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omg. John Legend on the piano and singing with Fergie.
I would definitely love to see that.
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Umbrella Record Of The Year!!!!
Christina, Best Female Pop
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Beyonce's 'Irreplaceable' Could Have Gone Country: Behind The Grammys
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Then what will we see?Disco version of Irreplaceable or funky Irreplaceable, i'm so sick of her...
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i hope beyonce and jt wouldn't win
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That could be awesome! Both are absolutely amazing! Not to mention John Legend is a legend and Fergie is fergie! 
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Unique Collabs Crafted For Grammy Performances
Fergie
February 05, 2008,
Katie Hasty, N.Y.
A number of unique collaboratons, including Fergie performing with John Legend and Josh Groban duetting with Andrea Bocelli, will be featured at the Grammy Awards on Sunday (Feb. 10), the Recording Academy has announced.
John Fogerty, who is nominated for best rock album for "Revival," will be performing with rock legends Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis in a "Cornerstones of Rock" segment during the 50th annual event, which will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. A classical/jazz moment with nominees Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang is also slated.
Fergie, who will take the stage with R&B singer John Legend, is nominated for best female pop vocal performance for "Big Girls Don't Cry. Josh Groban's scheduled performance with opera star Andrea Bocelli will mark the first time the pair has performed together.
Newly announced presenters include Chris Brown, Miley Cyrus, Solange Knowles, George Lopez, Lyle Lovett, and Ludacris. Previously announced performers for the 50th annual event feature Beyonce, Feist, Foo Fighters with John Paul Jones, Alicia Keys, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige.
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Unique Collabs Crafted For Grammy Performances
Fergie
February 05, 2008,
Katie Hasty, N.Y.
A number of unique collaboratons, including Fergie performing with John Legend and Josh Groban duetting with Andrea Bocelli, will be featured at the Grammy Awards on Sunday (Feb. 10), the Recording Academy has announced.
John Fogerty, who is nominated for best rock album for "Revival," will be performing with rock legends Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis in a "Cornerstones of Rock" segment during the 50th annual event, which will take place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. A classical/jazz moment with nominees Herbie Hancock and Lang Lang is also slated.
Fergie, who will take the stage with R&B singer John Legend, is nominated for best female pop vocal performance for "Big Girls Don't Cry. Josh Groban's scheduled performance with opera star Andrea Bocelli will mark the first time the pair has performed together.
Newly announced presenters include Chris Brown, Miley Cyrus, Solange Knowles, George Lopez, Lyle Lovett, and Ludacris. Previously announced performers for the 50th annual event feature Beyonce, Feist, Foo Fighters with John Paul Jones, Alicia Keys, Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood, Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige.
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I don't like her as well. 
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Yum! I love noods!
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2008 Grammy Awards: News on Amy
FROM REHAB TO THE GRAMMYS: Sources close to the situation say it is now a "50-50 shot" as to whether Amy Winehouse will show up to perform at this Sunday's Grammys, where she is nominated in all four major categories among her six nods overall. Even if immigration gives her the OK, she still has to get the go-ahead from her doctors to make the trip. "Amy wants to perform," says an insider, "not just travel there to accept an award." More to come. (2/5p)
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 hope she performs!
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Amy 
She NEEDS to perform. 
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Grammy Week: After-Party Preview
You know how your Grammy party winds up with everyone dodging the last soggy piece of pizza in the box? Yeah, famous people don't roll like that.
The Recording Academy gave a sneak peek at the preparations for the official post-Grammy celebration today. It will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center Sunday night, right after the Grammys finish up next door at the Staples Center.
The soiree will have a theme of "an evening at the opera in turn-of-the-century Europe." Yeah, it sounds complicated, but it's much more of a prettier notion than, say, "gluttony."
Here are the stats from Wolfgang Puck Catering, which is providing the food for the event: There will be (among other things - the fun facts list is an entire page long): 15,000 hand-cracked eggs, 200 pounds of Valrhona Organic Chocolate, 1,600 pounds of prime rib, 1,200 pounds of Snake River Farms filet mignon, 350 pounds of artisan cheese, 600 pounds of lamb osso buco.
The event producer is Along Came Mary, and they will wrangle dancers, circus performers and the always ominous mix of live and fake statues.
But wait, there's more! Entertainment will include performances by Natasha Bedingfield, Cyndi Lauper, DJ Chris Cox, Fourplay and the Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensembles.
Among those in attendance will be Recording Academy Chair Jimmy Jam, who will be fresh off stage from performing with Rihanna and the reunited The Time.
"A few years ago we started trying to make the Grammy celebration after the show a bigger event," he says. "We're very much taking a page out of the Governor's Ball...a lot of the people I talked to last year came through with the intention of going to other parties, and ended up staying the whole time at ours."
And will he have worked up an appetite after working it on stage? "Somebody asked me if I needed to practice my steps - and no, I already know all those steps. It's just remembering them," he laughs. "I have to dust off my shoes and see if some of those old suits still fit."
