So you might have heard that the 85th Academy Awards nominations have been announced . Good for you, person who wakes up early in the morning. This year's nominees contains some shocking snubs ? no best director for Tarantino or Bigelow? ? as well as some pleasant surprises, but if the majority of the nominees will have us bitching or raving until March, the Best Original Song category plays it as frustratingly safe as ever.
To be fair, the nomination of ?Everybody Needs A Friend? from Ted�comes as a surprise, and Adele's Skyfall�theme is a classic that would deserve to win regardless of the year it was nominated. Despite this, looking at the list of nominated songs one can't help but be baffled, particularly given how interesting this year's list of potential selections actually was.
The list of eligible songs, released in December,�reads like one of the craziest drug-fueled mix tapes ever made. There were three ? three! ? songs from Casa De Mi Padre. There were three songs from Django Unchained��including "100 Black Coffins" by Rick Ross that would have finally put Three 6 Mafia's 2006 win in context. ?Razors.Out? from The Raid: Redemption, the sole good song ever associated with Linkin Park, was a potential. And dammit, Matthew McConaughey's scene stealer ?'Ladies of Tampa? from Magic Mike could have been a contender. Even Katy Perry's "Wide Awake" would have been an interesting (and, I suspect, controversial) choice.
The songs are selected based on how they work within their featured scenes, but even that doesn't get the list off the hook. By that…
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