Ivor Novello Nominations

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It's time for the Ivor Novello Awards nominations! Curious that they only have three nominees per category (compared to the Brits' 5), but hey-ho, that's what you get by having my tight-fisted economical werkplace sponsor your event:


BEST SONG MUSICALLY & LYRICALLY
The Last Shadow Puppets - My Mistakes Were Made For You
Elbow - One Day Like This
The Leisure Society* - The Last Of The Melting Snow

BEST CONTEMPORARY SONG
Dizzee Rascal & Calvin Harris - Dance Wiv Me
Elbow - Grounds For Divorce
The Ting Tings - That's Not My Name

BEST SELLING BRITISH SONG**
Duffy - Mercy
MIA - Paper Planes
Coldplay - Viva La Vida

ALBUM AWARD
Duffy - Rockferry
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing

For those of you with short memories, Amy Winehouse won best 'normal' song in 2008, and best 'contemporary' song in 2007 (which event there is a poptimists post about here.

*Some unknown folk dude apparently.
**Why is this a nominated cateogory? Either it's the best selling song or it isn't, surely?

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

idk, I think stuff like the Elbow trades on some dreary idea of "classic songwriting" but I don't think it really is - there are always a few acts around whose craftsmanship (which I think is a better, more specific word) is their selling point, and for good reason. Ne-Yo and Taylor Swift are probably the obvious two for me, maybe Amy Winehouse too. On the ILX poll results thread, I said something about how the quality of Ne-Yo's songwriting is such that you can't really pin it down in one specific lyric, it's more about the song and its narrative in totality - how the lyrics work with the hook and with each other - it makes you think about what the nuts and bolts of songwriting really are.