On Saturday, the Recording Academy announced its 2024 Grammy nominations, to be awarded at the next ceremony in February. Leading the Australian charge are Kylie Minogue and Troye Sivan. Both singers, pop icons from different generations, are facing off in the Best Pop Dance Recording category \u2013 Minogue for her globe-dominating Padam Padam<\/em>, and Sivan for his effervescently thirsty Rush<\/em>, co-produced by Melbourne artist Styalz Fuego.<\/p>\n Kylie Minogue could be grabbing her second Grammy, thanks to Padam Padam.<\/span><\/p>\n Both Australian singles became breakout viral sensations this year. At Wednesday\u2019s ARIA Awards, they\u2019ll also face off for honours in the publicly voted Song of the Year and for Best Pop Release.<\/p>\n Minogue\u2019s Padam Padam<\/em>, the jittery lead single off her 16th album Tension<\/em>, first gained traction via TikTok memes playing with its onomatopoeic title, before charting across the US, UK, Europe and Australia. Locally, it became Minogue\u2019s first top 20 hit since 2010\u2019s All the Lovers<\/em>.<\/p>\n Alongside his eye-opening role on the controversial TV show The Idol <\/em>this year, Sivan\u2019s Rush<\/em> \u2013 a hi-energy dance track inspired by nights spent at Melbourne\u2019s gay clubs \u2013 thrust the singer into a massive new spotlight, to the point he was parodied by actor Timothee Chalamet on Saturday Night Live<\/em> this week. He followed the song\u2019s success with the UK 2-step inspired Got Me Started<\/em>, which sampled Sydney duo Bag Raiders\u2019 2009 favourite Shooting Stars<\/em>.<\/p>\n In online tipping markets, Minogue edges Sivan slightly as favourite to claim the Grammy but both face strong competition from the prince of Euro-dance, David Guetta. The French producer, already a dual Grammy winner, has two nominations in the category: One In a Million<\/em>, a rehash of his 2009 smash When Love Takes Over<\/em>, featuring Bebe Rexha, and Baby Don\u2019t Hurt Me<\/em>, with Anne-Marie, Coi Leray and a heavy Haddaway sample. Rounding out the category is Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding\u2019s trance throwback, Miracle<\/em>.<\/p>\n Could Troye Sivan feel the rush at next year\u2019s Grammys? He\u2019ll have to get through Kylie first.<\/span><\/p>\n 2024 marks the first time the Best Pop Dance Recording category has been presented, allowing Kylie or Troye to become a legitimate groundbreaker. It\u2019s a new complement to the Best Dance\/Electronic Recording category, which has been awarded since 1998, but faced ongoing criticism for its pop-over-dance leanings; it\u2019s previously gone to such inspired choices as Madonna\u2019s Ray of Light<\/em>, Cher\u2019s Believe<\/em>, Britney\u2019s Toxic<\/em>, Janet Jackson\u2019s All For You<\/em>, and, um, Baha Men\u2019s Who Let The Dogs Out?<\/em>.<\/p>\n Coincidentally, Kylie\u2019s sole Grammy win came in this category in 2004 for Come Into My World<\/em>, while Sydney trio Rufus Du Sol also won the category in 2022 with Alive<\/em>. It\u2019s what we do, win awards for best dance-pop-electronic recordings.<\/p>\n The Grammys\u2019 appetite for odd genre categorisations aside, Dr Liz Giuffre, a senior lecturer in music at the University of Technology in Sydney, notes that Australian artists have long held their own in the Grammys\u2019 \u201cpop dance\u201d space.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe back in the day when the Bee Gees won for disco, that was dance? And when Gotye won for Somebody That I Used to Know<\/em>, that was dance? And when Sia won, was that dance? The whole idea of what pop is and what dance is changes over time\u2026 Does it really matter what we call it?\u201d<\/p>\n So what\u2019s the special sauce that makes us so good at it?<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s because we\u2019re just really good at collaborating,\u201d says Giuffre. \u201cThese are genres where \u2013 unlike rock, where you work in your own core group \u2013 there\u2019s lots of cross-collaboration and international collaborations and producer collaborations that happen.<\/p>\n \u201cHopefully, it\u2019s just that we\u2019re nice to work with. But we\u2019ve got all those things that make collaboration essential, where we\u2019re sort of isolated but also interconnected because we\u2019re a small-market that\u2019s geographically spread out… Either way, it\u2019s acknowledgment of what\u2019s happening in our industry and of people doing really interesting things.\u201d<\/p>\n Solidifying our dance music credentials is Dom Dolla, who received a Grammy nomination for Best Remixed Recording. The DJ, real name Dominic Matheson, has become a global star since his breakout singles Take It<\/em> in 2018 and San Frandisco<\/em> in 2019, performing at Coachella last year and becoming a resident fixture of Las Vegas\u2019 high-profile dance clubs. He\u2019s nominated in the category for his remix of Gorillaz\u2019s New Gold<\/em>.<\/p>\n Australian hiphop producers FnZ (Michael \u201cFinatik\u201d Mule and Isaac \u201cZac\u201d De Boni) \u2013 regular collaborators with the likes of Kanye West, Drake and Sydney\u2019s The Kid Laroi \u2013 are nominated for Best Rap Song, for their work on Drake and 21 Savage\u2019s Rich Flex<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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