Nashville's GRAMMYs nominees explain why this year's Awards matter.
Sure, the Grammys recognize fun favorites, too — Walker Hayes’ “Fancy Like,” Elle King and Miranda Lambert’s “Drunk ” and Dan + Shay’s “Glad You Exist” are also among the finalists — but the weighty material is more prominent at the Grammys than at the other major music awards shows, in part because it’s voted on strictly by the creatives. And they tend to focus as much on making emotional connections as financial ones.
It’s easy to take music for granted, especially when millions of songs are available through a handheld device, but its ability to change a mood, to motivate a crowd, to bond people with their neighbors or to simply remind us that we’re still alive is what makes people engage with it in the first place.
“This song particularly was written in a state of panic,” Veltz says. “We wrote it on Maren’s porch with all of us wearing masks and worried as hell and concerned about the world. And I mean, it was very like, ‘We have to do something,’ and it’s amazing how much those moments continue to rise. I do believe in the power of music, and I hope that song soothes somebody because that’s how we’re going to heal the world.
“When we wrote ‘Fancy Like,’ we talked about God for three hours, and then that song came in about 30 minutes,” co-writer Shane Stevens says. “We were just talking about what we’d all gone through in the year and how grateful we were to be [together] in a room.”
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