Sabrina Carpenter Grammy submissions: ‘Espresso’ to Record of the Year, ‘Please Please Please’ to Song of the Year
Grammy voting is underway, and we can probably expect multiple nominations for Sabrina Carpenter when they’re announced on November 8. She recently released her sixth studio album, “Short n’ Sweet,” which turned out to be a career breakthrough for her, producing three top-five singles and topping the Billboard 200 albums chart for four weeks (so far). But what did she submit for Grammy consideration? Here are her 12 potential nominations at the upcoming event.
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Record of the Year — “Espresso”
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Record of the Year — “You Need Me Now?” (with Girl in Red)
Album of the Year — “Short n’ Sweet”
Song of the Year — “Please Please Please”
Song of the Year — “You Need Me Now?” (with Girl in Red)
Best New Artist
Best Pop Solo Performance — “Espresso”
Best Pop Duo/Group Performance — “You Need Me Now?” (with Girl in Red)
Best Pop Vocal Album — “Short n’ Sweet”
Best Country Solo Performance — “Slim Pickins”
Best Country Song — “Slim Pickins”
Best Music Video — “Please Please Please”
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The general field includes a couple of interesting entries. She picked her bubbly mega-hit “Espresso” for Record of the Year, but she didn’t enter that composition for Song of the Year, which strictly considers songwriting. Perhaps she didn’t believe lyrics like “Switch it up like Nintendo” and “I know I Mountain Dew it for ya” would be taken seriously enough by the recording academy. Instead, she entered the more traditional romantic ballad “Please Please Please,” about falling for a bad boy. She co-wrote it with Amy Allen and Jack Antonoff.
Is it a good strategy to split your submissions that way? Well, a similar strategy worked out for Bruno Mars, who in 2018 won Record of the Year for “24K Magic” and Song of the Year for “That’s What I Like.” And it was half successful for Beyonce in 2010: she won Song of the Year for “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It),” to date her only win in the general field, but she lost Record of the Year for “Halo.” Kings of Leon won instead for “Use Somebody.”
Among Carpenter’s other noteworthy submissions, she’s also a Record and Song of the Year contender as a featured artist and co-writer on Girl in Red‘s “You Need Me Now?” And the twangy album track “Slim Pickins” earned her spots on the ballot for Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song. So Beyonce and Post Malone aren’t the only pop superstars trying to cross over into that field.
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