The music trade needs out of Vegas.
Grammy weekend in Sin Metropolis is popping out to be an actual mess, in keeping with a number of trade insiders.
“Persons are confused and frazzled working up and down the strip. There are a number of conferences occurring, an enormous poker occasion and getting luxurious vehicles for artists has been a catastrophe,” one supply instructed Web page Six.
The sixty fourth annual Grammy Awards was originally supposed to air on Jan. 31 from the Crypto.com Enviornment in Los Angeles.
The Recording Academy, nonetheless, was pressured to reschedule and move it to MGM Grand Backyard Enviornment in Las Vegas which had extra exterior house as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
The transfer has precipitated the action-packed weekend to descend into chaos as a result of “nobody needs to go to that gross ass city,” a music flack, who just isn’t attending, instructed us.
Even the outfits are upset to be there.
“Stylists are having meltdowns as a result of there aren’t any skilled tailors like LA, they usually must lug couture robes and tuxedos by smoky casinos that scent unhealthy,” the primary supply stated.
Amid music individuals issues — artists are additionally having to reduce their entourages because of restricted credentials this 12 months and there will probably be a critical scarcity of huge music label events.
“The consensus is there’s not a lot occurring and nobody actually needs to go to Vegas,” one other trade insider instructed us.
Clive Davis even canceled his annual star-studded pre-Grammy bash “as a result of logistical obstacles attributable to the continuing pandemic, together with the unavailability of an acceptable venue,” he stated earlier this 12 months.
Trevor Noah will host the present on Sunday and stars equivalent to Billie Eilish, BTS, Lil Nas X, Leon Bridges and Girl Gaga are slated to attend.
In the meantime, Steven Tyler will host a Grammy watch get together on the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles, the place Miley Cyrus will carry out.
