For the primary time ever, tonight’s Grammy awards featured a class simply for online game soundtracks. And the first ever winner on this new class was Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed. Congratulations! A momentous event for everybody concerned, however for the remainder of us, additionally a really humorous second of reside tv.
While video video games have been nominated earlier than (like Kirby in 2021) and even gained Grammys earlier than—Christopher Tin’s Civilization IV intro, which was again in 2011—2023 noticed the debut of a model new class, known as “Best Score Soundtrack For Video Games/Interactive Media”.
The nominees had been veteran video games composer Austin Wintory (hilariously given his earlier physique of labor, for Aliens: Fireteam Elite), Bear McCreary (Call of Duty: Vanguard), Richard Jacques (Guardians of the Galaxy), Christopher Tin once more (for the Civ-like Old World) and Stephanie Economou for Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla’s enlargement Dawn of Ragnarok.
Composer and violinist Economou—who at time of publishing had a Twitter bio merely saying “Non-award-winning composer”—is now an award-winning composer. Congratulations Stephanie! Making the event much more memorable for everybody watching at dwelling, although, was presenter and comic Randy Rainbow (additionally nominated tonight, for finest comedy album) being given an envelope that had “Assassin’s Creed Valhalla” written inside it then studying it like this:
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It should be nerve-wracking at the perfect of instances being up there and saying awards realizing that so many individuals (even when this was the sooner “premiere” ceremony) are watching you. Then think about being requested to learn, not “Beyonce”, however “Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok” whenever you’re not somebody who has been uncovered to these phrases continuous for 3 years, and has by some means internalised them and made them appear even remotely regular. It is just not a standard assortment of phrases. It could be exhausting!
You can watch Economou’s full acceptance speech, during which she thanks everybody who “fought tirelessly” for this class to be included within the awards, right here.
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