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Justin Tranter on Grammy Nod, Writing Something ‘Filthy & Sexy’ With Miley Cyrus & How Songwriters Could ‘Run the Industry’

Tranter is nominated for the 2024 songwriter of the year award and will host the Grammy Premiere Ceremony this Sunday (Feb. 4) in Los Angeles.

Tranter says they found out they were nominated when when they were out walking the dog and suddenly, 300 congratulatory texts came through. Tranter also shares stories of working on each of the songs they were nominated for in 2024, including Reneé Rapp ‘s “Gemini Moon” (“She was mentioning her moon is in Gemini, and I’m a Gemini…and we Googled and that day the moon was also in gemini…”), Maneskin(“I DM’d them on Instagram when they won Eurovision and said ‘you are the coolest band I’ve seen since my band, we should work together'”), and Miley Cyrus(“we had one day together, and she was in the beginning of a new relationship and was feeling really sexy and fabulous and wanted to write something, in her words, pretty f—ing filthy and sexy”). Tranter has worked with some the biggest superstars in modern pop music, and says building rapport with artists like Justin Bieber and Cardi B during the writing process is about sharing part of themselves.

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