Taylor Swift Beat-Boxes & Other Notable Moments From Grammy Noms TV Special
The Grammy nominations concert, an hour-long TV special aired live from Nashville, just wrapped up and this year's show tipped its cowboy hat to the host city's country roots: "Honky-tonk, here I come," LL Cool J joked in his opening monologue. "You have no idea how excited I am to have you in Nashville," Taylor Swift told her co-host. "This is my town!"
All in all, it was a decent watch: Country had a strong showing with a Johnny Cash tribute from Dierks Bentley and The Band Perry, plus performances from country-pop acts Luke Bryan and Hunter Hayes. Maroon 5, fun. and Ne-Yo also took the stage, while Jay-Z, Kanye, fun., Mumford & Sons and Frank Ocean topped the nominees with six each--see the complete list here. And perhaps best of all: Adam Levine kept his shirt on!
Below are the most notable moments. Be sure to check out photos of the event, too!
Taylor Swift Beat-Boxes!
In her opening segment with LL, Swift reprised her role as T-Swizzle, beat-boxing her song "Mean" from her hit album Red (which wasn't released in time to be eligible for any awards this year). "I'm 100% sure we're not going to be nominated for that collaboration," said Swift. Yeah, probably not. Watch below.
59m
2m
1m
41m
2m
7m
4m
3m
21m
3m
2m
1m
1m
1m
41s
54s
2m
1m
1m
3m
1m
2m
1m
1m
3m
2m
1m
3m
2m
1m
1m
5m
2m
1m
3m
1m
3m
2m
1m
1m
2m
2m
1m
2m
1m
1m
2m
1m
1m
3m
49s
2m
49s
2m
1m
1m
1h 1m
2m
1m
20m
29s
1m
2m
2m
2m
20m
46m
2m
2m
2m
2m
2m
3m
1m
1m
2m
3m
5m
3m
2m
4m
3m
1m
2m
1m
1m
1m
20m
2m
2m
2m
2m
2m
2m
2m
38s
11m
2m
54s
2m