Silk Sonic’s ‘Leave the Door Open’ wins song of the year at 2022 Grammys

Silk Sonic, the dynamic duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, has gained tune of the 12 months on the 2022 Grammys for its retro-funk ballad “Go away the Door Open.”

Mars and .Paak, together with co-writers Brandon Anderson, Dernst Emile II and Christopher Brody Brown, beat out Olivia Rodrigo’s breakout smash “Drivers License,” Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever,” Justin Bieber’s “Peaches” and 6 different contenders. Silk Sonic can be nominated for file of the 12 months.

Tune of the 12 months acknowledges songwriting.

The victory is the third for Silk Sonic, which made its community tv debut with the tune on the 2021 awards ceremony. There, sporting matching orange leisure fits and polyester shirts with collars as extensive because the 405, Mars and .Paak seduced viewers as if they’d time-traveled from 1974. This 12 months, they returned because the present’s opening act with an enormous band and a blast of funk.

Individually, each Mars and .Paak have been generously rewarded by the Recording Academy during the last decade. Mars, 36, has acquired 30 nominations and has now gained 14 awards for smashes together with “Nothin’ on You,” “Uptown Funk” and “That’s What I Like.” In 2018, Mars went six-for-six for his work on the album “24K Magic.”

Oxnard native .Paak, additionally 36, has landed 10 nominations and gained 4 different instances since 2017, when he earned a finest new artist nod — he misplaced to Probability the Rapper — for work from his album “Malibu.” Silk Sonic’s victory is .Paak’s first main class win.

Final month, Silk Sonic opened a month-long residency on the Park MGM in Las Vegas, the fruits of an concept first envisioned at first of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Referring to .Paak by his nickname, Mars advised Instances pop music critic Mikael Wooden in February, “Andy had been performing and I’d been performing, after which all of it went away” with the pandemic. Mars added, “It felt just like the world was gonna finish — like, man, I don’t know if we’re ever gonna play once more. So we mentioned, ‘Let’s put collectively an imaginary present — this set record of doom.’”

Mars raved in regards to the drummer-singer-rapper’s method to “Go away the Door Open.” “If you happen to actually take heed to what Andy’s enjoying in ‘Go away the Door Open,’ that’s not straightforward,” Mars advised The Instances. “He’s not simply enjoying the drums — he’s enjoying the microphones.”