Foo Fighters, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj to Perform at Grammys

Grammy performers are announced.

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Foo Fighters, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj, Bruno Mars, Kelly Clarkson and Jason Aldean are the first artists to be announced as performers at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be broadcast live from Los Angeles on February 12th. While most of those acts have performed at the Grammys in the past, this will be Aldean and Minaj's first time on the Grammys stage. More performers and presenters will be announced in the weeks leading up to the show.

Foo Fighters and Bruno Mars are nominated for six awards apiece, just behind Kanye West in overall nominations. Both acts are nominated for Album of the Year, among other major awards. Minaj is up for four awards including Best New Artist, while Aldean and Swift are nominated for three awards each in country music categories. Clarkson shares two nominations with Aldean for their duet "Don't You Wanna Stay," which the two will perform together on the broadcast.

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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