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What It’s Like to Be Nominated for Your First Grammy, Starring Courtney Barnett

To see more from Courtney’s Grammys experience, check out @courtneymelba on Instagram. For more music stories, head to @music.

Courtney Barnett (@courtneymelba) found out about her first Grammy nomination after a 25-hour flight from London to Australia. “I touched down in Melbourne, turned on my phone and was like, ‘Oh wow, I got nominated for a Grammy. That’s pretty cool,’” she tells @music about her Best New Artist nod.

Over the last 12 months, the 28-year-old musician has been touring the world playing tunes off her debut record, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, a critically acclaimed effort filled with stream-of-conscious lyrics and grunge-y rock riffs. Before 2015, Courtney had barely traveled for music at all, instead sticking to venues around her home country. While being thrown into that world has taken some adjusting, it has been easier knowing her best friends Bones Sloane and Dave Mudie have been along for the ride.

“We met a couple years ago playing in another band called Immigrant Union,” she says about her two bandmates, who will be accompanying her to Monday night’s ceremony. “When we’re all at home we cook dinner together and play board games with our respective girlfriends. It’s pretty nice.”

While life on the road has its downsides (like the time a blister on Courtney’s finger popped and she was forced to play while wounded; “You can’t tape it up because the bandage just falls off so you’re just playing on raw flesh. It’s f—ing gross”), it has allowed her to get a better perspective on her own songwriting.

“Sometimes lyrics come straight from my subconscious and I don’t completely know what they mean but I write them down,” she says. “With a bit of distance and perspective, things make sense in different ways. Like when you break up with someone and you think they’re a wanker, and then a year later you realize you’re the wanker.”

While Courtney has plans to write more music in 2016, with hopes of recording an album later in the year (she’s still deciding whether or not to do her own artwork like she did for Sometimes I Sit), first she’s got to get past the Grammys. Speaking of which, does she and the band have anything grand planned for the evening?

“No, not really,” she says. “We’re not very exciting. We’re just gonna be ourselves.”

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