The Oscars Original Song Race: Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Elton John and a Whole Lot of Big Ballads

Big choruses. Big beats. And most of all, big ballads — big yearning ballads and big inspirational ballads.

That’s what you’ll find in the 75 songs that qualified in this year’s race for the Academy Award for Best Original Song. The Academy used to release its annual list of eligible songs, but it halted that practice last year, when it instituted a 15-film shortlist in the category for the first time. But TheWrap obtained this year’s list of eligible songs and listened to every one of them.


“Windows on the World”

Among the remaining songs, one of the most quietly stirring is “Inside of Us All” from “Windows on the World.” The song rides on a deliciously rootsy sound with rich acoustic instrumentation, as you might expect from Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo and blues harmonica legend Charlie Musselwhite.

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