Capaldi will bring “Someone You Loved” and the rest of his debut album,. “It has been incredible
Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extentwith Niall Horan in 2020., on his North American tourMelissa Jefferson, Jesse Saint JohnSteven Cheung, Eric Frederic, “Truth Hurts”SONGWLABELLizzoRITERS
“Wgreat?” asks Lizzo to open “Truth Hurts,” the breakout single that hy’re men great, ’til they gotta be Nice Life/Atlantic
takes an entire population of medio-cre gentlemen to task. Along with the song’s producers, Eric Frederic (better known as Ricky Reed) and Steven “Tele” Cheung, Lizzo wrote “Truth Hurts” with Jesse Saint
John, a studio veteran best known for his work with Britney Spears, Charli XCX and Kim Petras. The single was not initially part of the track list to Lizzo’s debut album, Cuz I Love You, after failing to find
radio traction upon its 2017 release, but its TikTok-assisted reemergence in 2019 caused Atlantic Records to add the song to the deluxe edition of the full-length. Frederic — who has co-written songs with Maroon 5,
Halsey and Mmany others — is nominated in the category for the first time.eghan Trainor, amongSong Of The Year
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