Oscar Sunday is here at long last. If you’ve been meaning to watch the Songwriters Hall of Fame’s 10th annual “A Conversation With Oscar-Nominated Songwriters,” you have another week to catch it on the SHOF site. (It will be available to stream through March 23.)
All five nominated songs are represented on the Zoom session by their writers (or at least one of their writers). The session was co-moderated by Nile Rodgers, who serves as SHOF chairman, and SHOF board member Paul Williams, a SHOF Johnny Mercer Award honoree and 1977 Oscar winner for best original song for “Evergreen (Love Theme From A Star Is Born).” (At the time the session was taped, he was the only person on the call who had actually won a competitive Oscar.)
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The mutual respect among the nominated songwriters is heartening to see. As EJAE put it, “I’m so honored to be on the same screen as you guys. You guys are legends. I’ve learned so much from you guys.”
The best part of the session came at the end when Rodgers asked: “Can you share your best advice for aspiring music creators?”
After they each offered their best advice, Williams shared his take: “I wrote a commercial that I didn’t want to write. My partner [Roger Nichols] had to talk me into it, and I said, ‘I don’t want to write a bank commercial,’ and we wrote the song, and put everything we felt into it, and it was ‘We’ve Only Just Begun,’ which Karen Carpenter turned into a big, big song for us. [Editor’s Note: the Carpenters’ recording of the ballad reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1970 and brought Williams and Nichols a Grammy nomination for song of the year.]
Williams concluded, “My advice is: Put that word ‘authenticity’ at the front of your alphabet, because it’s your authentic selves that has brought the heart and the soul to the stories that you’re telling.”
Here are the responses by this year’s Oscar-nominated songwriters to the prompt, “Can you share your best advice for aspiring music creators?” Responses were lightly edited for clarity.
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