Haunted, self-possessed or just spirited: 2022's Emmy-nominated songs
LOS ANGELES — The songs nominated for the 2022 Emmy for original music and lyrics are each haunted by something. Some are lively, even wacky homages that resurrect sounds of the past — the grand, old "Oklahoma!"-type musical; a calypso wedding toast delivered by (a fictional version of) Harry Belafonte.
One song spiritually guides a young woman off the knife's edge she has been treading. Another brings its entire series full circle, built on a wisp of a melody that has lingered in the atmosphere for six seasons. And one has roots in both the story's betrayal in love and a poignant, real-life revelation.
'The Forever Now'
From "This Is Us"; music by Siddhartha Kosla, lyrics by Taylor Goldsmith
An elderly woman sits at a keyboard at her daughter's wedding to play a song she wrote. She struggles to remember. She's suffering from Alzheimer's. When her fingers do find the notes pulled from deep in her memory, the audience — the millions of fans who've watched "This Is Us" for six seasons — suddenly have a similar feeling of realization, of recognition.
"The melodic concept of '' is something that we've been sort of teasing along for a while," says series composer Siddhartha Khosla. "It's one of the main themes for six seasons. [Series creator] Dan Fogelman had this plan that the melody we've been hearing would end up becoming Rebecca's
