Pop stars presented the award, but none of their kind walked away with the thing.
Accepting the trophy from Kelly Clarkson and Keith Urban (who sang a portion of their envelope-opening spiel), Benj Pasek and Justin Paul took the Golden Globe for best original song with "This Is Me," their tune from the P.T. Barnum movie musical "The Greatest Showman."
The duo _ who won last year at the Globes (and at the Oscars) with "City of Stars," from "La La Land" _ beat a host of better-known musicians, including Mary J. Blige, Nick Jonas and Mariah Carey, as well as the married couple behind the music from Disney's "Coco."
Yet their victory didn't come as much of a surprise: In 2017, Pasek and Paul's Globes competition included no less a pop icon than Stevie Wonder; Justin Timberlake was trounced, too, with his "Can't Stop the Feeling!," which finished 2016 as that year's biggest-selling song.
In their speech, the two young songwriters thanked the "annoyingly handsome and charming Hugh Jackman," who stars in "The Greatest Showman," along with moviegoers who still believe in the idea of musicals "on the big screen."
One can safely assume that group overlaps with the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn.
