Billie Eilish made Grammy history again on Sunday by winning the visual-media song award for her James Bond movie theme “No Time to Die.”It marked the first time in Grammy history that a song for a film not yet released has won.
Traditionally the Grammy soundtrack committee disqualifies a song when voters cannot yet see the movie it was written for, but the 2020 pandemic dictated a modification to the usual rule.Eilish, who won with her brother and co-writer Finneas O’Connell, released the song on Feb.
13, 2020, in anticipation of an April 2020 release of the film.
Postponements to November, then to April 2021, and now to October 2021 were unforeseeable.
And its chart success clearly mandated an exception to the rule.Ironically, the Grammys’ movie song category is usually behind the times, not ahead of them, as the win often goes to whatever song won the previous year’s Oscar.
But this year that winner,
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