Rihanna's Lift Me Up' scores Golden Globe nomination

Rihanna's Lift Me Up' scores Golden Globe nominationRihanna has a lot to celebrate as she received her first Golden Globe nomination for her comeback single Lift Me Up'.

by Mxolisi Simanga

13-12-2022 12:05

in Music

Rihanna's Lift Me Up' nominated for best original song at the Golden Globe. Image: Twitter @rihanna

Rihanna's return to music following a long hiatus while she focused on her Fenty beauty brand seems to be paying off. The Barbados-born singer is nominated for best song at the 2023 Golden Globe for Lift Me Up from Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack reports Billboard. This marks her first Golden Globe nomination.

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The emotive ballad which entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number two is penned by Rihanna in collaboration with the film director Ryan Coogler, Ludwig G ransson, who scored the film and the 2022 Soul Train best new artist Tems.

The nominees for the 80th Golden Globe Awards were announced on 12 December set to return to NBC in January. The network, which has broadcast the Globes since 1996.

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LADY GAGA AND TAYLOR SWIFT ALSO NOMINATED This marks Rihanna's first Golden Globe nomination, the Forbes-proclaimed billionaire is up against Lady Gaga who won in the category four years ago for co-writing Shallow from A Star Is Born. Gaga is nominated for Hold My Hand from Top Gun: Maverick a song she co-wrote with Bloodpop.

She is also up against the three times album of the year Grammy Award winner Taylor Swift for Carolina from Where the Crawdads Sing. Swift wrote the song by herself. This is Swift's fourth nomination in the category, previous nominates include; Safe & Sound from The Hunger Games (2012), Sweeter Than Fiction from One Chance (2013), and Beautiful Ghosts from Cats (2019).

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RIHANNA AND TEMS REACT TO NOMINATION Nigerian Afrobeats artist Tems who co-wrote Lift Me Up has had a successful year globally collecting numerous awards with the latest being the Soul Train Music Award for Best New Artist, the Essence singer tweeted My God!! this one is too much followed by a heart emoji in reaction to her Golden Globe nomination.

My God!! this one is too much https://t.co/oMz5FV1w6t

TEMS (@temsbaby) December 12, 2022

Rihanna also took to twitter grateful to God for this nomination, the Lift Me Up singer tweeted God be showin out! God be showin out! @goldenglobes https://t.co/LDTWw1I8pj

Rihanna (@rihanna) December 12, 2022

NOMINEES FOR BEST ORIGINAL SONG

Carolina, Taylor Swift (Where the Crawdads Sing)

Ciao Papa, Guillermo del Toro & Roeban Katz (Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio)

Hold My Hand, Lady Gaga and Bloodpop (Top Gun: Maverick)

Lift Me Up, Tems, Ludwig G ransson, Rihanna and Ryan Coogler (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever)

Naatu Naatu, Kala Bhairava, M. M. Keeravani, Rahul Sipligunj (RRR)

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