The Grammys expand already stacked performance lineup

This year’s Grammys features some familiar faces for nominees and performers alike. Plenty of scene favorites have been nominated including twenty one pilots, Bring Me The Horizon, FEVER 333, Underoath and Post Malone.

We already knew Malone would be joining the Red Hot Chili Peppers for a dual performance, and the Grammys are now unleashing more of the star-studded lineup.

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Best Alternative Rock Album nominee St. Vincent will hit the stage with Dua Lipa. Lady Gaga will also  be performing “Shallow” from Oscar-nominated film A Star Is Born without co-star Bradley Cooper. The duo will be saving that performance for the Oscars Feb. 24.

Travis Scott was also added to the bill, following his meme-worthy performance at the Super Bowl LIII halftime show.

It was also announced yesterday that Katy Perry, along with Little Big Town, Maren Morris and Kacey Musgraves, will join Dolly Parton for a tribute covering songs from her original motion picture soundtrack for Netflix’s Dumplin’.  

These additions will join an already stellar lineup, featuring the likes of Miley Cyrus, Cardi B, Janelle Monáe, Brandi Carlile and H.E.R.

The show will also feature the aforementioned intriguing crossover between the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Post Malone, the latter of whom is nominated for four awards.

beerbongs & bentleys was nominated for the Album Of The Year, with “rockstar” going up for Record Of The Year and Best Rap/Sung Performance. Posty is also breaking genre lines, getting a nomination for Best Pop Solo Performance with
“Better Now.”

Alicia Keys will serve as the host for the 61st installment of the music award show. The show takes place Sunday, Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. EST, and will be broadcast live on CBS. You can check out the full list of nominees here.

Read more: Leaked Grammy winners list rumor shot down by Academy 

Popular music fans possibly experienced some awards season confusion last week when an apparently leaked list of 2019 Grammy Awards winners made the rounds on Twitter, the since-deleted tweet proffering a roll of seven Grammy winners.

Alas, the proposed list was not legit, the actual Recording Academy states, a rep for which took to the internet themselves to refute the supposed leak.

Purporting to show the winners of most of the music award show’s main categories, as reported by Complex, the “GRAMMY 2019 WINNERS” tweet from former Twitter user @everyday4you was said to be “[l]eaked from official site.”

Of course, the tweet—which had some, um, let’s say, interesting choices for its picks in foremost Grammy categories such as Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year and Best New Artist—wasn’t at all true, the Academy put forth:

“There is no legitimacy to this. GRAMMY Awards results are not shared, even with Recording Academy staff members, until the day of the GRAMMY Awards ceremony, when names of the recipients are delivered by Deloitte in sealed envelopes.”

On the false Grammy winners list, Lady Gaga is named for Song Of The Year with “Shallow” from A Star Is Born. Rapper Cardi B’s given the imaginary Record Of The Year statue for “I Like It.”

The fake winners list is as follows:
Song Of The Year — Shallow
Record Of The Year — I Like It
Album Of The Year — H.E.R.
Best New Artist — Chloe x Halle
Best Pop Solo — Beck (Colors)
Best Pop Duo — Zedd (The Middle)
Best Pop Album – Taylor

But Cardi really is nominated for Album Of The Year for Invasion Of Privacy, notes People, as well as for Best Rap Album, Best Rap Performance and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for appearing on Maroon 5’s recent hit “Girls Like You.”

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