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Doja Cat Reveals She's Not Actually Quitting Music
Doja Cat's fashionable deed "Vegas" won't beryllium a contender astatine the 2023 Oscars.
The song—which appeared arsenic the pb azygous successful Baz Luhrmann's Elvis starring Austin Butler—is not eligible for Oscars consideration, E! News confirms.
Why? Well, "Vegas," written by Doja Cat and produced by Roget Chahayed and Yeti Beats, contained interpolated worldly from "Hound Dog," the 1956 Elvis Presley way created by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. However, Academy rules authorities that immoderate submissions for Best Original Song must consist of "words and music, some of which are archetypal and written specifically for the question picture," and her way includes elements of a pre-existing song.
As "Vegas" did not look among the 147 scores and 82 songs determined eligible for voting connected Dec. 12, it is retired of the moving for Oscars gold. The list, according to Variety, was made disposable to Academy members, who volition past constrictive the choices to a shortlist earlier the authoritative 5 nominees are unveiled successful January 2023. (Others disqualifications included the archetypal scores for Tár and Top Gun: Maverick.)
A fewer of the songs that did marque the Oscars eligibility list, per Variety, include Lady Gaga's "Hold My Hand," Rihanna's "Lift Me Up," Billie Eilish and Finneas' "Nobody Like U" and Taylor Swift's "Carolina."
E! News has reached retired to the Academy but has not received a comment.
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Though "Vegas" topped euphony charts and became fashionable connected TikTok, Doja Cat was initially tense to instrumentality connected the project.
"[I] felt like, ‘Oh s--t. Oh no, Oh God! Oh God, help!" she told Access Hollywood successful May. "It has to beryllium exquisite…and you don't privation to f--k it up."
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