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2008 Grammy Awards: Focus on Rihanna
Feb 6 2008 8:00 AM EST
Rihanna's 'Umbrella' Was 'The Perfect Storm' That Almost Didn't Happen: Behind The Grammys
Producer Tricky Stewart tells how Rih Rih and Jay-Z transformed the track originally meant for Britney.
By Jayson Rodriguez
When people talk about Rihanna's "Umbrella" in 20 years, its story will probably have been embellished in all sorts of ways.
"Everybody has their side of it, because everybody was under a different amount of pressure to deliver that song to Rihanna," producer Tricky Stewart told MTV News of the song up for Record of the Year at this year's Grammy Awards. "So all the stories are gonna be different, because everybody has their own perspective."
How could they not?
Released in late March 2007, "Umbrella" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart by May, rocketing 40 spots in one week to land at #1 and staying there for seven straight weeks.
The song broke the iTunes music store's record for biggest debut, besting the previous mark set by Shakira's "Hips Don't Lie."
The accompanying Chris Applebaum-directed video — complete with a sexy, slithery, silver-painted Rihanna — launched the singer into cover-girl status, as she graced the pages of Seventeen, Complex and Giant magazines, among others. Not to mention that it landed her two VMA Moonmen.
So when the track's trio of participants look back on the record that turned Rih Rih from star to superstar, revitalized Stewart's career and introduced the world to the talents of songwriter The-Dream, they'll swear it leaped 60 spots to #1. That it made iTunes crash because it was so popular. (Insert optional number of exclamation points for dramatic effect.)
But the song almost didn't even make it to Rihanna.
According to Stewart, "Umbrella" was composed a year ago with Britney Spears in mind. He had worked with the troubled pop star on her 2003 album, In The Zone. But her camp told Stewart that they already had several tracks lined up for the new album, which they were already struggling to get Spears to record.
"Her current state was a little bizarre, you know?" Stewart said. "It wasn't meant to be."
Since it was Grammy season, Stewart said he and Dream set their sights on getting the record to Mary J. Blige, who was nominated for eight awards. Problem was, the same day they also sent the track to L.A. Reid, CEO of Island Def Jam, Rihanna's label.
"In a two-day period, we were in the bidding war of our lives," Stewart explained, laughing. "Between Mary J. Blige's camp, and Karen Kwak [Island Def Jam's executive VP of A&R] and L.A. Reid's camp."
Blige, however, didn't get the chance to hear the song right away, because she was tied up with Grammy obligations. And as an established star, she had to sign off on the record before her reps could accept it. Rihanna's label execs, on the other hand, were relentless in their pursuit of the record for the burgeoning star.
"At the time, if you heard Mary's name and you heard Rihanna's name, you'd want to hold out," Stewart said. "Mary's coming off 'Be Without You'; she's nominated for all these Grammys, the whole thing. So the plan with us, really, was to hold the record to get a response from Mary. By the time L.A. Reid and his team got done beating us up, we just couldn't say no. They're calling every 20 minutes for the entire Grammy weekend. Every time we see him, everywhere we see him, they were just applying all kinds of pressure."
Two days after "Umbrella" was created, Rihanna was in a Los Angeles studio laying down her vocals. Stewart said he was still unsure whether Rihanna was the right choice for the song, but when the singer nailed the now famous "ella" refrain, he knew they were all onto something.
"When she recorded the 'ellas,' you knew it was about to be the jump-off," he said, "and your life was about to change if you had anything to do with that record."
That was before Jay-Z added his guest verse, then added a different verse, according to Stewart.
"There was actually another version before that one that he did," Stewart said. "And the first one was perfect. And right before they were about to press it up, he went and changed his verse. And nobody even knew he changed his verse. ... At the time when he did, I didn't really understand. But now, when I go back every once in a while and listen to the old rap, what he wrote [instead] makes so much better sense. And from a songwriter's standpoint, he jut really made it more about the song, with the metaphors about umbrellas and about the weather versus what he had before."
Since the record broke, Rihanna's gone on to a greater level of fame, Dream has debuted on his own with hits "Shawty Is a 10" and "Falsetto," and Stewart has been in the studio with Celine Dion, Janet Jackson and Usher.
"It's crazy, just being a part of that," Stewart said. "I've seen a lot of things in my time in the music business, but to see a record take off like that, it's just amazing."
"It was the perfect storm," he added. "I think the video was amazing. We won Monster Single of the Year for the video [at the VMAs]. It won all the awards it was supposed to win, from that standpoint. But at the same time, now the Grammys are coming up, and now the songwriters and the producers and the engineers are gonna get acknowledged. It was the perfect situation, you know? Everybody has their one record and their one situation. There are a lot of people that are talented, but when you get that one it's different, it sets you up."
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Loved this story <33 Thought I knew some of it already.
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cant wait for the grammys
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Umbrella = Rihanna.
Those two will never ever ever be forgotten or separated.
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Kinda sucks(like for her reputation) she was third in line to get 'Umbrella'. But she made the song her own.
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