While they didn’t take home the award for best song written for visual media at Sunday’s Grammy Awards, Common and Diane Warren say that their powerful collaboration for “Stand Up for Something” on the Marshall soundtrack is certainly not the last time the iconic pair will be working together.
Famed songwriter Warren — who earned her ninth Academy Award nomination for best original song for “Stand” — says any nomination is as exciting as the first one, with her fellow Oscar nominee Common echoing the sentiment: “It’s never like, ‘Yeah, I’m just used to getting nominated for awards.’ For me, it’s like I’m super grateful,” he said. “We reached out to each other and was like, ‘Yo, we going to the Oscars!’”
The pair says the “the whole thing is so meant to be” and spoke about how their unique relationship is a “showing of what America is and what art is,” commenting on their contrasted upbringings to the Common’s “kumbaya” nature that juxtaposes against Warren’s outspokenness.
The interview ended with both emphatically agreeing this was only the start of a prosperous writing relationship.
