Based on her facial expression, it seems that blues singer Bonnie Raitt did not anticipate winning Song of the Year at this year’s 65th Grammy Awards.
Three Grammys were nominated for her song “Just Like That,” and she ended up taking home two: Best American Roots Song and Song of the Year. Even though Beyoncé, Adele, Taylor Swift, and Harry Styles were also up for the latter award, she managed to steal it from them.
She thanked “all the academy that surrounds me with so much love and values the craft of music as I do” for the distinction.
The winning song by Raitt is titled “Just Like That,” and it’s about a man who pays a visit to a woman after receiving the heart of the woman’s kid.
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The story of the love, grace, and compassion of someone who donates their loved one’s organs to let another person live was “so simple and so lovely for these times,” Raitt said in her acceptance speech, explaining where she got the idea for the song.
She said John Prine, a famous country-folk singer-songwriter who died in 2020 from COVID-19 problems, inspired the song.
