The hit Disney+ seriesWandaVisionmay have lost out in a big way at this year’s Primetime Emmy Awards, having been nominated in multiple categories but failing to walk away with any of the big awards, but they have a very unexpected second chance of award glory at the Grammy Awards, with Kathryn Hahn’s catchy “Agatha All Along” having been nominated for Best Song for Visual Media.
The character of Agatha Harkness has been a major hit in the Marvel world, being one of the most popular new characters introduced in Phase 4 of the MCU so far, getting her own actor portraying her in the Disney Avengers Campus at Disneyland California, and earlier this month it was announced that she will also be getting her own spin-off series on Disney+ under the title ofAgatha: House of Harkness.
The nomination is not the first Grammy nomination for Disney songwriting duo Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, with the pair having won previously forFrozen’ssoundtrack andthe song “Let It Go,“as well as being nominated forCoco’s “Remember Me” andFrozen II’s epic “Into The Unknown.“WandaVision’s “Agatha All Along” itself has already picked up the Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics at the Emmy Awards, and no one would bet against it doing the same at the Grammys.
The song was performed byKathryn Hahn, with Lopez providing backing vocals along with Eric Bradley, Greg Whipple, Jasper Randall and Gerald White. Speaking toNylonback in July, Hahn expressed her surprise at howWandaVisionfans had taken the song to their hearts and pushed it to the top of the music charts.
“No! No,” Hahn explained. “I knew I was going to have a theme song, but I actually didn’t know I was going to be singing it until we were midway through shooting it and they were like, ‘Oh, we’re going to need you to sing.’ I was like, ‘Great,’ but I had zero expectations that it was going to be the thing that would pop out. I was like, ‘Wait, what?’ It was really like it was [happening on] a different planet — it was like another us or another me, just this other thing that was happening. Someone was like, ‘You topped the Biebs!’ And I was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ The whole thing was so very, very surreal.”
The songwriting pair were just as surprised at how it had all turned out, and didn’t believe that there was going to be any kind of hit to come from the series. Lopez toldThe New York Times, “None of us knewthis was going to be the song. We woke up that morning to find that it was all over the Internet, and it was like, ‘This is awesome.'”
Anderson-Lopez added, “It’s got anAddams Familytwist with an electric harpsichord. It’s super-duper cool and feels like something you’d find in a haunted house. In a way, ‘Agatha All Along’ was there all along. We’ve been spoon-feeding a tritone that’s called the devil’s interval — the [soft voice] duh-duh-duh — throughout the series. And then ultimately, when the big reveal happens with the [thundering voice] DUH! DUH! DUH!, everyone had been hearing it steadily, so it felt like an old friend.”
For those who haven’t yet caught on to the Agatha craze, you can find all episodes ofWandaVisionstreaming onDisney+.
