Huey Lewis recently spoke to Grammy Awards for an interview, where he reflected on his thoughts about Bruce Springsteen’s triumph over him.
When asked about the Grammy Award nomination of ‘Heart and Soul’ at the 26th Annual Grammy Awards held in 1984, the singer replied:
“No question; it meant everything to me. Those are our peers. We got nominated for a zillion Grammys, and I think we only won one or two. I mean, Bruce Springsteen beat me out in about nine categories, including ‘Power of Love,’ which should have won something, I think.”
Lewis also responded to a question asking if he was aware that the ‘Huey Lewis appreciation’ scene in ‘American Psycho’ was going to be included in the film, saying:
“Somebody showed me the book. And I read the passage about us. It was amazing. I mean [Bret Easton Ellis] actually clearly had listened to our music a lot. They told us that the movie was gonna come out, and they wanted to use ‘Hip to be Square.’ I said, ‘and they’re gonna pay us?’ I mean, it’s an artistic thing; Willem Dafoe’s in it, no problem. So, boom, they paid us.”
Explaining why they declined to make a soundtrack album for the movie, the musician continued:
“A week before the release of the film, they decide they want to do a soundtrack album. I said, ‘Really? What’s that going to look like?’ They said, ‘Well, ‘Hip to be Square,’ I think there’s a Phil Collins song, and then mostly source music.’ I said, it isn’t good for our fans to have to buy a whole record for one song. So we politely declined.”
He also shared the claims of the press release before the movie’s premiere, noting:
“Now, literally the night before the premiere of the movie, they issued a press release to USA Today, The New York Times, everybody, that said that Huey Lewis had seen the movie and it was so violent that he yanked his tune from the soundtrack.”
Lewis initially refused to support the movie when a press release falsely stated that he removed his song ‘Hip To Be Square’ from the soundtrack because of the film’s violence. In a May 2023 interview, he admitted he hasn’t watched ‘American Psycho’ yet.
