For H.E.R., a career-making 12 hours: A Grammy win followed by an Oscar nomination

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Singer-songwriter H.E.R. won the Grammy Award for song of the year. The next morning, she was nominated for an Oscar for original song.

With a new executive producer at the helm, Sunday’s show was dominated by young artists, to the near exclusion of music’s elders.

“Being in the audience at the Grammys, sitting with Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and all these amazing artists, I didn’t imagine my song would win,” she said. “I didn’t realize the impact the song had. A lot of people came to me there and said they were touched by it, that they reflected and marched to it, which means more to me than anything. But yeah, it was such a surprise.

It ends with a barbed spoken word segment meant to be uncomfortable for white listeners, even those who had been nodding in agreement just before: “You think your so-called ‘black friend’ validates your wokeness and erases your racism,” she asks.

 

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