B efore tumbling off her Lamborghini tractor, SZA looks incredible. A strip-club veteran, she gives her leading man, Justin Bieber, something close to a lap dance, perched on this piece of lawn equipment as he drives it. Flanked by cameramen, she twists her torso and sings her latest hit single, …
Read More »Miranda Lambert Performed 'Bluebird' at the 2021 Grammy Awards
Miranda Lambert gave a standout performance of her hit song “Bluebird” during the 2021 Grammy Awards. Lambert stood on a small platform adorned with colorful flowers positioned underneath the floral sculpture seen during host Trevor Noah’s intro. Her performance was all relaxed cool, befitting the quiet hopefulness of “Bluebird,” and …
Read More »Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak's Silk Sonic to Perform at 2021 Grammys
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak’s Silk Sonic will make their live debut this Sunday during the 2021 Grammy Awards telecast, the Recording Academy confirmed on Tuesday. The newly formed duo has been playfully campaigning to perform at the event all week. The pair started their quest innocently enough with back-and-forth …
Read More »Jessie Ware on Dance Music in the Age of Quarantine
First-round Grammy voting gets underway on September 30th and runs through October 12th. For our2021 Grammy preview issue, we asked a series of likely contenders for next year’s awards to reflect on their past experiences at the ceremony, look ahead to the future, and discuss the albums and singles that …
Read More »Rival Sons' Jay Buchanan Wants to Unify the Subsets of Rock & Roll
In a little more than two hours, Jay Buchanan has to catch a plane from Nashville to L.A., where his band, Rival Sons, is nominated in two rock categories at Sunday’s Grammy Awards. But that doesn’t stop the vocalist, who wails like Robert Plant one minute and Ozzy Osbourne the …
Read More »Former Grammys Chief Deborah Dugan Sues Recording Academy, Claiming Sexual Harassment
Former Recording Academy CEO Deborah Dugan claims she was sexually harassed by the general counsel to the Academy and put on administrative leave for raising numerous concerns about goings-on at the Grammys in a new filing with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The 46-page complaint arrives just days before the …
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