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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: How Rosé + Bruno Mars' "APT" Would Have Stirred Up Controvery If It Had Won a Grammy · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: So one of the songs that did not win a
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  Speaker 2: Grammy last Weekend Rose and Bruno's APT, which was up
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  Speaker 2: for Song of the Year, might have avoided drumming up
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  Speaker 2: more controversy for the Grammys by being skipped over.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was that first song of the Year, and
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  Speaker 3: while most Grammys go to the artist, this one goes
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  Speaker 3: to songwriters. And that's why people are talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's because of an older hit song that APT
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  Speaker 1: is inspired.
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  Speaker 2: By exactly the chanting hook directly interpolates Tony Basel's eighty
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  Speaker 2: smash Mickey, you know, the one that goes, Oh, Mickey,
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  Speaker 2: You're so fine, And because of that, its two songwriters
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  Speaker 2: are appropriately also credited as songwriters on APT, but.
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  Speaker 1: They were not included as songwriter nominees by the Grammys,
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  Speaker 1: which led to a fierce debate.
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  Speaker 2: The Grammys stance is that any sampled part of a
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  Speaker 2: song is not technically new, and nominations are only for
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  Speaker 2: new compositions. Therefore they are not eligible. And for the record,
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  Speaker 2: one of Mickey's writers, Tony Chapman, is unbothered, but he
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  Speaker 2: does love the Royal time Checks. Av T is providing
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