This picture reveals Grammy Award nominee Justin Tranter on Could 25, 2023. The Grammy-nominated songwriter is credited with a few of the largest hits of the previous decade. (Jenna Peffley by way of AP)
This afternoon’s host is Justin Tranter, a much-nominated songwriter. Tranter gave out floor guidelines for winners, together with leaping as much as let everybody know you’re current (no substitutes accepted), then retaining speeches to a decent 45 seconds. The clock begins the second winners step onto the stage.
He shared the recipe to his success with The Related Press earlier: “I simply begin having a dialog with the artist,” Tranter says. “Once they say one thing that I believe is both already the music title or is not less than the music matter, then it turns into a secret or not-so-secret interview. And I simply maintain getting in on that matter.”
It’s a course of that has yielded smashes for such artists as Selena Gomez, Woman Gaga, Dua Lipa, Halsey, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears, DNCE, Gwen Stefani and Fall Out Boy, triggering 50 million single gross sales and 50 billion streams.
Tranter is up for a songwriting Grammy this yr for an astonishing vary of songs, testomony to a capability to speak to everybody: There’s Italian heavy metallic, a rap banger, crystalline pop, introspective rock and a hovering Broadway quantity.
The songs are: Miley Cyrus’ “River,” Child Tate’s “Jersey,” Måneskin’s “Honey (Are U Coming?),” Speak’s “A Little Bit Pleased,” “I Need Extra” from the TV sequence “Grease: Rise of the Pink Women” and Reneé Rapp’s “Gemini Moon” and “Fairly Ladies.”
None appear to have any connection to the others besides Tranter, who fronted the glam-punk band Semi Valuable Weapons and vowed to make the songwriting enterprise humane after experiencing homophobia and unhealthy report offers.
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