AKA — A HAHA HAHA HAHA HAHA.
The one nominee none of us saw coming, and it’s because of some Academy board member inappropriately lobbied for it.
“Alone Yet Not Alone,” a bad song from a movie that nobody saw (and it’s religious, which means there’s no need to see it and no good can come of it), shockingly got on the Best Original Song list, and not a single person saw it coming. And the reason for that is because a music branch executive emailed everyone in the branch and was like, “Hey guys, I submitted this,” which had the effect of when a mobster is like, “Hey guys, it’s my birthday next week.” And now everyone has to get really nice gifts because they want to stay on his good side.
So the Academy rescinded the nomination because it clearly only got on because of that and nothing else.
The only bad thing to come out of this (because, hey, a religious song wasn’t nominated! And also that means there’s one less nominee that I got wrong, which brings my correct percentage of nomination guesses to 76% even) is that they’re not replacing the song with anything else and are gonna leave the category at 4 nominees.
Not that it changes anything, since none of us would have put that song anywhere but #5 in a million years, but it would have been interesting to see what the #5 would have been otherwise. Though I guess it’s best that they didn’t do it, because people did vote for that song, and they’d really have to do a revote to have not skewed results, and this seems for the best to keep things less complicated.
So now your category is:
“Happy,” from Despicable Me 2
“Let It Go,” from Frozen
“The Moon Song,” from Her
“Ordinary Love,” from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
And there’s one less piece of religious bullshit in the world.
I always say nothing good can come of religion.
Score another one for the heathens!
