Grammy nominees Olivia Rodrigo, Brothers Osborne, BTS, Brandi Carlile, Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow will take the stage at the awards ceremony next month, producers announced today in unveiling the first round of performers.
23.02.2022 - 18:49 / variety.com
Chris Willman Music WriterCoincidentally or not, Kanye West’s livestream and theatrical simulcast of his “Donda Experience” event Tuesday night seemed to make some use of a staging conceit that Adele had recently nixed for her scotched Las Vegas residency. The latter singer had reportedly balked at a design that would have had appear to be in or floating atop the middle of a large pool.
But for West, walking on (or in) water was just the ticket.The “Donda 2” event at Miami’s LoanDepot Park — which was ultimately streamed (and remains available) on YouTube, despite West’s earlier assurances that it wouldn’t be — had the performer pacing around a full-sized replication of his Chicago childhood home, a la the last listening party for his previous “Donda” album last year. But this time it was surrounded by a lake of two or three inches of water laid out across the LoanDepot field, which required waders not only of West but guest performers like Jack Harlow, Playboi Carti, Pusha T, Migos, Baby Keem, Fivio Foreign, the Game, the Sunday Service Choir and (notoriously returning from the last “Donda” listening party) Marilyn Manson and DaBaby.
Alicia Keys, who played piano as well as sang on one of the concluding numbers, did get to keep her feet dry. The “Donda 2” album itself did not drop Tuesday night, although perhaps only those who already purchased and received a $200-plus Stem Player from West’s web store would be able to know for sure, since the hip-hop titan has vowed that only those who own one of his new handheld listening/mixing devices will be able to hear the recording.
Grammy nominees Olivia Rodrigo, Brothers Osborne, BTS, Brandi Carlile, Billie Eilish and Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow will take the stage at the awards ceremony next month, producers announced today in unveiling the first round of performers.
Billie Eilish, BTS and Olivia Rodrigo have been announced to perform at this year’s Grammy Awards.Lil Nas X, Jack Harlow, Brandi Carlile and the Brothers Osborne are also on the bill to take to the stage at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 3.Eilish and Rodrigo are nominated for seven awards each on the night while Lil Nas X is up for five.Jon Batiste leads the nominations for the 2022 Grammys with nods in 11 categories. Justin Bieber, Doja Cat and H.E.R.
Grammy Awards are bringing three of the world's biggest pop acts — Olivia Rodrigo, BTS and Billie Eilish — to perform during next month's ceremony in Las Vegas.The Recording Academy announced the first slate of performers on Tuesday that also includes Brandi Carlile, Brothers Osborne and Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow. The show will air live on April 3 from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on CBS and Paramount+.The Grammys shifted to Las Vegas due to the rising COVID-19 cases and the omicron variant in January, with organizers citing “too many risks” to hosting the performance-filled ceremony at the time.Trevor Noah returns as host for the second straight time.The multitalented Jon Batiste is the leading nominee with 11 nods in a variety of genres including R&B, jazz, American roots music, classical and music video.
Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorThe Recording Academy has announced the first slate of artists to perform at this year’s show: Taking the stage on Music’s proverbial Biggest Night will be current nominees Brothers Osborne, BTS, Brandi Carlile, Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow, and Olivia Rodrigo.Taking place live from the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas and hosted by Trevor Noah, the 64th Annual Grammy Awards will be broadcast live on Sunday, April 3, 2022, at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m.
Kanye West released a second music video for his “Eazy” track — and Kim Kardashian‘s boyfriend, Pete Davidson, continues to be part of the narrative.
Kanye West has shared the reason why he threw microphone down during a performance of ‘Jail pt 2’ at his ‘Donda 2’ event in Miami.Discussing the incident during an Instagram-shared exchange with Sasha A. Berg and Esther Coco Berg on Wednesday (March 2), West, who is now legally known as Ye, said his frustrations boiled over because of a request made by a promoter.He claims that he was “told” he had to attach the word “performance” to the ‘Donda 2’ event, despite that not being a part of his vision.“It wasn’t about the sound,” Ye explained.
Kanye West is bringing his new album to life, with the help of a few superstar friends.
Good news for anyone sitting around with a weird circular MP3 player in their hand waiting for Kanye’s new album to pop up on it: he’s released… some of it. Four tracks from West’s ‘Donda 2’ album emerged yesterday for owners of his Stem Player device.‘Security’, ‘Pablo’, ‘Open Road’ and ‘We Did It Kid’ – all of which were previewed at West’s live launch event in Miami earlier this week – are now available to download on the $200 Stem Player devices to listen to and remix to your heart’s content.West announced the arrival of the four tracks in a since-deleted tweet last night.
No, that wasn’t Kim Kardashian leaving Kanye West‘s Donda 2 listening party on Tuesday (Feb. 22.) It was model Chaney Jones, 24, who’s been hanging with Ye, 44, in the last couple of weeks and shares an eerie resemblance to his ex-wife. Chaney was spotted walking out of Miami’s LoanDepot Park dressed in a white leather catsuit, matching boots, and a pair of massive black shades, as seen in photos HERE. Kanye, who hosted the event to promote the upcoming sequel album to last year’s Donda, was also photographed exiting the building with Chaney.
Just when it seemed like Kanye West was cooling off his feud with Pete Davidson and Kim Kardashian, he strikes again! And things are only getting more concerning.
Kanye West is making Kim Kardashian‘s Saturday Night Live monologue a part of his new album.
Kanye “Ye” West might not be a fan of all of Kim Kardashian‘s “Saturday Night Live” monologue, but he did sample a portion of it on Tuesday night for his Donda 2 listening event in Miami at the LoanDepot Park.
Kanye «Ye» West sampled a portion of ex Kim Kardashian's monologue during his listening event at LoanDepot Park in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday. «I married the best rapper of all time. Not only that, he's the richest Black man in America,» Kim says in the sampled monologue from last October.
Kanye «Ye» West might not be a fan of all of Kim Kardashian's monologue, but he did sample a portion of it on Tuesday night for his listening event in Miami at the LoanDepot Park. At one point, his famous ex is heard declaring, «I married the best rapper of all time. Not only that, he's the richest Black man in America.
Fivio Foreign has shared a new video for his track, ‘City Of Gods’, which features guest vocals from Kanye West and Alicia Keys. Watch it below.The black and white video is dedicated to Fivio Foreign’s late friend Tahjay “T Dott” Dobson.The track is set to feature on on Fivio’s debut album ‘B.I.B.L.E’, which is set to arrive on March 25, and will be executive produced by West.An ode to Fivio’s hometown of New York City, Keys interpolates The Chainsmokers’ 2015 track of the same name on its chorus.Both West and Keys feature in the minimalistic new video, which you can watch here.West’s sequel album to 2021’s ‘Donda’ is set to be released on February 22.