Leave the Door Open

Silk Sonic's 'Leave the Door Open' Wins Song of the Year at 2022 Grammys: We're 'Going to Be Singing This Song Forever'. "Andy, couldn't be prouder to ...

“Leave the Door Open” is also nominated for record of the year. Earlier this night, “Leave the Door Open” also won awards for best R&B song and best R&B performance, tying with Jazmine Sullivan’s “Pick Up Your Feelings” in this latter category. In the song of the year category, “Leave the Door Open” beat tunes including Justin Bieber’s “Peaches,” Ed Sheeran’s “Bad Habits,” Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License” and Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever.” The deeply smooth lead single comes from Silk Sonic’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums No. 1 album An Evening With Silk Sonic.

Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars of Silk Sonic accepting their award (Photo by Rich Fury/Getty Images for The Recording Academy).

During their acceptance speech, Anderson .Paak joked about trying to stay humble while “sweeping” their categories and Mars casually smoked a cigarette. Silk Sonic, the collaborative project between Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, have won Record of the year for their song “Leave the Door Open.” They beat ABBA, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and SZA, and Jon Batiste. Billie Eilish, Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga, Brandi Carlile, and Lil Nas X were also among the nominees. After making their live debut at the 2021 Grammys in March, the duo released their first album An Evening with Silk Sonic in November. “Leave the Door Open” also won Song of the Year, Best R&B Performance, and Best R&B Song at tonight’s ceremony.

Going into Sunday's Grammy Awards ceremony, Olivia Rodrigo's "drivers license" was the betting favorite to win Song of the Year. Oddsmakers got it wrong.

Best New Artist, Record Of The Year, and Album Of The Year are still to come. Song Of The Year was the first of the “Big Four” awards to be announced at Sunday’s show. Granted, it was not exactly a major upset.

Recording the bridge to 'Leave the Door Open' almost proved disastrous for Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak's group, Silk Sonic.

Working out all the kinks in “Leave the Door Open” and the rest of An Evening With Silk Sonic proved beneficial. As the mission statement, “Leave the Door Open” is very important to An Evening With Silk Sonic‘s success. .Paak said that “Leave the Door Open” is Silk Sonic’s “mission statement. So Silk Sonic pushed its release date back to perfect it and released “Leave the Door Open” first. But it wasn’t right, and we all felt it.” “We had some moments in the danger zone! Silk Sonic went through a lot making their debut album, An Evening With Silk Sonic, including its hit, “Leave the Door Open.” Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak had to do extensive research to make it as authentically 1970s sounding as possible, and used Mars’ Cadillac to out what needed to fix. So, on Silk Sonic’s An Evening With Silk Sonic, Mars and .Paak did what actors do for Oscar-nominated roles. There’s different kinds of waves, but the whole album is wrapped around that.” .Paak said, “Those players back then were playing with such patience. So we’d just come here every night, have a drink, and we play what we love.” The right gauged strings.

Silk Sonic's Leave The Door Open beat out tracks by ABBA, Billie Eilish, Justin Bieber, and more to take home the title.