This Year’s Emmy Song Nominees: Few Superstars in Contention
variety.comJon Burlingame editorThe Emmy lineup might have looked like this: Kanye West nominated for music supervision. Keith Urban, Miranda Lambert, Mary J.
Blige, Phoebe Bridgers and Sheryl Crow up for best song. Mick Jagger, Imagine Dragons, 50 Cent and Isabella Summers nominated for main-title theme.
Finneas O’Connell up for limited-series score, and Meshell Ndegeocello nominated for series score.All of those superstars entered songs, themes, scores and music-supervision lineups for the 74th annual Emmy Awards, and none of them wound up with a nomination.Emmy’s music peer group consists of 460 composers, songwriters, music supervisors and other professionals involved in making music for TV.
They are not impressed by big names. The closest they came was a dual nomination for Zendaya in the original song category for HBO’s “Euphoria”: “Elliot’s Song,” co-written with score composer Labrinth and his partner Muzhda Zemar-McKenzie; and “I’m Tired,” co-written with Labrinth and series creator-writer Sam Levinson.Two of the other three songs in that category are from previous nominees, all veterans of the TV biz.
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