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Billie Eilish's Barbie track wins song of the year

Billie Eilish's Barbie track wins song of the year

By Mosese Raqio
05/02/2024
The Island

Billie Eilish's contribution to the Barbie film soundtrack, What Was I Made For?, has won one of the top prices at the Grammy Awards, song of the year.

The track underscores one of the most emotional moments in the hit movie, as the doll questions her reality.

It also won the Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

The other winners included SZA, Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift, who used her speech to announce a new album.

Swift could make history later if she scoops her fourth-best album award.

She is currently tied on three wins with Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon and Frank Sinatra.

R&B star SZA is the show's leading nominee with nine nods and has already won two awards in the Grammys pre-ceremony. She is still up for three of the night's biggest prizes - album, record and song of the year.

The first award of the night went to Miley Cyrus, who picked up Best Pop Vocal Performance for her song Flowers.

It was the star's first Grammy, a fact she noted in her acceptance speech, telling the story of a boy whose futile attempts to catch a butterfly ended when he stopped swinging around a net and stayed still.

Only a handful of the 94 prizes are handed out in the live show, with the rest announced during a four-hour "premiere ceremony" in the afternoon.

Rapper Killer Mike won three awards but was later filmed apparently being taken away in handcuffs backstage.

Kylie Minogue won her second-ever Grammy, Best Pop Dance Recording, for the viral smash Padam Padam; while Joni Mitchell picked up Best Folk Album for a live album that captured her return to the stage in 2022 after a brain aneurysm.

And South African singer Tyla made history by picking up the first-ever award for best African performance.

The 22-year-old, who came fourth in the BBC's Sound of 2024, won for her viral smash Water, which inspired a TikTok dance craze last summer.

 Source: BBC

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