For the second year in a row, Billie Eilish and her brother FINNEAS won the Grammy Award for Recording of the Year. They took home the 2021 award for “everything I wanted”, which surpassed the tracks of Doja Cat (“Say So”), Dua Lipa (“Don’t Start Now”), Post Malone (“Circles”), DaBaby and Roddy Ricch (“ROCKSTAR”), Black Pumas (“Colors”), Beyoncé (“Black Parade”) and Megan Thee’s remix Stallion “Savage”, also with Beyoncé.
In his acceptance speech, Eilish stated that Megan Thee Stallion deserved to win the award. “This is really embarrassing to me,” she said. “Megan, girl … I was going to write a speech about how you deserve this, but then I thought, ‘They’re not going to choose me at all.’ I was like, ‘It’s hers.’ You deserve it. You had a year that I don’t think can be interrupted. You are a queen – I want to cry thinking about how much I love you … You deserve everything in the world, I think about you constantly … You deserve it. ”She then asked everyone to applaud Megan before continuing her acceptance speech.
“Everything I wanted” marked Eilish’s first new single since she released her debut WHEN WE ALL SLEEP, WHERE ARE WE GOING? In addition to Record of the Year, “everything I wanted” was also nominated for Song of the Year and Best Pop Solo Performance. Eilish’s titular theme song for the upcoming James Bond No time to die won the award for Best Written Song for Visual Media.
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