Taylor Swift’s Carolina from Where the Crawdads Sing was omitted from the 95th Academy Awards nominations list. Lady Gaga and Rihanna received nominated for best original songs. Swift’s Carolina was nominated for Critics’ Choice, Golden Globes, and Hollywood Music in Media Awards.

Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick, Naatu Naatu from RRR, Applause from Tell It Like a Woman, and This Is a Life from Everything Everywhere All at Once are the songs up for the best song.

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Carolina has also been nominated for a Grammy for a song written for visual media. Swift is also been nominated for song of the year for All Too Well, a country song I Bet You Think About Me, From the Vault, and best music video for All Too Well: The Short Film.

Social media is not happy with Swift being left out of the nominations list.

The song Hold My Hand by Lady Gaga and Bloodpop, which is from Top Gun: Maverick, has already generated awards hype. Though there was no promotional effort for the song, Gaga did give a live performance of it during her Chromatica Ball tour last summer. Both the Critics’ Choice Awards and the Golden Globes nominated the song.

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From Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Rihanna’s song Lift Me Up was co-written with composer Ludwig Goransson and filmmaker Ryan Coogler. In honour of actor Chadwick Boseman, who portrayed King T’Challa in the first Black Panther, it was produced as a tribute. At the age of 43, Boseman passed away from colon cancer in 2020. On February 12, Rihanna will perform as the half-time show’s lead performer.

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After the film’s popularity skyrocketed and the song went viral, RRR’s Naatu Naatu has emerged as an Oscar frontrunner. The song appears in the film as a musical number, which tends to resonate with voters. The Oscars will be held on March 12, 2023.